Homolovi II Archaeology of an Ancestral Hopi Village Arizona [SOLD]

From the Book’s Abstract:

Homol'ovi II is a 14th-century pueblo with over 700 rooms that is located along the Little Colorado River five miles north of the modern town of Winslow in northeastern Arizona. Although known by archaeologists since J. Walter Fewkes' work in 1896, no systematic archaeological excavations were conducted at the pueblo until 1984. Excavations were initiated because the Pueblo had been ravaged by a century of vandalism. This vandalism threatened the integrity of the pueblo and had become a concern of professional archaeologists, avocational archaeologists, citizens of Winslow, and the Hopi, who consider Homol'ovi II to be ancestral to many of their clans.

The excavation of five rooms and an outside activity am in 1984 by the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona was initiated to evaluate the damage to the pueblo, to open an area that could be viewed by the public following a self-guided trail, and to assess the viability of developing a new state park around Homol'ovi II.

This report summarizes the findings of the 1984 excavations, which clearly demonstrate that many of the archaeological deposits are undamaged by the vandalism. Significant information on the age of the deposits, the nature and direction of exchange between Homol'ovi II occupants and their neighbors, and the subsistence base of the people was recovered and is reported herein. The extensive surface collection proved useful in discovering trends in activities and age between the village's plazas and between plaza and extra-village areas.

The significant findings reported in this volume are that the excavated deposits date between A.D. 1340 and 1400, that nearly all the decorated ceramics during this period were imported from villages on the Hopi Mesas, that cotton was a principal crop which probably formed the basis of Homol'ovi II's participation in regional exchange, that chipped stone was a totally expedient technology in contrast to ground stone which was becoming more diverse, and that the katsina cult was probably present or developing at Homol'ovi II.

The areas uncovered in the 1984 excavations have been stabilized and form the core of the interpretive program for the Homolovi Ruins State Park, which was established in 1986. The research findings form the basis for future excavations at Homol'ovi II that should broaden our knowledge of the developments taking place in 14th-century Pueblo society, connecting the people whom archaeologists term the Anasazi with those calling themselves Hopi.