The Artifact, Volume 15: Archeological Survey Three Rivers Drainage, New Mexico: Cultural Succession: A Case Study

Description

Authors: Wimberly, Mark and Rogers, Alan

Publisher: El Paso Archeological Society

Pub Date: 1977

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears.  A black mark at top of title page, probably covering someone’s name.   Upper rear cover corner has approx. 2″ bend.  There’s a curving blue line on rear cover–looks like somebody may have dragged a book edge over the cover.  Not very dark, just a small line about 4″ long.  Photo reproductions are muddy, drawings (cartoons?) reproduced poorly.  And it could have used a better editor–the confusion of “it’s” and “its”  throughout is just aggravating as hell.  Edge and corner wear.

Notes:  I hesitate to call this a journal (it’s way too big for a journal), even though “The Artifact” is THE journal of the El Paso Archeological Society.  The Three Rivers Drainage is a part of the Tularosa Basin, and, as such, an ancestral region of the Jornada Mogollon.  Human populations have inhabited the Basin for at least 10,000 years.  This study was undertaken to test the hypothesis “If culture changes successionally, then the following variables should correlate positively: 1. Biomass, 2. Quantity of dead or inert matter, 3. Quantity of structures which may be considered stores of information, and 4. Independence of response from environmental stimuli.” (Page 51)