Archaeology of the Pueblo Grande Platform Mound and Surrounding Features

Volume 2

Features in the Central Precinct of the Pueblo Grande Community

edited by

Todd W. Bostwick and Christian E. Downum

Volume 2 describes the prehistoric features, excluding the platform mound and its adjacent compound, that have been excavted at Pueblo Grande Cultural Park, a 102-arce portion of the prehistoric site owned by the city of Phoenix (see Downum and Bostwick, Volume 1: Chapter 1). This city park encompasses the central precinct of the Pueblo Grande site. Data curated in the Pueblo Grande Museum Archive (PGMA) concerning the non-platform mound features are complied and synthesized here, with the summarized data organized into chapters for each of several different type of features.  These consist of trash mounds (Chapter 1), pithouses and other structures (Chapter 2), a ballcourt (Chapter 3), cremation and inhumation burials (Chapters 4 and 5), miscellaneous structures, pits, and work surfaces (Chapter 6), and irrigation canals (Chapter 7).