Small Sites on the Santa Cruz Flats: The Results of the Investigations along the Santa Rosa Canal in the Distribution Division of the Central Arizona Project

Description

Author: Marmaduke, William S.

Publisher: Northland Research

Pub Date: 1993

Binding: Paperback

Condition:  Fair.  Ex-corporate library.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Previous owner’s stamp on upper front cover corner near spine head, and on upper corner title page.  Library tag taped to spine foot, with tape extending to lower front and rear covers.  One large smudge on upper rear corner (ink from rubbing up against another library volume).   Some smudging to front and rear covers.  Light edge and corner wear.

Notes: “This report is about 58 archaeological sites, located in and around an expansive desert basin south of the Gila River known as the Santa Cruz Flats.  None of these sites are large.  the biggest among them had only three, widely separated houses.  Most of them had no houses, and the majority, by far, even of these lacked anything whatsoever beyond a mere scattering of artifacts now perched on the modern surface of the ground….But the most frequently represented culture, far and away, was the prehistoric Hohokam culture, the sedentary (or at least semi-sedentary) agriculturalists of the northern Sonoran Desert between A.D. 300 and 1450.”  (From the Introduction)