Vapaki

Glen E. Rice is professor emeritus in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. He is the author of Sending the Spirits Home: The Archaeology of Hohokam Mortuary Practices, and co-editor of Deadly Landscapes: Case Studies in Prehistoric Southwestern Warfare.Arleyn W. Simon is associate research professor emeritus in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University, where she directed the Archaeological Research Institute from 1995-2018.Chris Loendorf is the senior project manager for the Gila River Indian Community Cultural Resource Management Program. He has directed large-scale excavations at Salado, Hohokam, and O’Odham sites for over three decades.Contributions by  David R. Abbott, Lewis Borck, Todd W. Bostwick, Richard Ciolek-Torello, Jeffery J. Clark, Jeffrey S. Dean, Christian E. Downum, David E. Doyel, Katherine A. Dungan, Mark D. Elson, Paul R. Fish, Suzanne K. Fish, Barnaby V. Lewis, Owen Lindauer, Brian Medchill, Douglas R. Mitchell, Laurene Montero, Linda Morgan, Erica O’Neil, Erik Steinbach, Carla R. Van West, Christopher N. Watkins, and M. Kyle Woodson.

• List of FiguresList of TablesPreface: Vapaki of the Ancestors by Chris Loendorf and Barnaby V. LewisAcknowledgmentsEditors’ NotePart I: Introduction1. Platform Mounds of the Sonoran Desert by Glen E. Rice, Arleyn W. Simon, Chris Loendorf, Carla R. Van West, and Jeffrey S. DeanPart II: A Context for the Study of Platform Mounds2. Platform Mounds and Ethnographic Analogy Revisited: Defining the Functional Universe by Mark D. Elson3. West Mexican Connections and Classic Period Hohokam Platform Mounds by Suzanne K. Fish and Paul R. Fish4. Contextualizing Platform Mounds by Carla R. Van West and Jeffrey S. Dean5. Akimel O’Odham Traditional Knowledge Regarding Platform Mounds by Linda Morgan, Barnaby V. Lewis, and Chris LoendorfPart III: Development of Platform Mounds6. The Gatlin Site Platform Mound by David E. Doyel7. What We Know and What We Wished We Knew about Hohokam Platform Mounds by David R. Abbott8. When is a Platform Mound: A Focus on Diversity and Function by Richard Ciolek-TorelloPart IV: Platform Mounds at a Local Scale9. Platform Mound Communities along the Middle Gila River by M. Kyle Woodson, Chris Loendorf, and Brian Medchill10. A Monument for Memory: The Pueblo Grande Platform Mound by Todd W. Bostwick, Douglas R. Mitchell, Laurene Montero, and Christian E. Downum11. Social Organization and Leadership Strategies among Tonto Basin Platform Mound Communities by Arleyn W. Simon and Owen Lindauer12. Mounds, Mounding, and Polychrome Pottery: Roosevelt Red Ware and Platform Mounds in the Tonto Basin of Central Arizona by Katherine A. DunganPart V: Platform Mounds on a Regional Scale13. Anarchic Social Movements as an Explanation for Rapid Change: A Case Study from the Hohokam World, AD 1200–1450 by Lewis Borck and Jeffery J. Clark14. Monuments, Costly Signaling, and Replicative Fitness during the Hohokam Era by Glen E. Rice, Christopher N. Watkins, Erica O’Neil, and Erik SteinbachPart VI: Conclusion15. Unfinished Work at Platform Mounds by Glen E. Rice and Chris LoendorfReferencesList of ContributorsIndex

“An exceptional collection of essays relating to the origin, spread, function, purpose, and demise of these prominent architectural features at villages across the larger Hohokam cultural area or sphere of influence in the later thirteenth and fourteenth centuries."—T. Kathleen Henderson, Desert Archaeology"This volume makes a significant contribution by successfully uniting a diverse mix of works under the umbrella of understanding Hohokam-area platform mounds. Although the only thing that unites some of these chapters is the topic of platform mounds, that approach works well here; there ought to be something in this volume for everyone."—Karen Schollmeyer, Archaeology Southwest