WebReligion on the Rocks Hohokam Rock Art, Ritual Practice, and Social Transformation By Aaron M. Wright Winner of the Don D. and Catherine S. Fowler Prize We are nearly all In Hays-Gilpin, K. A., and Schaafsma, P. Cordell, L. (1997). This work improved considerably from comments by Chris Loendorf, Jill Neitzel, Gary Feinman, and three anonymous reviewers; Carolyn Boyd and Julio Amador Bech provided inspiration and important feedback on a very early draft. The Archaeology of Sonora, Archaeology Southwest Magazine 30(3). Ethnoarchaeology 9: 3052. Exchange economies of late prehistoric eastern Sonora, Mexico: A re-evaluation based on provenance data analyses. Birds, bells, and shells: The long reach of the Aztatln tradition. Hill, J. H. (1992). Ball courts. (eds. 1984. (ed. 33: 3237. Cultural and contextual differentiation of Mesoamerican iconography in U.S. Southwest/Northwest Mexico. Lpez Austin, A. 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J Archaeol Res 30, 117167 (2022). (eds. More recently, some have drawn direct parallels between Mesoamerican and Hohokam beliefs, religious institutions, ritual practices, and symbolism (e.g., Chenault Upland Salado Iconography and Religious Change, The Arizona Archaeologist No. American Antiquity 25: 547561. Iconographic evidence for inter-regional connectivity in the prehistoric Southwest and beyond. max long: -102.349; max However, while the iconography may have been new to Hohokam media, the religious themes were not. In Fish, S. K., and Fish, P. R. Martnez, R., Mendoza, L., and Vias, R. (2012). His work provides one of the few recent pieces of research that integrates study of rock art into a sound anthropological approach and does not fall back on a simplistic notion of shamanism. You have successfully updated the page that opened this window. by Bahr, D. M., University of Arizona Press, Tucson. (eds. Hernbrode, J., and Boyle, P. C. (n.d.b). 5663. Wallace, A. F. C. (1966). What time does normal church end on Sunday? ), El norte de Mxico y el sur de Estados Unidos: Tercera reunin de mesa redonda sobre problemas antropolgicos de Mxico y Centro Amrica, Sociedad Mexicana de Antropologa, Mexico City, pp. ), The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 83102. The Greater Southwest and the Mesoamerican world system: An exploratory model of frontier relationships. Mesoamerican connections. ), Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, pp. Implements of Change: Tools, Subsistence, and the Built Environment of Las Capas, an Early Agricultural Irrigation Community in Southern Arizona, Anthropological Papers No. Sekaquaptewa, E., and Washburn, D. K. (2004). Kelley, J. C., and Winters, H. D. (1960). Cosmogenic myths, ritual groups, and initiation: Toward a new comparative ethnology of the Gran Nayar and the Southwest of the U.S. (translated by D. M. Bahr). Shell ornament consumption in a Classic Hohokam platform mound community center. 73120. Hopi Ruin Legends, ed. Sitlpuva, through the land brightened with flowers: Ecology and cosmology in mural and pottery painting, Hopi and beyond. 45-60. They go along singing: Reconstructing the Hopi past from ritual metaphors in song and image. The representation of plants in Hohokam pottery design. (eds.) (eds. Robins, M. R., and Hays-Gilpin, K. A. McGuire, R. H., and Villalpando, M. E. (2007). An important aspect about the Hohokam is that they were not a specific human group. (ed. WebThe Interaction of Hohokam Ideology and Religious Beliefs in the Hohokam Practice of Dual Cemeteries Author (s): Glen Rice Year: 2015 Summary From A.D. 900 to 1400 Hohokam 2448, Archaeopress, Oxford, pp. 2020 Archaeology Southwest 7590. (ed. MesoamericanSouthwestern relationships: An intellectual history. A historical analysis of the problem of southwestern-Mesoamerican connections. Senior Honors (B.A.) Classic period pottery from the Yuma Wash site: Dating, provenance, and function. This paper owes to discussions with some fine scholars, and to the writings of many others. Explore the major concepts, places, cultures, and themes that Southwestern archaeologists are exploring today in our Introduction to Southwestern Archaeology. Kelley, J. C. (1960). Underhill, R. M. (2001). 64-73 p. ill. By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication 9, University of Arizona, Tucson. (ed. In Arroyo, B., Aragn, L. P., Palma, A. L., and Arroyave, A. L. B. Chenault, M. L., and Lindley, J. M. (2006). Anasazi is the archaeological term used to describe prehistoric Puebloan peoples of the Four Corners region of the American Southwest. Kelly, I. T. (1944). In addition, this work covers new ground and represents a real contribution to Hohokam archaeology. Human Relations Area Files, 2010. 709766. People in the Hohokam region employed massive-scale irrigation farming. Best Answer. ), Building Transnational Archaeologies: The 11th Southwest Symposium, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mxico, Archaeological Series No. The name Hohokam means "those who have gone" in the language of the O'odham, the contemporary Native American inhabitants of southern Arizona. They The choice of cemeteries gave households flexibility in dealing with the tension between Hohokam sociopolitical ideology and religious beliefs. The Western Archaic tradition in context. they sacrificed many different people by throwing them into a fire Journal of the Southwest 47: 571614. Omissions? Temptation and glory in one Pima and two Aztec mythologies. (1975). In Brame, J., Oravec, C., and Bowen, N. How far can a pochteca leap without leaving footprints? ), The Foundations of Southwest Communities: Variation and Change in Pithouse Villages between AD 200900, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, pp. 29, Center for Desert Archaeology, Tucson, AZ, pp. In Minnis, P. E., and Whalen, M. E. WebHohokam is the name of one of the four major prehistoric archaeological traditions of the American style may define arbitrary groups within a culture, perhaps identifying social status, gender, clan or guild affiliation, religious belief or cultural alliances. 101125. ), An Archaeological Test of the Sites in the Gila ButteSantan Region, South-Central Arizona, Anthropological Research Papers No. Among the modern Hopi and most other Pueblo peoples, "kiva" means a large room that is circular and 31737. Sarah Berry; 2009, Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date). (2006). Gladwin, W., and Gladwin, H. S. (1935). (2006). In Young, L. C., and Herr, S. A. (ed. 26, Gila Pueblo, Globe, AZ. Information and translations of hohokam in the most comprehensive ), The Archaeology of Hybrid Material Culture, Occasional Paper No. Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos and the Realm of the Gods, Thames and Hudson, London. (eds.) Religion and cosmology in the Casas Grandes world. Wilcox, D. R., McGuire, T. R., and Sternberg, C. (1981). Recognizing the interaction between physical and spiritual worlds, Wright recreates an integrated culture history which examines petroglyphs in relation to agricultural terraces, trails, springs, and hilltops in the South Mountains and beyond., This work stands out for me as a template of how any analysis of a rock art site should be conducted. (ed. Nentvig, J. Pattern diffusion from Mexico into the Southwest after AD 600. 17, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff. Valencia Vieja and the origins of Hohokam culture. The second part is a ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data. Wallace, H. D. (2014). Learn more about Institutional subscriptions. This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution. Gallaga, E. (2014). Hernbrode, J., and Boyle, P. C. (2016). 19, Sunbelt Publications, El Cajon, CA, pp. Moulard, B. L. (2002). A Prehistory of Western North America: The Impact of Uto-Aztecan Languages, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. Of Hohokam origins and other matters. (ed. A place in sacred history: Coronation ritual and architecture in Ottonian Mainz. Bell, C. (1997). From a careful consideration of the inception and breadth of each, I argue that Hohokam artisans began to portray these subjects in concert with a religious revitalization movement that drew a degree of inspiration from the south. Harris, J. F., and Stearns, S. K. (1997). (eds. (ed. 433500. ), Environmental Change and Human Adaptation in the Ancient Southwest, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, pp. Decorated buffware and brownware ceramics. ), The Hohokam Millennium, School for Advanced Research Press, Santa Fe, NM, pp. (ed. Wallace, H. D. (1995). 9, BAR International Series No. 7790. (eds. In Henderson, T. K. Wallace, H. D. (2012a). American Anthropologist o.s. (1965). 566573. In Wallace, H. D. Rock art research in the American Southwest. 262291. 24, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. Cushing, F. H. (1892). (eds. ), Ancient Paquim and the Casas Grandes World, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, pp. In Heidke, J. M., and Stark, M. T. Turquoise sources and source analysis: Mesoamerica and the southwestern U.S.A. thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. In Williams, E., Snchez, M., and Gndara, M. American Antiquity 70: 433456. Hohokam craft economies and the materialization of power. 175184. American Archaeology 18(2): 3843. 7887. Larger villages then had a different kind of central construction: large platform mounds, often with structures on top, that appear to have been the place for religious and political activities. Wallace, H. D. (1983). In Ekholm, G. F., and Willey, G. R. Wilcox, D. R., Weigand, P. C., Wood, J. S., and Howard, J. Searcy, M. (2010). Archaeologists find these dwellings in sets of three or four around small courtyards. WebHohokam: [noun] a member of a prehistoric desert culture of the southwestern U.S. centering in the Gila Valley of Arizona and characterized especially by irrigated agriculture. 509530. Kelley, J. C. (1966). People who resided in the Hohokam (ho-ho-kahm) region were among the ancestors of contemporary southern desert populations, such as the Oodham, as well as Pueblo populations and perhaps other populations in northern Mexico. Helms, M. W. (1993). (eds. Mathiowetz, M. D., and Turner, A. D. (eds. This book goes beyond just archaeological interest. Excavations, 1940 at University Indian Ruin, Tucson, Arizona, Southwestern Monuments Association Technical Series, Vol. 33, Columbia University, New York. 228280. 6, Institute for American Research, Tucson, AZ. Age of Barrier Canyon-style rock art constrained by cross-cutting relations and luminescence dating techniques. Snaketown Revisited: A Partial Cultural Resource Survey, Analysis of Site Structure, and an Ethnohistoric Study of the Proposed Hohokam-Pima National Monument, Archaeological Series No. (ed. ), Archaeological Frontiers and External Connections, Handbook of Middle American Indians Vol. Russell, W. G., and Wright, A. M. (2008). Flower World imagery in petroglyphs: Hints of Hohokam cosmology on the landscape. ), The Olmec World: Ritual and Rulership, Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, pp. (1979). 7, Amerind Foundation, Dragoon, AZ. 11, El Paso Archaeological Society, El Paso, TX. 8: 346375. 51, Archaeology Southwest, Tucson, AZ. thesis, College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson. 29, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC. ), Archaeological Investigations at the Yuma Wash Site and Outlying Settlements, Part 2, Anthropological Papers No. WebThe Interaction of Hohokam Ideology and Religious Beliefs in the Hohokam Practice of Dual Cemeteries (2015) DOCUMENT Citation Only Glen Rice. Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of Gods and Kings, Simon and Schuster, New York. 46, Center for Desert Archaeology, Tucson, AZ, pp. ), Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica, University Press of Colorado, Boulder, pp. lat: 30.676 ; Carot, P., and Hers, M. (2008). (ed. 248-258. Archaeological Investigations at Petroglyph Sites in the Painted Rock Reservoir Area, Southwestern Arizona, Technical Report No. 73544. In Englehardt, J. D., and Carrasco, M. D. Hohokam ceramics, Hohokam beliefs, Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph In Fish, S. K., and Fish, P. R. Nelson, B. Hohokam (NT76). Shell. C. P. (2016). (2003). 3444. Drawing the Southwest to scale: Perspectives on macroregional relations. European settlers actually cleared out and reused many Hohokam canals hundreds of years later. ), American Indian Rock Art, Vol. ), Environmental Change and Human Adaptation in the Ancient Southwest, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, pp. (2020). ), Collected Papers in Honor of Florence Hawley Ellis, Papers of the Archaeological Society of New Mexico No. ), Exploring the Hohokam: Prehistoric Desert Peoples of the American Southwest, Amerind Foundation New World Series No. Wright has done an exemplary job of this., The Making of a Preservation Archaeologist. 6, Gila Pueblo, Globe, AZ. 5, AltaMira Press, Lanham, MD, pp. Caseldine, C. R. (2020). Copper Bell Trade Patterns in the Prehispanic U.S. Southwest and Northwest Mexico, Archaeological Series No. ), The Oxford Handbook of Southwest Archaeology, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. (ed. (eds. 25, Gila Pueblo, Globe, AZ, pp. These dramatic changes were followed by the Salado phenomenons arrival. ), Religion in the Prehispanic Southwest, Archaeology of Religion No. 663682. Gilman, P. A., Thompson, M., and Wyckoff, K. C. (2015). Munson, M. K., and Hays-Gilpin, K. (2017). (1933). In Reed, P. In Sullivan, L. E. Lekson, S. H. (2008). Beals, R. L. (1944). Radiocarbon dates reveal Serpent Mound is more than two thousand years old. Senior Honors (B.A.) (ed. A History of the Ancient Southwest, School for Advanced Research Press, Santa Fe, NM. Some of the scarce data that historians point out about the religion of the Hohokam culture are its polytheistic character and the influence that came from Mesoamerica. In addition to this, it is known that they gave great importance to their deities related to death. According to the remains found, these gods were offered the best offerings. 206222. 187, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson. The Casas Grandes and Salado phenomena: Evidence for a religious schism in the Greater Southwest. (1977). McGuire, R. H., Adams, E. C., Nelson, B. Arizonas Tucson City Council unanimously approved a measure to give back more than 10 acres of ancestral land to the Tohono O'odham Nation. 3, Gila Pueblo, Globe, AZ. Marn, F. M. (2012). Pailes, M. (2016). Gladwin, H. S. (1948). Doyel, D. E. (1992). 7, Prehistory Press, Madison, WI, pp. Lewis, B. V. (2020). ), The Oxford Handbook of Southwest Archaeology, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. An Archaeological Surface Density Survey of Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, Center for Archaeology and Society Repository, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe. Social Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 44: 8493. 5598. A degree of cultural connectivity between the Southwest and Mesoamerica is evident in similarities in public architecture, ceramic technology and design, ritual paraphernalia, and subsistence, among other qualities. The Sun Youth of the Casas Grandes culture, Chihuahua, Mexico (AD 12001450). 645658. Clark, T. C., Heidke, J. M., Markel, M. K. and Lavayn. 16, Gila Pueblo, Globe, AZ. Please visit http://www.tdar.org/SAA2015 for instructions and more information. Cooking status: Hohokam ideology, power, and social reproduction. Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, translated by W. R. Trask, Bollingen Foundation, New York. The denomination refers to a more or less shared culture in a territory. ), Exchange Systems in Prehistory, Academic Press, New York, pp. 36, American Anthropological Association, Menasha, WI. Romain, W. F., Herrmann, E. W., Monaghan, G. W., and Burks, J. Petroglyphs, the record of a great adventure. The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document, In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. (ed.) The Hohokam Indians developed intricate networks of canals for irrigation, an agricultural engineering feat unsurpassed in pre-Columbian North America. Kelley, J. C., and Kelley, E. A. A. (2001). In Clark, J. J., and Lyons, P. D. (eds.) (1998). Lekson S. H. (2014). Wallace, H. D., Heidke, J. M., and Doelle, W. H. (1995). Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 86: 260263. (ed. Hieroglyphic Canyon, Monograph No. Guanacos, symbolism, and religion during the Hohokam pre-Classic. In Neitzel, J. E., (ed. In Doyel, D. E., and Dean, J. S. ), Handbook of Rock-Art Research, AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, CA, pp. Clavigero, F. S. (1780). (page 65). In Holmes, W. H. (eds. the hohkam religion was many different gods or goddesses that Gladwin, W., and Gladwin, H. S. (1934). (1957). Mesoamerica, the Hohokam, and the Tucson Basin. Interregional interaction of the Chalchihuites culture in northwest Mesoamerica during the Classic and Postclassic periods. ), The Forked Juniper: Critical Perspectives on Rudolfo Anaya, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, pp. Wilcox, D. R., and Shenk, L. O. Updates? ), Pots, Potters, and Models: Archaeological Investigations at the SRI Locus of the West Branch Site, Tucson, Arizona, Vol. (2000). (2002). 231247. 14, Center for Desert Archaeology, Tucson, AZ, pp. Doyel, D. E. (1994). What are the qualities of an accurate map? American Antiquity 30: 297309. Journal of World Prehistory 15: 257311. What does hohokam mean? For unknown reasons, Hohokam culture disintegrated in the early 15th century. Kiva 81: 3161. (eds. WebHohokam culture, Complex of North American Indian peoples who lived c. 300 bc ad 1400 in the Sonoran Desert (Arizona, U.S.), especially along the Gila and Salt rivers. Fish, P. R., and Fish, S. K. (1992). Journal of Archaeological Research The idea of a Mesoamerican connection isnt so farfetched; in fact, the Hohokam were known to be associated with the region through trade. Homer, R. N. (2005). The Hohokam regional system. 149168. (1999). Smith, M. E., and Berdan, F. F. Whittlesey, S. M. (2004). Miller, M. (2001). The Ancient Toltec civilization dominated present-day central Mexico from their capital city of Tollan ( Tula ). 3(1), University of California, Berkeley. Di Peso, C. C. (1956). Casas Grandes phenomenon.
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