Preliminary Report of the Peabody Museum Awatovi Expedition of 1939 (Pamphlet)

Description

Author: Brew, J.O. (John Otis) (1906-1988)

Publisher: Plateau

Pub Date: Not dated  (1940?)

Binding: Paperback (without covers)

Condition: Fair to Good.  Stapled binding tight.  No covers, boards.   One approx. 4″ wrinkle on first page/cover.  Edge and corner wear.  Smudging to front page.

Notes:  Pamphlet.  Offprint.  Reprinted from Plateau, Volume 13, No. 3.  A report on the fifth, and final, field season at Awatovi, or in this case, Jeddito Valley and Antelope Mesa.  “The objectives of the 1939 season were: the finishing of the excavation of Awatovi where work in certain parts of the ruin was still deemed necessary to complete the story of its development up to the time of abandonment in or about 1700; the excavation of a number of small sites extending in time from approximately 500 A.D. to 1300 A.D. ; the completion of the archaeological site reconnaissance of Antelope Mesa and the Jeddito Valley; the completion of physiographic and ethnobotanical studies including, among other environmental researches, the development of the highly specialized Hopi agriculture.”   (page 2)  Very Rare.  No copies available for sale.