Social Boundaries Set in Clay: Trade Ware Patterning in the Tonto Basin of East-Central Arizona

Hensler, K N

doi:10.1086/jar.54.4.3631706

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“…By employing middlerange theoretical principles derived from ethnographic and ethnoarchaeological contexts, archaeologists gradually are developing methodological techniques that allow the elucidation of processes behind the formation of social boundaries, even in prehistoric contexts (Dietler and Herbich, 1998;Hensler, 1998;Hodder, 1977Hodder, , 1979Stark, 1998bStark, , 2003Stark et al, 2000).…”

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Tribal boundaries: Stylistic variability and social boundary maintenance during the transition to the Copper Age on the Great Hungarian Plain

Parkinson

2006

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

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Tribal boundaries: Stylistic variability and social boundary maintenance during the transition to the Copper Age on the Great Hungarian Plain

Parkinson

2006

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

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Prehistoric Demography in the Southwest: Migration, Coalescence, and Hohokam Population Decline

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One of the most prominent but least understood demographic phenomena in the precontact Southwest is the disappearance of the Hohokam from the valleys of southern Arizona. Despite extensive research, no widely accepted explanation has been offered. We argue that the failure to identify a satisfactory cause is due to excessive focus on catastrophic phenomena and terminal occupations, and a lack of attention to gradual demographic processes. Based on a combination of macro-regional population studies and local research in the lower San Pedro River valley, we present an explanation for gradual population decline precipitated by social and economic coalescence beginning in the late A.D. 1200s. In the southern Southwest an influx of immigrants from the north led to a shift from a dispersed, extensive settlement/subsistence strategy to increased conflict, aggregation, and economic intensification. This shift resulted in diminished health and transformation from population growth to decline. Over approximately 150 years gradual population decline resulted in small remnant groups unable to maintain viable communities. Small, terminal populations were ultimately unable to continue identifiable Hohokam cultural traditions and consequently disappeared from the archaeological record of southern Arizona, either through migration or a shift in lifestyle that rendered them archaeologically invisible.

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Social Boundaries Set in Clay: Trade Ware Patterning in the Tonto Basin of East-Central Arizona

Cited by 2 publications

References 6 publications

Tribal boundaries: Stylistic variability and social boundary maintenance during the transition to the Copper Age on the Great Hungarian Plain

Tribal boundaries: Stylistic variability and social boundary maintenance during the transition to the Copper Age on the Great Hungarian Plain

Prehistoric Demography in the Southwest: Migration, Coalescence, and Hohokam Population Decline

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