Book
The Hohokam, desert farmers & craftsmen: excavations at Snaketown, 1964-1965
University of Arizona Press • Tucson • Published In 1976 • Pages:
By: Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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 influences on them, and to examine irrigation agriculture. Consequently, he uncovered broad areas within Snaketown, excavating mounds, houses, and canals. He managed to find and excavate several main canals and a feeder canal and uncovered some repairs to the feeder canal. Haury describes and analyzes his findings including such things as houses, mound architecture, ceramics, tools, art, shellwork, caches, a few cremations, wells, metal products, and perishable items. He examines the evidence for trade and cultural contact with Mesoamerica. He also examines some of the evidence for finding today's Pima Indians as the descendants of the Hohokam.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Laboratory analysis of materials other than dating methods in archaeology
- Waterways improvements
- Structures
- Processing of basic materials
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Acculturation and culture contact
- 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
- Book
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary 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
- 1964-1965
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 2300-600 BP (300 BC-AD 1400)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Snaketown, Phoenix basin, Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Emil W. Haury
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-398) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74031610
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hohokam culture
- Snaketown Site (Ariz.)