#Hohokam political structure series#
Overall Hohokam pottery was made from a small fine clay base connected to a series of coils that were thinned and shaped using the paddle and anvil technique. A network organizational structure makes sense of the spread of resources. He hopes the site, along with other significant Hohokam locales – like Pueblo Grande – inspire a sense of connection to the land and the past in area residents, especially indigenous peoples.Ībbott, an associate professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said, “I think it’s very important for Native American communities. T2 - Hohokam settlement and land use in the Los Robles community. Hohokam Exchange and Early Classic Period Organization in Central Arizona: Focal Villages or Linear Communities Abbott, David R. The powers and duties of the District are dictated by State law, Federal law and by contract. Abbott calls Mesa Grande a once powerful political center that controlled water for farming in the region. The Hohokam Irrigation and Drainage District is a political Sub Division of the State of Arizona, organized under State law by the landowners of the District who owned land susceptible to irrigation from a common source and system. At the cultural peak of the Hohokam in the Classic period of the A.D. The Hohokam represent one of the largest and most complex societies in the Southwest. In a July 4 Arizona Republic article regarding the opening, Arizona State University archaeologist and Hohokam specialist David R. Hohokam villages also show that society was organized in a hierarchical fashion. Nearly 30 years after archaeologist Jerry Howard began working to save and secure access to the site, the Arizona Museum of Natural History is preparing to open to the public Mesa Grande, as well as a 1,200-square-foot welcoming center.
Mesa Grande – the ruins of an important Hohokam village located in northwest Mesa – is considered one of Arizona’s major prehistoric treasures yet has long been closed to the public. Today, evidence of that ancient people remains across the greater Phoenix valley. Understanding changes in the relations of production and how production and labor may have been controlled can help us model changes in the nature of power and the experience of inequality throughout Hohokam history.Centuries ago, in central Arizona, the Hohokam created the largest system of canals in prehistoric North America. We have substantially increased our sample of Hohokam remains both in terms of the total quantity of material and in terms of the geographic distribution of that material.
Inequality was created and experienced through a relative ranking of households based on control, exploitation, and competition. In the last decade and a half more archaeological work has been done on the prehistoric Hohokam of southern Arizona than was done in the previous seven decades combined. I argue that Hohokam households exploited production and labor to compete with one another for political power. The system provided food for an estimated 80,000 people with the highest population density in the ancient Southwest. Desert Magazine Nov 1966 Hohokam Treasure, Ghosts Of Port Isabel and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at .uk. The Hohokam household was the locus of crucial relations of production and it was households who controlled both the means of production and productive labor. By 1300 the Hohokam had created the largest canal system in prehistoric North America, with 500 miles of canals providing irrigation to over 100,000 acres of cropland. In this presentation, I reflect on the training and influence of Katherine Spielmann in my thinking about the economic roots of inequality in small- scale societies and begin to outline an explicitly political-economic framework to explore the structure and bases of power among the Hohokam of southern Arizona. Examining household-level economic behaviors has long been a means for archaeologists to explore social and political organization in ancient Hohokam society.
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