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| | Hiking | 4.89 Miles | 3 Hrs 43 Mns | | 1.40 mph |
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| no partners | | I felt like getting out for a walk and convinced myself that going back to an area where we'd found a lot of Hohokam painted pottery a few years ago would be a good choice. A reasonably early start and short walk made the forecast 100deg high temperature no real concern.
It worked out fine. I ran across plenty of pottery, a lot of it painted, though the finds were a little less impressive than when I first went there with a sharp-eyed partner.
The highlight of the day though was suddenly noticing I was standing on a platform mound. Background: Platform Mounds were a late development of the Hohokam and about 100 are known in the rough triangle including Phoenix, Tucson, and Lake Roosevelt. In the past I'd searched for several and eventually I found two. They're pretty indistinct...just sort of high spots (man made) in the flat desert. This stretch of desert near Marana where I was walking today has a platform mound (according to many publications and theses) but I thought maybe it had been bulldozed. That's because I thought I knew where it was - but there was nothing there (in two previous trips).
Anyway, when I accidentally found myself standing on a mound with pottery scattered in the vicinity, it occurred to me "this is it". Probably.
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