Excavations at Gu Achi: A Reappraisal of Hohokam Settlement and Subsistence in the Arizona Papagueria

Description

Author: Masse, W. Bruce  (1948-)

Publisher: National Park Service

Pub Date: 1980

Binding: Paperback (comb binding)

Condition: Fair.  Comb binding tight, no missing or broken teeth.  Upper front cover corner at spine head chipped, torn, missing a dime-size piece at comb.  Lower front cover edge has an approx. 1/8″ tear, wear.  Lower rear cover corner at spine foot has two tears at comb., bottom has an approx. 1/2″ bend.  Edge and corner wear.

Notes: Western Archeological Center Publications in Anthropology No. 12.   Masse’s first publication (NOT his dissertation).   “In the spring of 1973, the Western Archeological Center, National Park Service, conducted extensive surveys in the Papago Indian Reservation because of improvements proposed for several roadways (Stacy 1973). Among the numerous archeological features encountered were two prehistoric Hohokam sites. One of these, Gu Achi (AZ Z:12:l3 ASM) , is a major pre-Classic period Hohokam settlement a few miles west of Santa Rosa on Papago Indian Road (PIR) 34;…The excavation at Gu Achi recovered more than a thousand chipped and ground stone specimens, hundreds of pieces of shell jewelry and manufacturing debris, and some 22,000 sherds, of which more than 2400 were decorated. Of special importance was the discovery of a burned ramada structure around which several hearths, storage pits, and large ceramic storage vessels were clustered. A single low trash mound and a large earthen-banked reservoir were located in brief survey outside the 200-foot right-af-way.”   From tDAR.  See https://core.tdar.org/document/4250/excavations-at-gu-achi-a-reappraisal-of-hohokam-settlement-and-subsistence-in-the-arizona-papagueria