La Ciudad (archaeological site) explained

La Ciudad is a Hohokam people archaeological site in Phoenix, Arizona, excavated by Frank Midvale 1929–1936.^[1] It is covered today by St. Luke's Medical Center.^{[2] [3] [4] [5]} Much of the archaeological material in the Heards' collection at the Heard Museum came from the La Ciudad Indian ruin, which the Heards purchased in 1926 at 19th and Polk streets.

See also

• Mesa Grande
• Hohokam Pima National Monument, in Coolidge, Arizona, which contains artifacts from Snaketown
• Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, with Hohokam structures of the Pueblo III and Pueblo IV Eras
• Indian Mesa Ruins
• Pueblo Grande Ruin and Irrigation Sites
• Lake Pleasant Regional Park

Notes and References

1. http://www.historyadventuring.com/2015/12/why-st-lukes-hospital-sits-at-angle.html Why St. Luke's Hospital sits at an angle, Villa Street, and La Ciudad
2. http://arizonamuseumofnaturalhistory.org/plan-a-visit/mesa-grande/an-ancient-treasure-in-modern-mesa An Ancient Treasure in Modern Mesa
3. https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/236/la-ciudad Digitali Archaeological Record
4. Death, Society and Ideology in a Hohokam Community: Colonial and Sedentary Period Burials from La Ciudad (1987) Document [ID: 4408] Randall H. McGuire.The nature of Hohokam social organization has always been at the core of debates surrounding the prehistory of southern Arizona. Changing theoretical perspectives have shifted the directions and foci of controversy but the differences in these orientations can largely be described in terms of the assumptions made about social organization. A continuing thread to the arguments has been disagreement over the nature of power relationships in Hohokam society and the importance of such relationships ...
5. Frank Midvale's Investigation of the Site of La Ciudad (1987) Document [ID: 4405] David R. Wilcox. La Ciudad Phoenix was one of numerous Hohokam Indian villages that once were located about every three miles (4.8 kilometers) along extensive irrigation canals in the Salt and Gila river valleys. First founded in the early centuries [CE], La Ciudad endured for a millennium or more, evolving new forms of organization to meet life’s challenges on several scales of interaction, only to fail in the end when the Hohokam abandoned the Phoenix basin about 1450 [CE].