essay
Commodities and interaction in the prehistoric Tonto
roosevelt community development study: new perspectives on tonto basin prehistory • (15) • Published In 1995 • Pages: 307-342
By: Stark, Miriam T..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Stark summarizes 'trends in commodity production and circulation in the RCD Study area. Use of a multicentric model for examining goods provides patterns that are readily comparable to those found in regions located south and north of the RCD area.' (page 340). As Stark remarks 'what makes the Lower Tonto Basin so interesting-and so aggravating-is its material culture variability. Efforts to simplistically pigeonhole its inhabitants as either Hohokam or Mogollon ... are invariably thwarted by the archaeological record....The RCD analyses suggest that the nature of interaction was complex and involved a combination of population movement and exchange.' (page 341).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Exchange and transfers
- Internal migration
- External migration
- 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
- 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
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-650 BP (AD 100-1350)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- eastern Tonto basin, Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Miriam T. Stark
- Submitted to Arizona Projects Office, Bureau of Reclamation, Contract No. 1-CS-32-01220
- For bibliographical references see document 31:Elson et al
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hohokam culture