essay
Architecture, settlement types, and settlement complexes
synthesis of tonto basin prehistory : the roosevelt archaeology studies, 1989 to 1998 • Tempe, Ariz. • Published In 1998 • Pages: 55-83
By: Rice, Glen, Redman, Charles L., Jacobs, David, Lindauer, Owen.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The distribution of settlements in Tonto Basin was the product of an unusually complicated combination of cultural, historical and environmental factors which are discussed at great length in this study.By the Classic period, populations in Tonto Basin were using two different settlement strategies. One settlement strategy made use of centers with public architecture and was associated with developments in the Hohokam areas to the south and west. The second pattern was associated with populations living in the mountains surrounding Tonto Basin, and was one in which small sites clustered around large, primary villages. The distribution of 'sites' in Tonto Basin is thus a composite of two distinct archaeological settlement patterns and, in some parts of the basin, the patterns overlap considerably. Further complicating the matter, both settlement strategies employed a unit of organization that lay above the scale of the individual settlement and below that of the local region, units referred to as settlement complexes that had different properties in each system (p. 55).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Structures
- Settlement patterns
- Dwellings
- Public structures
- Masonry
- Household
- 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)
- Tonto basin, Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Glen E. Rice ; Charles L. Redman ; David Jacobs ; Owen Lindauer
- For bibliographic references see document 122:Rice
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 98053066
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Salado culture--Arizona--Tonto Basin
- Pueblo architecture--Arizona--Tonto Basin
- Pueblo Indians--Commerce
- Pueblo Indians--Funeral rite and ceremonies
- Land settlement patterns--Arizona--Tonto Basin
- Subsistence economy--Arizona--Tonto Basin
- Tonto Basin (Ariz.)--Antiquities