Cultural Resource Investigations on Gallegos Mesa: Excavations in Blocks VIII and IX, and Testing Operations in Blocks X and XI, Navajo Indian Irrigation Project, San Juan County, New Mexico–Volume 3

Description

Authors: Vogler, Lawrence E.; Gilpin, Dennis, and Anderson, Joseph K.

Publisher: Navajo Nation Cultural Resource Management Program

Pub Date: 1983

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Poor to Fair.  Binding tight, but lots of wear to head and foot of spine.  Lower rear cover corner has approx. 1″ bend.  Lower rear cover corner at spine foot bumped.  Smudging to rear cover.  Spine head chipped, worn.  Spine foot has approx. 2″ tear at front cover edge, chip to lower spine exposing signatures.  Smudging to front cover.   Some staining to side and top text blocks (water? coffee?)  All of these are “cosmetic” faults.  The volume itself appears unused.

Notes: Navajo Nation Papers in Anthropology 24.  Volume 3 of a 3 volume set.  Separate volume 2 and the 3 volume set are also available (see https://joethebookguy.com/shop/archaeology/cultural-resource-investigations-on-gallegos-mesa-excavations-in-blocks-viii-and-ix-and-testing-operations-in-blocks-x-and-xi-navajo-indian-irrigation-project-san-juan-county-new-mexico-3-volum/  ).  “The Blocks VIII, IX, X, and XI study area incorporates an approximately 87,000-acre area on Gallegos Mesa….Archaeological survey operations in the four blocks revealed the presence of 814 archaeological sites and 1918 isolated occurrences. ” (From the Abstract)  This volume begins at page 965 and continues to page 1543.  “The survey of Blocks VIII, IX, X, and XI confirmed the general hypothesis that the conditions of contact influence the the pattern of contact adjustment.  During the Incipient Trading Post Period and the Developed Trading Post Period when change was largely nondirected, changes consisted of replacements for items of traditional Navajo material culture and changes in subsistence-related goods and technology.  Items related to social organization, religion, and world view were not borrowed.”(Page 984)