Hidden House: A Cliff Ruin in Sycamore Canyon, Central Arizona

Description

Author: Dixon, Keith A.  (1930-2018)

Publisher: Northern Arizona Society of Science and Art (Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ)

Pub Date: 1956

Binding: Paperback

Condition:  3 copies, all PC26.  Copy 1 and 2.  Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Appear unused.  Copy 3: Fair.  Binding tight, but worn at upper front cover corner at spine head.  Several interior pages have upper corner bumping–not pages together but scattered through the volume.  One small chip to lower front cover edge.

Notes: Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 29.  Dixon’s revised Master’s degree thesis  “Hidden House is a small cliff dwelling in Sycamore Canyon, in the upper Verde Valley, central Arizona.  The decorated pottery indicates that the cave was occupied between 1100 and 1300 A.D. (Pueblo III).  Around 1275 ± 25 A.D., possibly after the site had been temporarily abandoned, a middle-aged man died and was buried in an abandoned room.  Since the cave was sheltered, the offerings accompanying the burial were well preserved.  These include elabore textiles, weapons, and paraphernalia which may have been ceremonial….This report presents a description of these specimens, comparative analyses, and a description of a single-focus site of the southern Sinagua Branch.”  (From the Preface)