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    The Hohokam Dig
    The Hohokam Dig
    The Hohokam Dig
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    The Hohokam Dig

    By Theodore Pratt

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Hohokam Dig - Theodore Pratt

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Hohokam Dig, by Theodore Pratt

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      Title: The Hohokam Dig

      Author: Theodore Pratt

      Release Date: August 24, 2009 [EBook #29793]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HOHOKAM DIG ***

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      From where had these attacking Indians come? Out of a long forgotten and dim past? Had their medicine man seen the one supreme vision?

      the

      hohokam

      dig

      by ... Theodore Pratt

      At first they thought the attack was a joke. And then they realized the truth!

      At first the two scientists thought the Indian attack on them was a joke perpetrated by some of their friends. After all, modern Indians did not attack white men any more.

      Except that these did.

      George Arthbut and Sidney Hunt were both out of New York, on the staff of the Natural History Museum. George was an ethnologist who specialized in what could be reconstructed about the prehistoric Indians of North America, with emphasis on those of the Southwest. He was a tall, lean, gracious bald man in his early sixties.

      Sidney was an archeologist who was fascinated by the ruins of the same kind of ancient Indians. Medium-sized, with black hair that belied his sixty-five years, he and George made an excellent team, being the leaders in their field.

      They had come west on a particular bit of business this spring, trying to solve the largest question that remained about the old cliff dwellers and the prehistoric desert Indians, both of whom had deserted their villages and gone elsewhere for reasons that remained a mystery.

      One theory was that drought had driven them both away. Another theory ran to the effect that enemies wiped them out or made off with them as captives. Still another supposition, at least for the Hohokam desert people, the builders of Casa Grande whose impressive ruins still stood near Coolidge, had to do with their land giving out

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