The Mortlach Site

Card covers, 113 pages, 6.75x10 in - 17x25 cm, B&W illustrations and photographs.

Covers worn and rubbed. Front cover chipped at top, back cover soiled and sunned. Spine bumped at head and heel. Front cover verso, title page, and p.15 stamped by previous owner. Pages lightly edge-tanned, p.39 stained in margin.

The Anthropological Series of the Saskatchewan Museum of Natural History (now the Royal Saskatchewan Museum) showcases studies of human prehistory and early history in the province. Series volume #1 analyses the findings of a 1954 archaeological excavation near Mortlach, Saskatchewan (west of Regina). The first part of the volume – “The Mortlach Site in the Besant Valley of Central Saskatchewan” by provincial archaeologist Boyd D. Wettlaufer – catalogues and describes artifacts from eight different cultures present at the site. The second section, “Physical Features and Soils of the Mortlach Archaeological Area” by Harold C. Moss (of the Saskatchewan Soil Survey), profiles the soil types encountered in the dig. Includes 25.5 x 88.5 cm (8.5 x 34.5 in.) color fold-out “Stratigraphic Cross-Section of Project.”