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An Archaeological Survey of the Verde Valley, Medallion Papers No. VanPool, C. S., VanPool, T. L., and Harmon, M. J. Thompson, M. (1994). Arizonas Tucson City Council unanimously approved a measure to give back more than 10 acres of ancestral land to the Tohono O'odham Nation. Hernbrode, J., and Boyle, P. C. (n.d.a). An important aspect about the Hohokam is that they were not a specific human group. In Hays-Gilpin, K. A., and Schaafsma, P. Rather than representing a new religion, I suggest Hohokam artisans materialized these long-established and unquestioned principles in novel iconographic ways as a means of naturalizing and ordaining the rapid social change that accompanied the religious revitalization movement. What is the hohokam religion? - Answers Some of the scarce data that historians point out about the religion of the Hohokam culture are its polytheistic character and the influence that came from Mesoamerica. 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The Origins and Significance of Snake-Lightning Cults in the Pueblo Southwest, Special Report No. 9, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC, pp. The University of Utah Press J. Willard Marriott Library 295 South 1500 East, Suite 5400 Salt Lake City, UT 84112, Winner of the Don D. and Catherine S. Fowler Prize, Brings a scientific calculus to bear on the interpretation of Hohokam rock art that is far more sophisticated than any earlier attempts. David R. Wilcox, adjunct professor of anthropology, Northern Arizona University, and senior research associate, Museum of Northern Arizona. The Ethnogeography of the Tewa Indians, Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology Vol. (2003). Gladwin, H. S. (1948). People used these for gatherings and for a ball game that was probably similar to those played among Mesoamerican societies. Jones, B. M., Jr., and Drover, C. E. (2018b). 433500. Lewis-Williams, J. D., and Pearce, D. (2005). 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