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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...
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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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In Search of the Old Ones
by David Roberts Publisher Comments The Anasazi, ancestors of the Pueblo people, inhabited the Southwest for at least 5,000 years. David Roberts' extensive interviews and back country travels create a richly detailed portrait of an enigmatic people....
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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...
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Social Violence in the Prehispanic American Southwest
by Deborah Nichols Publisher Comments Spontaneous acts of violence born of human emotions like anger or greed are probably universal, but social violence—violence resulting from social relationships within and between groups of people—is a much more complex issue with...
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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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The Mississippian Emergence
by Bruce Smith Publisher Comments This collection, addressing a topic of ongoing interest and debate in American archaeology, examines the evolution of ranked chiefdoms in the Midwestern and Southeastern United States during the period A.D. 700–1200. The volume brings together...
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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...
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Rock Art Savvy: The Responsible Visitor's Guide to Public Sites of the Southwest
by Ronald D Sanders Publisher Comments This user-friendly, jargon-free guide describes more than a hundred mostly public, easy-access rock art sites in Arizona, southern California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and western Texas, with a special section on Baja California, Mexico. _Rock...
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Plaquemine Archaeology
by Mark Rees Book News Annotation Named for the small Louisiana town along the Mississippi River, Plaquemine is the designation for the material remains and sites of pre-Columbian and proto-historic Native American societies extending from the Mississippi delta on the Gulf coast to...
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Finding the People Who Flaked the Stone at English Camp
by Angela E Close Book News Annotation Close (U. of Washington) analyzes flaked-stone artifacts recovered on San Juan Island, Washington during 1990 and 1991. Radiocarbon dates indicate that Operation D of English Camp was used for a rather brief period around AD 600; it is hypothesized...
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Puebloan Ruins of the Southwest
by Arthur H. Rohn Publisher Comments "Puebloan Ruins of the Southwest" offers over 325 color photos showing Puebloan culture from its prehistoric beginnings through twenty-five hundred years of growth and change, ending with the modern-day Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Arizona....
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Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona #72: Ancestral Zuni Glaze-Decorated Pottery: Viewing Pueblo IV Regional Organization Through Ceramic Production and Exchange
by Deborah Huntley Publisher Comments The Pueblo IV period (AD 1275 & 1600) witnessed dramatic changes in regional settlement patterns and social configurations across the ancestral Pueblo Southwest. Early in this interval, Pueblo potters began making distinctive polychrome vessels...
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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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House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest
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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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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Signs of the Casas Grandes Shamans
by Christine S Vanpool Book News Annotation Christine and Todd VanPool (both anthropology, U. of Missouri, Columbia) report findings from research conducted in northern Chihuahua beginning in the mid-1990s. The authors explore the world of Casa Grandes peoples as represented in the imagery...
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Secrets of Casas Grandes: Precolumbian Art & Archaeology of Northern Mexico.
by Melissa, Phd Powell Synopsis Explores the ceramic traditions of the largest pre-Columbian civilization in northern Mexico with one of the most accomplished ceramic traditions in the Southwest....
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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...
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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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