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A Hohokam Platform Mound at the Gatlin Site, Gila Bend, Arizona

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

William W. Wasley
William W. Wasley*
Affiliation:
Arizona State Museum, Tucson, Ariz.
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Abstract

The mound near Gila Bend, western Arizona, excavated between November, 1958, and February, 1959 for the National Park Service by the Arizona State Museum, was rebuilt, modified, and repaired through six major stages of construction. The platform mound in use at any given stage was flat-topped and slope-sided with rounded corners and an irregular squarish or subrectangular outline. The platforms were made of a caliche plaster, and the sides were faced with a plaster of mixed caliche and adobe, placed directly over the earth core. Evidence of pre-mound occupation was encountered underneath the platform mound and in an excavated pit structure near the southeast corner of the mound. The entire historical sequence revealed by this excavation took place within the Sacaton phase of the Hohokam culture which may have lasted from A.D. 900 or 950 to A.D. 1100 or 1150 in the Gila Bend area. The significance of this Hohokam mound complex is that it represents a northern extension of the Mexican pyramid idea.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , October 1960 , pp. 244 - 262
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1960

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