Reservations and donation prepayment required by 5 p.m. Hohokam culture, prehistoric North American Indians who lived approximately from 200 to 1400 ce. Mesa Grande, one of the two largest Hohokam platform mound villages in the lower Salt River Valley, Arizona, contains an exceptionally large and diverse excavated sample of intrusive, diagnostic pottery types that have been cross-dated with tree-ring dates in other regions.
Tour is limited to 20 people including guides. Our visit will include the Marana Platform Mound site (which was surrounded by 40+ residential compounds), a sampling of agricultural field locations including specialized ones for agave cultivation, and a secondary compound center on the upper-basin slope of the Tortolita Mountains. The Marana Mound site is one of the very few Hohokam Early Classic period (AD 1150-1300) villages that has wholly escaped the destruction resulting from modern agriculture and urbanization and where adobe-wall remnants can be clearly identified on the surface. We also will visit the location where a segment of the nearly seven-mile-long Marana Mound site canal was identified from surface and excavated remains before that area was included in a modern housing development. These site visits will provide a basis for understanding the social and economic processes during the Early Classic period, when processes of Hohokam centralization and population aggregation greatly accelerated. Large, walled, adobe enclosures were built, inhumation replaced cremation, and platform mounds replaced ball courts as public architecture. Fish lead this tour to selected archaeological sites in one of southern Arizona’s largest ancient Hohokam communities. From 8:30 a.m to noon, $30 donation ($24 for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center and Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary members). The mound was the public and ceremonial center for a one of the largest Hohokam villages in the Salt River Valley, a residential area that extended for over one mile along the terrace overlooking the river. A typical mound is rectangular in shape, three to ten feet high, and can range from several hundred to several thousand square feet in area. Platform Mounds Another distinguishing characteristic of Hohokam culture is the platform mound. Their Culture The Hohokam were farmers who. The ancient Hohokam, ancestors of todays Oodham people, built and used the Mesa Grande platform mound between AD 11. As with the Hohokam ballcourts, the true purpose of the racetracks is a matter of speculation. TOUR FILLED – WAITING LIST On Saturday October 6, 2018, Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Marana Hohokam Platform Mound Archaeological Community Tour” will be guided by archaeologists Paul and Suzanne Fish departing from Circle K convenience store, 13961 N. Michael Hampshires rendering of the large platform mound at Pueblo Grande on the north bank of the Salt River. 11, these mounds are among the few monumental structures in the Southwest, yet their use and the nature of. Ancient Hohokam structures were exposed during the Arizona State Museum’s Marana Platform Mound Community excavations in 2003, photo by Allen Dart.
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