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La Ciudadessay 1987 • Rice, Glen
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
Rice also uses the data from the Moreland locus to 'illustrate the combination of analytical and field methods which enabled us to study the site of La Cuidad as if it were a community. [And to] illustrate the kinds of information which the Cuidad pr...References citedessay 1998 • Rice, Glen
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
This work consists in its entirety of bibliographical citations relevant to documents 123 to 134 in this collection, dealing with the Roosevelt archaeology studies of 1989 to 1998....The Bureau of Reclamation Archaeological Projects in Tonto Basinessay 1998 • Rice, Glen
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
Between 1989 and 1993, the Bureau of Reclamation funded four archaeological projects in theTonto Basin of central Arizona, all associated with the modification of the Theodore Roosevelt Dam that would eventually result in the flooding of many of the ...Structuring the temporal dimension for Tonto Basin prehistoryessay 1998 • Rice, Glen
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
This article discusses the influence of the Salado horizon on the cultures of the Tonto Basin in Arizona. The Salado horizon, an archaeological phase, is defined by the appearance of Gila Polychrome ware in the late prehistoric periods of areas exten...The settingessay 1998 • Rice, Glen
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
This paper contains a wealth of environmental data relevant to the Tonto Basin in Arizona. These data include information on the vegetation resources of the basin with emphasis on important plant foods (e.g., agave, yucca hearts, cactus fruits, and t...Organization of trade and craft production in a Gila Phase Platform Mound complexessay 1998 • Rice, Glen
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
A number of researchers, although differing on specifics, have posited that platform mounds were centers that managed various kinds of economic interaction (p. 131). They believed that leaders at the platform mounds were involved in the management of...Migration, emulation, and tradition in Tonto Basin prehistoryessay 1998 • Rice, Glen
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
This paper describes the ways in which local tradition, emulation, and migration combined to shape the organization, economy, architecture, and even the ceremonial practices of the prehistoric Tonto Basin. Because 75 percent of the sites investigated...Data appendix tablesessay 1998 • Rice, Glen
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
This document consists in its entirely of a series of tables relevant to sites investigated by Four Reclamation Projects in the Tonto Basin (Appendix A), with a list of radiocarbon and archaeomagnetic dates from the Roosevelt Project sites in the bas...References citedessay 1987 • Rice, Glen
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
This document consists of the bibliography for eHRAF document nos. 148-160....Investigations at a Classic period community complexessay 1987 • Rice, Glen
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
Rice provides a description of the Classic Hohokam community of Marana. It was a complex of residential neighborhoods and their associated fields and gathering areas. Arizona State University conducted excavations at the sites of Muchas Casas, Rancho...Floor assemblages of the Marana community complexessay 1987 • Rice, Glen
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
Rice describes the artifacts found on the floors of the rooms at Muchas Casas Loci A, D, E, and H and at Rancho Derrio Locus 1. The structures were storage rooms, residential rooms, and one ceremonial/meeting room. Considerable manufacturing occured ...The Marana community complexessay 1987 • Rice, Glen
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
Rice summarizes the findings from the rest of the book (eHRAF documents nos. 148-159) and compares that data with findings from Preclassic La Cuidad, Classic period Los Muertos and the Classic period Tonto basin to show how a chiefdom level of societ...Compounds, villages, and moundsessay 2000 • Rice, Glen & Redman, Charles L.
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
Three different settlement strategies are described for the Payson and Tonto basins of central Arizona. Processes are identified that may have led to the use of multiple organizational strategies within the same region. In the Classic period, Tonto B...Settlement patterns and subsistenceessay 1998 • Rice, Glen & Oliver, Theodore J. (Theodore James)
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
This article is an examination of the relationship between subsistence and the distribution of settlements in the Tonto Basin of Arizona. On the basis of the material obtained from the analysis of data from the Tonto Basin, three competing hypotheses...Architecture, settlement types, and settlement complexesessay 1998 • Rice, Glen et al.
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
The distribution of settlements in Tonto Basin was the product of an unusually complicated combination of cultural, historical and environmental factors which are discussed at great length in this study.By the Classic period, populations in Tonto Bas...Production and exchange of economic goodsessay 1998 • Rice, Glen et al.
Hohokam • North America > Southwest and Basin
The people of Tonto Basin made most of the tools, vessels, and clothing they needed from material obtained in the vicinity of their own settlements. However, some raw material, as well as completed commodities, came from locations that lay tens to hu...