Chaco and Hohokam: Prehistoric Regional Systems in the American Southwest

by Patricia L. Crown

The argricultural people known as the Hohokam, in Southern Arizona, and those who lived in the Chaco Canyon area of New Mexico developed two of the Southwest's most sophisticated cultures of prehistoric times. This book offers the first synthesis of new data and current thinking about the regional systems of the Chacoan and the Hohokam.

Genres: Archaeology, Native American

369 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1991

About the author

Patricia L. Crown received her A.B. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1974, and her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Arizona in 1981. She held teaching positions at Southern Methodist University and Arizona State University, and has been on the faculty at the University of New Mexico since 1993, where she is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology. Dr. Crown has conducted field investigations in the Ancestral Pueblo, Mogollon, and Hohokam areas of the American Southwest; she recently directed the analysis of artifacts from the trash mounds at Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon. One result of this research was the recent identification of the first prehispanic cacao (chocolate) north of the Mexican border in ceramics from Chaco Canyon. The Society for American Archaeology awarded her the Excellence in Ceramic Research Award in 1994, and the American Anthropological Association gave her (jointly with Suzanne K. Fish) the Gordon Willey Award in 1998. Her books have included three co-edited volumes, Chaco and Hohokam (SAR Press), Social Violence in the Prehispanic Southwest (University of Arizona Press) and Ceramic Production in the American Southwest (University of Arizona Press), the single-authored, Ceramics and Ideology: Salado Polychrome Pottery (University of New Mexico Press), and an edited volume Women and Men in the Prehispanic Southwest: Labor, Power, and Prestige (School of American Research Press).

Reviews

[Sally H.]

A valuable research study of the Chaco and Hohokam cultures. I read this book in preparation of our visit with Liz & Bill to Chaco Canyon.