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In the last decade and a half more archaeological work has been done on the prehistoric Hohokam of southern Arizona than was done in the previous seven decades combined. We have substantially increased our sample of Hohokam remains both in terms of the total quantity of material and in terms of the geographic distribution of that material. This research has produced a complex but still fragmented picture of Hohokam exchange that does not exactly fit either the cultural-historical interpretation of Hohokam trade as an unchanging egalitarian system of exchange based on the heterogeneous distribution of resources nor the revisionist view advanced in the mid-1970s that Hohokam exchange showed a linear increase in complexity or movement from reciprocity to redistribution through time. It is becoming increasingly clear that subregions within the Hohokam sphere participated differentially in exchange, that different commodities engendered diverse relations of exchange, and that all of these factors changed significantly over time. The major task that confronts us is deriving an understanding of how the complexity we see in the evidence for Hohokam exchange formed a whole and how it was embedded in inter- and intraregional social and productive relations. One of the first steps toward that goal is to synthesize and evaluate the myriad of statements and interpretations of Hohokam exchange made in the last 5 years.1
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McGuire, R.H. (1993). The Structure and Organization of Hohokam Exchange. In: Ericson, J.E., Baugh, T.G. (eds) The American Southwest and Mesoamerica. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1149-0_4
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