Pre-Hispanic Occupance in the Valley of Sonora, Mexico: Archaeological Confirmations of Early Spanish Reports

"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 interpretated. This is an important issue."—Agricultural History

"The author's presentation is crisp and lucid throughout."—The 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