Archaeological Problems of the Northern Periphery of the Southwest (Pamphlet)

Description

Author: Steward, Julian H.  (1902-1972)

Publisher: Northern Arizona Society of Science and Art (Museum of Northern Arizona)

Pub Date: 1933

Binding: Paperback

Condition: 3 copies.  Copy 1 (PC25): Good.  Stapled binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Appears unused.  Copy 2(PC25): Fair.  Stapled binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Foxing to front cover edges and upper corners, with some foxing to a few page edges.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Copy 3 (PC26): Good.  Stapled binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Appears unused.

Notes: Pamphlet.  Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 5.  The bulk of Steward’s definition of “Northern Periphery” includes most of Utah (not the southeast corner), the northwest corner of Arizona (north of the Grand Canyon), and small areas of eastern Nevada, and very small intrusions into southern Idaho and Wyoming.  Comparisons of Basketmaker and early Pueblo tools, petroglyphs, pottery, architecture, weapons, etc.   “In short, as the general Southwestern culture is a local efflorescence of an ancient, widespread, intensive horticultural complex, in which some but not all of the elements of the Middle American civilizations are found, the Northern Periphery is the local growth of an early substratum of Southwestern culture, in which many of the early elements survived and to which later elements were added.  If one uses the names of the San Juan periods to describe these cultures, therefore, he cannot imply more than certain specific trait resemblances between them and the San Juan cultures or time relationships established through these resemblances.”  (Pages 3-4)  I think Steward is tiptoeing around naming the Fremont culture, but just doesn’t have enough information.