LANDMARKS OF NEW MEXICO. Handbooks of Archaeological History. by Hewett, Edgar L.; Wayne L. Mauzy - 1947

Albuquerque: The University Of New Mexico Press, 1947. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good + Dust Jacket. Photographs Throughout. 204 Pp. Well Printed On Thick Glossy Paper. Second Edition (1947). . A Fine Book In A Lightly Used Dj, Not Price Clipped, Wear At Corners And Along Top Edge, A Few Very Short Tears Along Top Edge, Minute Losses At Corners.

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press / School of American Research. Very Good+. 1947. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's bookplate (LeRoy V. Brandt) on the front pastedown page. "Hewett's interest in Frijoles Canyon was timely, for ethnologist Adolph Bandelier had just started to describe, through both scientific papers and his novel The Delight Makers (1890) , prehistoric life on the Pajarito Plateau. Hewett came to know Bandelier and consider him his mentor in his own studies. By 1896 Hewett himself was conducting field work on the Plateau, although he continued to defer to Bandelier's expertise on the region for many years. Hewett rapidly came to believe that the Plateau's archaeological sites constituted a national resource that should be preserved,… Read More