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House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest (08 Edition)
by Craig Childs  
Powells.com Staff Pick Craig Childs has written a cracking good history disguised as an adventure! The book is filled with physical adventure on an Indiana Jones scale and scholarly detection worthy of Sherlock Holmes. The mystery of the Anasazi has intrigued historians for...
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In Search of Chaco
by David Grant (edt) Noble Publisher Comments Startling discoveries and impassioned debates have emerged from the Chaco Phenomenon since the publication of New Light on Chaco Canyon twenty years ago. This completely updated edition features seventeen original essays, scores of photographs, maps, and...
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Ancestral Landscapes of the Pueblo World
by James Elliott Snead Publisher Comments The eastern Pueblo heartland, located in the northern Rio Grande country of New Mexico, has fascinated archaeologists since the 1870s. In Ancestral Landscapes of the Pueblo World, James Snead uses an exciting new approach— landscape archaeology...
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Pottery and Practice: The Expression of Identity at Pottery Mound and Hummingbird Pueblo
by Suzanne L. Eckert Synopsis Pottery and Practice examines decorated pottery and its production in prehispanic New Mexico's Lower Rio Puerco area through the lens of practice theory. Arguing that social relations can be interpreted from the mundane practice of everyday life, Eckert...
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Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest (Ancient Peoples and Places)
by Stephen Plog Publisher Comments "A graphic, lucid account of the Anasazi, Hohokam, and Mogollon highlights how these ancient cultures evolved so successfully in response to their changing habitat."—Science News Most people are familiar with the famous pre-Columbian civilizations...
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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...
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The Mound Builders
by Robert Silverberg Synopsis 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....
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Plains Village Archaeology: Bison-Hunting Farmers in the Central and Northern Plains
by Stanley A. Ahler And Marvin Kay Book News Annotation Readers who miss the subtitle's reference to bison might need to be informed that the plains here are those in the middle of North America. Archaeologists from the US discuss origins of the prehistoric plains hunting cultures, their peripheries...
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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...
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Southwest Archaeology in the Twentieth Century
by Linda S. (edt) Cordell Synopsis Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, and PaquimC) are as well known to tourists as they are to scholars as emblems of the American Southwest. This region has been the scene of intense archaeological investigation for more than a hundred years...
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What This Awl Means: Feminist Archaeology at a Wahpeton Dakota Village
by Janet D Spector Synopsis This pioneering work focuses on excavations and discoveries at Little Rapids, a 19th-century Eastern Dakota planting village near present-day Minneapolis....
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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...
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The Chaco Meridian: Centers of Political Power in the Ancient Southwest: Centers of Political Power in the Ancient Southwest
by Stephen H Lekson Synopsis Stephen H. Lekson offers a lively, provocative thesis, which attempts to reconceptualize the meaning of the monumental 11th-century structures in Chaco Canyon and its importance to the understanding of the entire Southwest....
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Bones, Boats, & Bison: Archeology and the First Colonization of Western North America
by E James Dixon Publisher Comments This revolutionary synthesis dispels the stereotype of big game hunters following mammoths across the Bering Land Bridge, while painting a vivid picture of marine mammal hunters, fishers, and general foragers colonizing the New World....
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A Field Guide to Mysterious Places of the West
by Salvatore M Trento Synopsis Maverick archaeologist Sal Trento guides the curious explorer to hundreds of inexplicable sites, geological and archaeological, from the Taos "Hum" to the "Winter Solstice Sunrise Petroglyphs" of Los Angeles. Profusely illustrated with B&W photographs...
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Archaeology of Precolombian Florida
by Jerald T. Milanich Synopsis This record of precolumbian Florida brings to life the 12,000-year story of the native American Indians who lived in the state. Using information gathered by archaeological investigations, many carried out since 1980, Jerald Milanich describes the...
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Subfloor Pits and the Archaeology of Slavery in Colonial Virginia
by Patricia Samford Publisher Comments Enslaved Africans and their descendants comprised a significant portion of colonial Virginia populations, with most living on rural slave quarters adjacent to the agricultural fields in which they labored. Archaeological excavations into these home...
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The Bone Hunters: The Heroic Age of Paleontology in the American West
by Url Lanham Publisher Comments Lucid, nontechnical study presents the absorbing human, scientific and political dramas involved in the discovery and reconstruction of the gigantic reptiles, birds and other creatures who roamed the prehistoric West. Much of the book is devoted to the...
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Re-Creating the Word: Painted Ceramics of the Prehistoric Southwest
by Barbara L Moulard Synopsis Re-Creating the Word: Painted Ceramics of the Prehistoric Southwest is a survey of prehistoric ceramic art created by anonymous artists of the Southwest. Through an analysis of the ceramic artworks, author Barbara L. Moulard examines the cultural and...
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The Social Life of Pots: Glaze Wares and Cultural Dynamics in the Southwest, AD 1250-1680
by Judi Habicht Mauche Synopsis The demographic upheavals that altered the social landscape of the Southwest from the thirteenth through the seventeenth centuries forced peoples from diverse backgrounds to literally remake their worlds--transformations in community, identity, and power...
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