Pipeline Archaeology: Reports of Salvage Operations in the Southwest on El Paso Natural Gas Company Projects 1950-1953

Description

Editors: Wendorf, Fred (1924-2015); Fox, Nancy, and Lewis, Orian L. (1913-2005)

Publishers: Co-published by the Laboratory of Anthropology and the Museum of Northern Arizona

Pub Date: 1956

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight, but starting to wear at front cover gutter.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Rear spine edge worn, several areas of chipping.  Spine creased vertically, broken?.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Appears unused.

Notes: Introduction by Jesse Nusbaum.  Archaeology over 900 miles of gas pipeline right-of-way, from west Texas to western Arizona, recording of over 300 sites, of which about 50 were wholly or partially excavated.  “It is the first published report on the procedures and results of mechanized archaeology, of the sort that has recently been pursued in anticipation of the destructive activities of highway building and pipeline laying.”  (American Antiquity, Volume 23, Issue 2, Part 1, October 1957, pp. 199-200)