The Gatlin Site belongs to the town of Gila Bend, which is developing it as a regional cultural park. The Hohokam platform mounds typically three- to 10-foot high rectangular earthen structures with plastered flat tops and sloping sides, measuring several hundred to several thousand square feet in area had ancient roots, although the purposes of these massive structures have never been fully understood. Amazon.in - Buy Expanding the View of Hohokam Platform Mounds: An Ethnographic Perspective: 63 (Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona) book online at best prices in India on Amazon.in. They built extensive waterworks, ballcourts, and platform mounds, made beautiful. The site preserves one of the few documented Hohokam platform mounds. The site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964. For a thousand years they flourished in the arid lands now part of Arizona. The Gatlin Site is an archaeological site in Gila Bend, Arizona. The mound is notable as being one of only few excavated and documented Sedentary Period platform mounds still relatively intact The Hohokam platform mounds typically three- to 10-foot high rectangular earthen structures with plastered flat tops and sloping sides, measuring several hundred to several thousand square feet in area had ancient roots, although the purposes of these massive structures have never been fully understood. Its importance is indicated by the presence of two ceremonial ball courts and one of the earliest platform mounds known. The site is the largest in the area and was home to over 500 people. The Hohokam people were the first farmers in southern Arizona, where the permanent Salt and Gila Rivers flowing through the hot Sonoran Desert made the irrigation strategy possible. The use of platform mounds is documented elsewhere in the world, including among the Olmec and other groups in Mesoamerica, the Hohokam, and in periods of. Pueblo Grande in Phoenix were built at larger villages along major irrigation canals.
Between AD 8 it was an important Hohokam settlement at the great bend of the Gila River. Massive adobe platform mounds like that found at. Expanding the View of Hohokam Platform Mounds: An Ethnographic Perspective: 63 Elson, Mark D. 11, these mounds are among the few monumental structures in the Southwest, yet their use and the nature of the groups who built them remain unresolved.
More information about the site can be obtained at this address and number provided.Īssociated with the mound are pit houses, ball courts, middens, and prehistoric canals. For more than a hundred years, archaeologists have investigated the function of earthen platform mounds in the American Southwest. *Although this address is for the park's main building, the site is actually located just outside of town, eastern Gila Bend.
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