Prehistory, Personality, and Place: Emil W. Haury and the Mogollon Controversy

by Stephanie Whittlesey and Jefferson Reid

Book Overview

When Emil Haury defined the ancient Mogollon in the 1930s as a culture distinct from their Ancestral Pueblo and Hohokam neighbors, he triggered a major intellectual controversy in the history of southwestern archaeology, centering on whether the Mogollon were truly a different culture or merely a "backwoods variant" of a better-known people. In this book, archaeologists Jefferson Reid and Stephanie Whittlesey tell the story of the remarkable individuals...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816528632
• ISBN13: 9780816528639
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 8.8"