Ceramics and Community Organization among the Hohokam
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11073812 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K G Harry (0000-0002-8694-2503, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 221 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Ceramics and community organization among the Hohokam, David R Abbott, 2000 |
| Venue | Journal of Field Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-4690 • E-ISSN: 2042-4582 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/530597 |
| OpenAlex | W2138668908 |
| Language | EN |
Among desert farmers of the prehistoric Southwest, irrigation played a crucial role in the development of social complexity. This innovative study examines the changing relationship between irrigation and community organization among the Hohokam and shows through ceramic data how that dynamic relationship influenced sociopolitical development. David Abbott contends that reconstructions of Hohokam social patterns based solely on settlement pattern data provide limited insight into prehistoric social relationships. By analyzing ceramic exchange patterns, he provides complementary information that challenges existing models of sociopolitical organization among the Hohokam of central Arizona. Through ceramic analyses from Classic period sites such as Pueblo Grande, Abbott shows that ceramic production sources and exchange networks can be determined from the composition, surface treatment attributes, and size and shape of clay containers. The distribution networks revealed by these analyses provide evidence for community boundaries and the web of social ties within them. Abbott's meticulous research documents formerly unrecognized horizontal cohesiveness in Hohokam organizational structure and suggests how irrigation was woven into the fabric of their social evolution. By demonstrating the contribution that ceramic research can make toward resolving issues about community organization, this work expands the breadth and depth of pottery studies in the American Southwest
Archaeology · Geography · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Natural History · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
Attrition
Intended Function
Understanding Pottery Function
The Cross-scale Interplay between Social and Biophysical Context and the Vulnerability of Irrigation-dependent Societies
A Hohokam Kiln at Las Canopas
The Economic Implications of Hohokam Buff Ware Exchange During the Early Sedentary Period
Chacoan Immigration and Influence in the Middle San Juan
Dispersed Centrality
Corrugated Ceramics and Migration in the Pueblo Iii to Pueblo Iv Transition, Silver Creek, Arizona
Jeddito Yellow Ware and Hopi Social Networks
A Contextual Analysis of Ritual Fauna and Socially Integrative Architecture in the Tonto Basin, Arizona
Chemical Assays of Temper and Clay
Documenting the Lives of Ohio Hopewell People
Southwest United States and Northwestern Mexico
Understanding Pottery Function
Settlement and Communities
Excising culture history from contemporary archaeology
Dimensions of inequality. Comparing the North Atlantic and the US Southwest
The Provenance and Concentrated Production of Hohokam Red-on-Buff Pottery
Calculating Hohokam Domestic Architecture Building Costs to Test an Environmental Model of Architectural Changes
Ancestral O'odham
Extensive and Long-Term Specialization
Measuring Hohokam Household Inequality with Construction Costs of Domestic Architecture at Pueblo Grande
Reconstructing Ancient Hohokam Irrigation Systems in the Middle Gila River Valley, Arizona, United States of America
New Insights into Hohokam Buff Ware Production and Distribution
Crossing Comb Ridge
Social Network Analysis of Early Classic Hohokam Corporate Group Inequality
Examining the Production and Distribution of Shivwits Ware Pottery in the American Southwest
Ballcourts and Ceramics
Peopling Landscapes between Villages in the Middle Gila River Valley of Central Arizona
Plausible Ethnographic Analogies for the Social Organization of Hohokam Canal Irrigation
Ceramic Specialization and Agricultural Marginality
Artifact density and population density in settlement pattern research
The Lowland Patayan in the southern U.S. Southwest
Spatializing Social Network Analysis in the Late Precontact U.S. Southwest
Social Spaces of Daily Life
Regional Settlement Pattern Studies
The Continuing Quest for El Dorado
Petrographic and Geochemical Constraints on the Provenance of Sanidine‐Bearing Temper in Ceramic Potsherds, Four Corners Region, Southwest USA
Provenance and microprobe assays of phyllite‐tempered ceramics from the uplands of central Arizona
Prehistoric Warfare in Central Arizona, USA
Identical rock types with different chemistry
Rabbit bone stable isotope values distinguish desert ecoregions of North America
Geomorphological setting and Native American acquisition of buff-firing ceramic clays in the Lower and Middle Gila River Valley, Arizona
Hematite sources and archaeological ochres from Hohokam and O’odham sites in central Arizona
The Bajada Canals of the Safford Basin, Southeastern Arizona
In Search of a Borderland
Landscape Change and the Cultural Evolution of the Hohokam along the Middle Gila River and Other River Valleys in South-Central Arizona
Hohokam and Patayan interaction in southwestern Arizona
Obsidian Source Characterization at Las Colinas
The Hohokam of Southwest North America
Hohokam Ritual and Economic Transformation
The social dynamics of settling down
Hohokam Political Ecology and Vulnerability
Kinship Theory in Archaeology
The Role of Future Discounting in Subsistence Decisions
Revisiting the Exploitable Threshold Model
Hohokam Exchange and Early Classic Period Organization in Central Arizona
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