Are There Other Traces of Immigrants in Hohokam Sites?
Sites that have yielded Maverick Mountain Series pottery have produced other evidence of immigrants. One important marker is perforated plates. Perforated plates are ceramic vessels, made using the coil-and-scrape technique, with holes punched through their rims before they were fired. They first appeared in northern Arizona, around A.D. 500.
They were used in the Kayenta region as base-molds and potters’ turntables in coil-and-scrape pottery making. Like Maverick Mountain Series pottery, petrographic analysis has shown that perforated plates were made locally, in southern Arizona, after A.D. 1275.
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