Sending the Spirits Home: The Archaeology of Hohokam Mortuary Practices

Winner of the Don D. and Catherine S. Fowler Prize

This data—rich monograph provides new and stimulating perspectives on the Hohokam people and their mortuary practices. It breaks new ground by using the knowledge of descendent peoples to generate archaeologically testable hypotheses; demonstrating the need for mortuary analyses conducted at a regional scale; and synthesizing of the interaction of beliefs, ideology, social organization, and ecology in determining Hohokam mortuary practices...