Field Manual of Prehistoric Southwestern Pottery Types (Bulletin)

Description

Author: Hawley, Florence M. (1906-1991)

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Pub Date: 1950 (Revised edition)

Binding: Paperback

Condition:  Poor to Fair.  Binding all but gone.  Lower front cover at spine foot has an approx. 4″ tear  Upper front cover corner has an approx. 1″ bend, causing wrinkling to upper corners of the first four or five pages.  Previous owner’s name on upper edge title page.  Rear cover totally detached, now taped.  Inside rear cover has a watermark.  Lower rear cover corner at spine foot has an approx. 2″ bend.  All corners worn.  Edges worn.  New printed title taped to spine.  Includes Glossary, Bibliography and Index (that one is really helpful).

Notes: Anthropological Series, Vol. 1, No. 4.  Originally published by the University Press in 1936.  Not a reading volume, reference only.  “Since 1936, the field of Southwestern archaeology has greatly expanded.  We have added the Pitayan culture to the other three recognized; have defined a long but not complete catalog of phases or foci for the Basketmaker-Pueblo culture; have recognized a Desert as well as a Basin branch of the Hohokam culture, and tied these two and the Mogollon together as step-sisters in mutual derivation from an ancestral Cochise root….Unfortunately southwestern archaeologists, being individualists, tend to name and re-name culture areas, stems, branches, and pottery types according to their own convictions….The following summary is suggestive but it does not pretend to be complete according to all the divisions listed by all the names provided by all the archaeologists now dedicated to unraveling the mysteries of the prehistory of the Southwest.”  (From the 1950 Preface)  VERY RARE.  No other copies available for sale.