Exploring the Hohokam: Prehistoric Desert Peoples of the American Southwest

Description

Editor: Gumerman, George J.

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Pub Date: 1991

Binding: Hardcover

Condition:  Book: Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Foxing to upper text block.  Gilt on spine still sharp, easily readable. Smudging to bottom text block.  Very light edge and corner wear.   Dust Jacket: Fair.  NOT price clipped (no price indicated).  An approx. 1/2″ x 2″ chip is missing  from upper corner at spine head.  Some folds and smaller tears there.    Spine foot has a small chip.  Edge and corner wear.

Notes:  Eleven papers on Hohokam topics–trade, social and political organization, chronology, artifacts.  “The definition, extent, and first real understanding of Hohokam culture history were due largely to the efforts of Harold and Winifred Gladwin and their assistant Emil Haury.  …The Gladwins’ stratigraphic excavations laid the foundation for the Hohokam ceramic sequence and the sketchy beginnings of Hohokam culture history.”  (From Chapter 1)