Settlement Patterns of the Eastern Hueco Bolson

Description

Author: Whalen, Michael E.

Publisher: Centennial Museum, University of Texas at El Paso

Pub Date: 1977

Binding: Paperback

Condition: 3 copies.  Copy 1 (RB): Fair.  Binding tight.  Previous owner’s name stamped on upper corner ffep and inside rear cover, blindstamp on lower corner ffep.  Upper front cover corner has an approx. 1″ bend, with missing corner chip, worn, extends to first 11 pages of text.  Lower front cover corner has an approx. 1/4″ bend, worn, extends through page ix.  Smudging to rear cover.  Edge and corner wear.  Copy 2 (RB): Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks.  Upper front cover edge near spine head worn, bumped.  Bump extends to upper edge ffep.  Upper rear cover has an approx. 2″ bend, extends into volume to page 184 (about 30 pages).   Lower rear cover corner has an approx. 6″ bend, worn.  “Appendix G,” a mimeograph appears as an insert.  Copy 3 (LOA23): Fair.  Binding tight.   No tears,  folds.  Previous owner’s name in ink on upper front cover corner.  Upper front cover corner worn, extends through first 11 pages.  Upper rear cover corner slightly creased, but last 3 pages have bent upper corners.  Smudging to rear cover.  Edge and corner wear.  “Appendix G,” a mimeograph appears as an insert.

Notes: Centennial Museum Anthropological Paper Number 4.  The eastern Hueco Bolson is defined for this study as “bounded on the east by the Hueco-Sacramento Mountain chain, and on the west by the Franklin-Organ range.” (From the Introduction).  The more than 100 square miles studied is primarily in the Fort Bliss Maneuver Area II.   Whalen used aerial photography to help identify sites where there may have been human activity in the distant past.  “…problems relative to the composition and functioning of these social systems that beg for attention.  Among these are: (1) a basis for developing a relationship between site size and the number of human occupants; (2) a better understanding of the relationship between the specific permanently occupied hamlets and villages and the temporarily occupied camps; (3) a refinement in the definition of the types of activities carried on in specific loci and the number and age-sex composition of the actors; and (4) temporal controls that will divide the 900 or so years spanned by the Mesilla and El Paso phases into much shorter periods of time…” (From the Preface).  Life without surface water.