Contributions of the Wetherill Mesa Archeological Project

Description

Author: Osborne, Douglas (Assembled by)

Publisher: Society for American Archaeology

Pub Date: 1965

Binding: Paperback

Condition:  Fair.  Binding tight. No tears, folds.   Edge and corner wear.  Previous owner’s stamp on mid-recto front cover edge, and upper corner ffep/half-title page.  Lots of edge wear.  Spine head has an approx. 1/16″ chip.  What looks like a water mark on spine foot (no other evidence of water).  Smudges to rear cover.

Notes: Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology Number Nineteen, issued as American Antiquity, Volume 31, Number 2, Part 2, October, 1965.   It’s hard to imagine now that 60 years ago Mesa Verde was not as popular an attraction as it is now.  Nevertheless, the park officials foresaw an increasing number of visitors, and the need not only for more facilities, but the need for more “interpretation.”  Toward that end they planned for more excavation, stabilization, and preparation of three major cliff dwellings and six or more archaeological features.  Publication of these papers was one of the final tasks.