An Important Archeological Site in Eastern Arizona (Pamphlet)

Description

Author: Roberts, Frank H.H., Jr.  (1897-1966)

Publisher: Smithsonian Institution

Pub Date: 1932

Binding: Paperback

Condition:  Fair.  Ex-library.  Stapled binding tight.  No tears, bends, folds.  Library markings to upper front cover corner, both upper corners of the ffep/title page, and to lower edge of the title page (noting Roberts as the donor to the library).  There is an approx. 1½” pen mark on the upper front cover edge near the spine head.  Some smudges to rear cover.   Edge and corner wear.

Notes:  Pamphlet.  Offprint.  Originally published in Explorations and Field-Work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1931.   An unnamed site (the Grubbs Site?), “…overlooking Whitewater Canyon and the broader valley of the Puerco River…Although there are many ruins, representing various separate stages of Pueblo culture, scattered throughout the adjacent district, this particular location is of importance because it contains four distinct and sequent levels of occupation….Basketmaker III, Pueblo I, II, and III.”  (Pages 141 and 144, separated by a photo section).  The first stages of pueblo building, from below ground to conjoined small room blocks.