The archaeological site of Snaketown belongs to the Hohokam culture of the American southwest, and is located on the Gila River in the Sonoran Desert of central Arizona. Occupied from the 1st century BC through the mid-1500s, Snaketown consists of a village of pithouses and one large (195 feet by 15-20 feet deep) oval ball court, indicating evidence of connections with central American societies. Excavators include Emil Haury, E.B. Sayles and Harold and Nora Gladwin.
Sources and Further Information
Beck, M. 2002 The Ball-on-three-ball Test for Tensile Strength: Refined Methodology and Results for Three Hohokam Ceramic Types. American Antiquity 67(3):558-569.
Motsinger, T. N. 1998 Hohokam Roads at Snaketown, Arizona. Journal of Field Archaeology 25(1):89-96.
This glossary entry is part of the Dictionary of Archaeology.
