People of the Mesa: The Archaeology of Black Mesa, Arizona

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Black Mesa, Arizona, has sheltered human beings for over 8000 years. For two decades, with the give a boost to 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 some of the largest and longest-running projects in the history of North American archaeology, recognize that only parts of past cultures live to tell the tale to be found out and analyzed, but they stress that the material items archaeologists do get well can let us know a great deal about the nonmaterial aspects of the culture in which they were used.

 

In four cultural historical chapters Powell and Gumerman center of attention in turn on each and every of the major occupations of Black Mesa: the Archaic (6000 B.C.), Basketmaker II (ca. the time of Christ), Puebloan (A.D. 800–1150), 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 keep in touch the fascination of archaeological discovery and add an extra dimension to the authors’ stories of ancient and up to date life on Black Mesa.

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