Exploring the Hohokam; Prehistoric Desert Peoples of the American Southwest

Albuquerque; (1991): University of New Mexico in Collaboration with Calvin Horn Publisher. First Edition. Small Quarto. Fronstispiece map, xviii, 500 pages, index, bibliography. The Hohokam is an archaeologically defined culture, the "heart- land" of which is thought to have been around Phoenix (radiating northward to the Mogollon Rim and southward into northern Mexico). They are best known for their impressive, system of irrigation canals, remnants of which have survived into the growth of modern Phoenix. This book uses an interdisciplinary research involving the natural sciences (for example, botany, geomorphology, zoology, and palynology), whereas, (truncated) most of the earlier histories relied on questionable historical accounts and early attempts at archeaology. This work remains one of the essential items on understanding what has been uncovered relating to Hohokam culture. A remarkably fine bright copy bound in blue leather like cloth, spine lettering gilt, in a bpine pictorial dust jacket. (Inventory #: 031369)