An Aboriginal Salt Mine at Camp Verde, Arizona (Pamphlet)

Description

Author: Morris, Earl H.  (1889-1956)

Publisher: American Museum of Natural History

Pub Date: 1928

Binding: Paperback

Condition:  Fair.  Stapled binding tight.  Previous owner’s name written in ink on front cover.  Chips to front and rear cover edges.  Upper and lower spine has been broken about an inch down from the head and an inch up from the foot.  Wear to head and foot of spine.  Front cover is slightly offset, showing pages (printer fault).

Notes: Pamphlet.  Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History Volume XXX, Part III.  An underground salt mine, discovered by accident.  Ancient tools, torches, sandals, and a crushed skeleton (cave-in) found.  “Judging, then, from the limited evidence at hand, the salt mine at Camp Verde was worked at a time when Pueblo culture had reached its full development; when the Gila, the Mimbres, and the Little Colorado variants had attained their diagnostic features; thus rather late than early in the cycle of aboriginal occupation of the Southwest.  there is, however, nothing to indicate that digging for salt at this particular point may not have been begun at a much earlier period.”  (from the text)