Archaeological Investigations of Early Village Sites in the Middle Santa Cruz Valley: Descriptions of the Santa Cruz Bend, Square Hearth, Stone Pipe, and Canal Sites

Description

Authors: Mabry, Jonathan B.; Swartz, Deborah L.; Wöcherl, Helga; Clark, Jeffrey J.; Archer, Gavin H.; and Lindeman, Michael W.

Publisher: Center for Desert Archaeology

Pub Date: 1998

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, folds.  Upper rear cover corner bent, worn.  Wear to verso edge of rear cover.  Page 434 (the last page) has a bent corner and edge wear.   Includes six fold-outs.  Two map pockets at rear, including 5 folded maps.  Front and rear covers smudged.  Edge and corner wear.

Notes: Anthropological Papers No. 18.  Excavations conducted prior to freeway expansion in Tucson.   “…the early settlement sites provide new information about the initial stages of several important prehistoric cultural changes….including the shift to agricultural dependence, the transition to sedentism, the development of village communities, and the establishment of local and long-distance trade networks.  The appearance of house groups, storehouses, and communal structures, and the changes from round to rectilinear architecture, and from houses in pits to ‘true pithouses’ are also represented….This volume includes a description of each site; its main periods of occupation or use; the cultural features that were identified and excavated; and the types, numbers, contexts, and densities of artifacts that were recovered.”  (From the Abstract).