Excavations in the Escalante Ruin Group, Southern Arizona

Description

Editor (Prepared and Assembled by): Doyel, David E.

Publisher: Arizona State Museum

Pub Date: 1974

Binding: Paperback (post and stick)

Condition: Fair.  Post and stick binding tight, no broken pieces.   No bends, folds.  Front cover and ffep both have approx. 6″ tears, starting at bottom edge.  Front cover now has a clear plastic front to repair that tear, and ffep now taped.  Previous owner’s name stamped on bottom text block, and partial title hand-written on spine.  Smudging to bottom text block.  Some edge and corner wear.

Notes: Excavations on the north side of the Gila River near Florence, Arizona.  “Sites excavated span the Sedentary and Classic periods of occupation as defined by the original Snaketown report.  A total of 59 rooms located with four compounds and two pithouses were excavated….Thirty-six burials, 53 partial or whole vessels, and over 35,000 sherds were recovered.  Twelve hundred stone tools of various types and many thousand of debitage specimens were also collected.” (From the Abstract).  The sites excavated were occupied between A.D. 1180 and A.D. 1425.