Activity, Travel Plan
In this activity you will reflect on the places you have read and thought about this semester. Imagine you could travel back in time to visit these places when they were occupied.
Select ten places in the Southwest you would like to visit that were of significant importance in prehistory. Please answer the questions below (name, location, when/phase, significance, interest) and make a table like the one below to contain your answers. A landscape paper orientation is best.
Select ten places in the Southwest you would like to visit that were of significant importance in prehistory. Please answer the questions below (name, location, when/phase, significance, interest) and make a table like the one below to contain your answers. A landscape paper orientation is best.
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Name used today to describe this place
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Location (modern)
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When you would like to visit the place (include the name and dates of the archaeological phase)?
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What is the significance of the place and time?
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Why are you interested in this place?
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Pueblo Grande, Phoenix Basin
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Phoenix, Arizona
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Sedentary period 900 to 1200 CE.
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The Phoenix basin was the heart of the Hohokam regional system. It was one of only two likely regional systems in the SW (Chaco was the other). During the Sedentary period this system reached its maximal extent. Trade and potential marketplaces may have covered substantial portions of central Arizona.
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I would like to know how people in the Hohokam region interacted. That is, were there marketplaces associated with ballcourts? What did they do at and in the ballcourts? Were there any clues toward the end of the 11th century that the regional system was about to transform into something different? This phase is considered a "florescence" of Hohokam culture--I wonder if it felt that way to individuals.
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