Antropologica 18 (Journal): Excavations at Barra de Navidad, Jalisco

Description

Authors: Long, Stanley (1937-1967) and Wire, Marcia V.V.

Publisher: Instituto Caribe de Antropologia y Sociologia (Caracas, Venezuela)

Pub Date: 1966

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Stapled binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Slight smudging to upper front cover.  Sun fading to upper rear cover edge.  Smudging to rear cover.  Very light edge and corner wear.

Notes: Journal, irregularly published.  Excavation of a shell midden, one of five Mexican sites along the central Mexican Pacific coast.  At the time of the excavation (1961) the entire center of the midden was being removed for road construction material.  Eight pottery types were found and described.  Also excavated were small animal effigies, probably used as whistles, some chipped and ground stone, one piece of copper, and the skeleton of a young adult female.   VERY RARE.  No other copies of this journal available for sale.  Long died the year after this was published.  For a description of his brief career see https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/D2D48125841C6F88C71EED49930A9F6E/S000273160009377Xa.pdf/stanley_v_long_19371967.pdf