Excavations at Casa Grande, Arizona Feb. 12-May 1, 1927 (Pamphlet)
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Description
Author: Gladwin, Harold S. (1883-1983)
Publisher: Southwest Museum
Pub Date: 1970 (reprint edition) and an (original? 1928?) edition
Binding: Paperback
Condition: 2 Copies. Copy 1: Good. Stapled binding tight. No marks, tears, bends or folds. Very light edge and corner wear. Appears unused. Copy 2 (LC): Fair. Stapled binding tight, but staples rusting. No folds. Upper front cover edge has some small water (?) spots. Front cover recto edge has an approx. 1/8″ chip. Upper and lower front cover corners bent, worn. Upper rear cover corner has an approx. 2″ bend, extends through last half-dozen pages. Edge and corner wear.
Notes: Pamphlet. Southwest Museum Papers Number Two. Gladwin, among others, postulates that a flood may have been the cause of Casa Grande’s demise. “The question will at once be asked, is it known that floods have occurred at Casa Grande? The obliteration of house sites and compound walls…gives evidence of a leveling process which must have exercised great power in the past; the bases of all standing walls in the area also show the effect of erosion….When one stops to realize the magnitude of the disaster of a flood to a people entirely dependent upon a reserve of stored grain, no precaution seems too great to take, so that the idea which prompted the building of the Great House was perhaps one of adequate storage protection, rather than building a fortress….” (pages 26-27)
