Archaeological Investigations at Palo Verde Ruin, AZ T:8:68(ASM): The Terramar Project (2 Volume Set)

Description

Editors: Hackbarth, Mark R. and Craig, Douglas B.

Publisher: Northland Research

Pub Date: 2007

Binding: Paperback

Condition: 2 volume set.  Volume 1: Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, folds.  Lower front cover corner has an approx. 1½” bend, wear.  Includes 2 maps in pocket at rear.  Includes 3 fold-outs.  Light edge and corner wear.  Volume 2: Fair to Good.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Includes 7 fold-outs.  Light edge and corner wear.

Notes:  Anthropological Papers No. 02-02.  Volume 1: Project Background, Feature Descriptions, and Chronology.  Volume 2: Artifacts, Biological Remains, and Synthesis.  Palo Verde Ruin was a Hohokam ballcourt community near Peoria, Illinois.  The site was excavated prior to residential development.  “Northland (the company involved in the excavation) mapped, tested, or completely excavated 1,171 prehistoric features from 14 residential areas as part of the Palo Verde Ruin investigations…113 structures, 83 burials, 974 pits and miscellaneous features, and 1 ballcourt.  More than 135,000 artifacts and 8,000 biological samples and specimens were also collected and analyzed.  Mose of these features and materials are associated with a short but intensive occupation of the site that occurred in the early-to-mid eleventh century.”  (From the Introduction)  SOLD AS A SET ONLY.