Prehistoric Coastal Adaptations: The Economy and Ecology of Maritime Middle America

Description

Editors: Stark, Barbara L. and Voorhies, Barbara

Publisher: Academic Press

Pub Date: 1978

Binding: Hardcover

Condition:  Fair.  Ex-library.  Binding broken at title page, but still tight (sewn binding).  No tears.   Without dust jacket.  At least two previous owners.  One previous owner’s name and marking at upper corner title page.  Library markings and check-out pocket on front pastedown.  Library stamps on all three text blocks.  Lower corner of page ix through at least page 123 has a bend of varying size.  Undoubtedly dropped on that corner.  Light edge and corner wear to front and rear boards.

Notes:  Coastal communities from Panama north to almost the area of present-day Mazatlan, Mexico, on both the Atlantic and Pacific sides.  “Most of the reports of coastal sites considered here have been published since the middle 1950s.  The geographic distribution of archaeological investigations at Middle American coastal locations…are widely separated and few in number….None of the regional studies consulted, however, has reported results of an intensive archaeological study of a defined section of the coastal plain that combines environmental stratification, detailed surface survey, and subsurface sampling at a large number of sites….available knowledge of the culture history of the Middle American coastal plains is effectively limited to some well-studied specific occupations that are widely separated in time and space.”  (Pages 6-7)