Excavations in Bolivia

Description

Author: Bennett, W.C. (Wendell Clark) (1905-1953)

Publisher: American Museum of Natural History

Pub Date: 1936

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No tears.  Previous owner’s name on front cover and “Dup” hand-written above.  One pen mark at bottom edge.  Partial title hand-written on spine.  Deckled-edge pages.  Edge and corner wear.

Notes: Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History Volume XXXV, Part IV.  Probably from the library of the archaeologist Charlie Steen, his name handwritten on cover.   A continuation of Bennet’s 1932 expedition, published as Excavations at Tiahuanaco (American Museum of Natural History, 1934, Vol. 34, part 3, see https://joethebookguy.com/shop/archaeology/excavations-at-tiahuanaco/  )  “In 1932, he established a sequence of three ceramic periods at the great highland site of Tiahuanaco and in 1934 he was able to distinguish four ceramic periods at Arani in the eastern lowlands and to correlate these with both the highland Tiahuanaco sequence and the results of Nordenskiold’s work in the Mojos section of the lowlands. In 1934, too, he discovered a new culture underlying Tia-huanaco-style pottery at Chiripa, southeast of the Tiahuanaco site. ” (American Antiquity, Volume 19, Issue 3, January 1954, pp. 265-270).  And he worked in Hawaii.