Perry Mesa is a small, isolated plateau lying within the mountainous Transition Zone of central Arizona. During the fourteenth century, the area on and around the mesa was home to a population of Native Americans who built several dozen masonry pueblos, the largest of which are remarkable for their large size—100 or more ground-floor rooms, probably two stories high—and, often, for their dramatic settings at the edges of cliffs overlooking deeply incised canyons. It appears that the people of the Perry Mesa Tradition migrated to this locale, lived there for at most 200 to 300 years, and then moved on. Archaeologists have known of Perry Mesa's archaeological treasures since the 1940s. Due to its remote setting, Perry Mesa preserves an essentially complete Classic period settlement-subsistence system within a bounded environmental setting. This report, a scanned reproduction of the original 1995 Arizona Archaeologist volume, offers important insights into this unique gathering of communities, providing a glimpse of life and survival in the mesa’s harsh, but resource-rich central Arizona environment.

Prehistory of Perry Mesa:: The Short-lived Settlement of a Mesa-canyon Complex in Central Arizona, ca. A.D. 1200-1450 (The Arizona Archaeologist)

Politics & Social Sciences

Roberts, Heidi

Ahlstrom, Richard V.N.

Archaeology

Arizona Archaeological Society

The archaeological adventures of i.v. Jones, the new novel by Heidi Roberts, is the fictional retelling of an important time in the U.S. archaeology through the eyes of a twenty -one-year-old archaeologist named I.V. Jones. Ivy, as her friends call her, is witness to and participant in the complicated world of Utah archaeology in the 1970s, a period out of which came field-changing cultural resources management. This entertaining book also presents a woman's perspective on the demanding decisions involved in an archaeologist's life. The archaeological adventures of I.v. Jones takes the reader into Ivy's unique and memorable world, providing a true-to-life account of a "dig bum," and aspiring archaeologist, and a woman trying to balance her professional and family life.

The Archaeological Adventures of I.V. Jones

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

University of Utah Press

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