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The stratigraphy and archaeology of Ventana cave, Arizonabook chapter 1950 • Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter)
Early Desert Archaic • North America > Southwest and Basin
This excavation report describes Haury's excavations and findings from Ventana Cave. Also included are lengthy discussions on the geology, climate, and possible dates for the various stratum and the surround area. The cave deposits date from the Plei...The Hohokam, desert farmers & craftsmenBook 1976 • Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter)
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
Haury returned to Snaketown to conduct additional excavations partly in response to a colleague's statements about the Hohokam chronology. Haury hoped to update the Hohokam chronology, understand Hohokam origins, to evaluate the Mesoamerican influenc...Inventory of Snaketown housesessay 1976 • Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter)
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
This appendix is a chart of the houses excavated in Snaketown and the adjacent Classic period sites, their locations, their dates, and the house type....Catalogue numbers of specimens illustratedessay 1976 • Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter)
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
This appendix lists the catalogue numbers of the illustrated specimens and where specimens are stored....Comments on symposium papersessay 1987 • Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter)
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
Haury was one of the discussants at the symposium on the Hohokam village given at the 1985 American Association for the Advancement of Science meetings. He comments on the papers given (eHRAF documents nos. 18-26) and provides some of his own opinion...Stratigraphyessay 1965 • Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter)
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is a study of Snaketown chronology, based on the stratigraphic analysis of the contents of the numerous trash mounds at the site. Determination of the period-phase sequence at Snaketown was done primarily through the stratigraphic study of the p...Ball courtsessay 1965 • Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter)
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
Haury describes in this document the excavation of two ball courts, called 'Court 1' and :'Court 2', at the Snaktown archaeological site in southern Arizona. The author describes the construction of these courts, compares the two, and attempts to pro...The Snaketown Canalessay 1965 • Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter)
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is an extensive study of the Snaketown canal system. The author describes the importance of these canals to agriculture, the exploratory test excavations made at the canal sites, and the dating of the canals by means of the analysis of the potte...Stoneessay 1965 • Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter)
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
This article describes and illustrates the various stone palettes and ornaments found at the Snaketown site. Both the geographical as well as temporal distribution of these artifacts in the southwestern area are discussed....Shellessay 1965 • Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter)
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
This article is a study of the various ways in which shell is worked and utilized by the Hohokam. Techniques of working shell are detailed, along with descriptions and illustrations of the various artifacts produced (e.g., ornaments, tools, mosaics, ...Boneessay 1965 • Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter)
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
In contrast to Anasazi sites, Haury notes the apparent lack of bone tools among the Hohokam, the bone awl being the primary exception. However, the use of bone for ornaments and tubes seemed much more to Hohokam liking.The text is well illustrated wi...Foodessay 1965 • Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter)
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
In this paper Haury lists the variety of fauna living in the vicinity of Snaketown which may have served as a source of food for the Hohokam people. A brief note on other vegetal foods is also included....Minerals and metalsessay 1965 • Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter)
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is a brief description of the various mineral and metals occurring in the natural environment in southern Arizona and the manner in which they are used by the Hohokam people during several cultural phases. The mineral described in the text inclu...Pottery types at Snaketownessay 1965 • Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter)
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is a detailed analysis of the pottery types found at the Snaketown site in Arizona, ranging from the Vahki phase of the Pioneer period to the Sacaton phase of the Sedentary. Each type described is discussed from the standpoint of color, form, su...Figurines and miscellaneous clay objectsessay 1965 • Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter)
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
This document discusses the evolutionary trends of Snaketown figurines, from the early Vahki phase of the Pioneer Period through the Sacaton Phase of the Sedentary. Those of the Pioneer Period show comparatively little change. But thereafter signific...Skeletal remainsessay 1965 • Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter)
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
Haury describes in very brief terms ten inhumations recovered at Snaketown, dating from the Sacaton Phase.Of these, four were infants; four were adults but incomplete and badly disarticulated; and two were the articulated skeletons of adults.In all c...The Mogollon culture of southwestern New Mexicoessay 1986 • Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter)
Mogollon • North America > Southwest and Basin
Haury's excavations at Mogollon and Harris Villages lead him to recognize the Mogollon tradition as its own culture and separate from Hohokam or Basketmaker. This document is a synopsis of the original reports and it describes the findings from these...Mogollon culture in the Forestdale Valley, east-central Arizonabook chapter 1985 • Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter)
Mogollon • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is a study of several archaeological sites in the Forestdale Valley region of East-Central Arizona which it was hoped would throw light on the initial village dwellers of the area whose remains were preserved in the Bear Ruin and the Bluff Site,...An early pit house village of the Mogollon culture, Forestdale Valley, Arizonaessay 1985 • Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter) & Sayles, E. B. (Edwin Booth)
Mogollon • North America > Southwest and Basin
Haury excavated at the Bluff Site when archaeologists were just beginning to realize there was a separate archaeological tradition in eastern Arizona that was not Hohokam nor Anasazi. This document is one of the ones that proved the existence of the ...The Hodges RuinBook 1978 • Kelly, Isabel Truesdell et al.
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
The fieldwork for this site was conducted by Carl Miller in 1936 and by Isabel T. Kelly in 1937-1938. Isabel Kelly wrote an uncompleted manuscript for her and Miller's excavations at the Hodges site near Tucson. Officer, Haury, and Hartmann completed...Bibliographyessay 1965 • Gladwin, Harold Sterling et al.
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
This work consists in its entirety of bibliographical citations relevant to documents 54-78 in this archaeological collection....Analysis of pottery in Mound 29essay 1965 • Gladwin, Harold Sterling et al.
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
The tables presented in this document give the percentages of sherds according to phases in the sections of the three stratitests of Mound 29 at Snaketown. For all phases excepting the Vahki the figures are based on painted pottery only as the plain ...