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The role of exchange and interaction in Salt-Gila Basin Hohokam prehistory
exploring the hohokam : prehistoric desert peoples of the american southwest • (1) • Published In 1991 • Pages: 383-415
By: Crown, Patricia L..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper explores exchange in material goods and the interaction of the Hohokam with contemporaneous populations. Crown emphasizes several important points in this study: (1) exchange and interaction in southern Arizona have a long history, predating the period traditionally defined as Hohokam; (2) linkages between populations in southern Arizona and their neighbors become more visible archaeologically through time as increasing frequencies of clearly identifiable exotic goods both enter and leave the Hohokam area; (3) a Hohokam regional system can be defined on the basis of architecture and artifactual evidence; (4) materials may have moved through this regional system in different spheres of exchange; and (5) a variety of procurement strategies were employed to obtain goods from outside of the Hohokam area. These points reveal that, although the Hohokam could attain self-sufficency, at no time were they self-contained (p. 383).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Exchange transactions
- External trade
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Social relationships and groups
- 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
- 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)
- Salt-Gila River basins, Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Patricia L. Crown
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-415)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90022509
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hohokam culture