Mimbres Life and Society
The Mattocks Site of Southwestern New Mexico
- Hardcover
656 pages
- Release Date
19 December 2017
Summary
A thousand years ago, village farmers in the Mimbres Valley of what is now southwestern New Mexico created stunning black-on-white pottery. Mimbres pottery has added a fascinating dimension to southwestern archaeology, but it has also led to the partial or total destruction of most Mimbres sites. The Mimbres Foundation, in one of the few modern investigations of a Mimbres pueblo, excavated the Mattocks site, containing about 180 surface rooms in addition to pit structures. Mimbres Life and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780816535637 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0816535639 |
| Author: | Patricia A. Gilman, Steven A. LeBlanc |
| Publisher: | University of Arizona Press |
| Imprint: | University of Arizona Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 656 |
| Release Date: | 19 December 2017 |
| Weight: | 1.98kg |
| Dimensions: | 281mm x 220mm x 33mm |
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Critics Review
Destined to be used by generations of scholars. The Mattocks site provides unique and essential information for understanding the Mimbres region and Southwest archaeology in general.“” - Michelle Hegmon, editor of The Give and Take of Sustainability
”“One of the most important contributions to Mimbres archaeology to appear in years. This book will be the sine qua non for research on the Mattocks site.”” - Karen Gust Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist, Archaeology Southwest
About The Author
Patricia A. Gilman
Patricia A. Gilman is a professor emerita in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma.
Steven A. LeBlanc is retired as director of collections at Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
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