Papers from a Training Program in Salvage Archaeology

Description

Author/Assembled by: Greminger, Henry C.

Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press

Pub Date: 1961

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Two previous owners.  First previous owner’s name on lower front cover.  Second previous owner’s name on upper edge ffep.  Hole punched.  Scuffing, wear to all edges, especially front and rear spine edges.  Some corner wear.  This edition limited to 500 copies.

Notes: Museum of New Mexico Papers in Anthropology Number 3.  Navajo Project Studies III.  An experimental project as training exercises in the problems and techniques of salvage archaeology.  Three “simulated” project areas to be flooded by the construction of Navajo Dam.  “…the students not only had to read and understand engineering plans, but also interpret them correctly from coded reference stakes set out by the highway survey crews….the students had to prepare an estimate of the labor and equipment needed for adequate salvage.  In making their estimates, they had to keep in mind that all salvage work had to be completed in three weeks….This was a realistic salvage problem, paralleling situations frequently encountered on pipeline and highway salvage projects.” (From the Foreword)