Next Meeting – April 8th
Our next meeting will be held in person and on Zoom on Wednesday, April 8th, at 7:00 p.m. in the lyceum at the Fort Lewis College Center of Southwest Studies. After a brief business meeting, Angela Huster, PhD, will present “Cotton, Intra-regional Specialization, and the Hohokam Northern Periphery.” A reception will start things off at 6:30 p.m. in the CSWS foyer.
This talk addresses evidence for within-region specialization among the Hohokam of the Salt-Gila area (modern Phoenix), using evidence for cotton cultivation and textile production as a case study. The Hohokam of southern Arizona are best known for their large-scale canal systems, but during later periods, their settlement system expanded into areas that relied on rainfall and runoff farming. Prior studies of ceramic production and exchange have demonstrated that the region had a well-integrated market system, but less work has been conducted on the production and movement of non-ceramic resources within that system. Cotton textiles were a prestige good traded across the Southwest, and required significant labor to produce, making them a good candidate for specialized production.
Angela Huster is a Senior Archaeologist and Principal Investigator for Chronicle Heritage (formerly PaleoWest) in Arizona, where she provides oversight to projects across the state, particularly data recoveries at Hohokam sites and surveys for large solar projects. She earned her PhD from Arizona State University on the effects of Aztec conquest on commoner households, and continues to conduct independent research at Aztec and Epiclassic sites around central Mexico. Her research interests in both the US Southwest and Mexico include household archaeology, craft production, and the negotiation of identities in temporal and cultural transition zones.
Link to Join Webinar – https://fortlewis.zoom.us/j/94032371260 – Meeting ID: 940 3237 1260