The 1982-1984 Excavations at Las Colinas: Environment and Subsistence: Volume 5

Description

Authors: Graybill, Donald A.; Gregory, David A.; Nials, Fred L.; Fish, Suzanne K.; Gasser, Robert E.; Miksicek, Charles H. and Szuter, Christine R.

Publisher: Arizona State Museum

Pub Date: 1989

Binding: Paperback

Condtion: 2 copies.  Copy 1 (CB): Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Slight wrinkling at front spine edge (printer fault).   Very light edge wear.  Smudge at top of text block.  Copy 2 (LOA): Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Sun-fading to upper edges, front and rear.  Previous owner’s name stamped on bottom text block.  Very light edge and corner wear.  This copy includes 5 maps in envelope at rear.

Notes: Archaeological Series 162.  Volume 5 of a 7 volume set.  All volumes sold separately.  “Because irrigation agriculture was of obvious importance at Las Colinas, consideration of one of the basic variables mentioned above–water–is directed at Salt River streamflow, which was the single most important environmental variable in the operation of Hohokam irrigation systems.  That the amount and timing of warm-season rainfall was important for production of crops by Hohokam groups who practiced dry-land or ‘ak-chin’ farming is indisputable;  however, in the canal oriented communities of both the Salt and Gila river basins, variation in local rainfall may not have limited food production to any important degree.”  (From the Introduction)