![]() Others were built in the same way, but not refurbished or remodeled, and quickly abandoned. Some of these show evidence of remodeling over time and multiple interior hearths, which suggests they were occupied for many decades. Many dwellings dating to this time have been excavated nearby (Thiel, 2013 Gregonis, 1997). ![]() Wall foundations were made of sun-dried adobe, with a superstructure of waddle and daub. ![]() This period from about AD 950-1150 was a time of rapid population growth in the Tucson area when large villages along the river became surrounded by smaller hamlets as people splintered away from their home villages and founded smaller settlements near agricultural fields (Roth, 2000).ģHouses were constructed in shallow pits with constructed clay or plaster floors and central hearths for cooking and warmth in the winter. The general location of this site, along the southern bank of the Tanque Verde River, was identified by surface pottery scatters, dated by their painted decorations. The Hohokam people were sedentary agricultural people who farmed well-watered river valleys growing maize, beans, squash, cotton and other crops here for more than a millennium. This can be accomplished without excavations, and in the future analyses of this type could be used to study several other similar structures nearby, allowing for a more regional understanding of societal changes taking place in the 10 th and early 11 th centuries along one part of a river system in Arizona.ĢThe house studied here is in the Tucson Basin of Arizona, USA, part of the eastern edge of the Sonoran Desert that continues to the south into Mexico. Those attributes of culture can be used to show how the occupants of this small house fit into the larger society, how long they lived at this location, and how that longevity was related to population growth dynamics. Using GPR analysis of reflection profiles integrated with amplitude slice-maps, features within this dwelling were identified that denote human activities, household size and duration of residence. Here I have used ground-penetrating radar (GPR) to analyze one small house in southern Arizona, which dates to the Rincon Phase of the Pre-Classic Hohokam (AD 950-1150) to identify architectural components, which can be used to assess cultural attributes of these ancient people. 1For the last few decades archaeological research in North America has explored ancient households within larger communities to understand individual economic units and broader social interactions in general (Roth, 2000).
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