The Groundwork of American Archaeology (Pamphlet)

Description

Author: Hewett, Edgar L.  (1865-1946)

Publisher: Archaeological Institute of America

Pub Date: 1908

Binding: Paperback

Condition: 4 copies.  Copy 1: Fair.  Stapled binding tight.  No marks, tears, folds.  Lower front cover edge has a small crease along edge–you can’t see but you can feel it.  Lower rear cover corner has an approx. 1″ crease.  Uncut pages.  Copy 2: Fair.  Stapled binding tight.  No marks, tears, folds.  Lower front cover corner has an approx. 1″ x 1/16″ bend, extends through entire volume.  Uncut pages.  Copy 3: Good.  Stapled binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends, or folds.  Uncut pages.  Appears unused.  Copy 4:  Fair.  Stapled binding tight (two lower staples).  No marks, folds.  Upper front cover edge has a small chip. Upper front cove corner has an approx. 1/8″ bend, extends through entire volume.   Uncut pages.

Notes:  Papers of the School of American Archaeology Number One.  Pamphlet.  Offprint.  Reprinted from American Anthropologist, Vol. 10, No. 4, Oct.-Dec., 1908.  Hewett trying to lay out a path for archaeological exploration.  “The first task of the archeologist is to rescue the material and intellectual remains of the people whose history he is seeking to restore.  It can never be hoped that a continuous record will be recovered, but the greater the amount of material secured the more nearly complete can it be made.” (page 595)