The Occurrence and Significance of Southwestern Grooved Axes in California (Pamphlet)

Description

Author: Heizer, Robert F.

Publisher: American Antiquity

Pub Date: 1946

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair to Good.  Stapled binding tight.  No tears.  Previous owner’s name in ink on upper front cover corner.  Upper front cover corner has approx. 1″ crease that extends through entire pamphlet.  Rear cover corners bent.

Notes: Pamphlet.  Offprint.  Reprinted from American Antiquity, Volume 11, No. 3, January 1946.  From the library of J.O. Brew, his signature on front cover.  “Presumably the grooved ax in central and northern California represents an extreme northwesterly extension from its native locale, which we assume to be the Southwest.” (page 187).   Richard Woodbury, in “Ground and Pecked Stone Artifacts” (1939, Univ. of New Mexico Bulletin,  Vol.3, No. 2 “Preliminary Report on the 1937 Excavations, Bc 50-51 Chaco Canyon, New Mexico”) defines the area of distribution for Pueblo I grooved axes from the Hopi villages to Gallup, NM and south to the Mimbres River, and Basketmaker III axes from the Rio Grande in the east to the Little Colorado and Colorado rivers on the west and south to Central Arizona and New Mexico.  Map indicates at least 10 ax findings in California.  RARE.  No copies available for sale, and held in only 3 libraries in the U.S.