Journal of New World Archaeology: Mimbres Archeological Center: Preliminary Report of the Second Season of Excavation 1975

Description

Author: LeBlanc, Steven A.

Publisher: Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles

Pub Date: 1976

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Stapled binding tight.  No marks, tears, folds.  Upper front cover corner has an approx. 1/2″ bend.  All corners worn.  Slight edge wear.

Notes:  Journal of New World Archaeology, Volume I Number 6, June 1976.  “Two questions of interest are: Why did the Mimbres people develop such an elaborate art style, and why did the style disappear so quickly?  This must now be viewed in a new light.  It appears that the sudden shift to surface pueblos and the equally sudden demise of the Mimbres pottery tradition a hundred or so years later may relate to the growth of Chaco Canyon and later rise of Casas Grandes….Even though external influences may have played a major role in Mimbres history, we also see that important man-environment changes occurred in the Mimbres Valley from 300 A.D. to 1400 A.D.”  (Page 1)