Casa Grande, Arizona

Description

Author: Fewkes, Jesse Walter (1850-1930)

Publisher: Smithsonian Institution

Pub Date: 1912

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  This is the original essay from the Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology.  The old BAE volume was falling apart and I had this essay rebound in hardcover.

Notes: Excavations conducted in 1906 and 1907.  “Casa Grande was a ruin when discovered and has not been permanently inhabited since it was first seen by a white man.  The identity of its builders has furnished a constant theme for speculation from the discovery of the ruin to the present time.  Although it has been ascribed to the Aztec, there is no evidence that the ancient people who inhabited this building were closely related to any tribes of the Mexican plateau, whose culture, as indicated by archaeologic remains, was different from that of the Pueblos or sedentary tribes of New Mexico and Arizona.  The age of Casa Grande and contiguous remains is unknown, but there is good reason to believe that settlements on their site were older than most of the present pueblos or cliff-dwellings.”  (From the Introduction, page 33)