Animas-La Plata Project (Volumes 1-10)

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Authors/Editors: Volume I:  Potter, James M.

Volume II: Perry, Elizabeth M. and Potter, James M.

Volume III: Chuipka, Jason P. and Potter, James M.

Volume IV: Editors: Yoder, Thomas D. and Potter, James M.

Volume V: Gilpin, Dennis

Volume VI: Gilpin, Dennis and Yoder, Thomas D.

Volume VII: Editors: Potter, James M. and Yoder, Thomas D.

Volume VIII: Editors: Potter, James M. and Yoder, Thomas D.

Volume IX: Editor: Potter, James M.

Volume X: Editor: Potter, James M.

Publisher: SWCA Environmental Consultants

Pub Date: 2006

Binding: Paperback

Condition: SOLD AS A SET ONLY.  See individual volume conditions below.

Volume I: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends.   Upper front cover corner has an area where it appears water damaged/wrinkled (you don’t notice it until you open the cover.  Somebody set something wet on the book?).  Extends to first 3 pages.  Some edge and corner wear.

Volume II:  Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Slight wear to head and foot of spine.  Rear cover has a very small pen mark near upper corner.

Volume III: Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, folds.  Front cover starting to bow at corners.  Very light edge and corner wear.

Volume IV: Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, folds.   Upper front cover corner has an approx. 1/8″ bend, extends through entire front matter.  Bottom front cover edge and first 94 pages have an approx. 1/2″ spot where the volume has been bumped (or dropped?), wrinkled at that spot.   Some smudges to upper rear cover.

Volume V: Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Appears unused.

Volume VI: Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Some light corner wear to lower front and rear corners.  Appears unused.

Volume VII: Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, folds.  It looks like about two-thirds of the volume, all at the lower recto corner, may have had some sort of moisture “damage”.   I don’t think it was direct water damage, I think it came from being in a box that may have gotten wet and this volume was at/near the moisture.  There’s some wrinkling to that lower corner, through approximately the last two-thirds of the book.  Otherwise appears unused.

Volume VIII:  Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Appears unused.

Volume IX: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, folds.  Upper rear cover corner water (?) damaged.  You can see the stain on the upper text block, and the wrinkling of that upper corner extends through the last hundred pages or so.  The rear cover edge also has some wrinkling, but no staining.  Without looking closely at the volume you’d think it was in good shape.

Volume X: Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, folds.  Lower front cover corner and the first ninety pages or so have some long ago water (?) damage, wrinkling.  Lower front cover starting to bow.  Slight wear to lower rear cover corner.  Some smudges to side text block.  Includes CD in plastic pocket at rear “Archaeobotanical Studies”.

Notes: SWCA Anthropological Research Paper Number 10.  The first ten volumes of a sixteen volume set (Sorry, I’ve never had or seen the last six volumes). The Animas-La Plata Project was in the works beginning in 1956.  In 1978, President Carter vetoed the entire appropriation for the water project, but Congress overrode his veto.  The project was intended to settle the water rights complaints with Ute Mountain and Southern Ute tribes in Colorado.  Construction on the project began in 2002, and was completed in 2013.  The Project constructed water projects in the Durango, Colorado area, including Lake Nighthorse.   Similar in scope to the Dolores Archaeological Project, and The Puebloan Occupation of the Ute Mountain Piedmont (see https://joethebookguy.com/shop/archaeology/the-puebloan-occupation-of-the-ute-mountain-piedmont-10-volume-set/ )

Volume I: Cultural Resources Research and Sampling Design.  Research Design: The hunter-gatherer lifeway, archaic site structure and settlement, subsistence, mobility, regional relationships, the transition to agriculture,  Basketmaker II to Pueblo I transition, household clusters, cultural origins, relationships, and abandonment.

Volume II: Cultural Affiliation Study.  Items that fell under the NAGPRA primarily came from Pueblo I period sites.  “The study reported here considered the ten lines of evidence that NAGPRA identifies as important in determining cultural affiliation: anthropology, geography, oral tradition, folklore, archaeology, biology, kinship, linguistics, history, and other expert opinion.”  (From the Executive Summary).  Chapter 3 has a detailed regional cultural history.  “…it appears that the Keresan Pueblos, particularly Acoma, Laguna, and Zia, are the most probably affiliates to the Pueblo I period ancestral Puebloan habitation sites in Ridges Basin in southwestern Colorado.” (ibid.)

Volume III: Blue Mesa Excavations.  In 2002 and 2003, SWCA investigated 7 sites to be impacted by the construction of the Ridges Basin Dam.  Earl Morris wrote “…the Blue Mesa site represents the largest uncontaminated Basketmaker III settlement that I have seen anywhere.”  (page 5),  Numerous color photos and maps.

Volume IV: Ridges Basin Excavations: Eastern Basin Sites.  “The eastern end of Ridges Basin…contained 13 early Pueblo I period habitation sites….Ten of the theses sites formed a concentration that we referred to as the Eastern Cluster-Sites,…al located on a large, discreet alluvial fan on the western flank of Carbon Mountain.”  (From the Introduction).

Volume V: Miners, Railroaders, and Ranchers: Creating Western Rural Landscapes in Ridges Basin and Wildcat Canyon, Southwestern Colorado.  “In the late 1970s and early 1980s, archaeological surveyors identified 37 sites or site components in the project area dating to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries….Almost all of the…historic sites and site components represent ranching, mining, and railroading in the project area dating from about 1875 to 1975.”  (From the Introduction)  Lots of ranching history and archaeology in this volume.

Volume VI: Historic Site Descriptions.  Basically a continuation of Volume V.  The archaeological value of roads, bridges, fences, gates, wells, outbuildings (including barns, stalls, outhouses), irrigation ditches, dumps/middens, you name it.

Volume VII: Ridges Basin Excavations: North-Central Sites.  “The sites in Ridges Basin included in the so-called North-central Cluster were seven early Pueblo I period habitation sites that occupied the central and north-eastern portions of Ridges Basin and the north-eastern slopes of Wildcat Ridge, approximately 2 miles south and west of Durango, Colorado….The sites…do not comprise a settlement unit of clear interpretive value.  Rather, the sites fall into three distinct geographical units that were consolidated into this volume for management reasons.”  (From the Introduction)

Volume VIII: Ridges Basin Excavations: Western Basin Sites.  “The sites included in the western sites group of Pueblo I habitations within Ridges Basin do not comprise a single settlement, but rather components of at lease (sic) three settlement units….most of the sites in the western group were located on higher landforms than the sites in the eastern and northern extents of Ridges Basin, in forested areas with slightly different environmental configurations.  At a few of the western sites this appears to have resulted in distinct strategies in pit structure architecture, resource procurement, and possibly even social organization.”  (From the Introduction)

Volume IX:  Ridges Basin Excavations: Archaic, Basketmaker II, and Limited Activity Sites.  “As part of the Animas-La Plata Project SWCA investigated one Archaic site, three BM II sites, 19 Pueblo I limited activity sites, and six undated artifact scatters in Ridges Basin….The 19 Pueblo I limited activity sites were artifact scatters with Pueblo I ceramics, and the undated sites were artifact scatters without Pueblo I ceramics.”  (From the Introduction)

Volume X: Environmental Studies.  Geomorphological Studies, Archaeobotanical Studies, and Vertebrate Faunal Studies.