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America's Ancient Treasures: A Guide to Archeological Sites & Museums in the United States & Canada
by Franklin Folsom  Publisher Comments This book is a revised and expanded edition of a highly praised travel guide to U.S. and Canadian archeological sites and museums or prehistoric Indian life. Included and described are all of the archeological sites that have been prepared for public...
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Kansas Archaeology
by Robert J Hoard Publisher Comments From Kanorado to Pawnee villages, Kansas is a land rich in archaeological sites--nearly 12,000 known--that testify to its prehistoric heritage. This volume presents the first comprehensive overview of Kansas archaeology in nearly fifty years, containing...
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When the land was young :reflections on American archaeology
by Sharman Russell Publisher Comments Sharman Apt Russell skillfully weaves together the stories of our land—from the ancient burial site of a gentle people who lived in eastern Florida seven to eight thousand years ago, to the Hopewell Indians in Ohio—with the personalities and...
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Glimpses of the Ancient Southwest
by David E Stuart Publisher Comments A dazzling overview with intriguing descriptions of prehistoric life on the New Mexico plain of Folsom Man, Chaco Canyon, Mesa Verde, Bandelier, Mimbres, and other less well-known Paleo-Indian sites. Vivid first-person accounts of doing field archaeology....
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Exploring Native North America (Places in Time)
by David Hurst Thomas Publisher Comments From Blackwater Draw in New Mexico to the Little Bighorn Battlefield in Wyoming, the archaeological evidence left by Native Americans forms a fascinating legacy. In the third volume in Oxford's acclaimed Places in Time series, David Hurst Thomas guides...
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The Desert's Past: A Natural Prehistory of the Great Basin
by Donald K Grayson Synopsis Main Selection, Natural Science Book Club. Spanning 25,000 years and covering topics that range from Pleistocene glaciers to the ill-fated Donner Party, The Desert's Past presents the first complete synthesis of the environmental and human history of...
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Ancient Land, Ancestral Places: Paul Logsdon in the Pueblo Southwest
by Paul Logsdon Publisher Comments Logsdon's aerial photographs show the patterning or pueblo villages within the canyons, mesas, and mountains while capturing, the spiritual quality of the ancient ruins....
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Anasazi, ancient people of the rock
by David Muench Publisher Comments A rich visual documentation of the remains of this civilization. Photos capture the serene, awesome spirit of the dwellings. Text traces the cultural history of the Anasazi people and their descendants....
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Ancient Encounters: Kennewick Man and the First Americans
by James C Chatters Publisher Comments The skeleton known as Kennewick Man was discovered in 1996 by two young men along the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington. When the skeleton was brought to Jim Chatters, a forensic anthropologist, Chatters first believed that the remains were...
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Kokopelli :fluteplayer images in rock art
by Dennis Slifer Publisher Comments Kokopelli, the mysterious, humpbacked fluteplayer of the American Southwest, has been a sacred figure to Native Americans since prehistoric times. Fertility symbol, rain priest, roving minstrel and trader, hunting magician, and trickster, Kokopelli was...
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Purisimeno Chumash Prehistory: Maritime Adaptations Along the Southern California Coast (Case Studies in Archaeology)
by Michael A. Glassow Publisher Comments This is the only case study available that focuses on the practice of archaeology in California, prehistory coastal adaptations, and cultural resource management. Unique coverage of the Vandenburg region and Santa Barbara Channel not only introduces...
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After the Ice Age : the Return of Life To Glaciated North America (92 Edition)
by E. C. Pielou Publisher Comments The fascinating story of how a harsh terrain that resembled modern Antarctica has been transformed gradually into the forests, grasslands, and wetlands we know today. "One of the best scientific books published in the last ten years."—Ottowa...
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Flowerdew Hundred: The Archaeology of a Virginia Plantation, 1619-1864
by James Deetz Book News Annotation Archaeological excavations began in the 1970s to reconstruct some 250 years of life at the 1,000 acre plantation that Virginia's first governor established roughly halfway between present-day Richmond and Williamsburg. Deetz (anthropology, U. of...
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Signs of Life: Rock Art of the Upper Rio Grande
by Dennis Slifer Publisher Comments In sheer number of sites, the rock art of the Southwest is without equal in North America. "Signs of Life takes the reader on a rock art tour of the upper portion of the Rio Grande drainage, that portion from the Colorado/New Mexico border southward to...
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Images on Stone: The Prehistoric Rock Art of the Colorado Plateau
by Donald E Weaver Publisher Comments The oral history surrounding many petroglyphs, their creation, and the meanings of their geometrical, animal, and abstract patterns....
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Archaeology, history, and Custer's last battle :the Little Big Horn reexamined
by Richard Fox Book News Annotation Based on the author's Ph.D. dissertation (U. of Calgary, 1988), this volume revises the fatalistic historical versions of "Custer's Last Stand," using both innovative and standard archaeological techniques combined with historical documents and Indian...
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A New Deal for Southeastern Archaeology
by Edwin A Lyon Publisher Comments This comprehensive study provides a history of New Deal archaeology in the Southeast in the 1930s and early 1940s and focuses on the projects of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the Civil Works Administration, the Works Progress...
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Ancient North America (4TH 05 Edition)
by Brian M. Fagan Publisher Comments Brian Fagan, one of the foremost living archaeological writers and an authority on world perhistory, has completely revised and updated his definitive synthesis of North America's ancient past. The book offers a balanced summary of every major culture...
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Arizona State Museum #199: Pre-Ceramic Subsistence in Two Rock Shelters in Fresnal Canyon, South Central New Mexico
by Vorsila L Bohrer Publisher Comments In this monograph, the preeminent ethnobotanist Vorsila Bohrer meticulously describes the evolution of diet during two periods of lengthy occupation of these shelters. Using optimal foraging theory as her framework, she puts the plant remains recovered...
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Arrowheads & Stone Artifacts: A Practical Guide for the Surface Collector & the Amateur Archaeologist
by C G Yeager
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