Archaeology at Hatchery West

Description

Authors: Binford, Lewis (1930-2011)

Publisher: Society for American Archaeology

Pub Date: 1970

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, folds.  Spine, front and rear spine edges sun-faded.  Lower spine has a crack, probably from a book being dropped on it.  Shows as an approx. 1/4″ split on front spine edge.  Lower front cover corner has an approx. 6″ bend.  Lower rear cover corner has an approx. 1½” bend.  Several interior pages have small bends at the lower corner.  Edge and corner wear.

Notes: Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology, Number 24.   Issued as American Antiquity, , Volume 35, Number 4, October, 1970.  Excavation of an Illinois site downstream from a dam, and we all know where that’s going.  “…1) houses of a form previosly unknown in the midwest were uncovered her, 2) to my knowledge this is the first complete community of this general time period excavated in the midwest, and 3) the cultural materials are assignable to the recently defined La Motte culture, known previously only from the Wabash River Valley…” (From the Introduction)