Not Forever on Earth: Prehistory of Mexico by Gorenstein, Shirley - 1975

USA: Scribner, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Lee Bolton. Type: Private Press First Printing. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. Photographs by Lee Bolton throughout. An introduction, profusely illustrated with photographs and maps, to the cultural history of Mexico. What archaelogical findings have revealed about political organization, military systems, hunting and farming practices, social relationships, and religious beliefs and ideology is the emphasis of this book. The author also discusses the way artifacts are used to infer their pattern of life; hunting and gathering bands, and the rise of village communities between 10,000 B.C and 200 B.C.; the development of civilization; the various city-states; and their social and political forms between A.D 900 and the Spanish Conquest. Very clean and unmarked brown cloth binding with bronze foil debossed Mexican antiquity motif on front, bronze foil lettering on spine. Just a touch of corner wear and light fading along upper edge. Interior Fine--very clean and unmarked, no creases. Clean jacket, light edgewear, and a one inch deep and wide piece out of upper edge near spine edge. 153 pages with glossary, bibliography and index. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Scribner, NY, 1975.