The agricultural people known as the Hohokam in Southern Arizona and those who lived in the Chaco Canyon area of New Mexico developed two of the Southwest's most sophisticated cultures of prehistoric times. This book offers the first synthesis of new data and current thinking about the regional systems of the Chacoan and the Hohokam.
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[T]his volume makes many contributions to southwestern archaeology. It provides syntheses of important issues in both [Chaco and Hohokam] and pulls together data from inaccessible 'gray literature.' It also provides a much-needed comparative perspective on two regions, and it explores the concept of a regional system. The book is most worthwhile and should be on the shelf of every southwestern archaeologist. --Michelle Hegmon, Ethnohistory Vol. 40, no. 1 (Winter 1993)
[T]his volume makes many contributions to southwestern archaeology. It provides syntheses of important issues in both [Chaco and Hohokam] and pulls together data from inaccessible 'gray literature.' It also provides a much-needed comparative perspective on two regions, and it explores the concept of a regional system. The book is most worthwhile and should be on the shelf of every southwestern archaeologist. --Michelle Hegmon, Ethnohistory Vol. 40, no. 1 (Winter 1993)
This volume contributes to our understanding of Southwest prehistory…. [I]n this interplay … comes an increased appreciation for two very different Southwest cultures as well as the evolution and changing nature of complex societies. --Mitchell R. Douglas
[T]his volume makes many contributions to southwestern archaeology. It provides syntheses of important issues in both [Chaco and Hohokam] and pulls together data from inaccessible 'gray literature.' It also provides a much-needed comparative perspective on two regions, and it explores the concept of a regional system. The book is most worthwhile and should be on the shelf of every southwestern archaeologist. --Michelle Hegmon, Ethnohistory Vol. 40, no. 1 (Winter 1993)
This volume contributes to our understanding of Southwest prehistory…. [I]n this interplay … comes an increased appreciation for two very different Southwest cultures as well as the evolution and changing nature of complex societies. --Mitchell R. Douglas
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Contributors are Patricia L. Crown, David E. Doyel, David A. Gregory, W. James Judge, Stephen Lekson, W. Bruce Masse, Charles Redman, Lynne Sebastian, H. Wolcott Toll, R. Gwinn Vivian, and David R. Wilcox. This book is the result of the 1987 seminar held at the School of American Research.
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Patricia L. Crown received her A.B. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1974, and her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Arizona in 1981. She held teaching positions at Southern Methodist University and Arizona State University, and has been on the faculty at the University of New Mexico since 1993, where she is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology. Dr. Crown has conducted field investigations in the Ancestral Pueblo, Mogollon, and Hohokam areas of the American Southwest; she recently directed the analysis of artifacts from the trash mounds at Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon. One result of this research was the recent identification of the first prehispanic cacao (chocolate) north of the Mexican border in ceramics from Chaco Canyon. The Society for American Archaeology awarded her the Excellence in Ceramic Research Award in 1994, and the American Anthropological Association gave her (jointly with Suzanne K. Fish) the Gordon Willey Award in 1998. Her books have included three co-edited volumes, Chaco and Hohokam (SAR Press), Social Violence in the Prehispanic Southwest (University of Arizona Press) and Ceramic Production in the American Southwest (University of Arizona Press), the single-authored, Ceramics and Ideology: Salado Polychrome Pottery (University of New Mexico Press), and an edited volume Women and Men in the Prehispanic Southwest: Labor, Power, and Prestige (School of American Research Press).
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This review is from: Chaco & Hohokam: Prehistoric Regional Systems in the American Southwest (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series) (Hardcover)
Despite the catchy title, this book is primarily a scholarly work written for archaeologists and not for the general public. However, anyone with some archaeological background (several undergraduate courses, or a similar level of familiarity with archaeological literature for the U.S. Southwest) and a strong interest in the area will get a lot out of it. It was published in 1991 but has become a classic, often recommended as supplemental background reading for graduate courses and ending up on most student reading lists for candidacy exams.
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THE Hohokam and Chaco regional systems stand out as two of the major prehistoric developments in the American Southwest. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
regional system concept, ballcourt system, platform mound villages, ballcourt network, outlying great houses, cultural resource management work, intrusive ceramics, canyon great houses, focal villages, outlier communities, central canyon, bedrock masses, platform mounds, prehistoric canals, wild plant gathering, great kivas, irrigation communities, subsistence stress, ceramic exchange, floodwater farming, trash mounds, prehistoric irrigation, ceramic import, basin core, wild plant resources Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Chaco Canyon, Phoenix Basin, San Juan Basin, Pueblo Bonito, Casa Grande, Pueblo Grande, Salt-Gila Basin, Chaco Project, Las Colinas, New Mexico, Pueblo Alto, Chetro Ketl, Santa Cruz, Los Muertos, Gila Butte, Mesa Verde, San Pedro, Chuska Valley, Colorado Plateau, New River, Park Service, Rio Grande, Pueblo del Arroyo, Kin Bineola, Classic Bonito New!
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regional system concept, ballcourt system, platform mound villages, ballcourt network, outlying great houses, cultural resource management work, intrusive ceramics, canyon great houses, focal villages, outlier communities, central canyon, bedrock masses, platform mounds, prehistoric canals, wild plant gathering, great kivas, irrigation communities, subsistence stress, ceramic exchange, floodwater farming, trash mounds, prehistoric irrigation, ceramic import, basin core, wild plant resources Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Chaco Canyon, Phoenix Basin, San Juan Basin, Pueblo Bonito, Casa Grande, Pueblo Grande, Salt-Gila Basin, Chaco Project, Las Colinas, New Mexico, Pueblo Alto, Chetro Ketl, Santa Cruz, Los Muertos, Gila Butte, Mesa Verde, San Pedro, Chuska Valley, Colorado Plateau, New River, Park Service, Rio Grande, Pueblo del Arroyo, Kin Bineola, Classic Bonito New!
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