Prehistory in Dead Valley, East-Central Arizona: The TG & E Springerville Report

Description

Editors: Doyel, David E. and Debowski, Sharon S.

Publisher: Arizona State Museum

Pub Date: 1980

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends, or folds.  Previous owner’s name on upper front cover edge and upper corner title page.  Upper front cover corner at spine head has an approx. 1/8″ chip., wear to spine head.  Includes tw0 fold-outs.  Several small spots to top text block, one small spot to side text block, smudging to bottom text block.  Light edge and corner wear.

Notes: Excavations conducted at 15 sites in “Dead Valley”, approximately 15 miles northeast of Springerville, Arizona, prior to Tuscon Gas & Electric (now known as Tucson Electric Power) using the valley to dump fly ash.  Fly ash is a byproduct of coal burning power plants (Springerville, e.g.), and has some beneficial uses (concrete, road and residential building materials).  “The sites range from small sherd and lithic scatters lacking architecture to pueblos of two to three rooms.  Most of the sites are either ephemeral ramada structures or windbreak structures with low masonry walls and represent seasonally utilized agricultural field houses.  The majority of the sites date to within a relatively brief time period, the Pueblo II Period, between A.D. 900 and 1150.”  (From the Abstract)