Early Desert Farming and Irrigation Settlements: Archaeological Investigations in the Phoenix Sky Harbor Center: Volume 4

Description

Editor/Compiler: Greenwald, David H. and Ballagh, Jean H.

Publisher: SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants

Pub Date: 1996

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, folds.  Lower front cover corner has an approx. 3″ bend, extends through first dozen pages of front matter.   Staining to top text block, doesn’t extend on pages (previous owner must have caught it quick).   Slight edge wear.

Notes: SWCA Anthropological Research Paper Number Four.  The Sky Harbor Center is the Phoenix airport property.  Two major ruins lie within its boundaries–Pueblo Salado, and the Dutch Canal Ruin.  Problems with prehistoric and modern flooding complicated the effort to test the site, recovery proposals, excavations.  Report writing seems to have been the easiest part.   “Volume 4 presents in-depth explorations of selected aspects of the Hohokam occupation at Dutch Canal Ruin and Pueblo Salado in relationship to regional Hohokam settlement and cultural patterns. Issues discussed in Chapters 1-4 are historic and prehistoric irrigation and settlement in the Phoenix Basin, the effects of urbanization and alluviation on Hohokam sites, site autonomy within the Phoenix Basin, and the social implications of field houses. Chapters 5, 6, and 7 consider Hohokam use of the environment as understood through investigation of the buried agricultural fields at Pueblo Salado, project area canals and their hydraulic capacities, and the use of project area resource zones. The discussions in Chapters 8 and 9 explore the attributes and chronology of the post-Classic period Polvoron phase. Chapters 10-13 assess implications of Hohokam material culture within the project area and in regional perspective through analysis of the project burials, ceramic temper studies and whole vessel analysis, intraregional comparison of lithic assemblages, and a diachronic analysis of the project shell assemblage. Chapter 14 summarizes the project findings and discusses the place of Dutch Canal Ruin and Pueblo Salado in the Hohokam cultural continuum.”  From tDAR (See https://core.tdar.org/document/399001/the-sky-harbor-project-early-desert-farming-and-irrigation-settlements-archaeological-investigations-in-the-phoenix-sky-harbor-center-volume-4-special-studies-synthesis-and-conclusions ).  Volume 4 of a 4 volume set.   The 4 volume set is also available.  See  https://joethebookguy.com/shop/archaeology/early-desert-farming-and-irrigation-settlements-archaeological-investigations-in-the-phoenix-sky-harbor-center-4-volume-set/  RARE as a stand-alone volume.