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Gladwins conducted research on Southwestern prehistory for over twenty years before donating the facility to the University of Arizona in 1951. In the years while they conducted their research, Harold Gladwin and his wife traveled throughout the Southwest conducting numerous
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Arizona. Finding that the local Hohokam red-on-buff pottery artifacts were mixed with polychromes of the Salado Culture, Gladwin wondered how and why the two distinctive pottery types were together with no evidence for conflict between the Hohokam cultures of the
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Sterling. “The Chaco Branch Excavations at White Mound and in the Red Mesa Valley.” Medallion Papers. Gila Pueblo, Globe, Arizona; 1945: pp. 1–152.
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Winifred; Haury; and Sayles. “Excavations at Snaketown: Material Culture.” Medallion Papers. Gila Pueblo, Globe, Arizona; 1938: pp. 1–289.
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