A Hohokam Platform Mound at the Gatlin Site, Gila Bend, Arizona

Bibliographic Data

ID2561803
AuthorsWilliam W Wasley (Arizona State Museum, corresponding author)
Year1960
Volume26
Issue2
Pages244-262
Publication date1960-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Antiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/276203
OpenAlexW2332945806
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited1

The mound near Gila Bend, western Arizona, excavated between November, 1958, and February, 1959 for the National Park Service by the Arizona State Museum, was rebuilt, modified, and repaired through six major stages of construction. The platform mound in use at any given stage was flat-topped and slope-sided with rounded corners and an irregular squarish or subrectangular outline. The platforms were made of a caliche plaster, and the sides were faced with a plaster of mixed caliche and adobe, placed directly over the earth core. Evidence of pre-mound occupation was encountered underneath the platform mound and in an excavated pit structure near the southeast corner of the mound. The entire historical sequence revealed by this excavation took place within the Sacaton phase of the Hohokam culture which may have lasted from A.D. 900 or 950 to A.D. 1100 or 1150 in the Gila Bend area. The significance of this Hohokam mound complex is that it represents a northern extension of the Mexican pyramid idea

Archaeology · Excavation · Geography · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Natural History · Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies · Geology

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