Homolovi Iii

Download or read book Homol'ovi III written by E. Charles Adams and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homol'ovi III is the smallest of the seven primary villages comprising the Homol'ovi cluster. The work by Arizona State Museum in the late 1980s that is summarized in this volume was the first since J. Walter Fewkes spent a few days excavating in 1896. Homol'ovi III provides a unique perspective on the development of the Homol'ovi settlement cluster in the late 1200s and through most of the 1300s. Founded by immigrants as a small settlement of six or seven families between 1280 and 1290 on the floodplain of the Little Colorado River, it grew to a community of perhaps 75 people occupying 40-50 rooms by the late 1290s. Abandonment of Homol'ovi III shortly after 1300 correlates with increased stream flow that made its location on the floodplain untenable. In all likelihood, the inhabitants moved upstream 5 km to join occupants of Homol'ovi I. However, the use history of the village was just beginning. In the 1330s and 1340s, Homol'ovi III was used as a fieldhouse, probably by its former occupants, developing into a small farming village of 2-4 families from the 1350s to the 1370s. In conjunction with these seasonal occupations, many parts of the village were remodeled, the small plaza area was constantly in use, and even a small kiva was built. The latest occupation also witnessed use of the plaza as a bird cemetery. The complex history of Homol'ovi III informs us about the details of life along the Little Colorado River over a century of use by ancestral Hopi people. The volume focuses on an in-depth narrative of architecture, environment, and material culture analyses from five years of excavations by the Arizona State Museum and provides detailed information for students of latepueblo prehistory.