Studies in the Hohokam Community of Marana
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Publisher: name: Office of Cultural Resource Management, Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University
Year: 1987
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subject: Classic Hohokam period
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subject: Data Recovery / Excavation
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description: The Hohokam community of Marana is a complex of residential neighborhoods, agricultural fields, and seasonal gathering stations dispersed over an area of about 20 square miles. The Marana community complex is an example of a settlement type common to the Classic period of the Hohokam. The diagnostic characteristic of these complexes is the association of platform mounds, walled compounds, and large residential neighborhoods in a dispersed pattern covering several square miles (such as is found at the southern end of the Marana complex). It is also common to find other kinds of settlements and specialized sites occurring in the landscape surrounding the core area of a community complex. In the spring and early summer of 1985 Arizona State University conducted excavations at the sites of Muchas Casas, Rancho Derrio, and Rancho Bajo. This work was funded by the Department of the Interior through the Bureau of Reclamation as part of their efforts to deal with the impacts associated with the construction of the Central Arizona Project Aqueduct. All three of these sites are residential areas. The Marana Archaeological Project did not conduct excavations at the Nelson Ranch site (with little doubt the organizational center for the Marana complex), because the site lay completely beyond the right-of-way of the aqueduct. This monograph is the third in a set of volumes dealing with our investigations of the Marana community. The first volume is a research design (Rice 1985) for the investigation, and the second provides detailed results and descriptions of the field work (Henderson 1987a). The purpose of this volume is to detail the analyses and interpretations of our study.