People of the mesa : the archaeology of Black Mesa, Arizona
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People of the mesa : the archaeology of Black Mesa, Arizona
Southwest Parks and Monuments Association , Southern Illinois University Press, c1987
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Bibliography: p. 157-158
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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Black Mesa, Arizona, has sheltered human beings for over 8000 years. For two decades, with the support and assistance of the Peabody Coal Company, archaeologists and other scientists have sought an understanding of how and why those ancient peoples lived as they did.Powell and Gumerman, the principal researchers of one of the largest and longest-running projects in the history of North American archaeology, recognize that only parts of past cultures survive to be discovered and analyzed, but they stress that the material items archaeologists do recover can tell us a great deal about the nonmaterial aspects of the culture in which they were used.In four cultural historical chapters Powell and Gumerman focus in turn on each of the major occupations of Black Mesa: the Archaic (6000 B.C.), "Basketmaker II (ca. the time of Christ), Puebloan "(A.D. 8001150), and the Navajo (A.D. 1825 to the present).The 125 photographs, 41 line drawings by Thomas W. Gatlin, and 20 pages of full-color illustrations communicate the fascination of archaeological discovery and add an extra dimension to the authors stories of ancient and modern life on Black Mesa."
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