Vapaki: Ancestral O'Odham Platform Mounds of the Sonoran Desert
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Vapaki: Ancestral O'Odham Platform Mounds of the Sonoran Desert

Vapaki: Ancestral O'Odham Platform Mounds of the Sonoran Desert

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Glen E. Rice (Contributor) Arleyn W Simon (Contributor) Chris Loendorf (Contributor)  

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This volume presents a far-ranging conversation on the topic of Hohokam platform mounds in the history of the southern Arizona desert, exploring why they were built, how they were used, and what they meant in the lives of the farmers who built them. Vapaki brings together diverse theoretical approaches, a mix of big-picture and tightly focused perspectives, coverage of the variation in mounds that provides depth for specialists, breadth for those working in other areas and on other topics, and a rich corpus of research ideas and theoretical perspectives. Contributors grapple with questions about platform mounds, including the social, political, ideological, symbolic, and adaptive factors that contributed to their development, spread, and eventual cessation. The differing perspectives presented here about what motivated Ancestral O'Odham populations of the Hohokam Period to build these monuments, whether as displays of status, identity, political ability, membership in regional networks, and as architectural models of the cosmological order, offer insights to researchers studying monumental architecture in other contexts. O'Odham knowledge of the history and uses of mounds is combined with archaeological data to understand the place of platform mounds in the lives of the Ancestors and as a continuing presence among their modern descendants. 82 illustrations
Glen E. Rice is professor emeritus in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. He is the author of Sending the Spirits Home: The Archaeology of Hohokam Mortuary Practices, and co-editor of Deadly Landscapes: Case Studies in Prehistoric Southwestern Warfare.Arleyn W. Simon is associate research professor emeritus in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University, where she directed the Archaeological Research Institute from 1995-2018.Chris Loendorf is the senior project manager for the Gila River Indian Community Cultural Resource Management Program. He has directed large-scale excavations at Salado, Hohokam, and O'Odham sites for over three decades. Contributions by David R. Abbott, Lewis Borck, Todd W. Bostwick, Richard Ciolek-Torello, Jeffery J. Clark, Jeffrey S. Dean, Christian E. Downum, David E. Doyel, Katherine A. Dungan, Mark D. Elson, Paul R. Fish, Suzanne K. Fish, Barnaby V. Lewis, Owen Lindauer, Brian Medchill, Douglas R. Mitchell, Laurene Montero, Linda Morgan, Erica O'Neil, Erik Steinbach, Carla R. Van West, Christopher N. Watkins, and M. Kyle Woodson.
  • Contributor: Glen E. Rice
  • Imprint: University of Utah Press,U.S.
  • ISBN13: 9781647691172
  • Number of Pages: 294
  • Packaged Dimensions: 178x254mm
  • Packaged Weight: 363
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: University of Utah Press,U.S.
  • Release Date: 2023-03-31
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Glen E. Rice is professor emeritus in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. He is the author of Sending the Spirits Home: The Archaeology of Hohokam Mortuary Practices, and co-editor of Deadly Landscapes: Case Studies in Prehistoric Southwestern Warfare.Arleyn W. Simon is associate research professor emeritus in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University, where she directed the Archaeological Research Institute from 1995-2018.Chris Loendorf is the senior project manager for the Gila River Indian Community Cultural Resource Management Program. He has directed large-scale excavations at Salado, Hohokam, and O'Odham sites for over three decades. Contributions by David R. Abbott, Lewis Borck, Todd W. Bostwick, Richard Ciolek-Torello, Jeffery J. Clark, Jeffrey S. Dean, Christian E. Downum, David E. Doyel, Katherine A. Dungan, Mark D. Elson, Paul R. Fish, Suzanne K. Fish, Barnaby V. Lewis, Owen Lindauer, Brian Medchill, Douglas R. Mitchell, Laurene Montero, Linda Morgan, Erica O'Neil, Erik Steinbach, Carla R. Van West, Christopher N. Watkins, and M. Kyle Woodson.

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