Sunset Crater Archaeology: The History of a Volcanic Landscape: Environmental Analyses

Description

Editor: Elson, Mark D.

Publisher: Center for Desert Archaeology

Pub Date: 2007

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.   Several stray marks on rear cover–not pen, not pencil, more like a book corner was rubbed on the cover.  Includes eight fold-outs.  Very light edge and corner wear.   Appears unused.

Notes: Anthropological Papers No. 33.  Prior to the widening of U.S. Highway 89 north of Flagstaff, 41 sites were found and investigated.  “A wide range of site types is present in the project area, including large, permanent habitations, containing 10-30 masonry rooms and pithouses, smaller homesteads or seasonal farmsteads with two to eight structures, single-room fieldhouses, limited activity areas, special-use sites, and agricultural field systems.  A total of 73 structures was excavated, including 41 pithouses, 26 masonry rooms, and 6 ramadas.  Close to 100,000 artifacts were recovered, with ceramics the dominant artifact type, comprising more than 80 percent of the assemblage.  The earliest sites were occupied around A.D. 400, with the occupation continuing into the early to mid-A.D. 1100s.  The most intensive occupation was between A.D. 1050 and 1125, the approximate time of the Sunset Crater eruption.”  (From the Abstract)  This is the fourth volume of a five volume series (Anthropological Papers Nos. 30, parts 1 and 2, No. 31, 32, this volume Number 33, and No. 37)