Anthropology 2231F/G Lecture Notes - Hohokam, Jacal, Caliche
13 Jul 2012
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Major rivers: gila and salt river flow through the desert. Two major groups: pima (descendents of hohokam) and popago. Hohokam: meaning those who vanished, or completely used up. More elaborate pottery, larger sites are general population trends, but. Hohokam have always been very distinctive from the anasazi. Never used coiled pottery, modeled clay into shape. Covered the pottery with painted geometric designs, very elaborate. Colour of paints are usually red, different from black used by. Did adopt black-on-white, adopted from anasazi: 2. 300-700 ad: houses small, family sized, rectangular, not true pithouses (shallow pits, not deep pits like anasazi houses) Have a sloping ramp to go into the houses. To switch to pithouses more like those of the anasazi from. Do not have the sipapu, totally different beliefs of where people came from. After 1200 ad, switched to above-ground structures, more like residential compounds: changes in layout of sites. 300 ad: few houses arranged around a central open courtyard.
