Landscape of the Spirits
Title | Landscape of the Spirits PDF eBook |
Author | Todd W. Bostwick |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2002-09-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780816521845 |
High above the noise and traffic of metropolitan Phoenix, Native American rock art offers mute testimony that another civilization once thrived in the Arizona desert. In the city's South Mountains, prehispanic peoples pecked thousands of images into the mountains' boulders and outcroppings—images that today's hikers can encounter with every bend in the trail. Todd Bostwick, an archaeologist who has studied the Hohokam for more than twenty years, and Peter Krocek, a professional photographer with a passion for archaeology, have combed the South Mountains to locate nearly all of the ancient petroglyphs found in the canyons and ridges. Their years of learning the landscape and investigating the ancient designs have resulted in a book that explores this wealth of prehistoric rock art within its natural and cultural contexts, revealing what these carvings might mean, how they got there, and when they were made. Landscape of the Spirits is the first book to cover these ancient images and is one of the most comprehensive treatments of a rock art location ever published. It conveys the range of different rock art elements and compositions found in the South Mountains—animals, humans, and geometric shapes, as well as celestial and calendrical markings at key sites—through accurate descriptions, drawings, and photographs. Interpretations of the petroglyphs are based on Native American ethnographic accounts and consider the most recent theories concerning shamanism and archaeoastronomy. Written in a simple and accessible style, Landscape of the Spirits is an indispensable volume for anyone exploring the South Mountains, and for rock art enthusiasts everywhere who wish to broaden their understanding of the prehistoric world. It is both an authoritative overview of these ancient wonders and an unprecedented benchmark in southwestern rock art research at a single geographic location.
Exploring the Hohokam
Title | Exploring the Hohokam PDF eBook |
Author | George J. Gumerman |
Publisher | Amerind Foundation Publication |
Pages | 530 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | History |
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Papers of a seminar held during Feb. 1988 at the Amerind Foundation, Dragoon, Ariz., and sponsored by the Bureau of Reclamation.
Hohokam Pottery
Title | Hohokam Pottery PDF eBook |
Author | Jan Barstad |
Publisher | Western National Parks Association |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781877856952 |
Explains the simple but beautiful work of Hohokam potters and provides glimpses of a flourishing prehistoric culture in the Southwest. More than 20 images accompany concise and informative text for the non-specialist.
The Hohokam Millennium
Title | The Hohokam Millennium PDF eBook |
Author | Suzanne K. Fish |
Publisher | |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
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For a thousand years they flourished in the arid lands now part of Arizona. They built extensive waterworks, ballcourts, and platform mounds, made beautiful pottery and jewelry, and engaged in wide-ranging trade networks. Then, slowly, their civilization faded and transmuted into something no longer Hohokam. Are today's Tohono O'odham their heirs or their conquerors? The mystery and the beauty of Hohokam civilization are the subjects of the essays in this volume. Written by archaeologists who have led the effort to excavate, record, and preserve the remnants of this ancient culture, the chapters illuminate the way the Hohokam organized their households and their communities, their sophisticated pottery and textiles, their irrigation system, the huge ballcourts and platform mounds they built, and much more.
From Huhugam to Hohokam
Title | From Huhugam to Hohokam PDF eBook |
Author | J. Brett Hill, Hendrix College |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2018-12-19 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 149857095X |
From Huhugam to Hohokam: Heritage and Archaeology in the American Southwest is an historical comparison of archaeologists’ views of the ancient Hohokam with Native O’odham concepts about themselves and their relationships with their neighbors and ancestors.
Chaco & Hohokam
Title | Chaco & Hohokam PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia L. Crown |
Publisher | School of American Research Ad |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | History |
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Synthesizing data and current thought about the regional systems of the Chacoans and the Hohokam, eleven archaeologists examine settlement patterns, subsistence economy, social organization, and trade, shedding new light on two of the most sophisticated cultures of the prehistoric Southwest.
Grewe Revealed
Title | Grewe Revealed PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Excavations (Archaeology) |
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