Description:
This volume explores the often overlooked role of small upland Hohokam villages like the Rooney Ranch site north of Tucson. The book documents more than a decade of fieldwork by the Pima Community College Centre for Archaeological Field Training, highlighting the contributions of students and professionals in one of the few long-term, community-college-led archaeological investigations in the region.
Review Quotes:
"This is an excellent summation of excavations at a long-lived Hohokam village overlooking the Cañada del Oro Valley in northwest Tucson. It concludes that the village was primarily a location for agave production that could be used locally and at nearby Hohokam communities."--Gayle Hartmann, author of Last Water on the Devil's Highway: A Cultural and Natural History of Tinajas Altas
"Jones and O'Brien provide a detailed description and interpretation of the Rooney Ranch Site. Their analysis provides an important contribution to Tucson Basin archaeology."--Randall McGuire, co-editor of The Border and Its Bodies: The Embodiment of Risk Along the U.S.-México Line