Category: Hohokam

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Pueblo Grande Museum

I work as a volunteer tour guide at the Pueblo Grande Museum and often I am assigned to the Artifact Cart. Yesterday, quite unexpectedly, a team from Channel 7 came to the museum and I was one of the people who the host spoke to. It was fun and live and counts toward my 15 minutes of fame.

https://www.aztv.com/explore-the-pueblo-grande-museum-archaeological-park/

I couldn’t make the embedded link work but you can click the link above to see the museum introduced by Nicole our director and then see me in action.

This screen shot won’t work as a link. Here is another link to all of my posts that have mentioned the museum

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Thoughtful Speculation

“Thoughtful speculation“

I have run into this phrase several times this summer and thought it was worthy of a blog post. The context was in book reviews where the author did not have all the facts but could see a trend line or an implication. For instance near the mound at Pueblo Grande Museum there are the remains of a ball court. In fact ball court remains have been found throughout the Phoenix area. Thoughtful speculation would lead one to the conclusion that there was plenty of free time to play games meaning food surpluses.

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Paradox Two

China has 1.2 billion people. The USA has about 330 million. We have about one quarter the population of China. For many reasons that I think are obvious, but which I will explain below the fold, size matters for nations.

If we want to stay one of the leading nations of the world we need to grow a lot. Controlled, organized and rapid immigration is the only available means to accomplish this.

So Paradox Two is that we profess to want to complete with China. The only way to do that is to grow our population through immigration and yet we limit legal immigration to less than one third of one percent of our population each year. Millions of people from around the world would move here and help us complete with China and we won’t let them.

We are being stupid, short-sighted and paranoid.

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Tempe Archeology

In Tempe they are building a new bike path along the old spur railroad track that paralleled Eighth Street. Just east of Rural Road they discovered the site of an ancient Hohokum structure. It is a bigger house than a pit house with wide foundations that indicated that it was multiple stories high. Other evidence led the Archeology team to conclude that it was not a mound.

One of the very coolest discoveries was footprints of the people who built one of the floors circa 1300.

A heel print
Toe prints

Being able to see this discovery before it is carefully covered up was thrilling. The work was conducted by the consulting firm Logan Simpson and the presenter Mark Hackbarth did a really terrific job of explaining what we were seeing.

Mark standing in the cross section of a nearby Hohokam built irrigation canal.