Grewe Site Casa Grande North Ballcourt
Grewe Ballcourt · Casa Grande North Grewe
Pre-Classic Hohokam (500–1100 CE)·Hohokam Pre-Classic (Pioneer–Colonial–Sedentary)·🇺🇸 Arizona, Pinal County, Casa Grande, Middle Gila North Terrace, United States
The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Stuart Noon, 2010-02-23 18:10:25 · CC BY-SA 2.0
About
About Grewe Site Casa Grande North Ballcourt
Grewe Site Casa Grande North Ballcourt is the northern ballcourt village of the Grewe Site — the 18-ha Pre-Classic twin settlement north of Casa Grande Great House on the middle Gila north terrace. Craig's CRM before suburbanization exposes a 45-m ballcourt with caliche floor, 150-cremation cemetery with Sacaton red-on-buff urns and a Pre-Classic canal lateral from the Gila — documenting Pioneer-to-Sedentary (500–1100 CE) canal-village development that preceded the Classic Great House aggregation, linking Grewe to Snaketown's Pre-Classic canon.
Why it mattersPre-Classic twin north of Casa Grande — 45-m ballcourt + 150 cremations before Great House (500–1100 CE)
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Grewe to Casa Grande continuity — direct or hiatus 1100–1150 CE?
- 02North terrace canal lateral sharing with Snaketown?
Theories
- 01Craig Grewe–Casa Grande twin-village model
- 02Pre-Classic to Classic canal shift Grewe north
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c.500 CE Pioneer pit houses; ballcourt 750 CE
- Period
- Pre-Classic Hohokam (500–1100 CE)
- Culture
- Hohokam Pre-Classic (Pioneer–Colonial–Sedentary)
- Builders
- North terrace Hohokam farmers, Grewe ballcourt architects
- Purpose
- North ballcourt settlement of Grewe Site — Pre-Classic Hohokam twin village north of Casa Grande Great House across Gila terrace, ballcourt + cremation cemetery
- Abandoned
- c.1100 CE Sedentary–Classic transition
- Rediscovered
- Excavated 1987–90 Craig et al. (Northland CRM) before Casa Grande suburban
- Excavation
- Excavated
1987
Craig opens Grewe north ballcourt before suburban, 45m ballcourt found
1990
150-cremation urn cemetery with Sacaton ware published
2001
Grewe–Casa Grande twin-village continuity monograph
On the ground
Structures & features
32.8900° N · 111.7500° W · 415 m · 3 mapped features
- Gila Butte Ballcourt (45 m, 750 CE)ritualEarth-walled ballcourt 45 m with caliche floor north of Casa Grande32.8908° N · 111.7494° W
- Cremation Cemetery (150 cremations)necropolis150-cremation urn cemetery with Sacaton red-on-buff, north ballcourt32.8893° N · 111.7509° W
- Gila Canal Lateral (Grewe Lateral)hydraulicCanal lateral from Gila River feeding Grewe north ballcourt village32.8911° N · 111.7493° W
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