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Indian Rock Art of the Columbia Plateau by James D Keyser Book News Annotation An archaeologist for the US Forest Service provides a semi- technical treatment of the rock paintings and carvings in an area from British Columbia south to Oregon and east to Montana. He discussed their nature and dates, similarities and regional... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Richard Wetherill: Anasazi by Frank Mcnitt Publisher Comments Anasazi, the Navajos name for the Ancient Ones who preceded them into the Southwest, is the nickname of Richard Wetherill, who devoted his life to a search for remains of these vanished peoples. He discovered the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde and Kiet... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Case Studies in Early Societies #5: Ancient Puebloan Southwest by John Kantner Publisher Comments An introduction to the history of the Puebloan Southwest from the... (read more) List Price $37.25 Your price: $19.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Field Guide To Rock Art Symbols of the Greater Sout by Alex Patterson Publisher Comments This is the only specifically designed key to the interpretation of American rock art. The Field Guide brings together 600 commentaries on specific symbols by over 100 archaeologists, researchers, and Native American informants. Covers the northern... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Before California (Images of America) by Brian M Fagan Publisher Comments What did California look like before Hollywood? Before the Gold Rush? Before the missions? Brian Fagan, the best known popular archaeology writer in America, is your tour guide on a fascinating trip across the Golden State before the arrival of Europeans.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Archaeology in Washington by Ruth Kirk Publisher Comments Archaeology-along with Native American traditions and memories-holds a key to understanding early chapters of the human story in Washington. This all-new book draws together and brings up to date much of what has been learned about the state's prehistory... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Trade Paper
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Moundbuilders : Ancient Peoples of Eastern North America (04 Edition) by George R. Milner Publisher Comments This comprehensive survey of the Pre-Columbian Indian societies of eastern North America covers the entire sweep of Eastern Woodlands prehistory with an emphasis on how societies developed from hunter-gatherers to village farmers and town-dwellers.... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Archaeology of Native-lived Colonialism: Challenging History in the Great Lakes (09 Edition) by Neal Ferris Publisher Comments Colonialism may have significantly changed the history of North America, but its impact on Native Americans has been greatly misunderstood. In this book, Neal Ferris offers alternative explanations of colonial encounters that emphasize continuity as well... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $42.00 Used - Hardcover
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The First Americans: In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery by J M Adovasio Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references ([295]-309) and index.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Archaeology, History, And Custer's Last Battle by Richard Allan Fox Publisher Comments The myth of Custer's last stand at the Battle of the Little Big Horn is shattered by Richard Allan Fox, Jr., who demonstrates that the troopers' end came amid terror and disarray, with no determined fighting and little firearm resistance. Using... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Holocene Hunter-Gatherers of the Lower Ohio River Valley by Richard Jefferies Publisher Comments By the Early Holocene (10,000 to 8,000 B.P.), small wandering bands of Archaic hunter-gatherers began to annually follow the same hunting trails, basing their temporary camps on seasonal conditions and the presence of food. The Pleistocene glaciers had... (read more) Your price: $36.95 New - Trade Paper
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Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology of the Colorado High Country by Mark Stiger Publisher Comments Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology of the Colorado High Country offers data on 8,000 years of cultural change across a wide area of Colorado and updates archaeological methodology in the mountain West. Synthesizing research from several important, previously... (read more) Your price: $31.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Mound Builders by Robert Silverberg Publisher Comments Silverberg recounts the outlandish myths devised to explain the curious earthworks of the eastern United States, which he then accurately restores to Native American prehistory.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pueblos: Prehistoric Indian Cultures of the Southwest by Sylvio Acatos Book News Annotation Oversized (9x111/2") and illustrated with about 300 color and b&w photographs, this volume presents a visual and cultural portrait of the life, history, art and architecture of a remarkable, peace-loving people who, long before the European arrived... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $15.00 Used - Hardcover
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House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest by Craig Childs Publisher Comments In this landmark work on the Anasazi tribes of the Southwest, naturalist Craig Childs dives head on into the mysteries of this vanished people. The various tribes that made up the Anasazi people converged on Chaco Canyon (New Mexico) during the 11th... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Water Mysteries of Mesa Verde by Kenneth R Wright Publisher Comments When Kenneth Wright went hiking through Mesa Verde National Park with his wife, he didn't expect to be pulled into a research project on ancient waterworks. But he was. It started with a structure called the Morefield Mound. The use of this structure had... (read more) List Price $16.75 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Julian Steward and the Great Basin: The Making of an Anthropologist by Richard O Clemmer Book News Annotation Anthropologists assess the work of their American colleague Steward (1902-72), the factors that influenced him, and his profound effect on the discipline. He was one of the foremost American exponents of cultural ecology and was central in shaping... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Search for the First Americans (Exploring the Ancient World) by David Meltzer Synopsis Written by leading scholars, each book in this series provides an up-to-date assessment of a particular area of the ancient world. Abundantly illustrated in full color, the series places readers at the cutting edge of modern archaeological thinking... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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On the Trail of Spider Woman: Petroglyphs, Pictographs, & Myths of the Southwest by C Patterson Rudolph Publisher Comments Weaves together the stories of tiny elusive Spider Woman as she is mythologized by the Keresan Pueblo, Hopi and Navajo people. The myths in On the Trail of Spider Woman are those that were left in the petroglyphs and pictographs of the San Juan Basin... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Measuring Time with Artifacts: A History of Methods in American Archaeology by R Lee Lyman Publisher Comments Combining historical research with a lucid explication of archaeological methodology and reasoning, Measuring Time with Artifacts examines the origins and changing use of fundamental chronometric techniques and procedures and analyzes the different ways... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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