This is a seminal tract on scientific method in archaeology and a series of studies on formative Mesoamerica that has influenced generations of archaeologist. A new Foreword by Jeremy Sabloff is featured in this edition.
A comprehensive revision of the classic prehistory of the North American high plains.
Histories of Maize is the most comprehensive reference source on the botanical, genetic, archaeological, and anthropological aspects of ancient maize published to date.
Jeremy Green's systematic overview of maritime archaeology offers a step-by-step description of this fast-growing field.
In this volume, the authors present an original ethnographic study of five llama herding communities in Ayacucho, Peru.
This volume is the first comprehensive attempt to bring to western scholarship the advances made in Paleolithic archaeology and palaeoanthropology in the People’s Republic of China.
This volume shows how hunter gatherer societies maintain their traditional lifeways in the face of interaction with neighboring herders, farmers, and traders.
In this volume, the founder of processual archaeology, Lewis R. Binford collects and comments on the twenty-eight substantive papers published in the 1980's, the third in his set of collected papers. A 2009 Foreword allows for further reflections on this work.
This volume represented a compilation of interdisciplinary research being done throughout the American South and the Caribbean by historians, archaeologists, architects, anthropologists, and other scholars on the topic of slavery and plantations.
This textbook provides full coverage of archaeology in the Aztec and Maya areas, and refocuses ideas on writing, architecture, murals, and the Olmec.
This volume describes the archaeology of the Lower Ohio River Valley region.
This book explores the nuances of the field of "bioarchaeology," emphasizing the reconstruction of human histories through anthropological problem solving and the integration of archaeological data.