Hunter-Gatherer Pottery From the Far West

Description

Editor: Mack, Joanne M.  (1965-)

Publisher: Nevada State Museum

Pub Date: 1990

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.   No tears, folds.  Lower front cover corner has an approx. 1/2″ bend.  Lower front cover edge has an approx. 1/18″ chip and bend.  Smudging, wear to front cover.  Wear to lower front cover recto edge.  Previous owner’s name on upper corner title page.  Rear cover spine edge slightly sun-faded.  Edge and corner wear.

Notes:  Anthropological Papers Number 23.   Conference papers.   “The presumption that pottery could not have been especially important to hunters and gatherers stems from, and build upon, other traditional assumptions.  These include the notion that hunters and gatherers wouldn’t make pottery because it is heavy and fragile, two characteristics which should make it unsuitable or impractical for mobile populations.  Of course, another important underlying assumption here is that hunters and gatherers are highly mobile.  In fact, in the Far West there is clear evidence that sedentary and semi-sedentary hunters and gatherers existed both within California and the Pacific Northwest as well as certain areas of the Great Basin and the Columbia Plateau.”  (From the Introduction)