The “Salado” (named after Rio Salado, the Salt River) lived during the Classic period (A.D. 1280-1450) in central Arizona and constructed large “platform mounds” that were the centers of ritual and community activities.
Aleshire, Peter (text) and Jerry Jacka (Photos)
1992 Unearthing a Culture. Arizona Highwways, March 1992:4-19.
Dittert, Alfred E., Jr., and Fred Plog
1980 Generations in Clay, Pueblo Pottery of the American Southwest. Northland Press, Flagstaff.
Dongoske, Kurt, Leigh Jenkins, and T. J. Ferguson
1993 Understanding the past through Hopi Oral History. Native Peoples: The Arts and Lifeways, Winter 1993, pp.24-31.
Koppes, Steve
1990 Melting Pot: In 1200 A.D. the Tonto Basin was the place to be. Arizona State University
Research Magazine, Fall 1990: 17-21.
Rice, Glen E. and Charles L. Redman
1992 Power in the Past. Native Peoples: The Arts and Lifeways, Summer 1992, pp. 18-25.
Rice, Glen E. and Charles L. Redman
1993b Cooperation and Partnership. Native Peoples: The Arts and Lifeways, Winter 1993, pg. 30.
Rice, Glen E. and Charles L. Redman
1993a Platform Mounds of the Arizona Desert: An Experiment in Organizational Complexity. Expedition 35(1):53-63.
(**note: The above mentioned issue of Expedition has several articles devoted to “Prehistory of the Southwest”.)
Simon, Arleyn W.
1996 Pottery and Pigments in Arizona: Salado Polychrome. Materials Research Society Bulletin, December 1996, Volume 21, No. 12, pp. 38-47.
Stephenson, Anne (text) and Jerry Jacka (photos)
1992 Art Treasures of an Ancient World. Arizona Highwways, March 1992: 20-25.
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