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Into the earth and up to the sky: Hohokam ritual architecture
hohokam millennium • Santa Fe, N.M. • Published In 2007 • Pages: 48-55
By: Elson, Mark D..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Elson describes ball courts and platform mounds and how some of their functions were different. For instance, ball courts are open while platform mounds have restricted access. Ball courts are found before platform mounds and are found in slightly different areas. Platform mounds also required more man-hours to construct. Both types of ritual architecture probably had similar purposes as places for ritual ceremonies.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Recreational structures
- Structures
- Miscellaneous facilities
- Labor and leisure
- Organized ceremonial
- 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
- 1300-650 BP (AD 700-1350)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southern Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Mark D. Elson
- For bibliographical references see document 89:Fish and Fish
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2007024336
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hohokam culture--Arizona--Phoenix
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Arizona--Phoenix
- Phoenix (Ariz.)--Antiquities