The Roosevelt Community Development Study: New Perspectives on Tonto Basin Prehistory

Description

Editors: Elson, Mark D.; Stark, Miriam T.; and Gregory, David A.

Publisher: Center for Desert Archaeology

Pub Date: 1995

Binding: Paperback

Condition: 3 copies.  Copy 1 (CB22):  Fair.  Ex-corporate library.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Previous owner’s stamp on upper front cover corner and on upper corner title page.  Library tag taped to spine foot, with tape overlapping to lower front and rear covers.  Includes five fold-outs.  Slight edge and corner wear.  Some smudges to top and bottom text blocks.  Copy 2 (JR): Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Staple mark to upper front cover edge.  Some spotting, smudging to rear cover.  Includes five fold-outs.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Appears unused.  Copy 3 (LoA): Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears.  Previous owner’s name stamped on bottom text block.  Includes five fold-outs.  Some slight marks on rear cover (just rubbing against another book).  Smudging to bottom text block.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Appears unused.

Notes: Anthropological Papers No. 15.  “This volume synthesizes data recovered from the RCD excavations to provide a more inclusive view of the prehistoric occupation of the RCD project area and the Tonto Basin.  This includes the integration of data produced by approximately 20 person-years of fieldwork.  More than 150,000 artifacts and 300 botanical samples were recovered and analyzed, and reams of nonartifactual data dealing with architecture and other feature types and deposits were produced.  Basic site descriptive data and the results of artifact analyses and botanical studies…are synthesized in the various chapters of this volume…our findings suggest that the Lower Tonto Basin was inhabited between the second and seventh centuries by an indigenous, ceramic-using population that probably derived from local Late Archaic groups.  This population had the closest affinities with contemporaneous groups in the Mogollon Highlands and was distinct from groups within the Phoenix and Tucson basins.”   (From the Abstract)