Ceramics and community organization among the Hohokam.

Ceramics and community organization among the Hohokam. DAVID David, in the BibleDavid,d. c.970 B.C., king of ancient Israel (c.1010–970 B.C.), successor of Saul. The Book of First Samuel introduces him as the youngest of eight sons who is anointed king by Samuel to replace Saul, who had been deemed a failure. R. ABBOTT. Ceramics and community organization among theHohokam. xii+259 pages, 33 figures, 22 tables. 2000. Tucson (AZ):University of Arizona (body, education) University of Arizona - The University was founded in 1885 as a Land Grant institution with a three-fold mission of teaching, research and public service. Press; 0-8165-1936-6 hardback $40. Dr ABBOTT's study of some 18,000 sherds of pottery from PuebloGrande and other sites of the Classic phase of Hohokam culture Hohokam cultureComplex 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. inArizona has thrown doubt on previous interpretations of politicaldevelopment here and produced some telling suggestions for theinterpretation of assemblages. By examining distributions of forms,sizes of vessels, and temper, and correlating the data with context, hefound evidence for a variety of functions. He also found enough evidencefor the movement of pottery to show that context cannot always bereadily interpreted merely with the data of survey. Although thevillagers organized irrigation irrigation,in agriculture, artificial watering of the land. Although used chiefly in regions with annual rainfall of less than 20 in. (51 cm), it is also used in wetter areas to grow certain crops, e.g., rice. and maintained district networks, DrABBOTT considers that they were autonomous (cf. MCANANY, below).However, he argues that file pottery does reveal subsequent emergence ofa higher order of political organization -- which is not reflected inchanges to the settlement pattern. The book is based on theauthor's doctorate, which won the Society for AmericanArchaeology's Dissertation Prize. Drs KANTNER & MAHONEY introduce 10 studies of architecture,economies, rites and settlement history among the fascinatingresidential groups in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico New Mexico,state in the SW United States. At its northwestern corner are the so-called Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet at right angles; New Mexico is also bordered by Oklahoma (NE), Texas (E, S), and Mexico (S). , and its `outliers'.For the outliers, Dr KANTNER & colleagues suggest, like Dr ABBOTT,that local autonomy was more prevalent than has been assumed, althoughthey point out that the reason may be geographical remoteness. S.H.Lekson contributes a discussion in which he points out that growingappreciation of local autonomy is a broad tendency in archaeology butwarns that it must not obscure the view of wider influences. Messrs CANUTO & YAEGER present 10 case-studies in prehistoricand historical archaeology drawn from the Mississippi valley, theAppalachians, New Mexico, Mesoamerica, and the Andes. Here too, theauthors seek to distinguish local historical variation and political orsocial `strategies' for developing or maintaining social identity.Community identity, it transpires, in common with the Great Housecollection, is forged at several scales. There are also threemethodological discussions, including contributions from J. Marcus andW.H. Isbell.