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Tradition Summary: Hohokam
Human Relations Area Files • New Haven, Conn. • Published In 2010 • Pages:
By: Doyel, David E. (David Elmond), Lekson, Stephen H., White, Devin Alan.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a summary of the Hohokam Tradition. Information is presented on major aspects of the Hohokam archaeological tradition.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Culture summary
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Hohokam
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2009
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 2000-500 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- central and southern Arizona
- NotesAdditional notes
- David Doyel, Steven Lekson, and Devin White
- The major tradition summary is from "Early Hohokam," by Devin White and Stephen Lekson and "Late Hohokam," by David Doyel from the Encyclopedia of Prehistory, Volume 6, Peter N. Peregrine and Melvin Ember, eds. New York: Plenum Publishing Corporation, 2001. We thank Peter N. Peregrine for bibliographic suggestions. Sarah Berry wrote the synopsis in 2009. The indexing notes were written by Sarah Berry and John Beierle in 2009.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hohokam culture