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Walnut Creek Village: A Ninth-Century Hohokam-Anasazi Settlement in the Mountains of Central Arizona

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Donald H. Morris
Donald H. Morris*
Affiliation:
Arizona State UniversityTempe, Arizona
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Abstract

Student members of the Arizona State University Walnut Creek Archaeological Field Camp excavated six pit houses and located several more at Walnut Creek Village, located 10 mi. southeast of Young, Arizona, during the summer of 1967. Three of the pit houses were Hohokam and three were Anasazi; one of the latter was a subcircular kiva with sipapu-resonator complex of distinctive western Pueblo style. The occurrence, during the ninth century, of these two archaeological groups, side-by-side, in an ecological setting which is unusual for the Hohokam contributes to our knowledge of them and permits inferences concerning the Hohokam community at Roosevelt:9:6, 30 mi. away. Additionally, hypotheses concerning Hohokam ceremonial and communal houses at other sites can be evaluated.

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Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , January 1970 , pp. 49 - 61
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1970

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