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1	Social Differentiation in Animal Use and Subsistence: A Case Study of the Marana Platform Mound Blythe, Ashley Anne January 2009 (has links) The Marana Platform Mound Community (AZ AA:12:251[ASM]) in the Tucson Basin of southern Arizona provides a unique opportunity to examine the mechanisms of social organization within an early Classic Period Hohokam community. The role of the platform mound for integrative communal ritual or segregated elite-controlled activity is examined through faunal remains from the platform mound and nearby residential localities. Taxonomic diversity, relative abundance, and element distribution are used to measure the extent to which the platform mound served to integrate or distinguish site residents. Subtle differences in the diversity of taxa, the quantity of deposited faunal remains, and the quality of portions and taxa are indicative of differential access to resources between residents at the Platform Mound and residents in sites further away in the Tucson Basin. The findings support the current hypothesis that a dual mode of network and corporate strategy was used to organize the community. Faunal Studies Hohokam Marana Platform Mound Zooarchaeology
2	Small Vertebrates of the Bidahochi Formation, White Cone, Northeastern Arizona Baskin, Jon Alan January 1975 (has links) Two taxa of amphibians, five taxa of reptiles, and eighteen taxa of mammals were collected by screen-washing sediments from the upper Bidahochi Formation at White Cone peak, northeastern Arizona. Five new species of mammals were recovered. They include Perognathoides bidahochiensis (Heteromyidae), Bensonomys yazhi (Cricetidae), Bensonomys bradyi (Cricetidae), Paronychomys alticuspis (Cricetidae), and Martes (Plionictis) repenningi (Mustelidae). Bensonomys yazhi and Bensonomys bradyi are close to the stem of Central and South Americal hesperomyine radiation. The radiation began in the southwest United States and Mexico during the Hemphillian. The middle member of the Bidahochi Formation is dated at 6.7 m. y. by a basalt from Roberts Mesa. The paleomagnetic data and the White Cone local fauna support this middle Hemphillian date. Amphibia Arizona Bensonomys Bidahochi Formation Carnivora Cenozoic Chordata Cricetidae Eutheria faunal studies Hemphillian Heteromyidae Mammalia Martes Miocene Mustclidae Myomorpha Neogene new taxa northeast occurrence paleontology Perognathoides Pliocene radiation Reptilia Rodentia Tertiary Tetrapoda Theria United States Vertebrata White Cone Paleontology -- Arizona -- White Cone Vertebrates -- Arizona -- White Cone Vertebrates, Fossil

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Social Differentiation in Animal Use and Subsistence: A Case Study of the Marana Platform Mound

Small Vertebrates of the Bidahochi Formation, White Cone, Northeastern Arizona