essay
Organization of trade and craft production in a Gila Phase Platform Mound complex
synthesis of tonto basin prehistory : the roosevelt archaeology studies, 1989 to 1998 • Tempe, Ariz. • Published In 1998 • Pages: 131-152
By: Rice, Glen.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
A number of researchers, although differing on specifics, have posited that platform mounds were centers that managed various kinds of economic interaction (p. 131). They believed that leaders at the platform mounds were involved in the management of one or more of the following activities: long-distance exchange; craft production; the allocation of water through canal systems; and the redistribution of subsistence resources. In his analysis of the Cline Terrace Mound, Rice negates many of these suppositions, stating in effect that the settlements clustered around platform mounds were not dependent on them for some kind of centralized economic service, but instead these mounds served essentially as storage facilities for quantities of materials not essential to subsistence and survival; as a central place in which peope from surrounding settlements gathered in public facilities for events and ceremonies; and as a location for acrhitecturally elaborate private residences (presumably for the elite).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Structures
- Settlement patterns
- Dwellings
- Cultural stratigraphy
- Internal trade
- External trade
- Bone, horn, and shell technology
- Lithic industries
- Production and supply
- 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.
- 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
- 680-550 BP (AD 1320-1450)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Cline Terrace Mound, Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Glen E. Rice
- 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