Description: "[This book] presents a great amount of new information for a poorly known or understood area of northern Mexico, and provides a pleasant integration of the methods and theories of anthropology, geography, and ecology in a well-organized manner. . . . This report represents an important contribution to our understanding of cultural evolution and environmental adaptation in the Valley of Sonora and lays a strong framework for future studies and discussions."--Journal of Arizona History
Review Quotes: "The author's presentation is crisp and lucid throughout."--Latin American Anthropology Review
"Overall, this book is an excellent and interesting study. Rarely are the insights of archaeology and ethnohistory so advantageously employed together."--Ethnohistory "Doolittle has provided us with a very detailed description of the Valley of Sonora and for those of us interested in Northern Mexico he has pulled together a great deal of information and focused it on the issue of how the past is to be interpreted. This is an important issue."--Agricultural History