The Hohokam and Their World

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Linda M. Gregonis is an independent archaeological consultant based in Tucson, Arizona. She has spent more than forty years researching and teaching about various aspects of Hohokam culture. Her interest in art and iconography stems from her work as a ceramic analyst. Victoria R. Evans is an archaeologist who has conducted research in the Sonoran Desert for more than twenty years. Evans recently retired from New Mexico Highlands University, where she served as the anthropology laboratory director.

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The Hohokam and Their World explores how the Hohokam used art forms such as pottery, shell ornaments, carved stone, and rock imagery to convey their views of the world and their ideas about water, the Sonoran Desert, the ocean, travel, ancestors, and the cosmos.