The Geoarchaeology of Whitewater Draw, Arizona

Description

Author: Waters, Michael R.

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Pub Date: 1986

Binding: Paperback

Condition:2 copies.  Copy 1 (LOA23): Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Sun-fading to spine and front and rear spine edges.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Copy 2: Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, folds.  Upper front cover corner worn, bowing, extends through first half-dozen pages.  Front cover mid-recto edge has a small triangular chip, approx. 1/8″ x 1/8″ x 1/8″.  Foxing to spine and front and rear spine edges.  Edge and corner wear.

Notes: Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona Number 45.   The Whitewater Draw in southeastern Arizona was first explored by archaeologists in 1926, “…when Byron Cummings discovered mammoth remains overlying and associated with ground stone artifacts.” (From the Preface).  In the late 1930s, Edwin Sayles and Ernst Antevs examined the arroyo and published the monograph “The Cochise Culture” (Gila Pueblo, 1941).  Sayles and Antevs did additional work there starting in 1953, but both died before completing a manuscript.  Their preliminary results were published (using only Sayles name) in 1983 by the University of Arizona Press as “The Cochise Cultural Sequence in Southeastern Arizona” (Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona Number 42, see https://joethebookguy.com/shop/archaeology/the-cochise-cultural-sequence-in-southeastern-arizona/).  This volume was written “…to clarify unresolved geological and archaeological questions in Whitewater Draw.” (Waters, p. xi)