Hohokam Rock Imagery, Mountain Ritualism, and Social Transformation in the Salt River Valley

McDowell Sonoran Conservancy

Drawing from his award-winning book Religion on the Rocks: Hohokam Rock Art, Ritual Practice, and Social Transformation, Dr. Aaron Wright argues that Hohokam rock imagery in the Salt River Valley was not produced exclusively by religious specialists (shamans), but that there was a more equitable distribution of religious knowledge and ritual power within Hohokam communities. With the South Mountains under focus, Wright also presents evidence that most of the petroglyphs were created during the Hohokam Preclassic era between A.D. 450 and 1050, and that production and use of the rock imagery ebbed or even ended at the beginning of the Hohokam Classic period.

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