The Little-Known Small House Ruins in the Coconino Forest (Pamphlet)

Description

Authors: Colton, M.R.F. (Mary-Russell Ferrell) (1889-1971) and Colton, H.S. (Harold Sellers) (1881-1970)

Publisher: American Anthropological association

Pub Date: 1918

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Ex-library.   Stapled binding tight.  No tears, folds.  Upper front cover corner has an approx. 1″ bend, extends through entire volume.  Library marking to upper front cover corner.  Library sticker shadow to lower front cover corner at spine foot, extends to lower rear cover corner.  Library stamp to upper front cover edge.  Library stamp and markings to upper edge ffep/title page (Stamp indicates Harold Colton as donor).  Smudging to rear cover.  Some edge and corner wear.

Notes: Pamphlet.  Offprint.  Originally published in Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association, Vol. V, No. 4, October-December 1918.  In 1916, the Coltons explored areas east of Flagstaff, finding dozens of “small house” ruins, ruins of one or more rooms, typically eroded, often barely visible.  They classified the sites as “(a) Hunter sites; (b) shelters of wood adobe or cornstalks; (c)small stone houses of one to ten rooms; (d) pueblos or clusters of many-roomed houses; (e)forts.” (page 104).