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Archaeological Excavations in Hohokam Sites of Southern Arizona*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Alfred E. Johnson
Alfred E. Johnson*
Affiliation:
Arizona State Museum, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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Abstract

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.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 30 , Issue 2Part1 , October 1964 , pp. 145 - 161
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1964

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Footnotes

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Contribution to Highway Salvage Archaeology in Arizona, Number 5.

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