Archaeological Excavations in Hohokam Sites of Southern Arizona

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ID2564604
AuthorsAlfred E Johnson (0000-0002-3047-5280, Arizona State Museum, corresponding author)
Year1964
Volume30
Issue2Part1
Pages145-161
Publication date1964-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Antiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/278846
OpenAlexW2333616644
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited4

In 1963 archaeological investigations were conducted by the Arizona State Museum in a series of Hohokam sites on the Gila River Indian Reservation of south-central Arizona. Significant data were derived from two of the eight sites tested. One site, Arizona U:13:9, included two small villages. The earlier village was first occupied during the Snaketown phase, which is estimated to date between A.D. 300 and 500. Occupation continued through the Sacaton phase or until about A.D. 1100. The later village was occupied during two phases of the Classic period, or from A.D. 1100 to about 1450. At this ruin both inhumations and cremations, apparently contemporaneous, were found in a distinct burial zone. The patterning noted in the placement of these two types of burials is a new feature for the Hohokam Classic period. The other site, Arizona U:13:11, a small Soho phase village that was occupied between A.D. 1100 and 1300, is important for the support it adds to the establishment of a pattern of burial placement during the Classic period

Archaeology · Art · Culture of the United States · Excavation · Geography · Period (music · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Natural History · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

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