essay
Hohokam households, settlement structure, and economy in the Lower Verde Valley
hohokam village revisited • Glenwood Springs, Colo. • Published In 2000 • Pages: 65-100
By: Ciolek-Torrello, Richard, Klucas, Eric E., Whittlesey, Stephanie Michelle.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Most studies of prehistoric household organization have focused on identifying and describing households as elements of social structure. Such studies have taken a static view of households that emphasize continuity in form through time and space. In this paper, Flannery's (1972) model that relates agricultural dependence, sedentism, household organization, and settlement structure is applied to prehistoric social organization in the Sonoran Desert and more specifically, in the lower Verde River Valley of central Arizona. [The authors] propose that the transition from mobile, foraging/farming social groups to sedentary, maize-dependent riverine social groups was associated with important organizational changes involving the emergence of household production and hereditary land ownership (p. 65).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Household
- Settlement patterns
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Historical reconstruction
- Dwellings
- Outbuildings
- Sociocultural trends
- 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
- 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
- John Beierle; 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 (AD 1-1500)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Verde River valley, south-central Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Richard Ciolek-Torrello, Eric E. Klucas, Stephanie M. Whittlesey
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-100)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hohokam culture