The Mammoth Wash Project: Hunter-Gatherer Adaptation in the Mountain Region of West-Central Arizona

Description

Authors: Dosh, Steven G. and Halbirt, Carl D.

Publisher: Museum of Northern Arizona

Pub Date: 1985

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  Ex-corporate library.  No folds.  Library tag taped to spine foot, tape extends to lower front and rear corners at spine foot.  Previous owner’s name stamped on upper front cover corner.  One small (approx. 1/16″) chip along front cover recto edge.  Upper corners of pages xi-xvii have slight bends (dropped or bumped).  Upper front cover edge has a couple areas of wear.

Notes: Museum of Northern Arizona Research Paper 34.  Studies of 12 sites near the mining town of Bagdad, Arizona.  The sites were used between about 700 B.C. to 1100 A.D.  Hunter-gatherers created temporary structures as “base camps”, and moved into the surrounding areas to smaller camps to harvest and process “…cacti, grasses, paloverde, and Cheno-ams.” (From the Abstract) (Cheno-ams include goosefoot, lambsquarters, amaranth, and pigweed).  Once they had harvested an area, they moved on to other seasonal base camps.