A Preceramic Settlement on the Central Coast of Peru: Asia, Unit 1

Description

Author: Engel, Frederic (1908-2002)

Publisher: American Philosophical Society

Pub Date: 1963

Binding: Paperback (cloth tape)

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  Ex-library.  Library stamp (including Withdrawn) on front cover.  Second previous owner’s stamp upper front cover corner. One approx. 2″ strip of what looks like either tape or glue residue on front cover at spine edge (since this was an ex-library title I’m gonna go with glue).  Upper front cover edge has approx. 1/” tear.  Edge wear.   Lower rear cover corner has approx. 3″ crease.  Upper rear cover corner has small (approx. 1/8″) bend.  Front cover at recto edge has crease from top edge to bottom edge.  First 39 pages of text have slight creasing.

Notes:  Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series–Volume 53, Part 3.  The subtitle “Asia: Unit 1” is the name of the site.  Engel may be the second most important Peruvian archaeologist, after Tello.  For a longish obituary of Engel (with 5 pages of citations–!!!), see https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1107&context=andean_past