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Book Review Database
Title | Author | Excerpt | Publisher | Copyright Date | Media Type | Review Date | Volume | Number |
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Explanations in Iconography: Ancient American Indian Art, Symbol, and Meaning |
Carol Diaz-Granados
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Iconography is the study of symbols and their interpretation. In American archaeology, it is a growing field of interest that is providing new insights into ancient cultural beliefs. In this... | Oxbow Books | 2023 | Book | Spring 2024 | 28 | 1 |
Birds and Beasts of Ancient Mesoamerica |
Susan Milbrath
Elizabeth Baquedano |
Animals played a central role in the lives of ancient Mesoamericans. They were watched for signs of seasonal changes which carried portents of the future. They were pathways for communicating... | University Press of Colorado | 2022 | Book or ebook | Spring 2024 | 28 | 1 |
Jamestown Archaeology: Remains to be Seen |
William M. Kelso
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In 1994 on the banks of the James River near the remains of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, archaeologists with the Jamestown Rediscovery Project under the... | Routledge | 2024 | Book | Spring 2024 | 28 | 1 |
Sins of the Shovel: Looting, Murder & the Evolution of American Archaeology |
Rachel Morgan
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In 1888, Colorado cowboys Richard Wetherill and his brother-in-law Charlie Mason rode into the canyons of Mesa Verde looking for stray cattle. What they found changed the course of American... | University of Chicago Press | 2023 | Book | Spring 2024 | Vol 28 | 1 |
Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors |
Brian Fagan
Nadia Durrani |
As the world struggles to cope with human-caused climate change that threatens modern society, Climate Chaos surveys climate disruptions over the past 30,000 years and how they affected ancient cultures.... | Public Affairs | 2021 | Book or ebook | Spring 2022 | Vol 26 | No. 1 |
The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere |
Paulette F.C. Steeves
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This volume examines in depth the peopling of the Western Hemisphere from an Indigenous point of view. The author, Paulette F.C. Steeves, is Cree and Metis. She grew up in... | University of Nebraska Press | 2021 | Book | Spring 2022 | Vol 26 | No. 1 |
The Calf Creek Horizon: A Mid-Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Adaption in the Central and Southern Plains of North America |
Jon C. Lohse
Marjorie A. Duncan Don G. Wyckoff |
Six thousand years ago, a distinctive culture emerged in the Southern Plains of North America covering Oklahoma, most of Texas and Kansas, and parts of Arkansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Colorado,... | Texas A&M University Press | 2021 | Book | Spring 2022 | Vol 26 | No. 1 |
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America |
Pukka Hämäläinen
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Pekka Hämäläinen, a professor of American history at Oxford University, seeks to write, or rather rewrite, the history of America north of Mexico. In the beginning he rejects the conventional... | Live right Publishing | 2022 | Book | Spring 2023 | Vol. 27 | No. 1 |
Buried Beneath the City: An Archaeological History of New York |
Nan A. Rothschild
Amanda Sutphin H. Arthur Bankoff, Jessica Striebel MacLean |
This fascinating story of archaeology in America’s biggest city is a case study in how modern techniques can produce voluminous new information under sometimes very difficult conditions. For the past... | Columbia University Press | 2022 | Book | Spring 2023 | Vol. 27 | No. 1 |
Scientific Dating in Archeology |
Seren Griffiths
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The dating of archaeological artifacts and sites is one of the most important aspects of the field, and one of the most difficult. Fortunately, thanks to scientific advances in a... | Oxbow Books | 2022 | Book | Spring 2023 | Vol. 27 | No. 1 |
A Green Band in a Parched and Burning Land: Subaipuri O’odham Landscapes |
Deni J. Seymour
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The Subaipuri O’odham were farmers who lived along the rivers of southeastern Arizona before and during the time of Spanish contact in the 16th century to the present. They were... | University Press of Colorado | 2022 | Book | Spring 2023 | Vol. 27 | No. 1 |
Native American Archaeology in the Parks |
Kenneth L. Feder
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Many important and spectacular archaeological sites are permanently preserved on public lands administered by the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the U.S.... | Rowman & Littlefield | 2023 | Book | Summer 2023 | Vol. 27 | No. 2 |
Gods of Thunder: How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality Reshaped Precolonial America |
Timothy R. Pauketat
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This engaging study surveys the impact of the Medieval Climatic Anomaly of A.D. 800-1300 in North and Central America. The Medieval Climatic Anomaly was a worldwide phenomenon that is best... | Oxford University Press | 2023 | Book | Summer 2023 | Vol. 27 | No. 2 |
Clotilda: The History and Archaeology of the Last Slave Ship |
James P. Delgado
Deborah E. Marx Kyle Lentt Joseph Grinnan Alexander DeCaro |
In the summer of 1860, the schooner Clotilda arrived in Mobile Bay with a cargo of more than 100 enslaved people brought illegally from present day Benin in west Africa.... | University of Alabama Press | 2023 | Book | Summer 2023 | Vol. 27 | No. 2 |
Large-Scale Traps of the Great Basin |
Bryan Hockett
Eric Dillingham |
Early hunter gatherers developed all kinds of devices to assist them in hunting large game animals. One of their innovations was large-scale traps made of rocks and wood that allowed... | Texas A&M University Press | 2023 | Book | Summer 2023 | Vol. 27 | No. 2 |
Pushing Boundaries in Southwestern Archaeology: Chronology, Collections, and Contexts |
Stephen E. Nash
Erin L. Baxter |
This volume presents the proceedings from the 16th Southwest Seminar of 2018, a biennial conference that focuses on the latest developments in Southwestern archaeology. It consists of 20 chapters that... | University Press of Colorado | 2023 | Book | Fall 2023 | Vol. 27 | No. 3 |
Vapaki: Ancestral O’Odham Platform Mounds of the Sonoran Desert |
Glen E. Rice
Arley W. Simon Chris Loendorf |
Between about A.D. 1075 and 1450, the Hohokam of southern Arizona built lots of platform mounds, mainly along the Gila and Salt Rivers where they practiced extensive irrigation agriculture. Much... | University of Utah Press | 2023 | Book | Fall 2023 | Vol. 27 | No. 3 |
In the Shadow of the Steamboat: A Natural and Cultural History of North Warner Valley, Oregon |
Geoffrey M. Smith
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The Warner Valley lies in the northwestern Great Basin where Nevada, California, and Oregon meet. Some 17,000 years ago, near the end of the Pleistocene, the valley was covered by... | University of Utah Press | 2023 | Book | Fall 2023 | Vol. 27 | No. 3 |
Studying the Princess Carolina: Anatomy of the Ship That Held Up Wall Street |
Warren C. Riess
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In 1982, archaeologists conducting a pre-construction excavation in lower Manhattan’s financial district discovered the remains of an 18th century sailing ship. They called in nautical archaeologists including Warren Riess of... | Texas A&M University Press | 2023 | Book | Fall 2023 | Vol. 27 | No. 3 |
Blurred Boundaries: Perspectives on Rock Art of the Greater Southwest |
William Frej
Polly Schaafsma |
Ancient enigmatic images can be found on rocks throughout the desert Southwest—from the Four Corners to Baja, California. They number in the tens of thousands and span many thousands of... | Museum of New Mexico Press | 2023 | Book | Winter 2023-24 | Vol. 27 | No. 4 |
Holes in Our Moccasins, Holes in Our Stories: Apachean Origins and the Promontory, Franktown, and Dismal River Archaeological Records |
John W. Ives
Joel C. Janetski |
On the northern and eastern shores of the Great Salt Lake in Utah, there are a dozen or so dry caves that were inhabited by ancient Indigenous people. From 1930... | University of Utah Press | 2022 | Book | Winter 2023-24 | Vol. 27 | No. 4 |
Fluted Points of the Far West |
Michael F. Rondeau
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The California Fluted Lanceolate Uniform Testing and Evaluation Database (CalFLUTED) project commenced in 2003 to bring together all the data on fluted projectile (spear) points in four states (California, Nevada,... | University of Utah Press | 2023 | Book | Winter 2023-24 | Vol. 27 | No. 4 |
Spiro Mounds and WPA Archaeology in Oklahoma |
Scott W. Hammerstedt
Amanda L. Regnier |
Spiro is a large group of mounds in eastern Oklahoma that is part of the Mississippian tradition of the American Midwest and Southeast. It appears to have been occupied by... | Arcadia Publishing | 2023 | Book | Winter 2023-24 | Vol. 27 | No. 4 |
A History of Platform Mound Ceremonialism: Finding Meaning in Elevated Ground |
Megan C. Kassabaum
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For more than 8,000 years, Native Americans have been building earthen mounds in what is now the Eastern United States. The mounds come in all sizes, from minute to massive,... | University of Florida Press | 2021 | Book | Fall 2021 | Vol. 25 | No. 3 |
Unearthing St. Mary’s City: Fifty Years of Archaeology at Maryland’s First Capital |
Henry M. Miller
Travis G. Parno |
English colonists founded St. Mary’s City in 1634, and it was one of the first English settlements in the Americas. Inspired by George Calvert, Lord Baltimore, St. Mary’s City was... | University Press of Florida | 2021 | Book | Fall 2021 | Vol. 25 | No. 3 |
Hunters of the Mid-Holocene Forest: Old Cordilleran Culture Sites at Granite Falls, Washington |
James C. Chatters
Jason B. Cooper Philippe D. LeTourneau |
The Old Cordilleran Tradition of the Pacific Northwest consists of a distinctive stone tool assemblage of projectile points, knives, and other items. It is found from central British Columbia to... | University of Utah Press | 2021 | Book | Fall 2021 | Vol. 25 | No. 3 |
Reconsidering Mississippian Communities and Households |
Elizabeth Watts Malouchos
Aileen Betzenhauser |
This volume updates the seminal Mississippian Communities and Households, edited by J. Daniel Rogers and Bruce D. Smith and published in 1995. That study advanced southeastern archaeology bringing the study... | University of Alabama Press | 2021 | Book | Winter 2021-22 | Vol. 25 | No. 4 |
The Greater Chaco Landscape: Ancestors, Scholarship, and Advocacy |
Ruth M. Van Dyke
Carrie C. Heitman |
The Chaco Culture consists of Chaco Canyon with its dozen or so magnificent Great Houses plus more than 200 outlying sites in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico, Colorado,... | University Press of Colorado | 2021 | Book | Winter 2021-22 | Vol. 25 | No. 4 |
Unburied Lives: The Historical Archaeology of Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Davis, Texas, 1869-1875 |
Laurie A. Wilkie
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When the Civil War ended in 1865, many Black Union soldiers chose to remain in the army, whose two main missions were to pacify and reconstruct the South and to... | University of New Mexico Press | 2021 | Book | Winter 2021-22 | Vol. 25 | No. 4 |
Kudzu on the Ivory Tower: From the Backwoods to an Academic Career in the Deep, Deep South |
Evan Peacock
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In his Forward, archaeologist Ian Brown introduces this autobiography thus, “What you are about to read is another version of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, with Evan Peacock serving as…Huck.”... | Borgo Publishing | 2021 | Winter 2021-22 | Vol. 25 | No. 4 | |
Diversity in Open-Air Site Structure Across the Pleistocene/Holocene Boundary |
Kristen A. Carlson
Leland C. Bement |
The late Pleistocene/early Holocene period (ca. 12,500 years ago) was a time of retreating glaciers and expanding human activity. Many large mammals were declining, perhaps in part due to over... | University Press of Colorado | 2022 | Book | Fall 2022 | Vol 26 | No. 3 |
Girl Archaeologist: Sisterhood in a Sexist Profession |
Alice Beck Kehoe
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Eighty-six year old Alice Beck Kehoe tells the saga of a female archaeologist who began a calling in a field with few women and lots of sexism, and who persisted... | University of Nebraska Press | 2022 | Book | Fall 2022 | Vol 26 | No. 3 |
Linda S. Cordell: Innovating Southwest Archaeology |
Maxine E. McBrinn
Deborah L. Huntley |
Linda Cordell (1943-2013) was a pioneering researcher of the American Southwest who helped shape the modern archaeology of the region, particularly in the upper Rio Grande. A native of New... | Museum of New Mexico Press | 2022 | Book | Fall 2022 | Vol 26 | No. 3 |
The Archaeology of Place & Space in the West |
Emily Dale
Carolyn L. White |
This volume uses landscape to examine space (a geographic location) and place (the lived experience of a locale) in the American West. The history of the West is bound up... | University of Utah Press | 2022 | Book | Fall 2022 | Vol 26 | No. 3 |
Real, Recent, or Replica: Pre-Columbian Caribbean Heritage as Art, Commodity, and Inspiration |
Joanna Ostapokowicz
Jonathan A. Hanna |
This study documents the growing demand for pre-Columbian art and artifacts in the Caribbean Islands, be they real, recent, or replica. Archaeologists of the region are under increasing pressure to... | University of Alabama Press | 2022 | Book | Winter 2022-23 | Vol 26 | No. 4 |
The American Southeast at the End of the Ice Age |
D. Shane Miller
Ashley M. Smallwood Jesse W. Tune |
This book is a synthesis of recent and current research of the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene period (ca. 13,400-9000 B.P.) in the American Southeast, with contributions from expert researchers.... | University of Alabama Press | 2022 | Book | Winter 2022-23 | Vol 26 | No. 4 |
Living and Dying on the Periphery |
Jamie L. Clark
John D. Speth |
This volume uses landscape to examine space (a geographic location) and place (the lived experience of a locale) in the American West. The history of the West is bound up... | University of Utah Press | 2022 | Book | Winter 2022-23 | Vol 26 | No. 4 |
On Desert Shores: Archaeology and History of the Western Midriff Isalnds in the Gulf of California |
Thomas Bowen
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The Midriff Islands are located in the Gulf of California. They are hot, dry, and currently uninhabited. But for thousands of years they were home to Native Americans—the Seri people... | University of Utah Press | 2022 | Book | Winter 2022-23 | Vol 26 | No. 4 |
The Story of Food in the Human Past: How What We Ate Made Us Who We Are |
Robyn E. Cutright
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This fascinating study surveys the role of food over the past four million years of human prehistory. The author, Robyn Cutright, an anthropologist at Centre College, develops three major themes... | University of Alabama Press | 2021 | Book | Summer 2022 | Vol 26 | No. 2 |
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas |
Jennifer Raff
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Forty years ago, most archaeologists were pretty sure they had discovered how the Americas were colonized. Around 13,200 years ago, native Siberians crossed the then-dry Bering Sea to Alaska. (Sea... | Hachette Book Group | 2022 | Book | Summer 2022 | Vol 26 | No. 2 |
The Architecture of Hunting: The Built Environment of Hunter Gatherers |
Ashley Lemke
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This groundbreaking study focuses on the architecture—including blinds, drive lanes, animal corrals, and fishing weirs—hunter gatherers used to increase their success beginning at the end of the last Ice Age,... | Texas A&M University Press | 2022 | Book | Summer 2022 | Vol 26 | No. 2 |
People in a Sea of Grass: Archaeology’s Changing Perspective on Indigenous Plains Communities |
Matthew E. Hill, Jr.
Lauren W. Ritterbush |
This volume surveys recent developments in the archaeology of the Central Plains covering cultural traditions of the Woodland-era Kansas City Hopewell, late prehistoric Plains traditions, and ancestral and early historic... | University of Utah Press | 2022 | Book | Summer 2022 | Vol 26 | No. 2 |
Native Intoxicants of North America |
Sean Rafferty
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An intoxicant is a mind-altering substance that is mainly derived from plants, and it is toxic. A nearly universal human trait is the use of intoxicants to experience altered states... | University of Tennessee Press | 2021 | Book or ebook | Spring 2022 | Vol 26 | No. 1 |
Authority, Autonomy, and the Archaeology of a Mississippian Community |
Erin S. Nelson
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Mississippi’s northern Yazoo Basin is densely populated with Mississippian-period mound sites. Located along abandoned channels of the Mississippi River, these sites fit a general pattern of one or more platform... | University of Florida Press | 2019 | Book | Summer 2020 | Vol. 24 | No. 2 |
Conquistador’s Wake: Tracking the Legacy of Hernando de Soto in the Indigenous Southeast |
Dennis B. Blanton
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In 1539, Hernando de Soto and his army of some 600 men landed in Florida. Fresh from the successful conquest of the fabulously wealthy Inca in Peru, Soto had high... | University of Georgia Press | 2020 | Book | Summer 2020 | Vol. 24 | No. 2 |
Early Farming and Warfare in Northwest Mexico |
Robert J. Hard and John R. Roney
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In northern Chihuahua and Sonora and southern Arizona, there are many hills covered with dozens of elaborate terraces known as trincheras. Over the years, archaeologists have wondered why they were... | University of Utah Press | 2020 | Book | Summer 2020 | Vol. 24 | No. 2 |
Megadrought in the Carolinas: The Archaeology of Mississippian Collapse, Abandonment, and Coalescence |
John S. Cable
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Between about A.D. 1200 and 1500 large areas of the Americas, along with their sophisticated cultures, were abandoned. These include the Four Corners region in the Southwest, the Hohokam area... | University of Alabama Press | 2020 | Book | Fall 2020 | Vol. 24 | No. 3 |
Lost Maya Cities: Archaeological Quests in the Mexican Jungle |
Ivan Sprajc
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Between 1996 and 2014, Slovenian archaeologist Ivan Sprajc led a project to explore a large part of southern Campeche state for INAH, the National Institute for Archaeology and History, which... | Texas A&M University Press | 2020 | Book | Fall 2020 | Vol. 24 | No. 3 |
Teotihuacan: The World Beyond the City |
Kenneth G. Hirt
David M. Carballo Barbara Arroyo |
Between about 100 B.C. and A.D. 550 a great Native American city developed, flourished, and declined near modern Mexico City. With a peak population of as many as 125,000 residents,... | Dumbarton Oaks | 2020 | Book | Fall 2020 | Vol. 24 | No. 3 |
Six Hundred Generations: An Archaeological History of Montana |
Carl M. Davis
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This volume covers the human presence in Montana from its beginnings some 15,000 years ago to the establishment of Indian reservations in the 1880s by looking at twelve important archaeological... | Riverbend Publishing | 2019 | Book | Fall 2020 | Vol. 24 | No. 3 |
Ancient Southwestern Mortuary Practices |
James T. Watson
Gordon F.M. Rakita |
This is a report on a multi-year research project carried out by a number of archaeologists that aims to create a regional synthesis of prehistoric mortuary practices across the American... | University Press of Colorado | 2020 | Book | WInter 2020-21 | Vol. 24 | No. 4 |
Indigenous Life Around the Great Lakes: War, Climate, and Culture |
Richard W. Edwards IV
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This study offers a detailed look at the Native cultures of northeastern Illinois and southeastern Wisconsin between A.D. 1000 and 1400, who are generally known as the Oneota. The beginning... | University of Notre Dame Press | 2020 | Book | WInter 2020-21 | Vol. 24 | No. 4 |
Color in the Ancestral Pueblo Southwest |
Marit K. Munson
Kelley Hays-Gilpin |
This ground-breaking volume, spotlights the use and importance of color over some 2,000 years of Ancestral Puebloan history. Perhaps because we take it for granted in our modern world, we... | University of Utah Press | 2020 | WInter 2020-21 | Vol. 24 | No. 4 | |
Waterlogged: Examples and Procedures for Northwest Coast Archaeologists |
Kathryn Bernick
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The ancient people of the Northwest Coast made an estimated eighty-five percent of their objects from wood or other plant materials that normally deteriorate rather quickly, leaving archaeologists with little... | Washington State University Press | 2020 | Book | WInter 2020-21 | Vol. 24 | No. 4 |
Using and Curating Archaeological Collections |
S. Terry Childs
Mark S. Warner |
Preserving and curating archaeological collections is one of the most important aspects of the discipline. Too often curation is treated as second fiddle to field work and analysis. Yet millions... | The SAA Press | 2020 | Book | Spring 2021 | Vol. 25 | No. 1 |
The House of the Cylinder Jars: Room 28 in Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon |
Patricia L. Crown
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In August 1896, members of the Hyde Exploring Expedition began excavating a room (numbered 28) in the northern part of Pueblo Bonito, the largest and fanciest great house in New... | University of New Mexico Press | 2020 | Book | Spring 2021 | Vol. 25 | No. 1 |
Maya Ruins revisited: In the Footsteps of Teobert Maler |
William Frej
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This stunning, large format book is a collection of black and white photographs of Maya ruins in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico and Guatemala. The photographers are William Frej and... | Peyton Wright Gallery Press | 2020 | Book | Spring 2021 | Vol. 25 | No. 1 |
Salt in Eastern North America and the Caribbean |
Ashley A. Dumas
Paul N. Eubanks |
Salt is essential to human health, especially in hot, humid climates like Eastern North America. As such it was an important commodity to Native Americans from the earliest settlement of... | University of Alabama Press | 2020 | Book | Spring 2021 | Vol. 25 | No. 1 |
Louisiana Coushatta Basket Makers: Traditional Knowledge, Resourcefulness, and Artistry as a Means of Survival |
Linda P. Langley
Denise E. Bates |
In the 1880s the Coushatta tribe settled on Bayou Blue in southwestern Louisiana, where they rediscovered a basket making tradition that went back centuries. But this time basket making became... | Louisiana State University Press | 2021 | Book | Summer 2021 | Vol. 25 | No. 2 |
Ancestral Caddo Ceramic Traditions |
Duncan P. McKinnon
Jeffrey S. Girard Timothy Perttula |
The Caddo culture of southeastern Oklahoma, northeastern Texas, southwestern Arkansas, and northwestern Louisiana has a rich artistic tradition that dates back some 3,000 years to Woodland period ancestors and continues... | Louisiana State University Press | 2021 | Book | Summer 2021 | Vol. 25 | No. 2 |
The Cosmos Revealed: Precontact Mississippian Rock Art at Painted Bluff, Alabama |
Jan E. Simek
Erin E. Dunsmore Johannes Loubser Sierra M. Bow |
Painted Bluff is a 400 foot high sandstone cliff on the Tennessee River in northern Alabama. It contains more than 130 paintings and engravings (pictographs) associated with the Mississippian culture... | University of Alabama Press | 2021 | Book | Summer 2021 | Vol. 25 | No. 2 |
Time, Typology, and Point Traditions in North Carolina Archaeology |
I. Randolph Daniel, Jr.
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Projectile points are ubiquitous in the archaeological record. They are distinctive, numerous, and indestructible. Archeologists and amateurs have been collecting and studying them for years. In 1964, famed archaeologist Joffre... | University of Alabama Press | 2021 | Book | Summer 2021 | Vol. 25 | No. 2 |
Rock Art in an Indigenous Landscape: From Atlantic Canada to Chesapeake Bay |
Edward J. Lenik
Nancy L. Gibbs |
This volume documents Native American rock art in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and eastern Quebec in Canada, and the six New England states plus New York, New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania,... | Fall 2021 | Vol. 25 | No. 3 | |||
Feeding Cahokia: Early Agriculture in the North American Heartland |
Gayle J. Fritz
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Between A.D. 700 and 950, a major population center of hundreds of mounds and settlements with thousands of native people developed on the floodplain of the Mississippi River opposite present... | University of Alabama Press | 2019 | Book | Spring 2019 | Vol. 23 | No. 1 |
A Study of Southwestern Archaeology |
Stephen H. Lekson
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For more than thirty years, Stephen Lekson, an archaeologist at the University of Colorado, has been challenging conventional wisdom about Chaco Canyon, the magnificent prehistoric center in the desert of... | University of Utah Press | 2018 | Book | Spring 2019 | Vol. 23 | No. 1 |
Baking, Bourbon, and Black Drink: Foodways Archaeology in the American Southeast |
Tanya M. Peres
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Food is the most basic need of all animals, and throughout history, humans have fulfilled this need by hunting, fishing, foraging, tending plants, and raising animals. Securing food is intertwined... | University of Alabama Press | 2018 | Book | Spring 2019 | Vol. 23 | No. 1 |
Secrets in the Dirt: Uncovering the Ancient People of Gault |
Mary S. Black
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This is the story of the Gault site in Central Texas and of the archaeologists and others who have been studying it since its discovery in 1929. The site covers... | Texas A&M University Press | 2019 | Book | Summer 2019 | Vol. 23 | No. 2 |
Cahokia’s Complexities: Ceremonies and Politics of the First Mississippian Farmers |
Susan M. Alt
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Cahokia, which developed around A.D. 1050 and then declined about 1350, was the largest and most important pre-Columbian city north of Mexico. Located on the Mississippi River flood plain just... | University of Alabama Press | 2018 | Book | Summer 2019 | Vol. 23 | No. 2 |
End of the Megafauna |
Ross D.E. MacPhee
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Beginning about 50,000 years ago, very large animals that ranged over most of the planet began to go extinct. These gigantic species included the wooly mammoth and sabretooth cat, as... | W. W. Norton & Co. | 2019 | Book | Summer 2019 | Vol. 23 | No. 2 |
Seventeenth-Century Metallurgy on the Spanish Colonial Frontier: Pueblo and Spanish Interactions |
Noah H. Thomas
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When the Spanish conquerors arrived in New Mexico in the early 1600s, the local Puebloans, like most New World people, had no knowledge of metallurgy. But to Europeans wealth was... | University of Arizona Press | 2018 | Book | Summer 2019 | Vol. 23 | No. 2 |
The Archaeology of Northern Slavery and Freedom |
Jame A. Delle
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At the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775, slavery was legal in all thirteen colonies, and the first census in 1790 counted 40,370 slaves north of the Mason-Dixon Line.... | University Press of Florida | 2019 | Book | Fall 2019 | Vol. 23 | No. 3 |
Revealing Greater Cahokia, North America’s First Native City |
Thomas Emerson, Brad H. Koldehoff, and Tamira Brennan
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For five years from 2008 to 2012, over 100 archaeologists and other specialists conducted excavations in front of a new bridge being built across the Mississippi River connecting St. Louis,... | Illinois State Archaeological Survey | 2018 | Book | Fall 2019 | Vol. 23 | No. 3 |
Encountering Hopewell in the Twenty-First Century, Ohio and Beyond |
Brian G. Redmond, Bret J. Ruby, and Jarrod Burkes
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When the first European-Americans entered the Ohio Valley, they were amazed by the massive earthworks they encountered—tall conical mounds, geometric works in the shape of circles, squares, and octagons, parallel... | University of Akron Press | 2019 | Book | Fall 2019 | Vol. 23 | No. 3 |
Second Creek Archaeology: A Glimpse into Mississippi’s Past |
Daniel A. LaDu and Ian W. Brown
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Second Creek Archaeology describes an archaeological survey in one of Mississippi’s most historically and prehistorically rich areas just south of Natchez. The Natchez Indians, the only tribe still constructing and... | Borgo Publishing | 2019 | Book | Fall 2019 | Vol. 23 | No. 3 |
Thunder Go North: The Hunt for Sir Francis Drake’s Fair and Good Bay |
Melissa Darby
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In 1577, Francis Drake, already notorious for his marauding on the Spanish Main, set out on a secret mission for Queen Elizabeth I to explore and claim the western coast... | University of Utah Press | 2019 | Book | Winter 2019-20 | Vol. 23 | No. 4 |
Ghost Fleet Awakened: Lake George’s Sunken Bateaux of 1758 |
Joseph W. Zarzynski
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In the eighteenth century, bateaux (French for boats) were the most popular and versatile watercraft for the inland waterways of British and French colonial America. Hundreds of these small vessels... | SUNY Press | 2019 | Book | Winter 2019-20 | Vol. 23 | No. 4 |
Captain Kidd’s Lost Ship: The Wreck of the Quedagh Merchant |
Frederick H. Hanselmann
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In 2007, a shipwreck was discovered just off the coast of Catalina Island in the Dominican Republic. Fortunately, it was reported to the authorities who promptly asked a team of... | University Press of Florida | 2019 | Book | Winter 2019-20 | Vol. 23 | No. 4 |
The Market for Mesoamerica: Reflections on the Sale of Pre-Columbian Antiquities |
Cara G. Tremain and Donna Yates
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This timely volume examines the alarming rise of illicit collecting and trafficking in looted Mesoamerican antiquities, particularly those of the Maya. Beginning is the 1950s and accelerating in the 1960s,... | University Press of Florida | 2019 | Book | Winter 2019-20 | Vol. 23 | No. 4 |
Woodland Mounds in West Virginia |
Darla Spencer
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Between about 500 B.C. and A.D. 500, Native Americans built thousands of mounds and earthworks in the Ohio River Valley. In what is now West Virginia, they built some 400... | History Press | 2019 | Book | Spring 2020 | Vol. 24 | No. 1 |
Origins of the Iroquois League: Narratives, Symbols, and Archaeology |
Anthony Wonderley, Martha Sempowski
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Ranging from west to east, five tribes or nations of upstate New York—Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk—came together to form the League of the Iroquois. This league influenced American... | Syracuse University Press | 2019 | Book | Spring 2020 | Vol. 24 | No. 1 |
This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving |
David J. Silverman
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This book tells the history of the Wampanoag tribe of Massachusetts and Rhode Island from their first contacts with Europeans in the early 1500s, through their near extinction, and their... | Bloomsbury | 2019 | Book | Spring 2020 | Vol. 24 | No. 1 |
Archaic Earthworks of the Lower Mississippi Valley |
Jon L. Gibson
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By his own account, Jon Gibson has been thinking about ancient mounds since 1956. Over some fifty years as a prominent Louisiana archaeologist, he has visited most of them and... | History Press | 2019 | Book | Spring 2020 | Vol. 24 | No. 1 |
The Mound Builder Myth: Fake History and the Hunt for a “Lost White Race” |
Jason Colavito
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When European-Americans crossed the Appalachian Mountains at the end of the eighteenth century, they encountered huge, man-made earthen mounds of conical, geometrical, and animal shapes. They asked the local Native... | University of Oklahoma Press | 2020 | Book | Summer 2020 | Vol. 24 | No. 2 |
Prehistoric Games of North American Indians |
Barbara Voorhies
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Games are ubiquitous in human societies. In fact, it is virtually impossible to find a human society where games are not an important part of the culture. Like language and... | University of Utah Press | 2017 | Book | Winter 2017-18 | Vol. 21 | No. 4 |
Mississippian Beginnings |
Gregory D. Wilson
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The Mississippian culture dominated most of the Southeastern and much of the Midwestern parts of the United States from about A.D. 1000 to 1600. It was characterized by large villages... | University of Florida Press | 2017 | Book | Winter 2017-18 | Vol. 21 | No. 4 |
Talking Stone: Rock Art of the Cosos |
Paul Goldsmith
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Award winning cinematographer Paul Goldsmith spent years filming and photographing the tens of thousands of Native American petroglyphs and pictographs of the Coso Range on the edge of the Mojave... | University of Utah Press | 2017 | Book | Winter 2017-18 | Vol. 21 | No. 4 |
A Little History of Archaeology |
Brian Fagan
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No one tells the story of archaeology better than Brian Fagan, professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The author of numerous books on archaeology in... | Yale University | 2018 | Book | Spring 2018 | Vol. 22 | No. 1 |
Landscapes of the Itza, Archaeology and Art History at Chichen Itza and Neighboring States |
Linnea Wren
Cynthia Kristan-Graham Travis Nygard Kaylee Spencer |
Fourteen leading archaeologists and art historians contribute nine essays in this timely volume about the late Maya city-state of Chichén Itzá in northern Yucatán, Mexico. Chichén Itzá is a site... | University Press of Florida | 2018 | Book | Spring 2018 | Vol. 22 | No. 1 |
The Archaeology and History of Pueblo San Marcos |
Ann F. Ramenofsky
Kari L. Schleher |
Located between Santa Fe and Albuquerque in the Galisteo Basin, Pueblo San Marcos is the largest pueblo ruin in the United States with 1,500 to 3,000 adobe rooms up to... | University of New Mexico Press | 2017 | Book | Spring 2018 | Vol. 22 | No. 1 |
Archaeological Remote Sensing in North America |
Duncan P. McKinnon and Bryan S. Haley
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All around us, we experience the dizzying speed of technological development, including in the field of archaeology. While archaeologists are often thought of as men and women digging in ruins... | University of Alabama Press | 2017 | Book | Spring 2018 | Vol. 22 | No. 1 |
Out of the Cold: Archaeology on the Arctic Rim of North America |
Owen K. Mason and T. Max Friesen
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Noted Arctic archaeologists Owen Mason of the University of Colorado and Max Friesen of the University of Toronto have authored this overview of archaeological investigations on the Arctic Rim of... | SAA Press | 2018 | Book | Summer 2018 | Vol. 22 | No. 2 |
The Oxford Handbook of Southwest Archaeology |
Barbara J. Mills
Severin Fowles |
For more than a century, hundreds of professional archaeologists have been surveying, excavating, and studying the American Southwest. This hefty volume takes stock of what they have learned so far... | Oxford University Press | 2017 | Book | Summer 2018 | Vol. 22 | No. 2 |
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past |
David Reich
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Ancient DNA is revolutionizing archaeology. Recent advances have made it possible to extract usable DNA from ever-older samples, leading to vast stores of new information about how humans populated the... | Pantheon Books | 2018 | Book | Summer 2018 | Vol. 22 | No. 2 |
Re-Awakening Ancient Salish Sea Basketry: Fifty Years of Basketry Studies in Culture and Science |
Ed Carriere, Dale R. Croes
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Ed Carriere, a Suquamish tribal elder and master basketmaker, and Dale Croes, an archaeologist at Washington State University, have both spent more than fifty years pursuing their interests in ancient... | Northwest Anthropology | 2018 | Book | Summer 2018 | Vol. 22 | No. 2 |
British Forts and Their Communities |
Christopher R. Decors and Zachary J.M. Beier
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Traditionally, archaeologists interested in various types of forts have focused on their military and defensive features, protective walls, and armaments. This fascinating volume, however, studies the diverse communities that occupied... | University Press of Florida | 2018 | Book | Fall 2018 | Vol. 22 | No. 3 |
Archaeological Perspectives on Warfare on the Great Plains |
Andrew J. Clark
Douglas B. Bamforth |
Thanks to Hollywood, every American knows that the Great Plains was a very violent place in the nineteenth century as Native Americans took up arms to resist European-American expansion. This... | University Press of Colorado | 2018 | Book | Fall 2018 | Vol. 22 | No. 3 |
The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke |
Andrew Lawler
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In July 1587, ninety men, seventeen women, and eleven children sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth landed on Roanoke Island in Pamlico Sound on the North Carolina coast.... | University Press of Colorado | 2018 | Book | Fall 2018 | Vol. 22 | No. 3 |
Mimbres Life and Society: The Mattocks Site of Southwestern New Mexico |
Patricia A. Gilman
Steven A. LeBlanc |
The Mimbres were a pueblo people who flourished in southwestern New Mexico a thousand years ago. They are best known for their distinctive black, white, and red painted pottery that... | University of Arizona Press | 2017 | Book | Fall 2018 | Vol. 22 | No. 3 |
New Philadelphia |
Gerald A. McWorter
Kate Williams-McWorter |
In 1831, Frank McWorter, a freed slave, bought a tract of land in Pike County, Illinois, to establish the town of New Philadelphia. By 1836, McWhorter had mapped out the... | Path Press | 2018 | Book | Winter 2018-19 | Vol. 22, | No. 4 |
Petroglyphs, Pictographs, and Projections: Native American Rock ARt in the Contemporary Cultural Landscape |
Richard A. Rogers
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This book takes a novel approach to the study of rock art in the American Southwest by focusing on rock art in the contemporary cultural landscape—specifically its relationships with media... | University of Utah Press | 2018 | Book | Winter 2018-19 | Vol. 22, | No. 4 |
Blackbeard’s Sunken Prize: The 300-Year Voyage of Queen Anne’s Revenge |
Mark U. Wilde-Ramsing
Linda F. Carnes-McNaughton |
In June 1718, Captain Edward Tache (pronounced Teach) ran his three-masted flagship aground off North Carolina’s Beaufort Inlet. Tache and his crew abandoned ship with all the valuables they could... | University of North Carolina Press | 2018 | Book | Winter 2018-19 | Vol. 22, | No. 4 |
Aztec, Salmon, and the Puebloan Heartland of the Middle San Juan |
Paul F. Reed
Gary M. Brown |
This volume examines the large Puebloan ruins in the middle San Juan River valley in the Four Corners region of northwestern New Mexico. While there are many ruins in the... | SAR Press | 2018 | Book | Winter 2018-19 | Vol. 22, | No. 4 |
The Archaeology of Villages in Eastern North America |
Jennifer Birch
Victor D. Thompson |
This book takes a novel approach to the study of rock art in the American Southwest by focusing on rock art in the contemporary cultural landscape—specifically its relationships with media... | University of Florida Press | 2018 | Book | Spring 2019 | Vol. 23 | No. 1 |
The Powhatan Landscape: An Archaeological History of the Algonquian Chesapeake |
Martin D. Gallivan
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When the first English colonists arrived at Jamestown in the Chesapeake region of what is now Virginia, they found the region populated by Native Americans living in scattered villages along... | University of Florida Press | 2016 | Book | Fall 2016 | Vol. 20 | No. 3 |
The Spike Buck Site: Archaeology of the Cherokee Town of Quannassee, 1580-1724 |
Dan F. Morse
Phyllis A. Morse |
The Spike Buck site lies on the Hiwassee River in Hayesville in southwestern North Carolina. It has been identified as the Cherokee town of Quannassee. Captain George Chicken gave a... | Borgo Publishing | 2016 | Book | Fall 2016 | Vol. 20 | No. 3 |
The Pueblo Bonito Mounds of Chaco Canyon: Material Culture and Fauna |
Patricia L. Crown
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Pueblo Bonito is the largest and most famous of the great houses in Chaco Canyon, the great Native center in the desert of northwestern New Mexico. In front of the... | University of New Mexico Press | 2016 | Book | Fall 2016 | Vol. 20 | No. 3 |
Cuban Archaeology in the Caribbean |
Ivan Roksandic
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In this volume thirteen international researchers from Cuba and elsewhere explore the settlement and early development of Cuba. As the largest and most centrally located island in the Caribbean, Cuba... | University of Florida Press | 2016 | Book | Winter 2016-17 | Vol. 20 | No. 4 |
Coming of Age in Chicago, The 1893 World’s Fair and Caslescence of American Anthropology |
Curtis M. Hinsley, David R. Wilcox
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The Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 is best known for its portrayal of the “White City” a futuristic vision of urban life in America and the world inspired by the... | University of Nebraska Press | 2016 | Book | Winter 2016-17 | Vol. 20 | No. 4 |
Strangers in a New Land: What Archaeology Reveals About the First Americans |
J.M. Adovasio, David Pedler
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The most hotly debated question in American archaeology for the past two decades concerns the fundamental questions: Who were the First Americans? From where did they come? How did they... | Firefly Books | 2016 | Book | Winter 2016-17 | Vol. 20 | No. 4 |
The Archaeology of Rock Art of Swordfish Cave |
Clayton G. Lebow, Douglas G. Harro, and Rebecca L. McKim
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Swordfish Cave is a well-known rock art location on Vandenberg Air Force Base in south-central California. By the mid-1990s it was clear that the site was deteriorating due to dust... | University of Utah Press | 2016 | Book | Winter 2016-17 | Vol. 20 | No. 4 |
Early Native Americans in West Virginia: The Fort Ancient People |
Darla Spencer
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Around A.D.1000, Native American culture in the Eastern woodlands of North America underwent dramatic changes. For the first time, the practice of large scale farming of corn, beans, and squash... | History Press | 2016 | Book | Spring 2017 | Vol. 21 | No. 1 |
Ancient America: Fifty Archaeological Sites to See for Yourself |
Kenneth L. Feder
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Archaeologist Kenneth Feder leads us on a cross-country odyssey to fifty of the most interesting and accessible archaeological sites in the United States. Beginning with a concise outline of American... | Rowman & Littlefield | 2017 | Book | Spring 2017 | Vol. 21 | No. 1 |
The White Shaman Mural |
Carolyn E. Boyd
Kim Cox |
The White Shaman mural is a spectacular prehistoric composition on the wall of a small cave on the Pecos River in southern Texas. It measures some twenty-six-feet wide by thirteen-feet... | University of Texas Press | 2016 | Book | Spring 2017 | Vol. 21 | No. 1 |
Musket Ball and Small Shot Identification, a Guide |
Daniel M. Sivilich
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Until recently battlefield archaeologists could learn little from the musket balls and other lead shot discovered on the fields of conflict. New equipment and research techniques have changed all that.... | University of Oklahoma Press | 2016 | Book | Spring 2017 | Vol. 21 | No. 1 |
Projective Points and the Illinois Landscape: People, Time, and Place |
Robert J. Reber
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This volume contains thousands of full-color photographs of mostly stone projectile points, knives, and cache-blades from all over Illinois. More than 100 different types are represented, with multiple examples illustrating... | Illinois State Archaeological Survey | 2017 | Book | Summer 2017 | Vol. 21 | No. 2 |
Visual Culture of the Ancient Americas: Contemporary Perspectives |
Andrew Finegold
Ellen Hoobler |
This collection of interesting and diverse essays is an important contribution to the study of ancient American art history, a field of study that has only flourished in the past... | University of Oklahoma Press | 2017 | Book | Summer 2017 | Vol. 21 | No. 2 |
Archaeological Perspectives on the French in the New World |
Elizabeth M. Scott
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The story of French settlements in the Americas is largely confined to Québec and New Orleans, but this volume demonstrates that there is much more to be told. Thirteen authors... | University Press of Florida | 2017 | Book | Summer 2017 | Vol. 21 | No. 2 |
The Archaeology of Houses and Households in the Native Southeast |
Benjamin A. Steere
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The study compiles the largest detailed architectural data sets for the Southeast to seek to understand the developmental history of houses and household in the region for the Woodland, Mississippian,... | University of Alabama Press | 2017 | Book | Summer 2017 | Vol. 21 | No. 2 |
A Grand Adventure: The Lives of Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad and Their Discovery of a Viking Settlement in North America |
Benedicte Ingstad
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In 1960, Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad discovered the remains of a Viking settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows on the northern shore of Newfoundland. Helge was a Norwegian lawyer turned... | McGill-Queen's University Press | 2017 | Book | Fall 2017 | Vol. 21 | No. 3 |
Recognizing People in the Prehistoric Southwest |
Jill E. Neitzel
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While most archaeological studies focus on architecture and material remains, this volume focuses on the appearance, speech, and associated identity messages of the various prehistoric people of the Southwest from... | University of Utah Press | 2017 | Book | Fall 2017 | Vol. 21 | No. 3 |
Land of Water, City of the Dead: Religion and Cahokia’s Emergence |
Sarah E. Baires
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Located twelve miles east of St. Louis in the American Bottom, Cahokia was the largest American city north of Mexico. With a peak population of 20,000 or more, it was... | University of Alabama Press | 2017 | Book | Fall 2017 | Vol. 21 | No. 3 |
Dry Creek: Archaeology and Paleoecology of a Late Pleistocene Alaskan Hunting Camp |
W. Roger Powers
R. Dale Guthrie John F. Hoffecker Edited by Ted Goebel |
The Dry Creek paleo-archaeology site located in the Nenana River Valley of central Alaska is one of the most important sites on Beringia, the land bridge between Siberia and Alaska... | Texas A&M University Press | 2017 | Book | Fall 2017 | Vol. 21 | No. 3 |
Archaeology of African American Life in the Upper Mid-Atlantic |
Michael J. Gail and Richard F. Veit
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This is the first in-depth look at the archaeology of African American life in the Upper Mid-Atlantic—New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. Eighteen established and emerging scholars present thirteen... | University of Alabama Press | 2017 | Book | Winter 2017-18 | Vol. 21 | No. 4 |
Living the Ancient Southwest |
David Grant Noble
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David Grant Noble has been writing and editing books about archaeology in the American Southwest for some 40 years. Even though he is not a trained archaeologist, Noble is generally... | School for Advanced Research | 2014 | Book | Summer 2015 | Vol. 19 | No. 2 |
Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People |
Elizabeth A. Fenn
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In 1804-05, Lewis and Clark spent the winter with the Mandan people on the banks of the Missouri River in what is now central North Dakota. They described a generous... | Hill & Wang | 2014 | Book | Summer 2015 | Vol. 19 | No. 2 |
The Chaco Meridian: One Thousand Years of Political and Religious Power in the Ancient Southwest (2nd Edition) |
Stephen H. Lekson
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University of Colorado archaeologist Stephen Lekson rocked the archaeological world in 1999 with the first edition of this work. In it he sets forth a general theory of Chaco Canyon,... | Rowman & Littlefield | 2015 | Book | Summer 2015 | Vol. 19 | No. 2 |
Ancient Teotihuacan: Early Urbanism in Central Mexico |
George L. Cowgill
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Beginning in about 150 B.C., a great city developed in the fertile Teotihuacan (Nahuatl spelling) Valley some 25 miles northeast of what is now downtown Mexico City. Before long it... | Cambridge University Press | 2015 | Book | Fall 2015 | Vol. 19 | No. 3 |
Medieval Mississippians: The Cahokia World |
Timothy R. Pauketat
Susan M. Alt |
This collection of 17 essays by 28 archaeologists and Native Americans explores the world of the Mississippians, Native Americans united by a common culture that dominated the Southeastern United States... | SAR Press | 2015 | Book | Fall 2015 | Vol. 19 | No. 3 |
Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America: An Interpretive Guide |
Cheryl Classen
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Appalachian State University archaeologist Cheryl Claassen has produced this outstanding guide to the places, rituals, and beliefs of the Archaic period in the Eastern United States and Canada. The Archaic... | University of Alabama Press | 2015 | Book | Fall 2015 | Vol. 19 | No. 3 |
The Lost World of the Old Ones: Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest |
David Roberts
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David Roberts writes about mountaineering, adventure, exploration, Western history, and anthropology. In this engaging travelogue, he and two of his mountaineering compatriots set out to explore some of the remote... | W.W. Norton & Co. | 2015 | Book | Fall 2015 | Vol. 19 | No. 3 |
Center Places and Cherokee Towns |
Christopher B. Rodning
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Tulane University archaeologist Christopher Rodning builds on his own work at the Coweeta Creek site in North Carolina to develop a picture of Cherokee towns in the southern Appalachians from... | University of Alabama Press | 2015 | Book | Winter 2015-16 | Vol. 19 | No. 4 |
Poverty Point: Revealing the Forgotten City |
Jenny Ellerbe
Diana M. Greenlee |
Poverty Point in northeastern Louisiana was the largest and most complex settlement in the long Archaic period of American human occupation. During its heyday between 1700 and 1100 B.C. it... | Louisiana State University Press | 2015 | Book | Winter 2015-16 | Vol. 19 | No. 4 |
Archaeology of the Sacred: Adena-Hopewell Astronomy and Landscape Archaeology |
William F. Romain
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When European-Americans first entered the Ohio River Valley they were amazed by the numerous earthen mounds and huge geometric earthworks, particularly those found in southern Ohio. Local Native Americans knew... | The Ancient Earthworks Project | 2015 | Book | Winter 2015-16 | Vol. 19 | No. 4 |
Corey Village and the Canyon World: Implications from Archaeology and Beyond |
Jack Rossen
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The Iroquois, or Haudenosaunee, originally consisted of five tribes—the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca—who lived in central New York State and formed a powerful confederacy. (The Tuscarora, who began... | Syracuse University Press | 2015 | Book | Winter 2015-16 | Vol. 19 | No. 4 |
Ancient Ruins and Rock Art of the Southwest |
David Grant Noble
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David Grant Noble has updated his essential guidebook to archaeological ruins in the greater Southwest. In this new, fourth edition, he describes more ruins in more places and adds new... | Taylor Trade Publishing | 2015 | Book | Spring 2016 | Vol. 20, | No. 1 |
Rethinking Moundville and Its Hinterland |
Vincus P. Steponaitis
C. Margaret Scarry |
Moundville, near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is one of the largest prehistoric mound-builder complexes in the United States. The central site contains some 29 earthen mounds located on the banks of the... | University Press of Florida | 2016 | Book | Spring 2016 | Vol. 20, | No. 1 |
Oblique Views: Aerial Photography and Southwest Archaeology |
Charles Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh Adriel Heisey |
In 1929, two years after his epic cross-Atlantic solo flight, Charles Lindberg and his new wife Anne embarked on another novel exploration. Alfred V. Kidder, who was excavating at Pecos... | Museum of New Mexico Press | 2016 | Book | Spring 2016 | Vol. 20, | No. 1 |
First Pennyslvanians: The Archaeology of Native Americans in Pennsylvania |
Kurt W. Carr
Roger W. Moeller |
This copiously illustrated investigation of the history of Native Americans in Pennsylvania is a significant addition to regional archaeological surveys. This state has a diversity of climatic and geological zones... | Penn State University Press | 2015 | Book | Spring 2016 | Vol. 20, | No. 1 |
The Wichita Indians, People of the Grass House |
Susan A. Holland
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First Coastal Californians |
Lynn H. Gamble
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The California coast was teeming with food, drawing early Native Americans and nourishing them for millennia. The Pacific Ocean served up a rich variety of fish, shellfish, and marine mammals.... | School for Advanced Research Press | 2015 | Book | Summer 2016 | Vol. 20 | No. 2 |
Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America |
Michael A. McDonnell
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Rethinking Moundville and Its Hinterland | Hill and Wang | 2015 | Book | Summer 2016 | Vol. 20 | No. 2 |
Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men, their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya |
William Carlsen
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In October 1839, John Lloyd Stephens, an American lawyer-diplomat, and Frederick Catherwood, a British architect and artist, set sail for Central America. Stephens was to take up a diplomatic post... | William Morrow | 2016 | Book | Summer 2016 | Vol. 20 | No. 2 |
The African Burial Ground in New York City |
Andrea E. Frohne
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In the late 1980s, the General Services Administration (GSA) advanced plans to build a large new federal office building in lower New York City in a large complex of city,... | Syracuse University Press | 2015 | Book | Fall 2016 | Vol. 20 | No. 3 |
The Archaeology of French and Indian War Forts |
Lawrence E. Babits
Stephanie Gandulla |
The Seven Years War of 1756 to 1763 saw the great empires of France and Britain and all their allies fight for control of trade and colonies on four continents.... | University Press of Florida | 2013 | Book | Spring 2014 | Vol. 18 | No. 1 |
Rock Art of the Grand Canyon Region |
Don D. Christensen
Jerry Dickey Steven M. Freers |
Over the past 25 years, authors Don Christensen, Jerry Dickey, and Steven Freers have been recording and studying rock art at 450 sites in and around the Grand Canyon from... | Sunbelt Publications | 2013 | Book | Spring 2014 | Vol. 18 | No. 1 |
The Archaeology of Hollywood |
Paul G. Bahn
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The Archaeology of Hollywood is a light-hearted investigation of a magical era that is more a state of mind than a compact physical place. It is instead a group of... | Rowman & Littlefield | 2014 | Book | Spring 2014 | Vol. 18 | No. 1 |
Historical Archaeology of the Delaware Valley, 1600-1850 |
Richard Veit
David Orr |
The Delaware River Valley runs through the Mid-Atlantic states of Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Maryland, with its center in Philadelphia. Its diverse population includes a wide variety... | University of Tennessee Press | 2014 | Book | Summer 2014 | Vol 18 | No. 2 |
Caddo Connections: Cultural Interaction Within and Beyond the Caddo World |
Jeffrey S. Girard
Timothy K. Perttula Mary Beth Trubitt |
The Caddo area of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana was home to a diverse people and culture that had its origins in the A.D. 900s and continues today. It developed... | Rowman & Littlefield | 2014 | Book | Summer 2014 | Vol 18 | No. 2 |
Mesoamerican Plazas: Arenas of Community and Power |
Lemocjorp Tsukamoto
Takeshi Inomata |
In this fascinating volume, 16 scholars take a detailed look at the great plazas of prehistoric Mesoamerican cities including such magnificent examples as Teotihuacán, Palenque, and Monte Albán. Traditionally, archaeologists... | University of Arizona Press | 2014 | Book | Summer 2014 | Vol 18 | No. 2 |
Mammoths and Mastodons of the Ice Age |
Adrian Lister
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At the end of the last ice age, many large mammals went extinct. Among them were the mammoths and mastodons, which finally disappeared for good only 4,000 years ago. Closely... | Firefly Books | 2014 | Book | Summer 2014 | Vol 18 | No. 2 |
New Lives for Ancient and Extinct Crops |
Paul Minis
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Modern agriculture is bringing about the dramatic narrowing of food species throughout the world. Crops that were domesticated and developed by farmers over thousands of years into tens of thousands... | University of Arizona Press | 2014 | Book | Fall 2014 | Vol. 18 | No. 3 |
From These Honored Dead: Historical Archaeology of the American Civil War |
Clarence R. Geier
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One hundred and fifty years after Lee’s surrender, archaeologists using the latest technology are adding important new insights to the American Civil War story that has been too often told... | University Press of Florida | 2014 | Book | Fall 2014 | Vol. 18 | No. 3 |
Clovis Caches: Recent Discoveries and New Research |
Bruce B. Huckell
J. David Kilby |
About 13,500 years ago, near the end of the last Ice Age, the Clovis people of North America developed distinctive fluted-stone spear points and other tools that allowed them to... | University of New Mexico Press | 2014 | Book | Fall 2014 | Vol. 18 | No. 3 |
Arrows and Atl Atls: A guide to the Archaeology of Beringia |
E. James Dixon
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Noted arctic archaeologist James Dixon has produced the first comprehensive survey of the very important archaeology of Beringia, the area from the Verkhoyansk Range in Siberia to Alaska and the... | National Park Service | 2013 | Book | Fall 2014 | Vol. 18 | No. 3 |
Constructing Community: The Archaeology of Early Villages in Central New Mexico |
Alison E. Rautman
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The Salinas region is home to majestic ruins of Spanish mission churches and historic pueblos, such as those seen at Abo, Quarai, and Gran Quivira in Salinas Pueblo Missions National... | University of Arizona Press | 2014 | Book | Winter 2014 | Vol. 18 | No. 4 |
Discovering the Olmecs: An Unconventional History |
David C. Grove
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The Olmecs of southern Mexico are known as the “mother culture” of Mesoamerica because they made the first stone monuments, were the first to use a calendar, and produced early... | University of Texas Press | 2014 | Book | Winter 2014 | Vol. 18 | No. 4 |
The Archaeology of American Cities |
Nan A. Rothschild
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One of the many fun things about America archaeology is that it is continually seeking new areas to explore and new sub-disciplines to cultivate. Urban archaeology is one of the... | University Press of Florida | 2014 | Book | Winter 2014 | Vol. 18 | No. 4 |
Ceramic Production in Early Hispanic California: Craft, Economy, and Trade on the Frontier of New Spain |
Russell K. Skowronek, M. James Blackman, Ronald L. Bishop
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This book is an important study of Spanish and Mexican ceramic production in California, and its impact on the economy and the Native people of the Spanish frontier. Using neutron... | University of Arizona Press | 2014 | Book | Winter 2014 | Vol. 18 | No. 4 |
The Invisible History of the Human Race |
Christine Kenneally
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Award-winning Australian journalist Christine Kenneally has produced an excellent layman’s guide to the 21st-century’s most promising new science concerning DNA and the human genome. Every day we are peppered with... | Viking Press | 2014 | Book | Spring 2015 | Vol. 19 | No. 1 |
Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble |
Marilyn Johnson
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Author Marilyn Johnson assumes that everyone in the sandbox wanted to grow up to be an archaeologist. In writing this delightful travelogue she takes on the task of seeing the... | Harper Collins | 2014 | Book | Spring 2015 | Vol. 19 | No. 1 |
The Archaeology of Smoking and Tobacco |
Georgia L. Fox
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Nothing in the material culture of the Americas is more ubiquitous that tobacco. From the earliest Native Americans to the present diverse society, tobacco has played an important role in... | University Press of Florida | 2015 | Book | Spring 2015 | Vol. 19 | No. 1 |
Kukulcan’s Realm |
Marilyn A. Masson
Carlos Peraza Lope |
Located in the northern part of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, Mayapán was the last great city of the Maya, flourishing from about A.D.1200 to 1450. The densely settled city is surrounded... | University Press of Colorado | 2014 | Book | Spring 2015 | Vol. 19 | No. 1 |
Hopewell Ceremonial Landscapes of Ohio: More than Mounds and Geometric Earthworks |
Mark J. Lynott
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When Europeans first encountered the great earthen mounds and geometric earthworks of southern Ohio, they were so amazed at their size and complexity that they refused to attribute them to... | Oxbow Books | 2015 | Book | Summer 2015 | Vol. 19 | No. 2 |
Digging Miami |
Robert S. Carr
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Miami was the last of America’s large cities to get going. It was not incorporated until 1896, and seldom visited before that. But once development started, it grew with abandon,... | University Press of Florida | 2012 | Book | Winter 2012-13 | Vol. 16 | No. 4 |
Mound Builders and Monument Makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 1200-1600 |
Meghan C.L. Howey
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This is the first study of mounds, earthworks, and other earthen monuments in northern Michigan, an area somewhat outside of the more intense and better studied mound building areas of... | University of Oklahoma Press | 2012 | Book | Winter 2012-13 | Vol. 16 | No. 4 |
Late Pleistocene Archaeology & Ecology in the Far Northeast |
Claude Chapdelaine
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This fascinating study examines the first American occupation of the far Northeast—the peninsula between the Hudson and St. Lawrence Rivers comprising New York east of the Hudson, the six New... | Texas A&M University Press | 2012 | Book | Winter 2012-13 | Vol. 16 | No. 4 |
Shovel Ready: Archaeology and Roosevelt’s New Deal for America |
Bermard K. Means
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During the darkest days of the Great Depression in 1932-33, more than one in five Americans was out of work. The economy had shrunk to a fraction of what it... | University of Alabama Press | 2012 | Book | Spring 2013 | vol 17 | No. 4 |
Climate and Culture Change in North America: A.D. 900-1600 |
William C. Foster
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Modern climate change is a worldwide political issue and a constant topic of research and debate. But climatic cycles are well documented in Europe over the past 3,000 years, and... | University of Texas Press | 2012 | Book | Spring 2013 | vol 17 | No. 1 |
DNA For Archaeologists |
Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith
K. Ann Horsburgh |
We all know that the study of ancient DNA can open up exciting new avenues of ancient research. We know it has the potential to tell us with certainty about... | Left Coast Press | 2012 | Book | Spring 2013 | vol 17 | No. 1 |
Archaeology, Narrative, and the Politics of the Past: The View from Southern Maryland |
Julia A. King
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In this innovative work, Julia King explores how historical narratives shape and often distort the archaeological and historical record. Focusing on Maryland’s beautiful Chesapeake Bay region, King explores St. Mary’s... | University of Tennessee Press | 2012 | Book | Spring 2013 | vol 17 | No. 1 |
Mound Sites of the Ancient South: A Guide to the Mississippian Chiefdoms |
Eric. E. Bowne
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The great prehistoric mounds of the American South remain today as impressive monuments of a complex culture that thrived between about A.D. 900 and 1600. While this Mississippian period was... | University of Georgia Press | 2013 | Book | Summer 2013 | vol 17 | No. 2 |
Southwestern Pithouse Communities, A.D. 200-900 |
Lisa C. Young
Sarah A. Herr |
Native people of the American Southwest began a major transition in life style around A.D. 200 when they began to develop agricultural communities and the more or less permanent residences... | University of Arizona Press | 2012 | Book | Summer 2013 | vol 17 | No. 2 |
Crafting History in the Northern Plains: A Political Economy of the Heart River Region 1400-1750 |
Mark D. Mitchell
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Near the present day city of Bismarck, North Dakota, at the confluence of the Heart and Missouri rivers, was the homeland of the Mandan people. From about A.D. 1400 to... | University of Arizona Press | 2013 | Book | Summer 2013 | vol 17 | No. 2 |
Becoming White Clay: A History and Archaeology of Jicarilla Apache Enclavement |
B. Sunday Eiselt
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For nearly 200 years the Jicarilla band of the Apache people thrived at the intersection of Pueblo Indian and Spanish colonial settlements in northern New Mexico. Part of the much... | University of Utah Press | 2012 | Book | Summer 2013 | vol 17 | No. 2 |
Time and Time Again: History, Rephotography, and Preservation in the Chaco World |
Lucy R. Lippard
Peter Goin |
Chaco Canyon, in the desert of northwestern New Mexico, is home to one of the most complex and enigmatic ancient ruins in North America. There is a cluster of eight... | Museum of New Mexico Press | 2013 | Book | Fall 2013 | vol 17 | No. 3 |
Maize: Origin, Domestication, and Its Role in the Development of Culture |
Duccio Bonavia
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Maize, better known as corn, is the basis of New World agriculture and thus American civilization. Yet its origins and domestication remains one of the most difficult problems of American... | Cambridge University Press | 2013 | Book | Fall 2013 | vol 17 | No. 3 |
Nine Mile Canyon: The Archaeological History of an American Treasure |
Jerry D. Spangler
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Nine Mile Canyon in east central Utah is actually a 45-mile long, verdant canyon surrounded by a desolate plateau. (The name may in fact come from early settlers W.A. Miles,... | University of Utah Press | 2013 | Book | Fall 2013 | vol 17 | No. 3 |
Native and Spanish New Worlds: Sixteenth-Century Entradas in the American Southwest and Southeast |
Clay Mathers
Jeffrey M. Mitchem Charles M. Haecker |
Less than 20 years after the conquest of the Aztec Empire in 1521, Spanish entradas—armed expeditions seeking wealth and territory—began probing the Southern United States. The impact of these entradas... | University of Arizona Press | 2013 | Book | Fall 2013 | vol 17 | No. 3 |
Painters in Prehistory: Archaeology and Art of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands |
Harry J. Shafer
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The region around the confluence of the Pecos River and the Rio Grande in south Texas is one of dry, rugged canyons and scenic vistas. Preserved on the limestone cliffs... | Trinity University Press | 2013 | Book | Winter 2013-14 | vol 17 | No. 4 |
Becoming Brothertown: Native American Ethnogenesis and Endurance in the Modern World |
Craig N. Cipolla
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The story of Brothertown begins with the story of Samson Occom, a Mohegan Indian who spoke fluent English and adopted the customs of Europeans of mid-17th century New England. Occom... | University of Arizona Press | 2013 | Book | Winter 2013-14 | vol 17 | No. 4 |
Pinson Mounds: Middle Woodland Ceremonialism in the Midsouth |
Robert C. Mainfort
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Pinson Mounds is a stunning complex of Middle Woodland mounds and earthworks that tower above the western Tennessee landscape, 10 miles south of Jackson. Around A.D. 100, Pinson Mounds was... | University of Arkansas Press | 2013 | Book | Winter 2013-14 | vol 17 | No. 4 |
The First Rocky Mountaineers: Coloradoans Before Colorado |
Marcel Kornfeld
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This important volume explores the early hunters and gatherers who populated Colorado’s Middle Park, a natural basin high in the Rocky Mountains. At the end of the last Ice Age... | University of Utah Press | 2013 | Book | Winter 2013-14 | vol 17 | No. 4 |
Buried Beneath Us: Discovering the Ancient Cities of the Americas |
Anthony Aveni
Katherine Roy |
This book for young people (age 10 and up) tells the story of the development of cities via an examination of four major ancient American ones—Cahokia, Tenochtitlan, Cuzco, and Copán.... | Roaring Brook Press | 2013 | Book | Spring 2014 | Vol. 18 | No. 1 |
Mimbres Lives and Landscapes |
Margaret C. Nelson
Michelle Hegmon |
From about A.D. 900 to 1130 a Puebloan people flourished in and around the Mimbres River valley of southwestern New Mexico. Their greatest legacy is a remarkable body of pottery... | SAR Press | 2011 | Book | Winter 2011-12 | Vol. 15 | No. 3 |
Visualizing the Sacred: Cosmic Visions, Regionalism, and the Art of the Mississippian World |
George E. Lankford
E. Kent Reilly III James Garber |
Since 1993, scholars of the mound building cultures of the Midwest and Southeast have gathered at Texas State University at San Marcos to share ideas and information on the religion... | University of Texas Press | 2011 | Book | Winter 2011-12 | Vol. 15 | No. 4 |
The Swift Creek Gift: Vessel Exchange on the Atlantic Coast |
Neil J. Wallis
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During the second half of the Woodland Period (ca. A.D. 100 to 850) Swift Creek Complicated Stamped pottery gained widespread popularity across much of the Southeast, becoming common in sites... | University of Alabama Press | 2011 | Book | Winter 2011-12 | Vol. 15 | No. 4 |
Ceramic Makers’ Marks |
Erica Gibson
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Since ceramics, both prehistoric and historic, preserve so well, they are of invaluable use to archaeologists in identifying and dating cultural layers. In American historical archaeology, makers’ marks on ceramics... | Left Coast Press | 2011 | Book | Winter 2011-12 | Vol. 15 | No. 4 |
The Archaeology of Antislavery Resistance |
Terrance M. Welk
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This fascinating study of resistance to African slavery in North America is a very important contribution to the relatively new and growing field of slavery archaeology. Author Terrance Weik, an... | University Press of Florida | 2012 | Book | Spring 2012 | Vol. 15 | No. 4 |
Stone of Kings: In Search of the Lost Jade of the Maya |
Gerald Helferich
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For the Maya and other peoples of ancient Mesoamerica, jade was the most prized possession of all. Great quantities of it were used to adorn Maya kings and nobles, both... | Globe Pequot Press | 2012 | Book | Spring 2012 | Vol. 16 | No. 1 |
Stone Artifacts of Texas Indians |
Ellen Sue Turner
Thomas R. Hester Richard L. McReynolds |
This comprehensive reference work is a greatly expanded third edition of a classic work. It boasts twice as many illustrations—all drawn from actual specimens by McReynolds—plus charts, geographic distribution maps,... | Taylor Trade Publishing | 2011 | Book | Spring 2012 | Vol. 16 | No. 1 |
On the Edge of Purgatory: An Archaeology of Place in Hispanic Colorado |
Bonnie J. Clark
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In the early 1600s, Spaniards from Mexico colonized what is now southern Colorado at the northernmost reaches of New Spain. Isolated on the far frontier of a vast empire, these... | University of Nebraska Press | 2011 | Book | Spring 2012 | Vol. 16 | No. 1 |
Winds from the North: Tewa Origins and Historical Anthropology |
Scott G. Ortman
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Perhaps the most enduring controversy in Southwestern archaeology is what happened to the people who abandoned Mesa Verde and the Four Corners region in the late 13th century. By A.D.... | University of Utah Press | 2012 | Book | Summer 2012 | Vol. 16 | No. 1 |
Virginia City: Secrets of a Western Past |
Ronald M. James
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Virginia City begins with the story of a tiny bottle that was smashed to pieces in the African-American Boston Saloon. It was excavated by the author’s 14-year-old son, who recovered... | University of Nebraska Press | 2012 | Book | Summer 2012 | Vol. 16 | No. 2 |
Chinese Export Porcelains |
Andrew D. Madsen
Carolyn L. White |
Archaeologists heavily depend on ceramics, both prehistoric and historic, to identify and date cultural deposits. They are virtually indestructible, retaining designs and colors centuries longer than most materials. As the... | Left Coast Press | 2011 | Book | Summer 2012 | Vol. 16 | No. 2 |
Perspectives on Prehistoric Trade and Exchange in California and the Great Basin |
Richard E. Hughes
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This collection of 13 essays examines prehistoric trade in California and the Great Basin, focusing on how material got from its source of origin to the place where it was... | University of Utah Press | 2012 | Book | Summer 2012 | Vol. 16 | No. 2 |
Hisat’sinom: Ancient Peoples in a Land without Water |
Christian E. Downum
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The San Francisco Peaks of northern Arizona rise dramatically from the surrounding desert plain to an elevation of 12,637 feet. Despite receiving abundant winter snows and summer thunderstorms, most of... | SAR Press | 2012 | Book | Fall 2012 | Vol. 16 | No. 3 |
Jefferson’s Poplar Forest: Unearthing A Virginia Plantation |
Barbara J. Heath
Jack Gary |
Thomas Jefferson and his wife Martha inherited Poplar Forest plantation from her father in 1773. From then until his death in 1826, Jefferson used it as an investment (growing tobacco... | University Press of Florida | 2012 | Book | Fall 2012 | Vol. 16 | No. 3 |
Late Prehistoric Florida: Archaeology at the Edge of the Mississippian World |
Keith Ashley
Nancy Marie White |
This collection of 12 essays by some of the most prominent researchers in the field examines the latest research and most recent excavations throughout Florida for the Mississippian period—A.D. 1000... | University Press of Florida | 2012 | Book | Fall 2012 | Vol. 16 | No. 3 |
People of the Black Sun: A People of the Longhouse Novel |
Kathleen O'Neal Gear
W. Michael Gear |
Since 1990, Kathleen and Michael Gear, both trained as professional archaeologists, have been writing best-selling novels about the prehistoric people of North America. In all they have produced some 33... | TOR Books | 2012 | Fall 2012 | Vol. 16 | No. 3 | |
Royal Cities of the Ancient Maya |
Michael D. Coe
Barry Burkhoff |
If you’re looking for a great Christmas gift for a person who loves the ancient Maya, this is it. Noted Maya scholar Michael Coe and renowned photographer Barry Burkoff have... | Vendome Press | 2012 | Book | Winter 2012-13 | Vol. 16 | No. 3 |
Cradle of Gold: The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones, and the Search for Machu Picchu |
Christopher Heaney
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Today, the Inca outpost of Machu Picchu, located on the border between the high Peruvian Andes and the Amazon Basin, is one of the most visited tourist destinations in the... | Palgrave Macmillan | 2010 | Book | Summer 2010 | Vol. 14 | No. 2 |
Prehistory, Personality, and Place: Emil W. Haury and the Mogollon Controversy |
Jefferson Reid
Stephanie Whittlesey |
In the fall of 1930 and the summer of 1931, two young archaeologists set out to survey the archaeological sites of the southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona mountains. Traveling... | University of Arizona Press | 2010 | Book | Summer 2010 | Vol. 14 | No. 2 |
TVA Archaeology: Seventy-five years of Prehistoric Site Research |
Erin E. Prichard
Todd m. Ahlman |
The Tennessee Valley Authority was created in the depths of the Great Depression to bring cheap power and economic development to an especially hard hit region of the country. The... | University of Tennessee Press | 2010 | Book | Summer 2010 | Vol. 14 | No. 2 |
In the Places of the Spirits |
David Grant Noble
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For 40 years David Grant Noble has been exploring the ancient and modern Native American cultures of the American Southwest and explaining them to thousands of Americans. Trained in literature... | School for Advanced Research Press | 2010 | Book | Winter 2010-11 | Vol. 14 | No. 3 |
Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico |
Kathleen Berrin
Virginia M. Fields |
Many students of Mesoamerica consider the Olmec to be the “mother culture” of the region from which the Maya, Zapotecs, Toltecs, Aztecs, and others sprang. While this may be a... | Yale University Press | 2010 | Book | Winter 2010-11 | Vol. 14 | No. 4 |
Leaving Mesa Verde: Peril and Change in the Thirteenth-Century Southwest |
Timothy A. Kohler
Mark D. Varien Aaron M. Wright |
In the last half of the 13th century, the Puebloan people living in and around Mesa Verde in southern Colorado left, never to return. This was no inconsequential population. An... | University of Arizona Press | 2010 | Book | Winter 2010-11 | Vol. 14 | No. 4 |
Archaeology at Colonial Brunswick |
Stanley South
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Noted historical archaeologist Stanley South recounts the decade-long excavation of this important port on the Cape Fear River south of Wilmington, North Carolina. Brunswick was founded in 1726 and served... | N.C. Department of Cultural Resources | 2010 | Book | Winter 2010-11 | Vol. 14 | No. 4 |
Archaeology of Louisiana |
Mark A. Rees
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In this new volume, 27 distinguished scholars provide an up-to-date synopsis of the archaeological record of Louisiana from the first Americans some 13,000 years ago to 20th-century New Orleans. It... | Louisiana State University Press | 2010 | Book | Spring 2011 | Vol. 15 | No. 4 |
How Chiefs Became Kings: Divine Kingship and the Rise of Archaic States in Ancient Hawai’i |
Patrick Vinton Kirch
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One of the perplexing problems in anthropology is the early emergence of large-scale social organization that is often called the “archaic state.” This polity is characterized by distinct groups that... | University of California Press | 2010 | Book | Spring 2011 | Vol. 15 | No. 1 |
The Archaeology of American Capitalism |
Christopher N. Matthews
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Drawing on a wide range of examples from New York City urban life to California mining camps, this compact study examines the material culture of capitalism in America and illustrates... | University Press of Florida | 2010 | Book | Spring 2011 | Vol. 15 | No. 1 |
New Philadelphia: An Archaeology of Race in the Heartland |
Paul Shackel
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In 1836 Frank McWorter, a Kentucky slave who bought his freedom, founded the town of New Philadelphia on the west-central Illinois prairie. The town prospered, then declined. In 1869 the... | University of California Press | 2011 | Book | Spring 2011 | Vol. 15 | No. 1 |
The Eastern Archaic, Historicized |
Kenneth E. Sassaman
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Kenneth Sassaman of the University of Florida has produced a much needed synthesis and reevaluation of the Archaic Period east of the Mississippi River. As Sassaman points out, the Archaic... | AltaMira Press | 2010 | Book | Summer 2011 | Vol. 15 | No. 1 |
Pueblo Peoples on the Pajarito Plateau |
David E. Stuart
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The Pajarito Plateau of northern New Mexico is home to Bandelier National Monument and its ancient cliff dwellings as well as Los Alamos National Laboratory, birthplace of the atom bomb.... | University of New Mexico Press | 2011 | Book | Summer 2011 | Vol. 15 | No. 2 |
Faking Ancient Mesoamerica |
Nancy L. Kelker
Karen O. Bruhns |
“To a museum professional ‘fake’ is the ultimate F-word,” and more than 40 percent of pre-Colombian pieces from Mesoamerica in museums and private collections are fakes, according to the authors... | Left Coast Press | 2010 | Book | Summer 2011 | Vol. 15 | No. 2 |
The River and the Railroad: An Archaeological History of Reno |
Mary Ringhoff
Edward J. Stoner |
Reno, Nevada began in 1868 as railroad town between the Truckee River and the transcontinental railroad. The ever expanding main line of the old Central Pacific has bisected the city... | University of Nevada Press | 2011 | Book | Summer 2011 | Vol. 15 | No. 2 |
HMS Fowey Lost and Found |
Russel K. Skowronek
George R. Fischer |
In 1978, an underwater treasure hunter happened onto a shipwreck in Biscayne National Monument (now a national park) near Miami, Florida. Mistakenly believing he had found a sunken Spanish treasure... | University Press of Florida | 2009 | Book | Spring 2009 | Vol. 13 | No. 1 |
Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains |
Laura L. Scheiber
Bonnie J. Clark |
The High Plains of this study is the short grass prairie between the Rocky Mountains and the better-watered tall grass prairies to the east. Water and trees are scarce, and... | University Press of Colorado | 2008 | Book | Spring 2009 | Vol. 13 | No. 1 |
First Peoples In A New World: Colonizing Ice Age America |
David J. Meltzer
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For the past 30 years, a debate has been raging among archaeologists and other scientists as to the discovery and colonization of the Western Hemisphere by Native Americans. In 1977,... | University of California Press | 2009 | Book | Summer 2009 | Vol. 13 | No. 1 |
The Great Basin: People and Places in Ancient Times |
Catherine S. Fowler
Don D. Fowler |
The Great Basin and neighboring western Colorado Plateau occupy most of Nevada and Utah, as well as portions of California, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, and Colorado—an incredibly diverse region that remains... | School for Advanced Research | 2008 | Book | Summer 2009 | Vol. 13 | No. 2 |
Ancient Peoples of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau |
Steven R. Simms
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The Great Basin and neighboring western Colorado Plateau occupy most of Nevada and Utah, as well as portions of California, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, and Colorado—an incredibly diverse region that remains... | Left Coast Press | 2008 | Book | Summer 2009 | Vol. 13 | No. 2 |
Speaking with the Ancestors: Mississippian Stone Statuary of the Tennessee-Cumberland Region |
Kevin E. Smith
James V. Miller |
The stone statuary of the Mississippian cultures of the Southeast represents perhaps the most enigmatic artifacts of that region. Archaeologist Kevin Smith of Middle Tennessee University and the late James... | University of Alabama Press | 2009 | Book | Summer 2009 | Vol. 13 | No. 2 |
The Ancient Southwest: Chaco Canyon, Bandelier, and Mesa Verde |
David E. Stuart
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In 1982, University of New Mexico archaeologist David Stuart began writing newspaper columns on Southwestern archaeology. Readers were quickly hooked. This delightful volume reprints many of these columns. It is... | University of New Mexico Press | 2009 | Book | Summer 2009 | Vol. 13 | No. 2 |
Chaco and After in the Northern San Juan: Excavations at the Bluff Great House |
Catherine M. Cameron
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Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico was the center of a large and very complex culture that flourished in the 11th and 12th centuries before suddenly collapsing. Characterized by impressive... | University of Arizona Press | 2009 | Book | Fall 2009 | Vol. 13 | No. 3 |
Gold Rush Port: The Maritime Archaeology of San Francisco’s Waterfront |
James P. Delgado
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Who would guess that underneath the Financial District in downtown San Francisco lays the remains of the original port complete with ships, wharves and buildings? Between 1849 and 1851, the... | University of California Press | 2009 | Book | Fall 2009 | Vol. 13 | No. 3 |
The Neighbors of Casas Grandes: Excavating Medio Period Communities of Northwest Chihuahua, Mexico |
Michael E. Whalen
Paul E. Minnis |
After the collapse of Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde, a complex culture flourished in and around Casas Grandes (or Paquimé) in northern Mexico, with its peak dating to about A.D.... | University of Arizona Press | 2009 | Book | Fall 2009 | Vol. 13 | No. 3 |
Remembering Awatovi: The Story of Archaeological Expedition in Northern Arizona 1935-1939 |
Hester A. Davis
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Hester Davis writes: “When the food is good, the research interesting, and the weather fine, when the accommodations are adequate, the people compatible, and the diversions enjoyable, then living in... | Peabody Museum Press | 2008 | Book | Fall 2009 | Vol. 13 | No. 3 |
A History of the Ancient Southwest |
Stephen H. Lekson
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Traditional archaeology in the American Southwest has produced many linear feet of scientific reports, hundreds of monographs, dozens of textbooks, but nothing to pull all this information together into a... | School of Advanced Research Press | 2009 | Book | Winter 2009-10 | Vol. 13 | No. 4 |
Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait |
William W. Fitzhugh
Julie Hollowell Aron L. Crowell |
Produced to accompany an exhibit by the same name at the Princeton University Art Museum (running through January 10, 2010), this volume is an outstanding collection of recent information about... | Yale University Press | 2009 | Book | Winter 2009-10 | Vol. 13 | No. 4 |
Life on the Rocks: One Woman’s Adventures in Petroglyph Preservation |
Katherine Wells
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In 1992, a Southern California artist and her partner purchased 188 acres near Española in northern New Mexico on which to build a new home and a new life. The... | University of New Mexico Press | 2009 | Book | Winter 2009-10 | Vol. 13 | No. 4 |
Our Unprotected Heritage: Whitewashing the Destruction of our Cultural and Natural Environment |
Thomas F. King
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In this compelling book, Tom King examines the state of cultural and natural preservation in the United States and finds it sorely lacking. Despite strong sounding laws like the National... | Left Coast Press | 2009 | Book | Winter 2009-10 | Vol. 13 | No. 4 |
The Search for Mabila |
Vernon James Knight, Jr.
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From his 1539 landing in modern day Florida until his death somewhere along the Mississippi River almost three years later, the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto wreaked havoc on every... | University of Alabama Press | 2009 | Book | Spring 2010 | Vol. 14 | No. 1 |
Pestilence and Persistence: Yosemite Indian Demography and Culture in Colonial California |
Kathleen L. Hull
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One of the most important and contentious issues of American anthropology is the impact of the European encounter on Native American populations. In this important study of the Indians of... | University of California Press | 2009 | Book | Spring 2010 | Vol. 14 | No. 1 |
Spirits of Earth: The Effigy Mound Landscape of Madison and the Four Lakes |
Robert A. Birmingham
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When white settlers flooded into Wisconsin in the 1830s, many were amazed by the numerous, huge earthen mounds they discovered. Shaped like mammals, birds, and mythical beings, these effigy mounds... | University of Wisconsin Press | 2010 | Book | Spring 2010 | Vol. 14 | No. 1 |
Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age |
Cheryl Bardoe
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This book was produced for young readers (age eight and up) by the Field Museum in Chicago to accompany a major new exhibit on these Ice Age giants. It tells... | Abrams | 2010 | Book | Spring 2010 | Vol. 14 | No. 1 |
Excavating Nauvoo: The Mormons and the Rise of Historical Archaeology |
Benjamin C. Pykles
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Before Salt Lake City there was Nauvoo, Illinois, home to the fledgling Mormon Church from 1839 to 1846. Founder Joseph Smith selected the site on the east bank of the... | University of Nebraska Press | 2010 | Book | Summer 2010 | Vol. 14 | No. 1 |
The Year the Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian |
Candace S. Green
Russell Thornton |
Winter counts are pictorial calendars, originally on buffalo hides, by which Plains Indians kept tract of their past. Each year was marked with a picture of a memorable event, and... | University of Nebraska Press | 2007 | Book | Winter 2007-08 | Vol. 11 | No. 4 |
Circular Villages of the Monongahela Tradition |
Bernard K. Means
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Between A.D. 1000 and 1635, the Monongahela people dominated southwestern Pennsylvania and adjacent parts of Ohio and West Virginia. They lived in dwellings arranged around a central plaza and enclosed... | University of Alabama Press | Book | Winter 2007-08 | Vol. 11 | No. 4 | |
California Prehistory: Colonization, Culture, and Complexity |
Terry L. Jones
Kathryn A. Klar |
California boasts one of the most diverse archaeologies in North America, and it is a daunting enterprise to try to get it into one volume. In 2003, the Society for... | AltaMira Press | 2007 | Book | Winter 2007-08 | Vol. 11 | No. 4 |
The Natchez Indians: A History to 1735 |
James F. Barnett, Jr.
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In 1682, members of Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle’s French expedition were the first Europeans to encounter members of what would become one of the best historically documented Southeastern Indian... | University Press of Mississippi | 2007 | Book | Spring 2008 | Vol. 11 | No. 1 |
New Perspectives on Pottery Mound Pueblo |
Polly Schaafsma
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Pottery Mound is an important Puebloan archaeological site located on the Rio Puerco in central New Mexico. It was occupied from about A.D. 1370 to 1475, but its pottery and... | University of New Mexico Press | 2007 | Book | Spring 2008 | Vol. 12 | No. 1 |
Saving Places That Matter: A Citizen’s Guide To the National Historic Preservation Act |
Thomas F. King
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Passed in 1966, the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) is the nation’s premier statute protecting archaeological sites and other historic places and buildings. Limited in scope to mainly governmental actions,... | Left Coast Press | 2007 | Book | Spring 2008 | Vol. 12 | No. 1 |
Subfloor Pits and the Archaeology of Slavery in Colonial Virginia |
Patricia M. Samford
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A common characteristic of Virginia slave quarters is the presence of subfloor pits. Commonly explained as root cellars or storage places for personal belongings, these pits may well have served... | University of Alabama Press | 2007 | Book | Spring 2008 | Vol. 12 | No. 1 |
The Chaco Experience: Landscape and Ideology in the Center Place |
Ruth M. Van Dyke
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Since its rediscovery in the 19th century, archaeologists and others have struggled to make sense of this complex of 12 great apartment-like buildings and associated structures located in the San... | School for Advanced Research Press | 2007 | Book | Summer 2008 | Vol. 12 | No. 2 |
SunWatch: Fort Ancient Development in the Mississippian World |
Robert A. Cook
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The Fort Ancient people were the last prehistoric culture to inhabit the Middle Ohio Valley (ca. A.D. 1000-1650). They were named after the Fort Ancient site that was in fact... | University of Alabama Press | 2008 | Book | Summer 2008 | Vol. 12 | No. 2 |
Florida’s People during the Last Ice Age |
Barbara A. Purdy
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It’s hard to imagine the Ice Age in Florida, but even though the glaciers did not reach that far south, their impact was terrific. Since so much water was tied... | University Press of Florida | 2008 | Book | Summer 2008 | Vol. 12 | No. 2 |
Historic Native Peoples of Texas |
William C. Foster
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When the Spanish arrived in present day Texas some 500 years ago there were several hundred Native tribes living in, hunting, or trading across today’s Texas. Using the accounts of... | University of Texas Press | 2008 | Book | Summer 2008 | Vol. 12 | No. 2 |
Pottery and Practice: The Expression of Identity at Pottery Mound and Hummingbird Pueblo |
Suzanne L. Eckert
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Pottery and Practice is a case study that focuses on the pottery of two small, 14th-century pueblo villages in the Lower Rio Puerco area of New Mexico: Hummingbird Pueblo and... | University of New Mexico Press | 2008 | Book | Fall 2008 | Vol. 12 | No. 3 |
The Teotihuacån Trinity: The Sociopolitical Structure of an Ancient Mesoamerica City |
Annabeth Headrick
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Located a few miles north of modern Mexico City, it awes visitors in its size and magnificence even after being in ruins for some 1300 years. Organized along the three-mile-long... | University of Texas Press | 2007 | Book | Fall 2008 | Vol. 12 | No. 3 |
Time’s River: Archaeological Syntheses from the Lower Mississippi River Valley |
Janet Rafferty
Evan Peacock |
Mississippi State archaeologists Janet Rafferty and Evan Peacock have assembled this comprehensive overview of the prehistory of the Mississippi River Valley from southeastern Missouri to central Louisiana, the site of... | University of Alabama Press | 2008 | Book | Fall 2008 | Vol. 12 | No. 3 |
The Ramseys at Swan Pond: the Archaeology and History of an East Tennessee Farm |
Charles H. Faulkner
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The stone Ramsey House was built in 1797 for Francis Alexander Ramsey, a prominent early settler of East Tennessee. In 1952, it was purchased by the Association for the Preservation... | University of Tennessee Press | 2008 | Book | Fall 2008 | Vol. 12 | No. 3 |
Moundville |
John H. Blitz
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Moundville is the nation’s second largest prehistoric mound-builder site, sprawling over some 325 acres on the banks of the Black Warrior River in northwestern Alabama. It was occupied and used... | University of Alabama Press | 2008 | Book | Winter 2008-09 | Vol. 12 | No. 4 |
The Archaeology of Everyday Life at Early Moundville |
Gregory D. Wilson
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Moundville is the nation’s second largest prehistoric mound-builder site, sprawling over some 325 acres on the banks of the Black Warrior River in northwestern Alabama. It was occupied and used... | University of Alabama Press | 2008 | Book | Winter 2008-09 | Vol. 12 | No. 4 |
Palenque: Eternal City of the Maya |
David Stuart
George Stuart |
With its spectacular setting on the mountainous edge of the Chiapas coastal plain in southern Mexico, its remarkable art and architecture, and its dramatic history, Palenque is for many the... | Thames & Hudson | 2008 | Book | Winter 2008-09 | Vol. 12 | No. 4 |
American Indian Places |
Frances H. Kennedy
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This book features an exciting collaboration between a great variety of experts—279 of them—who span several disciplines and hold a variety of world-views. Because it takes an open-ended approach to... | Houghton Mifflin | 2008 | Winter 2008-09 | Vol. 12 | No. 4 | |
War Paths, Peace Paths: An Archaeology of Cooperation and Conflict in Native Eastern North America |
David H. Dye
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Archaeologist David Dye of the University of Memphis has produced the first comprehensive study of prehistoric war and peace in eastern North America. It is long overdue and fills a... | AltaMira Press | 2009 | Book | Spring 2009 | Vol. 13 | No. 1 |
The Chattahoochee Chiefdoms |
John H. Blitz
Karl G. Lorenz |
Along the lower Chattahoochee River Valley between Columbus, Georgia and the Gulf of Mexico, a number of large villages with mounds developed between about A.D. 1100 and 1600. Native Americans... | University of Alabama | 2006 | Book | Fall 2006 | Vol. 10 | No. 3 |
Mountain Spirit: The Sheep Eater Indians of Yellowstone |
Lawrence L. Loendorf
Nancy Medaris Stone |
This is the story of the Indian tribes that lived in the Yellowstone area for thousands of years. They were a Shoshone group called Tukudika, or Sheep Easters. Unlike the... | University of Utah Press | 2006 | Book | Fall 2006 | Vol. 10 | No. 3 |
Janaab’ Pakal of Palenque: Reconstructing the Life and Death of a Maya Ruler Edited by Vera Tiesler and Andrea Cucina |
Vera Tiesler
Andrea Cucina |
In 1952, Mexican archaeologist Alberto Ruz Lhuillier opened the most elaborate ancient tomb ever discovered in the New World deep inside the Pyramid of the Inscriptions at the spectacular Maya... | The University of Arizona Press | 2006 | Book | Winter 2006-07 | Vol. 10 | No. 4 |
Tracking Ancient Footsteps: William D. Lipe’s Contributions to Southwestern Prehistory and Public Archaeology |
R.G. Matson
Timothy A. Kohler |
In 1974, Washington State University archaeologist Bill Lipe published “A Conservation Model for American Archaeology” in Kiva, a small southwestern journal. It elegantly set forth a new foundation for the... | Washington State University Press | Book | Winter 2006-07 | Vol. 10 | No. 4 | |
The Water Mysteries of Mesa Verde |
Kenneth R. Wright
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Water is the lifeblood of the American Southwest. It has shaped the region for millennia. The rise and fall of the Anasazi of Mesa Verde and the surrounding region may... | Johnson Books | 2006 | Book | Winter 2006-07 | Vol. 10 | No. 4 |
Huts and History: The Historical Archaeology of Military Encampment |
Clarence R. Geier
David G. Orr, Matthew B. Reeves |
Until now, archaeologists of the Civil War have concentrated their efforts on the battlefields. This volume is the first dedicated to the archaeology of Civil War encampments, where the soldiers... | University Press of Florida | 2006 | Book | Winter 2006-07 | Vol. 10 | No. 4 |
Jamestown, the Buried Truth |
William M. Kelso
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Four hundred years ago, a small group of intrepid English adventurers landed on Jamestown Island in what is now Virginia, starting the first enduring English colony in the New World.... | University of Virginia Press | 2006 | Book | Spring 2007 | Vol. 11 | No. 1 |
Canyon Gardens: The Ancient Pueblo Landscapes of the American Southwest |
V.B. Price
Baker H. Morrow |
In this provocative little volume the editors present a collection of essays on the ancient surroundings of the Southwestern pueblos that demonstrates their use of landscape design and horticulture as... | University of New Mexico Press | 2006 | Book | Spring 2007 | Vol. 11 | No. 1 |
A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813-1814 |
Gregory A. Waselkov
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On August 30, 1813, 700 Redstick Creeks attacked the fortified plantation home of Samuel Mims on the southern frontier of the United States in what is now Alabama. Some 250... | University of Alabama Press | 2006 | Book | Spring 2007 | Vol. 11 | No. 1 |
Inconstant Companions: Archaeology and North American Indian Oral Traditions |
By Ronald J. Mason
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In recent years it has become fashionable in some archaeological and Native American circles to embrace the thesis that oral traditions are as valid as scientific statements about the past,... | University of Alabama Press | 2006 | Book | Spring 2007 | Vol. 11 | No. 1 |
Olmec Archaeology and Early Mesoamerica |
Christopher H. Pool
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In about 1400 B.C., an advanced and distinctive culture emerged in southern Mexico, probably in the lowland forests of the Gulf Coast. The Aztecs, who appeared 2,800 years later and... | Cambridge University Press | 2007 | Book | Summer 2007 | Vol. 11 | No. 2 |
Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms |
F. Kent Reilly
James E. Garber |
For more than 60 years scholars have tried to make sense of the pre-Columbian artistic tradition of the Southeastern United States popularly known as the “Southern Cult.” During the 1990s,... | University of Texas Press | 2007 | Book | Summer 2007 | Vol. 11 | No. 2 |
Looting Spiro Mounds, An American King Tut’s Tomb |
David La Vere
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Spiro Mounds on the Arkansas River in eastern Oklahoma is, or was, one of the most impressive Mississippian mound complexes in the nation. At least 11 mounds surround a great... | University of Oklahoma Press | 2007 | Book | Summer 2007 | Vol. 11 | No. 2 |
Historical Archaeology: Why the Past Matters |
Barbara J. Little
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Of rather recent vintage in the United States, historical archaeology is a rapidly growing discipline that has achieved some spectacular successes. Historical archaeologists study documents, but they also study material... | Left Coast Press | 2007 | Book | Summer 2007 | Vol. 11 | No. 2 |
John Smith’s Chesapeake Voyages, 1607-1609 |
Helen C. Roundtree
Wayne E. Clark Kent Mountford |
As we celebrate the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, the first successful English colony in America, another important book on the subject has appeared. Captain John Smith is... | University of Virginia Press | 2007 | Book | Fall 2007 | Vol. 11 | No. 3 |
Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A Cultural History of Cacao |
Cameron L. McNeil
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For modern Americans, chocolate is a staple of drink and dessert, of snacks and elaborate culinary delights. Chocolate is made from the seeds of the cacao tree, native to the... | University Press of Florida | 2006 | Book | Fall 2007 | Vol. 11 | No. 3 |
The Chocolate Tree: A Natural History of Cacao |
Allen M Young
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For modern Americans, chocolate is a staple of drink and dessert, of snacks and elaborate culinary delights. Chocolate is made from the seeds of the cacao tree, native to the... | University Press of Florida | 2007 | Book | Fall 2007 | Vol. 11 | No. 3 |
Archaeology in Washington |
Ruth Kirk
Richard D. Daugherty |
With its rich and varied ecosystems, it is no wonder that Washington State has some of the most interesting archaeology in the country. From costal early human sites to semi-desert... | University of Washington Press, | 2007 | Book | Fall 2007 | Vol. 11 | No. 3 |
Fort St. George: Archaeological Investigation of the 1607-1608 Popham Colony |
Jeffrey P. Brain
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Jamestown wasn’t the only American colony founded by the British is 1607. At the mouth of the Kennebec River in Maine another intrepid group of adventurers founded a colony in... | Maine State Museum | 2007 | Book | Fall 2007-08 | Vol. 11 | No. 3 |
The Architecture of Chaco Canyon |
Stephen H. Lekson
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In the 11th century when everyone else in the Southwest was building small, crude structures, Puebloans in Chaco Canyon constructed magnificent, well-planned, five-story buildings using masonry instead of earth and... | University of Utah Press | 2007 | Book | Winter 2007-08 | Vol. 11 | No. 4 |
From a Watery Grave: The Discovery and Excavation of La Salle’s Shipwreck, La Belle |
James E. Bruseth
Toni S. Turner |
In June 1995, scientists from the Texas Historical Commission discovered the wreck of La Belle in Matagora Bay near Port O’Connor. It had been the flagship of La Salle’s expedition... | Texas A&M University Press | 2005 | Book | Summer 2005 | Vol. 9 | No. 2 |
The Calusa and Their Legacy: South Florida People and Their Environments |
Darcie A. MacMahon
William H. Marquardt |
The Calusa of southwestern Florida were the last Florida group to succumb to European colonization, resisting the Spanish invaders for some 150 years. But by the mid-1700s they had disappeared.... | University Press of Florida | 2004 | Book | Summer 2005 | Vol. 9 | No. 2 |
In Search of Maya Sea Traders |
Heather McKillop
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In 1502 on his fourth and final voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus encountered a huge cargo canoe off the southeastern coast of the Yucatán. It was loaded down... | Texas A&M University Press | 2005 | Book | Fall 2005 | Vol. 9 | No. 3 |
Boomtown Saloons: Archaeology and History in Virginia City |
Kelly J. Dixon
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In the last half of the 19th century, Virginia City, Nevada was overrun with some 200,000 diverse people who came in search of the vast deposits of gold and silver... | University of Nevada Press | 2005 | Book | Fall 2005 | Vol. 9 | No. 3 |
Gifts of the Great River: Arkansas Effigy Pottery from the Edwin Curtiss Collection |
John H. House
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The St. Francis River of northeastern Arkansas meanders slowly between the great Mississippi River on the east and Crowley’s Ridge to the west. Part of the Mississippi Delta, it was... | Peabody Museum Press | 2005 | Book | Fall 2005 | Vol. 9 | No. 3 |
Native American Voices of Identity, Art, & Culture: Objects of Everlasting Esteem |
Lucy Fowler Williams
William Wierzbowski, Robert W. Preucel |
In the foreword to this highly original volume, Richard Leventhal, the director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, explains that the museum is not just a... | University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology | 2005 | Book | Fall 2005 | Vol. 9 | No. 3 |
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus |
Charles C. Mann
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In the last several decades, archaeologists and others have made very significant strides in understanding what the Western Hemisphere looked like when Columbus stepped ashore. It is a very different... | Alfred A. Knopf | 2005 | Book | Winter 2005-06 | Vol. 9 | No. 4 |
Chaco Canyon: Archaeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society |
Brian Fagan
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Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico is home to some of the most complex ruins in the United States. At a time (ca. A.D. 950) when everyone else in the... | Oxford University Press | 2005 | Book | Winter 2005-06 | Vol. 9 | No. 4 |
Archaeology at Shiloh Indian Mounds, 1899-1999 |
Paul D. Welch
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The bloody Civil War battle of Shiloh of 1862 took place on and around a major archaeological site on the bluff overlooking the Tennessee River. Dating between A.D. 1000 and... | University of Alabama Press | 2006 | Book | Winter 2005-06 | Vol. 9 | No. 4 |
Introduction to Rock Art Research |
David S. Whitley
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Once dismissed by archaeologists, rock art research is today attracting scholars and avocationalists from many disciplines who see it as an important tool for understanding the spiritual context of ancient... | Left Coast Press | 2005 | Book | Winter 2005-06 | Vol. 9 | No. 4 |
Lords of Creation: The Origins of Sacred Maya Kingship |
Virginia M. Fields
Dorie Reents-Budet |
Published to accompany a traveling exhibition organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art that will be displayed at the Dallas Museum of Art (February 2006) and the New... | Los Angeles County Museum of Art with Scala | 2005 | Book | Spring 2006 | Vol. 10 | No. 1 |
Byron Cummings: Dean of Southwest Archaeology |
Todd W. Bostwick
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In 1893, a New York born and Rutgers educated classics scholar turned his back on his eastern roots and accepted a position at the University of Utah teaching Latin and... | University of Arizona Press | 2006 | Book | Spring 2006 | Vol. 10 | No. 1 |
Mississippi Archaeology Q & A |
Evan Peacock
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For 20 odd years Evan Peacock of Mississippi State University has been answering questions about the archaeology of his state. Now he has turned this information into a delightful little... | University Press of Mississippi | 2005 | Book | Spring 2006 | Vol. 10 | No. 1 |
The Lost Radeau: North America’s Oldest Intact Warship |
J.R. Whitesel
Joseph W. Zarzynski |
As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the French and Indian War in North America, an important new film has been released about this global conflict between France and Britain.... | Pepe Productions | 2005 | DVD | Spring 2006 | Vol. 10 | No. 1 |
Folsom: New Archaeological Investigations of a Classic Paleoindian Bison Kill |
David J. Meltzer
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In the first decade of the 20th century an African-American cowboy discovered large, deeply buried bones eroding from a bank of Wild Horse Arroyo in the northeast corner of New... | University of California Press | 2006 | Book | Summer 2006 | Vol. 10 | No. 2 |
The Mesa Verde World |
David Grant Noble
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As the nation celebrates the 100th anniversary of the creation of Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado, archaeological interpreter David Grant Noble has produced an important new work on... | School of America Research Press | 2006 | Book | Summer 2006 | Vol. 10 | No. 2 |
People of the Shoals: Stallings Culture of the Savannah River Valley |
Kenneth E. Sassaman
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Some 5,000 years ago groups of hunter-gatherers abandoned their nomadic lifestyle for a more settled way of life in the middle part of the Savannah River Valley in Georgia and... | University Press of Florida | 2006 | Book | Summer 2006 | Vol. 10 | No. 2 |
Aztalan: Mysteries of an Ancient Indian Town |
Robert A. Birmingham
Lynne G. Goldstein |
Fifty miles west of Milwaukee stands the ruins of Aztalan, a large town with mounds that seemed far more characteristic of the lower Mississippi River Valley. The early Europeans settlers... | Wisconsin Historical Society Press | 2006 | Book | Summer 2006 | Vol. 10 | No. 2 |
The Archaeology of Liberty in an American Capital: Excavations in Annapolis |
Mark P. Leone
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In the United States historical archaeology, that is, archaeology that draws both on material remains of past cultures and the contemporary written records, is a relatively new field of study.... | University of California Press | 2005 | Book | Fall 2006 | Vol. 10 | No. 3 |
The Antiquities Act: A Century of American Archaeology, Historic Preservation, and Nature Conservation |
David Harmon
Francis P. McManamon Dwight T. Pitcaithley |
One hundred years ago on June 8, 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt signed into law “An act for the preservation of American antiquities.” Consisting of only four short paragraphs, it fit... | University Press of Arizona | 2006 | Book | Fall 2006 | Vol. 10 | No. 3 |
Journeys with Florida’s Indians |
Kelley G. Weitzel
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Combining fact with fiction, Kelley Weitsel has produced a notable addition to children’s literature (grades four through eight) on Native American history. She covers the Indians of Florida from their... | University Press of Florida | 2002 | Book | Spring 2004 | Vol. 8 | No. 1 |
The Moundbuilders: Ancient Peoples of Eastern North America |
George R. Milner
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By a happy coincidence two volumes on the ancient mound builders of eastern North America have appeared at the same time. George Milner’s is new, lavishly illustrated, and contains all... | Thames & Hudson | 2004 | Book | Summer 2004 | Vol. 8 | No. 2 |
The Mound-Builders |
Henry Clyde Shetrone
Bradley T. Lepper |
By a happy coincidence two volumes on the ancient mound builders of eastern North America have appeared at the same time. George Milner’s is new, lavishly illustrated, and contains all... | University of Alabama Press | 2004 | Book | Summer 2004 | Vol. 8 | No. 2 |
Storied Stone: Indian Rock Art of the Black Hills Country |
Linea Sundstrom
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Rock art expert Linea Sundstrom has contributed an important addition to the growing collection of serious works on American Indian rock art. A native of the Black Hills, Sundstrom drew... | University of Oklahoma Press | 2004 | Book | Summer 2004 | Vol. 8 | No. 2 |
The Archaeologist’s Toolkit |
Larry J. Zimmerman
William Green |
Archaeologists Larry Zimmerman of the Minnesota Historical Society and William Green of Beloit College have assembled a valuable teaching tool kit. The seven volumes are designed to teach novice archaeologists... | AltaMira Press | 2003 | Book | Summer 2004 | Vol. 8 | No. 2 |
Ancient Mexico & Central America: Archaeology and Culture History |
Susan Toby Evans
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In Ancient Mexico & Central America, Susan Toby Evans has produced a monumental survey of the prehistoric cultures of Mesoamerica, the region between north-central Mexico and Costa Rica. The Olmec,... | Thames & Hudson | 2004 | Book | Fall 2004 | Vol. 8 | No. 3 |
Early Art of the Southeastern Indians: Feathered Serpents & Winged Beings |
Susan C. Power
fbandelier |
The prehistoric people of the Southeastern United States produced some of the richest and most sophisticated Native art. Cultures we know as Mississippian, Caddo, Hopewell, Adena, and Poverty Point thrived... | University of Georgia Press | 2004 | Book | Fall 2004 | Vol. 8 | No. 3 |
The Seminole Wars: America’s Longest Indian Conflict |
John Missall
Mary Lou Missall |
Three Seminole wars in Florida lasted from 1817 to 1858, the longest, bloodiest, and most costly of all the Indian wars fought in the United States. They were of major... | University Press of Florida | 2004 | Book | Fall 2004 | Vol. 8 | No. 3 |
Shovel Bum: Comix of Archaeological Field Life |
Trent de Boer
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Half the “fun” of being an archaeologist in America is the experience of fieldwork. Shovel bums endure weeks of flea-bitten motel beds, greasy roadhouse food, temperamental vehicles, and long stretches... | AltaMira Press | 2004 | Book | Fall 2004 | Vol. 8 | No. 3 |
Artifact: The Hunt for Stolen Treasurers |
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Bored with Trivial Pursuit and Clue? Artifact is an entertaining strategy game that sends players around the world to recover missing treasures. You are in charge of Interpol’s Artifact Recovery... | Outset Media | 2004 | Board game | Fall 2004 | vl 8 | No. 3 |
Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South |
Richard F. Townsend
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The editor of this stunning large-format book has assembled an impressive collection of 19 essays that cover the whole array of Native American art and archaeology in the Midwestern and... | Art Institute of Chicago | 2004 | Book | Winter 2004-05 | Vol. 8 | No. 4 |
In Search of Chaco: New Approaches to an Archaeological Enigma |
David Grant Noble
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Since their modern rediscovery some 155 years ago, the puebloan ruins in Chaco Canyon have amazed, bemused, and bewildered laymen and archaeologists alike. Located in a remote, desert canyon in... | School of American Research Press | 2004 | Book | Winter 2004-05 | Vol. 8 | No. 4 |
Troweling Through Time: The First Century of Mesa Verdean Archaeology |
Florence C. Lister
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No place is more symbolic of American archaeology that the spectacular ruins of Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado. Much of Southwestern archaeology got its start there and in... | University of New Mexico Press | 2004 | Book | Winter 2004-05 | Vol. 8 | No. 4 |
The Olmecs: America’s First Civilization |
Richard A. Diehl
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Beginning about 1500 B.C. a people emerged from the watery lowlands of the Gulf Coast of Mexico and established the first cities in the Americas. Famous for their colossal stone... | Thames & Hudson | 2004 | Book | Winter 2004-05 | Vol. 8 | No. 4 |
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed |
Jared Diamond
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The rise and fall of cultures and civilizations is a central theme of archaeology throughout the world. Collapse is the sequel to Jared Diamond’s best-selling and Pulitzer Prize- winning Guns,... | Viking | 2005 | Book | Spring 2005 | Vol. 9 | No. 1 |
The Ohio Hopewell Episode: Paradigm Lost, Paradigm Gained |
A. Martin Byers
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When Europeans first entered the Ohio Valley, they discovered numerous large earthen structures—mounds (often containing burials), timber constructions that were ritually destroyed and covered with earth, and embankment earthworks usually... | University of Akron Press | 2004 | Book | Spring 2005 | Vol. 9 | No. 1 |
Hopi Oral Tradition and the Archaeology of Identity |
Wesley Bernardini
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The 14th century A.D. was perhaps the most dynamic of any for the Puebloan people of the American Southwest. In 1300, the Four Corners area had been abandoned and Puebloan... | University of Arizona Press | 2005 | Book | Spring 2005 | Vol. 9 | No. 1 |
Touring Gotham’s Archaeological Past: 8 Self-Guided Walking Tours through New York City |
Diana diZerega Wall
Anne-Marie Cantwell |
Humans have lived in America’s biggest city for at least 11,000 years—Native Americans, Dutch settlers, African slaves, and people from most every country in the world. They all left their... | Yale University Press | 2004 | Book | Spring 2005 | Vol. 9 | No. 1 |
The Peopling of Bandelier: New Insights from the Archaeology of the Pajarito Plateau |
Robert P. Powers
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Next to Mesa Verde, Bandelier National Monument in northern New Mexico is the most visited archaeological park in America. Yet precious little is known about the ancestral Puebloan people who... | School of American Research Press | 2005 | Book | Summer 2005 | Vol. 9 | No. 2 |
Ohio Archaeology: An Illustrated Chronicle of Ohio’s Ancient American Indian Cultures |
Bradley T. Lepper
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In the 19th century, Ohio was the center of archaeological research in America. Its rich diversity and enigmatic mounds and earthworks attracted scholars from near and far. The first archaeological... | Orange Frazer Press | 2005 | Book | Summer 2005 | Vol. 9 | No. 2 |
Rock Art of the Lower Pecos |
Carolyn E. Boyd
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Archaeologist-artist Carolyn Boyd has prepared this dazzling study of some of the Southwest’s most dramatic and little seen rock art. In the harsh environment of southwestern Texas and northern Mexico,... | Texas A&M University Press | 2003 | Book | Spring 2004 | Vol. 8 | No. 1 |
How to Read Maya Hieroglyphs |
John Montgomery
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If you want to read ancient Maya writing, these two guides are essential. The first volume explains the basics of epigraphy, the study of ancient languages, and how this science... | Hippocrene Books | 2002 | Book | Spring 2003 | Vol. 7 | No. 1 |
Aztecs |
Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
Felipe Solis Olguin |
Prepared to accompany one of the greatest exhibitions of Aztec culture ever assembled at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Aztecs documents in glorious color one of the world’s... | Royal Academy of Arts/Abrams | 2003 | Book | Summer 2003 | Vol. 7 | No. 2 |
Talking Birds, Plumed Serpents, and Painted Women: The Ceramics of Casas Grandes |
Joanne Stuhr
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Casas Grandes (or Paquimé) is a stunning adobe site in the Chihuahuan desert of northern Mexico that flourished from about A.D.1200 to 1450, reaching its zenith after the fall of... | University of Arizona Press | 2002 | Book | Summer 2003 | Vol. 7 | No. 2 |
Before California: An Archaeologist Looks at Our Earliest Inhabitants |
Brian Fagen
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Famed archaeologist Brian Fagen has produced a captivating and readable account of the first 12,000 years of California history. A professor of anthropology at the University of California at Santa... | AltaMira Press, | 2003 | Book | Summer 2003 | Vol. 7 | No. 2 |
Etowah: The Political History of a Chiefdom Capital |
Adam King
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A hundred years of excavations have produced a wealth of artifacts from Etowah, one of the largest and most important mound centers in the Southeast. Marble statues, copper embossed plates,... | University of Alabama Press | 2003 | Book | Summer 2003 | Vol. 7 | No. 2 |
Archaeology the Comic |
Johannes H.N. Loubser
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Follow young Squizee as she discovers the inner workings of archaeology after her family’s farm is looted. She learns from professional archaeologists how to survey, excavate, analyze, interpret, and preserve... | AltaMira Press | 2003 | Book | Summer 2003 | Vol. 7 | No. 3 |
The Archaeologist was a Spy: Sylvanus G. Morley and the Office of Naval Intelligence |
Charles H. Harris III
Louis R. Sadler |
As the United States entered World War I in 1917, the Office of Naval Intelligence was obsessed with the notion that the Germans had (or would) establish U-boat bases in... | University of New Mexico Press | 2003 | Book | Fall 2003 | Vol. 7 | No. 3 |
Lost World: Rewriting Prehistory—How New Science is Tracing America’s Ice Age Mariners |
Tom Koppel
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Canadian journalist Tom Koppel tells the story of the archaeologists and other scientists who are using new technologies to search for the first Americans along the North Pacific rim from... | Atria Books | 2003 | Book | Fall 2003 | Vol. 7 | No. 3 |
Twelve Millennia: Archaeology of the Upper Midwest River Valley |
James L. Theler
Robert F. Boszhardt |
This is the story of one of America’s richest archaeological locales in the beautiful Mississippi River Valley from Rock Island, Illinois to Minneapolis. Authors Theler and Boszhardt of the Mississippi... | University of Iowa Press | 2003 | Book | Fall 2003 | Vol. 7 | No. 3 |
The Native Americans of the Texas Edwards Plateau, 1582-1799 |
Maria F. Wade
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The region that now includes Central Texas was once inhabited by numerous Native American tribes that we are only now learning about through archaeological discovery and Spanish and French Colonial... | University of Texas Press | 2003 | Book | Fall 2003 | Vol. 7 | No. 3 |
Archaeologies of the Pueblo Revolt: Identity, Meaning, and Renewal in the Pueblo World |
Robert W. Preucel
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The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 in New Mexico was the only successful native uprising against European colonial rule in the present United States and historians have long regarded it as... | University of New Mexico Press | 2002 | Book | Fall 2003 | Vol. 7 | No. 3 |
Colonial Encounters in a Native American Landscape: The Spanish and Dutch in North America |
Nan A, Rothschild
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This is the study of two distinct colonial experiences that happened in 17th- century North America, but 2,000 miles apart—the Dutch in New York and the Spanish in New Mexico.... | Smithsonian Books | 2003 | Book | Winter 2003-04 | Vol. 7 | No. 4 |
One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark |
Colin G. Calloway
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Colin Calloway has produced a magnificent, sweeping history of the Native people of the American West from their arrival some 12,000 years or more ago to the European-American arrival in... | University of Nebraska Press | 2003 | Book | Winter 2003-04 | Vol. 7 | No. 4 |
On the Trail of the Maya Explorer: Tracing the Epic Journey of John Lloyd Stephens |
Steve Glassman
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For those of us who love the adventure of travel to remote and wondrous areas of the world, there is no better travel book than John Lloyd Stephens’ Incidents of... | University of Alabama Press | 2003 | Book | Winter 2003-04 | Vol. 7 | No. 4 |
Indians of South Florida: 1513-1763 |
John H. Hann
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Historian John Hann has produced the first survey of Florida’s natives who lived south of a line roughly through Orlando that includes some of the richest cultural history in the... | University Press of Florida | 2003 | Book | Winter 2003-04 | Vol. 7 | No. 4 |
Stories On Stone |
Jennifer Owings Dewey
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Noted children’s author and illustrator Jennifer Dewey introduces young people (ages seven and up) to the fabulous rock art of the American Southwest. Drawing on her personal experiences as a... | University of New Mexico Press | 2003 | Book | Winter 2003-04 | Vol. 7 | No. 4 |
Iroquoia: The Development of a Native World |
William Engelbrecht
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Perhaps no group of Eastern Native Americans is better known to the general public than the Iroquois of upstate New York. A confederation of five tribes or nations—Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga,... | Syracuse University Press | 2003 | Book | Spring 2004 | Vol. 8 | No. 1 |
Three Sixteenth-Century Mohawk Iroquois Village Sites |
Robert E. Funk
Robert D. Kuhn |
Perhaps no group of Eastern Native Americans is better known to the general public than the Iroquois of upstate New York. A confederation of five tribes or nations—Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga,... | New York State Education Department | 2003 | Book | Spring 2004 | Vol. 8 | No. 1 |
Miskwabik: Metal of Ritual |
Amelia M. Trevelyam
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While prehistoric Native Americans were technically Stone Age people they also used metals. The most often used metal was copper, known as Miskwabik in the Ojibwe language. Copper was discovered... | University Press of Kentucky | 2004 | Book | Spring 2004 | Vol. 8 | No. 1 |
Archaeological Perspectives on the American Civil War |
Stephen R. Potter
Clarence R. Geier |
Archaeology has finally taken up the American Civil War, and in a big way. Studies of the physical evidence of the war brings new information and new insights to perhaps... | University Press of Florida | 2001 | Book | Winter 2001-02 | Vol. 5 | |
Ruins and Rivals: The Making of Southwest Archaeology |
by James E. Snead
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As the 19th century came to a close, Victorian America found a new fascination with the West, and in particular the ancient ruins of the Southwest and the native peoples... | University of Arizona Press | 2001 | Book | Winter 2001-02 | Vol. 5 | No. 4 |
An Archaeological Guide to Central & Southern Mexico |
by Joyce Kelly
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Joyce Kelly has produced the third of her indispensable guides to Mesoamerican archaeological sites. This one covers the area from Zacatecas to the Yucatán, including the Valley of Mexico, Oaxaca,... | University of Oklahoma Press | 2001 | Book | Spring 2002 | Vol. 6 | No 1 |
The Sport of Life and Death: The Mesoamerican Ballgame |
E. Michael Whittington
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The Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, North Carolina has assembled the most comprehensive exhibit of materials ever displayed about the Mesoamerican ballgame. This superbly illustrated volume was produced to... | Thames & Hudson | 2001 | Book | Spring 2002 | Vol. 6 | No. 1 |
Excavations at Wickliffe Mounds |
Kit W. Wesler
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In this fascinating volume, Kit Wesler tells the story of seven decades of excavations at the Wickliffe Mounds, a major Mississippian town near the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi... | University of Alabama Press | 2001 | Book | Spring 2002 | Vol. 6 | No. 1 |
The Fall of the Ancient Maya |
David Webster
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The Classic Maya collapse is one of the great mysteries of archaeology. For more than a thousand years the Maya developed an advanced culture in the rain forests of Central... | Thames & Hudson | 2002 | Book | Summer 2002 | Vol. 6 | No. 2 |
Plains Indian Rock Art |
James D. Keyser
Michael A. Klassen |
Archaeologists James Keyser and Michael Klassen have produced an outstanding study of the rock art of the northern Great Plains from Colorado to Alberta. This is the land of the... | University of Washington Press, | 2001 | Book | Summer 2002 | Vol. 6 | No. 2 |
Cultural Resources Archaeology |
Thomas W. Neumann
Robert M. Sanford |
Most American archaeologists today work in cultural resource management (CRM) rather than pure research. The authors have produced the first guide to the process of identification, evaluation, excavation, and reporting... | AltaMira | 2001 | Book | Summer 2002 | Vol. 6 | No. 2 |
Before and After Jamestown: Virginia’s Powhatans and their Predecessors |
Helen C. Roundtree
E. Randolph Turner III |
Virginia ethnologist Helen Roundtree and archaeologist Randy Turner have joined forces to create the first comprehensive overview of the Powhatans—the people who met Captain John Smith at Jamestown in 1607... | University Press of Florida | 2002 | Book | Fall 2002 | Vol. 6 | No. 3 |
Homol’ovi: An Ancient Hopi Settlement Cluster |
E. Charles Adams
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Archaeologist Charles Adams has conducted 15 years of research at Homol’ovi, a cluster of five Hopi villages and related sites on the Little Colorado River near Winslow, Arizona, some 60... | University of Arizona Press | 2002 | Book | Fall 2002 | Vol. 6 | No. 3 |
The First Americans: In Pursuit of Archaeology’s Greatest Mystery |
J.M. Adovasio
Jake Page |
In the summer of 1973, University of Pittsburgh archaeologist James Adovasio began to excavate a nearby rock shelter. By the next summer, he had dug a hole 10 feet deep... | Random House | 2002 | Book | Winter 2002-03 | Vol. 6 | No. 4 |
Submerged: Adventures of America’s Most Elite Underwater Archaeology Team |
Daniel Lenihan
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Submerged is more a tale of adventure than archaeology. Retired National Park Service underwater archaeologist Dan Lenihan relates the exciting and dangerous work of the nation’s first underwater archaeology team.... | Newmarket Press | 2002 | Book | Winter 2002-03 | Vol. 6 | No. 4 |
Archaeology of the Everglades |
John W. Griffin
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While much has been written about the natural history of Florida’s Everglades, this is the first comprehensive study of its human history. It was originally prepared as a report for... | University Press of Florida | 2002 | Book | Winter 2002-03 | Vol. 6 | No. 4 |
Landscape of the Spirit: Hohokam Rock Art at South Mountain Park |
Todd W. Bostwick
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South Mountain Park is the jewel of the Phoenix park system, easily accessible to millions of people. It contains an amazing concentration of ancient rock art, largely associated with the... | University of Arizona Press | 2002 | Book | Winter 2002-03 | Vol. 6 | No. 4 |
Ancient Visions: Petroglyphs and Pictographs of the Wind River and Bighorn Country, Wyoming and Montana |
Julie E. Francis
Lawrence L. Loendorf |
For more than 11,000 years, Native Americans have made their homes in the Wind River and Bighorn basins of Wyoming and Montana, and they have produced one of the most... | University Press of Utah | 2002 | Book | Winter 2002-03 | Vol. 6 | No. 4 |
Stone Chisel and Yucca Brush: Colorado Plateau Rock Art |
Ekkehart Malotki
Donald E. Weaver, Jr. |
In the past decade there has been a phenomenal growth of interest in the rock art of North America and the world. The Colorado Plateau of Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and... | Kiva Publishing | 2002 | Book | Spring 2003 | Vol. 7 | No. 1 |
Columbus’s Outpost Among the Taínos: Spain and American at La Isabela 1493-1498 |
Kathleen Deagan
José María Cruxent |
In 1493, on his second voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus founded a royal trading colony on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. Equipped with 17 ships and 1,200 to... | Yale University Press | 2002 | Book | Spring 2003 | Vol. 7 | No. 1 |
The Archaeology and History of the Native Georigia Tribes |
Max E. White
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Max E. White of Piedmont College has produced a concise history of Native Americans in Georgia from their origins some 12,000 years ago to the present. Georgia is a rich... | University Press of Florida | 2002 | Book | Spring 2003 | Vol. 7 | No. 1 |
Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs |
John Montgomery
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If you want to read ancient Maya writing, these two guides are essential. The first volume explains the basics of epigraphy, the study of ancient languages, and how this science... | Hippocrene Books | 2002 | Book | Spring 2003 | Vol. 7 | No. 1 |
Time Before History: The Archaeology of North Carolina |
H. Trawick Ward
R.P. Stephen Davis Jr. |
Time Before History is the first comprehensive survey of the Native American cultures that inhabited North Carolina through the arrival of the first Europeans. Probably because of its diverse topography,... | University of North Carolina Press | 1999 | Book | Spring 2000 | Vol. 4 | No. 1 |
Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology and the Battle for Native American Identity |
David Hurst Thomas
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With the passage in 1990 of the poorly crafted Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, Congress unwittingly unleashed the latest chapter in the struggle between American Indians and their... | Basic Books | 2000 | Book | Summer 2000 | Vol. 4 | No. 2 |
Anasazi America: Seventeen Centuries on the Road from Center Place, |
David E. Stewart
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In a very readable narrative,University of New Mexico archaeologist David E. Stuart tells the 1,700-year story of the pueblo people of the Four Corners’ states. They have maintained a vibrant... | University of New Mexico Press | 2000 | Book | Summer 2000 | Vol. 4 | No. 2 |
Ancient Ruins of the Southwest |
David Grant Noble
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For 20 years, this title has been the authoritative guide to all the accessible archaeological sites in the Southwest. The new edition is completely revised with 13 new sites, new... | Northland | 2000 | Book | Summer 2000 | Vol. 4 | No. 2 |
The Vikings and America |
Eric Wahlgren
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It is always a pleasure to read a book by an author who is so enthralled with his subject that the entertainment value is nearly as great as the educational... | Thames and Hudson | 1986 | Book | Fall 2000 | Vol. 4 | No. 3 |
From Mounds to Mammoths: A Field Guide to Oklahoma Prehistory, 2nd edition |
Claudette Gilbert
Robert L. Brooks |
The authors have produced a handy guide to 30,000(?) years of Oklahoma prehistory from the first American mammoth hunters to the farmers and buffalo hunters of contact times. It ends... | University of Oklahoma Press | 2000 | Book | Fall 2000 | Vol. 4 | No. 3 |
Indians of the Greater Southeast |
Bonnie G. McEwan
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If you have ever wondered about the Indian tribes who lived in the American Southeast at the time of the European settlement (1500 to 1840) this book is for you.... | University Press of Florida | 2000 | Book | Fall 2000 | Vol. 4 | No. 3 |
The Art of the Shaman: Rock Art of California |
David S. Whitley
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Three recently published books on prehistoric rock art in the American Southwest represent a range of current research into various aspects of this intriguing subject. Each book makes an important... | University of Utah Press | 2000 | Book | Winter 2000-01 | Vol. 4 | No. 4 |
Warrior, Shield, and Star: Imagery and Ideology of Pueblo Warfare |
Polly Schaafsma
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Three recently published books on prehistoric rock art in the American Southwest represent a range of current research into various aspects of this intriguing subject. Each book makes an important... | Western Edge Press | 2000 | Book | Winter 2000-01 | Vol. 4 | No. 4 |
The Serpent and the Sacred Fire |
Dennis Slifer
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Three recently published books on prehistoric rock art in the American Southwest represent a range of current research into various aspects of this intriguing subject. Each book makes an important... | Museum of New Mexico Press | 2000 | Book | Winter 2000-01 | Vol. 4 | No. 4 |
Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens |
Simon Martin
Nikolai Grube |
Using the latest in Mayan hieroglyphic decipherment, the authors have assembled biographical accounts of some 152 kings and 4 ruling queens from 11 of the greatest Classical sites of the... | Thames & Hudson | 2000 | Book | Spring 2001 | Vol. 5 | No. 1 |
The Settlement of the Americas |
Thomas D. Dillehay
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Just when we thought the problem of the peopling of the Americas was solved, along came Tom Dillehay. It was thought that the first Americans crossed the Bering Strait from... | Basic Books | 2000 | Book | Spring 2001 | Vol. 5 | No. 1 |
Cahokia: The Great Native American Metropoli |
Bilione Whiting Young
Melvin L. Fowler |
Noted archaeologist Melvin L. Fowler has teamed up with writer Bilione Whiting Young to give us the first major popular account of Cahokia, the largest and most complex pre-Columbian city... | University of Illinois Press | 2000 | Book | Spring 2001 | Vol. 5 | No. 1 |
Native American Weapons |
Colin F. Taylor
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In this engaging volume, Colin Taylor describes weaponry made and used by Native Americans from prehistoric through historic times, when European technology caused drastic changes. He also tells of defensive... | University of Oklahoma Press | 2001 | Book | Summer 2001 | Vol. 5 | No. 2 |
Riddle of the Bones: Politics, Science, Race, and the Story of Kennewick Man |
Roger Downey
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Since its discovery along a bank of the Columbia River in Kennewick, Washing- ton, the ancient skeleton called Kennewick Man has ignited a raging political controversy that dwarfs the scientific... | Copernicus/Springer-Verlang | 2000 | Book | Summer 2001 | Vol. 5 | No. 2 |
The Ancient Mounds of Poverty Point |
Jon L. Gibson
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One of America’s most intriguing prehistoric monuments sits on a small ridge overlooking Bayou Maçon in north- eastern Louisiana. Consisting of a series of concentric earthen half-rings and several large... | University Press of Florida | 2000 | Book | Summer 2001 | Vol. 5 | No. 2 |
Ancient Encounters: Kennewick Man and the First Americans |
James C. Chatters
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Forensic anthropologist James Chatters tells his story of the discovery and examination of the famous skeleton found at Kennewick, Washington, on the banks of the Columbia River in 1996. After... | Simon & Schuster | 2001 | Book | Fall 2001 | Vol. 5 | No. 3 |
Casa Grandes and Its Hinterland |
Michael E. Whalen
Paul E. Minnis |
One hundred thirty miles south of the United States border, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, lie the ruins of the impressive prehistoric town of Casas Grandes (Great Houses) or... | University of Arizona Press | 2001 | Book | Fall 2001 | Vol. 5 | No. 3 |
Ancient Pioneers: The First Americans |
by George E. Stuart
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If you’re looking for a readable, general introduction to American archaeology that is beautifully illustrated by the renowned photographers and illustrators of National Geographic, this is it. George Stuart, longtime... | National Geographic Society | 2001 | Book | Fall 2001 | Vol. 5 | No. 3 |
Tikal: An Illustrated History of the Ancient Maya Capital |
by John Montgomery
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Art historian John Montgomery has produced a very readable history of the great Maya city of Tikal in the Petán rainforest of Guatemala. Drawing on the published sources, he has... | Hippocrene Book | 2001 | Book | Winter 2001-02 | Vol. 5 | |
Florida’s Indians from Ancient Times to the Present |
Jerald T. Milanich
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Florida’s Indians tells the story of the native societies that have lived in Florida for 12,000 years- from the earliest hunters to the modern Seminole, Miccosukee, and Creeks. Written for... | University Press of Florida | 1998 | Book | Fall 1998 | Vol. 2 | No. 3 |
Archaeology of the Southwest |
Linda Cordell
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In a follow-up to her 1984 book, Prehistory of the Southwest, Linda Cordell of the University Museum in Boulder, Colorado, presents a thorough synthesis of research, past and present, on... | Academic Press | 1997 | Book | Fall 1998 | Vol. 2 | No. 3 |
101 Questions About Ancient Indians of the Southwest |
David Grant Noble
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Too often the cultural heritage of the American Southwest is lost on children living in the region, or those visiting it with their families, because publications and park interpretive exhibits... | Southwest Parks and Monuments Association | 1998 | Book | Fall 1998 | Vol. 2 | No. 3 |
When Horses Walked on Water: Horse Powered Ferries in Nineteenth-Century America |
Kevin J. Crisman
Arthur B. Cohn |
Before the construction of America’s vast highways and railroads, water was perhaps the most formidable obstacle in the march of Manifest Destiny. Horses had long been used worldwide for drawing... | Smithsonian Institution Press | 1998 | Book | Winter 1998-99 | Vol. 2 | No. 4 |
The Mythology of Native North America |
David Leeming
Jake Page |
The authors of this reader-friendly book on Native American myths organize all of them into three broad categories-pantheons, cosmos, and heroes and heroines. Although they recognize the distinctions among various... | university of Oklahoma Press | Book | Winter 1998-99 | Vol. 2 | No. 4 | |
Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archaeology of the Unknown Past |
Richard F. Townsend
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Produced to accompany a major exhibition of pre-Columbian objects from West Mexico, long considered a backwater on the periphery of the great civilizations of Mesoamerica, this richly illustrated volume documents... | Thames and Hudson | 1998 | Book | Winter 1998-99 | Vol. 2 | No. 4 |
Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America: An Encyclopedia |
Guy Gibbon
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From Adena to Zuni, the more than 800 entries in this weighty reference cover prehistoric cultures, sites, artifact types, and more. An introductory reader’s guide outlines ancient North America and... | Garland Publishing | 1998 | Book | Spring 1999 | Vol. 3 | No. 1 |
Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley |
Ephraim G. Squier
Edwin H. Davis |
On the 150th anniversary of the publication of its first scientific work, the Smithsonian Institution has reissued this classic volume on the mound builders of ancient America—a book many consider... | Smithsonian Institution Press | 1998 | Book | Spring 1999 | Vol. 3 | No. 1 |
Man Corn: Cannibalism and Violence in the Prehistoric American Southwest |
Christy G. Turner
Jacqueline Turner |
For nearly 30 years, University of Arizona physical anthropologist Christy Turner and his late wife, Jacqueline, studied human bones from the Anasazi culture in the Four Corners—sites including Chaco Canyon,... | University of Utah Press | 1999 | Book | Spring 1999 | Vol. 3 | No. 1 |
The Cherokees and Their Chiefs |
Stanley Hoig
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The Cherokees and Their Chiefs details the misfortunes that struck the Cherokee culture as a result of European contact, in addition to later dealings with Britain, the American Colonies, and... | University of Arkansas Press | 1998 | Book | Summer 1999 | Vol. 3 | No. 2 |
Searching for the Great Hopewell Road |
Thomas Law
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The Hopewell culture flourished in the Eastern Woodlands some 2,000 years ago, and its monumental earthworks and beautiful art have captivated and puzzled students of American prehistory for 200 years... | Pangea Productions | 1999 | Book | Summer 1999 | Vol. 3 | No. 2 |
Peoples of the Northwest Coast: Their Archaeology and Prehistory |
Kenneth M. Ames
Herbert D.G. Maschner |
From northern California to Alaska, the Northwest Coast of North America is one of the continent’s richest cultural areas. Long famous for its magnificent art, it also contains some of... | Thames and Hudson | 1999 | Book | Summer 1999 | Vol. 3 | No. 2 |
Archaeological Mexico: A Traveler’s Guide to Ancient Cities and Sacred Sites |
Andrew Coe
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At last, a comprehensive guide to archaeological sites throughout Mexico. Included are step-by-step tours of 52 major sites, including maps and illustrations as well as background on the various cultures... | Moon Travel Handbooks | 1998 | Book | Fall 1999 | Vol. 3 | No. 3 |
The Lords of Tikal: Rulers of an Ancient Maya City |
Peter Harrison
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Rising above the rain forest of remote northern Guatemala, the temples and palaces of Tikal are the most dramatic in the Maya world. With a population that may have reached... | Thames & Hudson | 1999 | Book | Fall 1999 | Vol. 3 | No. 3 |
The Chaco Meridian: Centers of Political Power in the Ancient Southwest |
Stephen H. Lekson
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Ever since archaeologists discovered the magnificent Anasazi ruins in Chaco Canyon, in the middle of nowhere in the Four Corners region of New Mexico, they’ve been struggling for an explanation.... | AltaMira Press | 1999 | Book | Fall 1999 | Vol. 3 | No. 3 |
The Myth of Quetzalcoatl |
Enrique Florescano
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no review | Johns Hopkins University Press | 1999 | Book | Winter 1999-2000 | Vol. 3 | No. 4 |
Legend of the Plumed Serpent: Biography of a Mexican God |
Neil Baldwin
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One might be concerned that the nearly simultaneous publication of two books about the ubiquitous Mesoamerican god-hero Quetzalcoatl, also known as Plumed Serpent, would be redundant. Happily, apart from their... | Public Affairs Press | 1998 | Book | Winter 1999-2000 | Vol. 3 | No. 4 |
Time, Trees, and Prehistory |
Stephen Edward Nash
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In 1929, astronomer A.E. Douglas revolutionized Southwestern archaeology when he published for the first time precise dates for 40 sites. Until then, prehistoric dates had been merely relative. He did... | University of Utah Press | 1999 | Book | Winter 1999-2000 | Vol. 3 | No. 4 |
Archaeology, Relics and the Law |
Richard B. Cunningham
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The author, a professor of law at the University of California, has produced an outstanding collection of source materials on federal and state laws relating to antiquities and archaeology. The... | Carolina Academic Press | 1999 | Book | Spring 2000 | Vol. 4 | No. 1 |
The Ecological Indian: Myth and History |
Shepard Krech III
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Who can forget the poignant pictures of Iron Eyes Cody shedding a tear for the Keep America Beautiful campaign against litter? It’s a memorable image of the noble Indian who... | W.W. Norton | 1999 | Book | Spring 2000 | Vol. 4 | No. 1 |
Zapotec Civilization: How Urban Society Evolved in Mexico’s Oaxaca Valley |
Joyce Marcus
Kent V. Flannery |
In the remote Valley of Oaxaca in southern Mexico, Monte Albán- the first city of Mesoamerica- and a great Zapotec civilization evolved, flourished, and declined. Renowned archaeologists Joyce Marcus and... | Thames & Hudson | 1996 | Book | Spring 1997 | Vol. 1 | No. 1 |
Bandelier: The Life and Adventures of Adolph Bandelier |
Charles H. Lange
Carroll Riley |
A great American scholar. Nowhere is Adolph Bandelier so aptly described as on the small plaque in the patio of the visitors’ center at Bandelier National Monument in northern New... | University of Utah Press | 1996 | Book | Spring 1997 | Vol. 1 | No. 1 |
The Hopewell Mound Group: It’s People and Their Legacy |
Ohio Historical Society
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A new CD-ROM by the Ohio Historical Society is the first of its kind to highlight the famous Hopewell Mound Group. Photos of artifacts will appeal to everyone, while contemporary... | CD-ROM presented by the Ohio Historical Society | 1995 | CD-ROM | Spring 1997 | Vol. 1 | No. 1 |
Rock Art of Texas Indians |
Forrest Kirkland
W.W. Newcomb Jr. |
Forrest Kirkland’s classic study of Texas rock art has been reissued in all its glory. Between 1934 and 1941, Kirkland, a Dallas artist, meticulously copied pictographs and petroglyphs at som... | University of Texas Press | 1996 reissue of a 1967 edition | Book | Summer 1997 | Vol. 1 | No. 2 |
The Anasazi of Mesa Verde and the Four Corners |
William M. Ferguson
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The area where New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah come together to form the Four Corners was likely the most intensely occupied area of the United States before the Europeans.... | University Press of Colorado | 1996 | Book | Summer 1997 | Vol. 1 | No. 2 |
Olmec Art of Ancient Mexico |
Elizabeth Benson
Beatrix de la Fuente |
This magnificent volume served as the catalog for the first comprehensive exhibition of the Olmec art in the U.S., which showed at the National Gallery in Washington last year. The... | Abrams/National Gallery of Art | 1996 | Book | Summer 1997 | Vol. 1 | No. 2 |
Teotihuacan: An Experiment in Living |
Esther Pasztory
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Just north of Mexico City rise the majestic ruins of Teotihuacan- the largest, most structured city of the ancient Americas. Teotihuacanos and their city flourished for nearly 800 years beginning... | University of Oklahoma Press | 1997 | Book | Fall 1997 | Vol. 1 | No. 3 |
The Archaeology of the Donner Party |
Donald L. Hardesty
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In 1846, while crossing the Sierra Nevada, more than half of the 89 member Donner Party perished in a surprise blizzard. Those who survived the four-month ordeal did so by... | University of Nevada Press | 1997 | Book | Fall 1997 | Vol. 1 | No. 3 |
An Archaeological Guide to Northern Central America and An Archaeological Guide to Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula |
Joyce Kelly
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Joyce Kelly’s two archaeological guides to the Maya world are indispensable companions for any traveler to Mexico or Central America. Her first guide (published in 1993) leads the reader to... | University of Oklahoma Press | 1993 and 1996 | Book | Fall 1997 | Vol. 1 | No. 3 |
Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South’s Ancient Chiefdoms |
Charles Hudson
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Between 1539 and 1542, Hernando de Soto and his little army cut a bloody path through 4,000 miles of the southeastern United States in search of gold and glory. Finding... | University of Georgia Press | 1997 | Book | Winter 1997-98 | Vol. 1 | No. 4 |
Down by the Station: Los Angeles Chinatown |
Roberta S. Greenwood
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In 1933, the thriving Los Angeles Chinatown was demolished to make way for the new Union Passenger Terminal, sealing the historic remains 14 feet beneath the railroad tracks. In anticipation... | Institute of Archaeology | 1996 | Book | Winter 1997-98 | Vol. 1 | No. 4 |
Mesa Verde: Legacy of Stone and Spirit |
Gary Warriner
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Gray Warriner continues his outstanding Ancient America video series with a focus on the country’s most popular prehistoric ruin. Mesa Verde seems as though it were made for the camera,... | Camera One | 1997 | Book | Winter 1997-98 | Vol. 1 | No. 4 |
The World of the Ancient Maya |
John S. Henderson
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For the past 20 years, Maya research has been one of the most exciting fields in all of archaeology. Researchers have discovered great new cities and fantastic tombs. They have... | Cornell University Press | 1997 | Book | Spring 1998 | Vol. 2 | No. 1 |
Pot Luck: Adventures in Archaeology |
Florence C. Lister
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Between 1940 and 1990, husband-and-wife team Florence and Robert Lister participated in archaeological expeditions, co authored numerous books and articles, and pursued research that took them on countless adventures around... | University of New Mexico Press | 1997 | Book | Spring 1998 | Vol. 2 | No. 1 |
People in the Past: The Ancient Puebloan Farmers of the Southwest Colorado |
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This new virtual reality CD-ROM allows users to explore Lowry Pueblo, a prehistoric Anasazi village occupied around a.d. 1000-1300 near present-day Pleasant View, Colorado. With mere clicks of the mouse,... | Bureau of Land Management’s Anasazi Heritage Center | 1997 | CD Rom | Spring 1998 | Vol. 2 | No. 1 |
Kentucky Archaeology |
R. Barry Lewis
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From burial mounds to frontier cabins, the archaeological record of Kentucky is an impressive one that captures much of the cultural diversity of the interior Southeast. The state spans several... | University Press of Kentucky | 1997 | Book | Summer 1998 | Vol. 2 | No. 2 |
Excavating Occaneechi Town: Archaeology of an 18th Century Indian Village in North Carolina |
R. P. Stephen Davis
Patrick C. Livingood et. al |
This electronic site report details years of excavations by University of North Carolina archaeologists at Occaneechi Town, and early 18th-century Occaneechi village on the banks of the Eno River in... | University of North Carolina Press | 1998 | CD Rom | Summer 1998 | Vol. 2 | No. 2 |
The Apalachee Indians and Mission San Luis |
John Hann
Bonnie Ewan |
In this compelling full-color volume, authors John Hann, a historian, and Bonnie McEwan, an archaeologist, bring alive the story of the Apalachee people of northern Florida and their Spanish conquerors.... | University Press of Florida | 1998 | Book | Summer 1998 | Vol. 2 | No. 2 |
The Code of Kings: The Language of Seven Sacred Maya Temples and Tombs |
Linda Schele
Peter Mathews |
Part guide book, part scholarly treatise, The Code of Kings is the latest popular offering on the continuing decipherment of Mayan hieroglyphics and an outstanding addition to Maya studies. Authors... | Scribner | 1998 | Book | Fall 1998 | Vol. 2 | No. 3 |
The Cave Paintings of Baja California: Discovering the Great Murals of an Unknown People |
Harry W. Crosby
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In 1971 Harry Crosby undertook a strenuous trek through the remote and sparsely populated reaches of the Sierra de San Francisco in Baja California to collect oral histories from the... | Sunbelt Publications | 1998 | Book | Fall 1998 | Vol. 2 | No. 3 |