Book
Hohokam ballcourts and their interpretation
Arizona State Museum • Tucson • Published In 1983 • Pages:
By: Wilcox, David R., Sternberg, Charles.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This report is a systematic, comparatiave study of Hohokam features inferred to be ballcourts. It is designed to contribute to our understanding of the cultural significance of Snaketown, an internationally renowned national historic landmark. The ballcourt hypothesis is carefully reassessed and supporting evidence is adduced. A model of the changing structure of the Hohokam regional system is derived from an analysis of the ballcourts and other data. Connections between the Southwest and Mesoamerical implied by the ballcourts are also briefly examined, and a new hypothesis of Southwest-Mesoamerican contact is presented (p. ix).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Recreational structures
- Athletic sports
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Organization and analysis of results of research
- History
- Historical reconstruction
- Structures
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2009
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1954-1980
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 2000-500 BP (AD 1-1500)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Phoenix basin, Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by David R. Wilcox and Charles Sternberg
- Submitted by Cultural Resource Management Division, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona to Western Archaeological Center, National Park Service
- Purchase Order No. CX81000-0-0009
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-296)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hohokam culture