A View from Black Mesa: The Changing Face of Archaeology

Description

Author: Gumerman, George J.

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Pub Date: 1984

Binding: Hardcover

Condition; Book: Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Some foxing to top text block.  Appears unused.  Dust Jacket: Fair to Good.  NOT price clipped (no price indicated).  Spine and upper rear corner at spine head sun-faded.  Very light edge and corner wear.

Notes:  A “summary” of the 15 years of work on Black Mesa, first by Prescott College (led by Gumerman), then by Southern Illinois University (also led by Gumerman).  The archaeology of Black Mesa is limited physically by the area leased by the Peabody Coal Company, but that’s only half of what Gumerman wants to say.  He wants to take on some of the broader aspects of archaeology, as Watson Smith says in his review “…he adumbrates the changing face of the profession over the past century or so, from the individual pioneers with a generalized curiosity about the Past, to the ‘problem-oriented’ delvers of today, with their ramified multi-million dollar annual budgets, inspired largely by new concerns for the environment and for the responsibility of industry, as well as by a widening interest in the generalities of ‘cultural evolution.'”  ( Kiva, Vol. 51, No. 2 (Winter, 1986), pp. 129-132)