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Mug House: Mesa Verde National Park-Colorado. Arthur H. Rohn. Archeological Research Series No. 7-D, National Park Service, Washington, D.C., 1971. xix and 280 pp., 308 illus., 30 tables, appendix. $5.00. - Volume 38 Issue 3

AbstractThe paper “Grand Canyon Dam, Split-Twing Figurines, and ‘Hit-and-Run Archaeology,’ ” by Stephen C. Jett, which appeared in the July 1968 number of American Antiquity is replied to relative to the importance of “salvage” as opposed to “hit-and-run” archaeology, the fallacy of assuming archaeological knowledge on the basis of numbers of sites recorded in a region, and the value of proper popularization of archaeological data.

Abstract Surface collections from three sites at Red Butte, near Grand Canyon in northern Arizona, produced small, concave-based Pinto points, as well as fragmentary Ventana-Amargosa forms. In addition, a wide range of lithic tools was found. Lateral and basal grinding on several points suggest that at least one preceramic component is represented. No points characteristic of the ceramic period were obtained, but a few potsherds dating A.D. 1000-1200 were found on two of the sites. The pottery, unexpectedly, is attributable to Kayenta Anasazi rather than Cohonina. Presumably, but not demonstrably, this pottery is not associated with the points mentioned above. Neither the projectile forms nor the pottery complex from these sites has been reported previously from this immediate region.

S OF NEW WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY This is an annual volume of the literature of the preceding calendar year, edited by DWIGHT T. WALLACE (University of Oregon). The following are available: Vol. 1,1959. vi + 127 pages; 675 abstracts. 1960. $3.50. Vol. 2,1960. viii+184 pages; 1125 abstracts. 1961. $3 JO. ARCHIVES OF ARCHAEOLOGY This is an occasional publication on Microcard of primary documentation of archaeological investigations and related materials pertaining to the New World, edited by DAVID A. BAERREIS (University of Wisconsin). The series is published jointly by the Society for American Archaeology and the University of Wisconsin Press. Order from the University of Wisconsin Press, 430 Sterling Court, Madison 6, Wisconsin. Remittance should also accompany order. A list of available publications appears one or more times each year in AMERICAN ANTIQUITY (see section entitled: Society for American Archaeology).

AbstractThrough the use of the direct historical method and analysis of materials from more than 250 sites that indicate Southern Paiute occupation, a reconstruction of the culture history of this ethnic group is attempted. The data permit the following hypotheses: that the Southern Paiute were essentially a Desert culture people with the addition of agriculture in the south; that they entered the Southwest and the southern Great Basin about A.D. 1150 or slightly earlier from the north; that they did not develop from any of the Pueblo groups in the area; and that they maintained their maximum range until disrupted by European incursions betweenA.D.1800 and 1860.

The Archeological Excavations at Willow Beach, Arizona 1950. Albert H. Schroeder. University of Utah Anthropological Papers No. 50, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 1961. viii + 163 pp., 40 figs. $3.25. - Volume 28 Issue 1