Download or read book Copper Bell Trade Patterns in the Prehispanic U.S. Southwest and Northwest Mexico written by Victoria D. Vargas and published by Arizona State Museum. This book was released on 1995 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the stylistic, temporal, and geographic variability of 622 copper bells from 93 sites, exploring the evidence for copper production at Casas Grandes and the possibility for western Mexican production. The volume also updates and revises recent copper bell typologies. Vargas confirms two phases of trade: A.D. 800-1250, when exchange seems prestige-oriented and occurred between the Hohokam in southern Arizona and groups in western Mexico; and A.D. 1250-1520, when two nodes for trade networks developed with western Mexico at Casas Grandes and in the Hohokam/Salado area.