Hohokam Settlement Along the Slopes of the Picacho Mountains, Volume 4: Material Culture
Creators: name: Jelinek, Lauren
Publisher: name: Department of Anthropology, Museum of Northern Arizona
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: McClellan Wash
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subject: Red Rock Reservoir
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/8719/red-rock-reservoir
subject: Picacho Mountains
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/16532/picacho-mountains
subject: Salt-Gila Aquaduct
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/76791/salt-gila-aquaduct
subject: Picacho Reservoir
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/54281/picacho-reservoir
subject: Hohokam pre-Classic period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/141/hohokam-pre-classic-period
subject: Hohokam Classic period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/144/hohokam-classic-period
subject: Historic Pima
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5621/historic-pima
subject: Hohokam
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/21/hohokam
subject: Funerary and Burial Structures or Features
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/301/funerary-and-burial-structures-or-features
subject: Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/272/resource-extraction-production-transportation-structure-or-features
subject: Agricultural Field or Field Feature
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/274/agricultural-field-or-field-feature
subject: Reservoir
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/277/reservoir
subject: Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/251/domestic-structure-or-architectural-complex
subject: Settlements
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/252/settlements
subject: Shell
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subject: Ceramic
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subject: Chipped Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/2/chipped-stone
subject: Fauna
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/4/fauna
subject: Ground Stone
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subject: X-Ray Flourescence
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subject: Petroglyph analysis
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subject: Site Evaluation / Testing
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description: This is the fourth volume in the Tucson Aqueduct Project, Phase A series reporting on archaeological investigations at over 50 primarily Hohokam sites in south-central Arizona. Each chapter in this volume incorporates the research focus, methodology and results of the analysis of one of the artifactual or material sets resulting from these investigations. The general ceramic analysis, conducted on over 159,000 sherds, provided the basic descriptive and comparative data and allowed us to ceramically seriate a large proportion of the sites and features. The undecorated ceramics were sorted into four varieties, three of which were found to be technologically distinct and temporally diagnostic. An intensive attribute analysis was then conducted on a reduced sample of sherds. Evidence from refiring experiments, recovered clays, unfired vessels and ceramic tool kits, and data gained from the petrographic analysis of 40 samples (Appendix A) indicate that much of the undecorated ceramics and some of the buffwares were locally produced. The ground and flaked stone artifacts are described and evaluated in Chapters ·2 and 3, respectively. The ground stone inventory was found to contain food processing tools similar to other peripheral sites. Differences were documented between the Brady Wash and Picacho localities, including the intensity of agave exploitation. Intriguing differences were noted in the flaked stone material procurement strategies between the Brady Wash and Picacho localities. An x-ray fluorescence analysis of a sample of recovered obsidian (Appendix B) resulted in the identification of seven distinct sources. Chapters 4 and 5 detail the results of the analyses of the project's shell and worked bone assemblages. Neither of these resources were heavily exploited by the Hohokam living in the project area.