First Coastal Californians

Author	Publisher	Copyright Date	Media Type	Review Date	Volume	Number
Gamble, Lynn H.	School for Advanced Research Press	2015	Book	Summer 2016	Vol. 20	No. 2

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. Inland, the people could hunt land animals and collect acorns, seeds, roots, and bulbs. Numerous fresh water streams were filled with fish. Food was so abundant that the coastal Indians of California never saw a need to take up farming. There were no cities or monumental architecture, only simple villages tied together by thriving networks of trade, religion, and community.

Lynn Gamble, a prominent archaeologist at the University of California at Santa Barbara, has brought together 27 notable archaeologists, ethnographers, and Native American scholars in this collection of 17 essays covering the major aspects of the story of the first coastal Californians. They developed a rich and diverse culture and their trade and social interactions helped them cope with sudden climatic shifts, violent storms, and prolonged droughts.

For more than 100 years, archaeologists have been excavating the remaining villages, shell mounds, and other remains in search of information about these remarkable people. In the past 13,000 years, the sea level has risen 250 feet as the last ice age came to an end. Some of this nation’s most intensive development has taken place here, and there has been a race against time to salvage information. Drawing on the latest in interdisciplinary research techniques, archaeologists have coaxed a vivid story from the earth. This volume also contains a discussion of watercraft, the key tool of coastal society for both collecting food and for trade. Archaeological and ethnographic evidence combine to give us a good picture of these boats, and they are being re-created today by modern Natives.

First Coastal Californians is written for the general public, and it is richly illustrated with black and white and color photographs, maps, and original drawings. The ninth volume in an excellent series on early Americans, it is a wonderful introduction to one of America’s most interesting and complex native cultures. —Mark Michel

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Seventeenth-Century Metallurgy on the Spanish Colonial Frontier: Pueblo and Spanish Interactions	Thomas, Noah H.	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	Delle, James A.	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	Emerson, Thomas Koldehoff, Brad H. Brennan, Tamira	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	Redmond, Brian G. Ruby, Bret J. Burkes, Jarrod	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	La Du, Daniel A. Brown, Ian W.	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	Darby, Melissa	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	Zarzynski, Joseph W.	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	Hanselmann, Frederick H.	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	Tremain, Cara G. Yates, Donna	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	Spencer, Darla	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	Wonderley, Anthony Sempowski, Martha	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	Silverman, David J.	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	Gibson, Jon L.	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”	Colavito, Jason	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	Voorhies, Barbara	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	Wilson, Gregory D.	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	Goldsmith, Paul	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	Fagan, Brian	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	Wren, Linnea Kristan-Graham, Cynthia Nygard, Travis	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	Ramenofsky, Ann F. Schleher, Kari L.	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	McKinnon, Duncan P. Haley, Bryan S.	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	Mason, Owen K. Friesen, T. Max	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	Mills, Barbara J. Fowles, Severin	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	Reich, David	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	Carriere, Ed Cross, Dale R.	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	Decors, Christopher R. Beier, Zachary J.M.	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	Clark, Andrew J. Bamforth, Douglas B.	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	Lawler, Andrew	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	Gilman, Patricia A. LeBlanc, Steven A.	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	McWorter, Gerald A. Williams-McWorter, Kate	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	Rogers, Richard A.	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	Wilde-Ramsing, Mark U. Carnes-McNaughton, Linda F.	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	Reed, Paul F. Brown, Gary M.	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	Birch, Jennifer Thompson, Victor D.	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	Gallivan, Martin D.	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	Morse, Dan F. Morse, Phyllis A.	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	Crown, Patricia L.	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	Roksandic, Ivan	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	Hinsley, Curtis M. Wilcox, David R.	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	Adovasio, J.M. Pedler, David	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	Lebow, Clayton G. Harro, Douglas G. McKim, Rebecca L.	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	Spencer, Darla	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	Feder, Kenneth L.	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	Boyd, Carolyn E. Cox, Kim	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	Sivilich, Daniel M.	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	Reber, Robert J.	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	Finegold, Andrew Hoobler, Ellen	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	Scott, Elizabeth M.	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	Steere, Benjamin A.	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	Ingstad, Benedicte	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	Neitzel, Jill E.	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	Baires, Sarah E.	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	Powers, W. Roger Guthrie, R. Dale Hoffecker, John F.	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	Gail, Michael J. Veit, Richard F.	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	Noble, David Grant	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	Fenn, Elizabeth A.	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)	Lekson, Stephen H.	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	Cowgill, George L.	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	Pauketat, Timothy R. Alt, Susan M.	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	Classen, Cheryl	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	Roberts, David	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	Rodning, Christopher B.	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	Ellerbe, Jenny Greenlee, Diana M.	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	Romain, William F.	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	Rossen, Jack	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	Noble, David Grant	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	Steponaitis, Vincus P. Scarry, C. Margaret	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	Lindbergh, Charles Lindbergh, Anne Morrow Heisey, Adriel	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	Carr, Kurt W. Moeller, Roger W.	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	Holland, Susan A.	The Wichita lived in large villages of distinctive bee-hive-shaped houses located near streams. The houses were constructed of a wooden frame covered by bundles of prairie grass that grows up to 12-feet tall and could last up to 14 years. The Great Plains nurtured large herds of elk and bison as well as turkeys and waterfowl. Hunting and gathering was supplemented by growing corn, squash, sunflowers, and tobacco. This book will get the reader started in Wichita history and culture, and it is also a guide to more in-depth research of an interesting segment of Native America.	Rowe Publshing	2015	Book	Summer 2016	Vol. 20	No. 2
First Coastal Californians	Gamble, Lynn H.	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	McDonnell, Michael A.	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	Carlsen, William	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	Frohne, Andrea E.	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	Babits, Lawrence E. Gandulla, Stephanie	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	Christensen, Don D. Dickey, Jerry Freers, Steven M.	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	Bahn, Paul G.	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	Veit, Richard Orr, David	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	Girard, Jeffrey S. Perttula, Timothy K. Trubitt, Mary Beth	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	Tsukamoto, Lemocjorp Inomata, Takeshi	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	Lister, Adrian	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	Minis, Paul	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	Geier, Clarence R.	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	Huckell, Bruce B. Kilby, J. David	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	Dixon, E. James	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	Rautman, Alison E.	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	Grove, David C.	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	Rothschild, Nan A.	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	Skowronek, Russell K. Blackman, M. James Bishop, Ronald L.	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	Kenneally, Christine	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	Johnson, Marilyn	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	Fox, Georgia L.	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	Masson, Marilyn A. Lope, Carlos Peraza	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	Lynott, Mark J.	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	Carr, Robert S.	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	Howey, Meghan C.L.	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	Chapdelaine, Claude	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	Means, Bermard K.	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	Foster, William C.	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	Matisoo-Smith, Elizabeth Horsburgh, K. Ann	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	King, Julia A.	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	Bowne, Eric E.	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	Young, Lisa C. Herr, Sarah A.	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	Mitchell, Mark D.	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	Eiselt, B. Sunday	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	Lippard, Lucy R. Goin, Peter	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	Bonavia, Duccio	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	Spangler, Jerry D.	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	Mathers, Clay Mitchem, Jeffrey M. Haecker, Charles M.	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	Shafer, Harry J.	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	Cipolla, Craig N.	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	Mainfort, Robert C.	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	Kornfeld, Marcel	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	Aveni, Anthony Roy, Katherine	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	Nelson, Margaret C. Hegmon, Michelle	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	Lankford, George E. Reilly III, E.Kent Garber, James F.	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	Wallis, Neil J.	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	Gibson, Erica	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	Welk, Terrance M.	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	Helferich, Gerald	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	Turner, Ellen Sue Hester, Thomas R. McReynolds, Richard L.	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	Clark, Bonnie J.	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	Ortman, Scott G.	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	James, Ronald M.	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	Madsen, Andrew D. White, Carolyn L.	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	Hughes, Richard E.	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	Downum, Christian E.	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	Heath, Barbara J. Gary, Jack	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	Ashley, Keith White, Nancy Marie	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	Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W. Michael	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	Book	Fall 2012	Vol. 16	No. 3
Royal Cities of the Ancient Maya	Coe, Michael D. Burkhoff, Barry	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	Heaney, Christopher	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	Reid, Jefferson Whittlesey, Stephanie	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	Prichard, Erin E. Ahlman, Todd M.	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	Noble, David Grant	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	Berrin, Kathleen Fields, Virginia M.	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	Kohler, Timothy A. Varien, Mark D. Wright, Aaron M.	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	South, Stanley	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	Rees, Mark A.	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	Kirch, Patrick Vinton	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	Matthews, Christopher N.	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	Shackel, Paul	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	Sassaman, Kenneth E.	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	Stuart, David E.	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	Kelker, Nancy L. Bruhns, Karen O.	“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	Ringhoff, Mary Stoner, Edward J.	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	Skowronek, Russel K. Fischer, George R.	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	Scheiber, Laura L. Clark, Bonnie J.	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	Meltzer, David J.	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	Fowler, Catherine S. Fowler, Don D.	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	Simms, Steven R.	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	Smith, Kevin E. Miller, James V.	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	Stuart, David E.	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	Cameron, Catherine M.	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	Delgado, James P.	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	Whalen, Michael E. Minnis, Paul E.	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	Davis, Hester A.	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	Lekson, Stephen H.	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	Fitzhugh, William W. Hollowell, Julie Crowell, Aron L.	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	Wells, Katherine	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	King, Thomas F.	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	Knight Jr., Vernon James	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	Hull, Kathleen L.	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	Birmingham, Robert A.	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	Bardoe, Cheryl	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	Pykes, Benjamin C.	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	Green, Candace S. Thornton, Russell	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	Means, Bernard K.	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	2007	Book	Winter 2007-08	Vol. 11	No. 4
California Prehistory: Colonization, Culture, and Complexity	Jones, Terry L. Klar, Kathryn A.	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	Barnett Jr., James F.	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	Schaafsma, Polly	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	King, Thomas F.	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	Samford, Patricia M.	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	Van Dyke, Ruth M.	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	Cook, Robert A.	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	Purdy, Barbara A.	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	Foster, William C.	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	Eckert, Suzanne L.	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	Headrick, Annabeth	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	Rafferty, Janet Peacock, Evan	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	Faulkner, Charles H.	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	Blitz, John H.	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	Wilson, Gregory D.	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	Stuart, David Stuart, George	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	Kennedy, Frances H.	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	Book	Winter 2008-09	Vol. 12	No. 4
War Paths, Peace Paths: An Archaeology of Cooperation and Conflict in Native Eastern North America	Dye, David H.	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	Blitz, John H. Lorenz, Karl G.	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	Loendorf, Lawrence L. Stone, Nancy Medaris	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	Tiesler, Vera Cucina, Andrea	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	Matson, R.G. Kohler, Timothy A.	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	2006	Book	Winter 2006-07	Vol. 10	No. 4
The Water Mysteries of Mesa Verde	Wright, Kenneth R.	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	Geier, Clarence R. Orr, David G. Reeves, Matthew B.	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	Kelso, William M.	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	Price, V.B. Morrow, Baker H.	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	Waselkov, Gregory A.	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	Mason, Ronald J.	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	Pool, Christopher H.	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	Reilly, F. Kent Garber, James E.	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	La Bere, David	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	Little, Barbara J.	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	Roundtree, Helen C. Clark, Wayne E. Mountford, Kent	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	McNeil, Cameron L.	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	Young, Allen M.	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	Kirk, Ruth Daugherty, Richard D.	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	Brain, Jeffrey P.	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	Lekson, Stephen H.	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	Bruseth, James E. Turner, Toni S.	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	MacMahon, Darcie A. Marquardt, William H.	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	McKillop, Heather	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	Dixon, Kelly J.	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	House, John H. Preucel, Robert W.	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	Williams, Lucy Fowler Wierzbowski,, William	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	Mann, Charles C.	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	Fagan, Brian	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	Welch, Paul D.	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	Whitley, David S.	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	Fields, Virginia M. Reents-Budet, Dorie	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	Bostwick, Todd W.	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	Peacock, Evan	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	Whitesel, J.R. Zarzynski, Joseph W.	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	Melzer, David J.	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	Noble, David Grant	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	Sassaman, Kenneth E.	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	Birmingham, Robert A Goldstein, Lynne G.	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	Leone, Mark P.	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	Harmon, David McManamon, Francis P. Pitcaithley, Dwight T.	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	Weitzel, Kelley G.	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	Milner, George R.	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	Shetrone, Henry Blyde Lepper, Bradley T.	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	Sundstrom, Linea	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	Zimmerman, Larry J. Green, William	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	Evans, Susan Toby	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	Power, Susan C.	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	Missall, John Missall, Mary Lou	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	Boer, Trent de	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	NO AUTHOR \| NOT A BOOK	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	Vol. 8	No. 3
Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South	Townsend, Richard F.	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	Noble, David Grant	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	Lister, Florence C.	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	Diehl, Richard A.	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	Diamond, Jared	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	Byers, A. Martin	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	Bernardini, Wesley	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	Wall, Diana diZerega Cantwell, Anne-Marie	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	Powers, Robert P.	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	Lepper, Bradley T.	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	Boyd, Carolyn E.	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	Montgomery, John	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	Moctezuma, Eduardo Matos Olguin, Felipe Solis	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	Stuhr, Joanne	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	Fagen, Brian	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	King, Adam	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	Loubser, Johannes H.N.	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	Harris III, Charles H. Sadler, Louis R.	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	Koppel, Tom	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	Theler, James L. Boszhardt, Robert F.	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	Wade, Maria F.	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	Preucel, Robert W.	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	Rothschild, Nan A.	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	Calloway, Colin G.	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	Glassman, Steve	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	Hann, John H.	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	Dewey, Jennifer Owings	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	Engelbrecht, William	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	Funk, Robert E. Kuhn, Robert D.	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	Trevelyam, Amelia M.	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	Potter, Stephen R. Geier, Clarence R.	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	No. 4
Ruins and Rivals: The Making of Southwest Archaeology	Snead, James E.	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	Kelly, Joyce	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	Whittington, E. Michael	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	Wesler, Kit W.	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	Webster, David	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	Keyser, James D. Klassen, Michael A.	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	Neumann, Thomas W. Sanford, Robert M.	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	Roundtree, Helen C. Turner III, E. Randolph	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	Adams, E. Charles	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	Adovasio, J.M. Page, Jake	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	Lenihan, Daniel	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	Griffin, John W.	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	Bostwick, Todd W.	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	Francis, Julie E. Loendorf, Lawrence L.	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	Malotki, Ekkehart Weaver Jr., Donald E.	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	Deagan, Kathleen Cruxent, José Maria	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	White, Max E.	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	Montgomery, John	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	Ward, H. Trawick Davis Jr., R.P. Stephen	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	Thomas, David Hurst	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,	Stewart, David E.	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	Noble, David Grant	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	Wahlgren, Eric	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	Gilbert, Claudette Brooks, Robert L.	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	McEwan, Bonnie G.	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	Whitley, David S.	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	Schaafsma, Polly	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	Slifer, Dennis	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	Martin, Simon Grube, Nikolai	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	Dillehay, Thomas D.	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	Young, Bilione Whiting Fowler, Melvin L.	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	Taylor, Colin F.	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	Downey, Roger	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	Gibson, Jon L.	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	Chatters, James C.	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	Whalen, Michael E. Minnis, Paul E.	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	Stuart, George E.	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	Montgomery, John	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	No. 4
Florida’s Indians from Ancient Times to the Present	Milanich, Jerald T.	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	Cordell, Linda	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	Noble, David Grant	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	Crisman, Kevin J. Cohn, Arthur B.	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	Leeming, David Page, Jake	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	1998	Book	Winter 1998-99	Vol. 2	No. 4
Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archaeology of the Unknown Past	Townsend, Richard F.	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	Gibbon, Guy	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	Squier, Ephraim G. Davis, Edwin H.	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	Turner, Christy G. Turner, Jacqueline	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	Hoig, Stanley	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	Law, Thomas	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	Ames, Kenneth M. Maschner, Herbert D.G.	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	Coe, Andrew	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	Harrison, Peter	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	Lekson, Stephen H.	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	Florescano, Enrique	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	Baldwin, Neil	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	Nash, Stephen Edward	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	Cunningham, Richard B.	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	Krech III, Shepard	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	Marcus, Joyce Flannery, Kent V.	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	Lange, Charles H. Riley, Carroll	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	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	Kirkland, Forrest Newcomb Jr., W.W.	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	Ferguson, William M.	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	Benson, Elizabeth de la Fuente, Beatrix	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	Pasztory, Esther	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	Hardesty, Donald L.	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	Kelly, Joyce	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	Hudson, Charles	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	Greenwood, Roberta S.	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	Warriner, Gary	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	Henderson, John S.	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	Lister, Florence C.	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	NO AUTHOR \| NOT A BOOK	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	Lewis, R. Barry	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	Davis, R. P. Stephen Livingood et. al, Patrick C.	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	Hann, John Ewan, Bonnie	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	Schele, Linda Mathews, Peter	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	Crosby, Harry W.	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

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