Mimbres During the Twelfth Century: Abandonment, Continuity and Reorganization

Description

Author: Nelson, Margaret C.

Publisher: University of Arizona Press (Tucson, AZ)

Pub Date: 1999

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: 2 copies.  Copy 1 (RB): Fair.  Ex-library.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  At least two previous owners.  Without dust jacket.   Library tag taped to spine foot, with tape extending to lower front and rear boards.   Library stamp and marking on upper edge ffep.  A portion of the dust jacket flap has been pasted to front pastedown.  Two pen markings, one on lower corner ffep at spine foot, one on lower edge of Table of Contents.  Second previous owner’s name and marking on upper corner half-title page.   Very light edge and corner wear.  Copy 2 (PC25): Book: Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Appears unused.  Dust Jacket:  Fair to Good.  NOT price clipped (no price indicated).  Some slight wear, wrinkling to upper front cover edge.  Very light corner wear.

Notes: Abandonment has often meant the “end” of a culture.  This study argues that abandonment is a strategy in land use in the arid southwest.  Movement and reorganization within the Mimbres region of southwestern New Mexico, southeastern Arizona (including the Pine Lawn area), and northern Mexico.