Dueppen, Stephen A: Divine Consumption: Sacrifice, Alliance Building, and Making Ancestors in West Africa, 2022
Abstract: Kirikongo is an archaeological site composed of thirteen remarkably well-preserved discrete mounds occupied continually from the early first to the mid second millennium AD. It spans a dynamic era that saw the growth of large...

Stark, Barbara L.: The Archaeology of Political Organization: Urbanism in Classic Period Veracruz, Mexico, 2022
Abstract: In this volume, Barbara Stark examines settlement in the coastal plain of lowland Mesoamerica, which was richly endowed with fertile soil and valued tropical resources such as jaguars, cacao, avian species with bright plumage, and...

Stark, Barbara L: The Archaeology of Political Organization: Urbanism in Classic Period Veracruz, Mexico, 2022
Abstract: In this volume, Barbara Stark examines settlement in the coastal plain of lowland Mesoamerica, which was richly endowed with fertile soil and valued tropical resources such as jaguars, cacao, avian species with bright plumage, and...

Bikeri: Two Copper Age Villages on the Great Hungarian Plain, 2021
Abstract: Bikeri: Two Copper Age Villages on the Great Hungarian Plain, about fifth-millennium BC settlements that reveal the transition from the Late Neolithic to the Early Copper Age, when these prehistoric societies developed new agropastoral subsistences,...

Paso de la Amada: An Early Mesoamerican Ceremonial Center, 2021
Abstract: Paso de la Amada, an archaeological site in the Soconusco region of the Pacific coast of Mexico, was among the earliest sedentary, ceramic-using villages of Mesoamerica. With an occupation that extended across 140 ha in...

Talepakemalai: Lapita and Its Transformations in the Mussau Islands of Near Oceania, 2021
Abstract: The definitive final report on the Lapita and post-Lapita sites investigated during the Mussau Project, fundamental to an understanding of Oceanic prehistory....

Fonseca Santa Cruz, Javier; Bauer, Brian S.: The Wari Enclave of Espíritu Pampa, 2020
Abstract: The Wari State was the first expansionistic power to develop in the Andean highlands.  Emerging in the area of modern Ayacucho (Peru) around AD 650, the Wari expanded to control much of the central Andes by...

Landscape History of Hadramawt: The Roots of Agriculture in Southern Arabia (RASA Project 1998-2008), 2020
Abstract: The rugged highlands of southern Yemen are one of the less archaeologically explored regions of the Near East. This final report of survey and excavations by the Roots of Agriculture in Southern Arabia (RASA) Project...

Dimitriadou, Eirini M.: Early Athens: Settlements and Cemeteries in the Submycenaean, Geometric, and Archaic Periods, 2019
Abstract: This volume is one of the most important works on ancient Athens in the last fifty years. The focus is on the early city, from the end of the Bronze Age—ca. 1200 BCE—to the Archaic...

Images in Action: The Southern Andean Iconographic Series, 2018
Abstract: Emanating from a colloquium in pre-Columbian art and archaeology held at the University of Chile in Santiago, Images in Action presents interpretations of a large corpus of art and iconography from the Southern and South-Central...

Unmasking Ideology in Imperial and Colonial Archaeology: Vocabulary, Symbols, and Legacy, 2018
Abstract: This volume addresses the entanglement between archaeology, imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, and war. Popular sentiment in the West has tended to embrace the adventure rather than ponder the legacy of archaeological explorers. Allegations by imperial powers...

Arnold, Jeanne E.; Graesch, Anthony P.; Ragazzini, Enzo; Ochs, Elinor: Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century: 32 Families Open Their Doors, 2017
Abstract: Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century cross-cuts the ranks of important books on social history, consumerism, contemporary culture, the meaning of material culture, domestic architecture, and household ethnoarchaeology. Far richer in information and more...

The Desert Fayum Reinvestigated, 2017
Abstract: The Neolithic in Egypt is thought to have arrived via diffusion from an origin in southwest Asia. In this volume, the authors advocate an alternative approach to understanding the development of food production in Egypt...

The History and Archaeology of Jaffa 2, 2017
Abstract: Since 2007 the Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project, under the direction of Aaron A. Burke and Martin Peilstöcker, has endeavored to bring to light the vast archaeological and historical record of the site of Jaffa, Israel....

Tangatatau Rockshelter: The Evolution of an Eastern Polynesian Socio-Ecosystem, 2017
Abstract: Tangatatau Rockshelter on Mangaia Island (Southern Cook Islands), excavated by a multi-disciplinary team in 1989-1991, produced one of the richest stratigraphic sequences of artifacts, faunal assemblages, and archaeobotanical materials in Eastern Polynesia. More than 70...

Pohl, John M. D.; Lyons, Claire L.: Altera Roma: Art and Empire from Mérida to Mexico, 2016
Abstract: Altera Roma explores the confrontation of two cultures—European and Amerindian—and two empires—Spanish and Aztec. In an age of exploration and conquest, Spanish soldiers, missionaries, and merchants brought an array of cultural preconceptions. Their encounter with Aztec...

Scott, David A.: Art: Authenticity, Restoration, Forgery , 2016
Abstract: This book presents a detailed account of authenticity in the visual arts from the Palaeolithic to the postmodern. The restoration of works of art can alter the perception of authenticity, and may result in the...

The Archaeology of Grotta Scaloria: Ritual in Neolithic Southeast Italy, 2016
Abstract: Scaloria Cave, Grotta Scaloria, is in Apulia, where the Tavoliere Plain rises to meet the Gargano peninsula. Hundreds of villages were located there during the Neolithic period, the villagi trincerati first identified from aerial photographs taken by the British...

A Bronze Age Landscape in the Russian Steppes: The Samara Valley Project , 2016
Abstract: The first English-language monograph that describes seasonal and permanent Late Bronze Age settlements in the Russian steppes, this is the final report of the Samara Valley Project, a U.S.-Russian archaeological investigation conducted between 1995 and...

Icon, Cult, and Context: Sacred Spaces and Objects in the Classical World, 2016
Abstract: This festschrift honors UCLA professor emerita Susan Downey and her meticulous scholarship on religious architecture and imagery in the Roman/Hellenistic world. The iconography of gods and goddesses, the analysis of sacred imagery in the context...

Bauer, Brian S.; Fonseca Santa Cruz, Javier; Aráoz Silva, Miriam: Vilcabamba and the Archaeology of Inca Resistance, 2015
Abstract: The sites of Vitcos and Espíritu Pampa are two of the most important Inca cities within the remote Vilcabamba region of Peru. The province has gained notoriety among historians, archaeologists and other students of the Inca, since it...

Voorhies, Barbara: An Archaic Mexican Shellmound and Its Entombed Floors, 2015
Abstract: Tlacuachero is the site of an Archaic-period shellmound located in the wetlands of the outer coast of southwest Mexico. This book presents investigations of several floors that are within the site's shell deposits that formed...

Rural Archaeology in Early Urban Northern Mesopotamia: Excavations at Tell Al-Raqa'i, 2015
Abstract: This book presents a new perspective on the emergence of urban societies in Mesopotamia, focusing attention on life in a rural village and helping to correct the traditional bias by archaeologists toward the urban and...

Campbell, Roderick B.: Archaeology of the Chinese Bronze Age: From Erlitou to Anyang , 2014
Abstract: Archaeology of the Chinese Bronze Age is a synthesis of recent Chinese archaeological work on the second millennium BCE-the period associated with China’s first dynasties and East Asia’s first “states.” With a focus on early China’s...

Levy, Thomas E.; Najjar, Mohammad; Ben-Yosef, Erez: New Insights into the Iron Age Archaeology of Edom, Southern Jordan, 2014
Abstract: Situated south of the Dead Sea, near the famous Nabataean capital of Petra, the Faynan region in Jordan contains the largest deposits of copper ore in the southern Levant. The Edom Lowlands Regional Archaeology Project...

Papadopoulos , John K.; Morris, Sarah P.; Bejko, Lorenc; Schepartz, Lynne A.: The Excavation of the Prehistoric Burial Tumulus at Lofkënd, Albania (2-Vol Set), 2014
Abstract: The burial tumulus of Lofkënd lies in one of the richest archaeological areas of Albania (ancient Illyria) home to a number of burial tumuli spanning the Bronze and Iron Ages of later European prehistory. Modern...

Formative Lifeways in Central Tlaxcala, Volume 1: Excavations, Ceramics, and Chronology, 2014
Abstract: The transition to the Formative in the relatively high-altitude study region of Tlaxcala, Mexico is later than it was in choice regions for early agriculture elsewhere in Mesoamerica. From 900 BCE, however, population growth and...

Areshian , Gregory E.: Empires and Diversity: On the Crossroads of Archaeology, Anthropology, and History, 2013
Abstract: For more than four thousand years, empires have been geographically the largest polities on Earth, shaping in many respects the human past and present in different epochsand on different continents.  ...

Lohse, Jon C.: Classic Maya Political Ecology: Resource Management, Class Histories, and Political Change in Northwestern Belize , 2013
Abstract: The Classic Maya of the Central Lowlands crafted one of the ancient world’s great civilizations in what is today Belize, northern Guatemala, and Yucatan, Mexico. Although the Maya have long been known for their artistic...

Protzen , Jean-Pierre; Nair, Stella: The Stones of Tiahuanaco, 2013
Abstract: The remains of the artful gateways, platforms, walls, and sculpture at Tiahuanaco, an important Middle Horizon site at the southern end of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, have for centuries sparked what has seemed like unanswerable...

Advances in Titicaca Basin Archaeology-2 , 2013
Abstract: This volume, the second in a series of studies on the archaeology of the Titicaca Basin, serves as an excellent springboard for broader discussions of the roles of ritual, authority, coercion, and the intensification of resources and trade for the development of archaic...

The Dead Tell Tales, 2013
Abstract: Honoring Jane Buikstra’s pioneering work in the development of archaeobiological research, the essays in this volume stem from a symposium held at an annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Buikstra’s redefinition of the...

Light and Shadow: Isolation and Interaction in the Shala Valley of Northern Albania, 2013
Abstract: There are few places in Europe as remote as the Shala Valley of northern Albania. The inhabitants appear lost in time, cut off from the outside world, a people apart. But this careful interdisciplinary study...

Visions of Tiwanaku, 2013
Abstract: “What was Tiwanaku?” This question was posed to a select group of scholars that gathered for an intensive two-day conference at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA. For over half a millennium, the megalithic...

Donnan, Christopher B.: Chotuna and Chornancap: Excavating an Ancient Peruvian Legend, 2012
Abstract: Christopher Donnan's Chotuna and Chornancap: Excavating an Ancient Peruvian Legend, explores one of the most intriguing oral histories passed down among ancient Peruvians: the legend of Naymlap, the founder of a dynasty that ruled the...

Stanish, Charles: Lake Titicaca: Legend, Myth and Science, 2012
Abstract: Lake Titicaca and the vast region surrounding this deep body of water contain mysteries that we are just beginning to unravel. The area surrounding the world’s highest navigable lake was home to some of the...

Van Tilburg, Jo Anne; Hull, Gordon; Bretney, John C.: Rock Art at Little Lake: An Ancient Crossroads in the California Desert, 2012
Abstract: The product of ten years of fieldwork at Little Lake Ranch in the Rose Valley, the southern gateway to the Owens Valley, this book presents the results of intensive rock art analyses carried out by...

The Construction of Value in the Ancient World, 2012
Abstract: Scholars from Aristotle to Marx and beyond have been fascinated by the question of what constitutes value. The Construction of Value in the Ancient World makes a significant contribution to this ongoing inquiry, bringing together...

Crucible of Pueblos: The Early Pueblo Period in the Northern Southwest , 2012
Abstract: Archaeologists are increasingly recognizing the early Pueblo period as a major social and demographic transition in Southwest history. In Crucible of Pueblos: The Early Pueblo Period in the Northern Southwest, Richard Wilshusen, Gregson Schachner and...

Exploring Methods of Faunal Analysis: Insights from California Archaeology , 2012
Abstract: How does the practice of archaeology benefit from faunal analysis? Michael Glassow and Terry Joslin's Exploring Methods of Faunal Analysis: Insights from California Archaeology addresses this question. Contributors to this volume demonstrate how faunal remains...

The History of the Peoples of the Eastern Desert, 2012
Abstract: The last quarter century has seen extensive research on the ports of the Red Sea coast of Egypt, the road systems connecting them to the Nile, and the mines and quarries in the region. Missing...

Last House on the Hill: BACH Area Reports from Çatalhöyük, Turkey, 2012
Abstract: Occupied from around 7500 BC to 5700 BC, the large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük in Anatolia is composed entirely of domestic buildings; no public buildings have been identified. First excavated in the early...

Rosen, Steven A: An Investigation into Early Desert Pastoralism: Excavations at the Camel Site, Negev, 2011
Abstract: Negev focuses on two primary purposes, one theoretical/methodological and the second substantive. Briefly stated, the book comprises a case study of excavations at an early (ca. 2800 B.C.) pastoral site in the Negev, providing detailed...

Archaeology 2.0: New Approaches to Communication and Collaboration, 2011
Abstract: How is the Web transforming the professional practice of archaeology? And as archaeologists accustomed to dealing with “deep time,” how can we best understand the possibilities and limitations of the Web in meeting the specialized...

The History and Archaeology of Jaffa 1, 2011
Abstract: In 2007 the Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project (JCHP) was established as a joint research endeavor of the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Among the...

Information and Its Role in Hunter-Gatherer Bands, 2011
Abstract: Information and Its Role in Hunter-Gatherer Bands explores the question of how information, broadly conceived, is acquired, stored, circulated, and utilized in small-scale hunter-gatherer societies, or...

Bauer, Brian S.; Kellett, Lucas C.; Aráoz Silva, Miriam: The Chanka: Archaeological Research in Andahuaylas (Apurimac), Peru, 2010
Abstract: In AD 1438 a battle took place outside the city of Cuzco that changed the course of South American history. The Chanka, a powerful ethnic group from the Andahuaylas region, had begun an aggressive program...

Lesure, Richard G.: Settlement and Subsistence in Early Formative Soconusco: El Varal and the Problem of Inter-Site Assemblage Variation, 2010
Abstract: The Soconusco region, a narrow strip of the Pacific coast of Mexico and Guatemala, is the location of some of the earliest pottery-using villages of ancient Mesoamerica. Mobile early inhabitants of the area harvested marsh...

Reinhard, Johan; Ceruti, Maria Constanza: Inca Rituals and Sacred Mountains: A Study of the World's Highest Archaeological Sites, 2010
Abstract: The Incas carried out some of the most dramatic ceremonies known to us from ancient times. Groups of people walked hundreds of miles across arid and mountainous terrain to perform them on mountains over 20,000...

Reinhard, Johan; Ceruti, Maria Costanza: Inca Rituals and Sacred Mountains: A Study of the World's Highest Archaeological Sites, 2010
Abstract: The Incas carried out some of the most dramatic ceremonies known to us from ancient times. Groups of people walked hundreds of miles across arid and mountainous terrain to perform them on mountains over 20,000...

Bonavia, Duccio: The South American Camelids: An Expanded and Corrected Edition, 2009
Abstract: One of the most significant differences between the New World’s major areas of high culture is that Mesoamerica had no beasts of burden and wool, while the Andes had both. Four members of the camelid...

von Falkenhausen, Lothar: Lloyd Cotsen Study Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors: Volume I: Catalogue; Volume II Studies, 2009
Abstract: This two-volume set was edited by Lothar von Falkenhausen and authored by Suzanne E. Cahill with essays by K.E. Brashier, Charlotte Horlyck, Li Jaang, Guolong Lai, Colin Mackenzie, Li Min, David A. Scott, Lillian Lan-ying...

Andean Civilization: A Tribute to Michael E. Moseley , 2009
Abstract: This volume brings together exciting new field data by more than two dozen Andean scholars who came together to honor their friend, colleague, and mentor, Michael E. Moseley. These new studies cover the enormous temporal...

Blood and Beauty: Organized Violence in the Art and Archaeology of Mesoamerica and Central America, 2009
Abstract: Warfare, ritual human sacrifice, and the rubber ballgame are the traditional practices through which scholars have most often examined organized violence in the artistic and material records of ancient Mesoamerica and Central America. ...

Gallinazo: An Early Cultural Tradition on the Peruvian North Coast, 2009
Abstract: Over the last decades, considerable effort has been directed towards the study of early complex societies of northern Peru, and in recent years archaeologists have expressed a strong interest in the art and archaeology of...

Lloyd Cotsen Study Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors: Volume I: Catalogue; Volume II Studies, 2009
Abstract: This two-volume set was edited by Lothar von Falkenhausen and authored by Suzanne E. Cahill with essays by K.E. Brashier, Charlotte Horlyck, Li Jaang, Guolong Lai, Colin Mackenzie, Li Min, David A. Scott, Lillian Lan-ying...

Allison, Penelope M.: Pompeian Households: An Analysis of Material Culture , 2008
Abstract: Studies of Pompeian material culture have traditionally been dominated by art historical approaches, but recently there has been a renewed and burgeoning interest in Pompeian houses for studies of Roman domestic behavior.  ...

Marcus, Joyce: Excavations at Cerro Azul, Peru: The Architecture and Pottery, 2008
Abstract: During the Late Intermediate period (AD 1100-1470), the lower Cañete Valley of Peru was controlled by the walled Kingdom of Huarco. While inland sites produced irrigated crops, the seaside community of Cerro Azul, 130 km south of...

The Archaeology of Mobility: Old World and New World Nomadism, 2008
Abstract: A majority of laymen, politicians and scholars consciously or subconsciously understand settled living as the highest rung on the evolutionary ladder. Accounts of people surviving and even thriving in peripheral areas are often instrumental to...

Chavín: Art, Architecture, and Culture , 2008
Abstract: This book is the first in more than a decade to provide new information on the Chavín phenomenon of ancient Peru. Thought by some to be the "Mother Culture" of ancient Peruvian cultures, Chavín is...

Bauer, Brian S.: Kasapata and the Archaic Period of the Cuzco Valley, 2007
Abstract: Although the Cuzco Valley of Peru is renowned for being the heartland of the Incas, little is known concerning its pre-Inca inhabitants. Until recently it was widely believed that the first inhabitants of the Cuzco...

Donnan, Christopher B: Moche Tombs at Dos Cabezas, 2007
Abstract: Moche civilization flourished on the north coast of Peru between approximately AD 100 and 800. Although the Moche had no writing system, they left a vivid artistic record of their beliefs and activities in beautifully...

McClelland, Donna; McClelland, Donald; Donnan, Christopher B: Moche Fineline Painting From San José De Moro, 2007
Abstract: Moche civilization flourished on the north coast of Peru from AD 200 to 800. Although the Moche had no writing system, they left a vivid artistic record of their beliefs and activities on intricately painted...

Papadopoulos, John K: The Early Iron Age Cemetary at Torone: Volume 1: Text, 2007
Abstract: This volume publishes the excavation and analysis of the Early Iron Age cemetery at Torone in Chalkidike, in the north Aegean, Greece. Spanning the period between the twelfth or eleventh century down to ca. 850...

Papadopoulos, John K: The Early Iron Age Cemetary at Torone: Volume 2: Illustrations, 2007
Abstract: This volume publishes the excavation and analysis of the Early Iron Age cemetery at Torone in Chalkidike, in the north Aegean, Greece. Spanning the period between the twelfth or eleventh century down to ca. 850...

Reinhard, Johan: Machu Picchu: Exploring an Ancient Sacred Center, 2007
Abstract: Machu Picchu, voted one of the New Wonders of the World, is one of the world’s most famous archaeological sites, yet it remains a mystery. Even the most basic questions are still unanswered: What was...

Rick, Torben C.: Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Late Holocene San Miguel Island, 2007
Abstract: California’s northern Channel Islands have one of the longest and best-preserved archaeological records in the Americas, spanning some 13,000 calendar years. When European explorers first traveled to the area, these islands were inhabited by the...

The Archaeology of Ritual , 2007
Abstract: This book is the fruit of the third Cotsen Advanced Seminar conducted at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA. A wide spectrum of scholars, historians, art historians, anthropologists, students of performance and of religion, archaeologists, cognitive...

Berenike 1999/2000, 2007
Abstract: Excavations at Berenike, a Greco-Roman harbor on the Egyptian Red Sea coast, have provided extensive evidence for trade with India, South-Arabia and sub-Saharan Africa.  The results of the 1999...

Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces II: Revised and Expanded Second Edition, 2007
Abstract: This revised and expanded edition of the classic 1999 edited book includes all the chapters from the original volume plus a new, updated, introduction and several new chapters. The current book is an up-to-date review...

Settlement and Society: Essays Dedicated to Robert McCormick Adams, 2007
Abstract: This volume of essays dedicated to Robert McCormick Adams reflects both the breadth of his research and the select themes upon which he focused his attention. These essays written by his students and disciples focus on...

Cappers , René T.J.: Roman Foodprints at Berenike: Archaeobotanical Evidence of Subsistence and Trade in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, 2006
Abstract: During the Graeco-Roman period, Berenike served as a gateway to the outside world together with Myos Hormos. Commodities were imported from Africa south of the Sahara, Arabia, and India into the Greek and Roman Empire,...

Falkenhausen , Lothar von: Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (1000-250 BC), 2006
Abstract: The Late Bronze Age (ca. 1000-250 BC) was a crucial period during which the Chinese Classics came into being and famous thinkers such as Confucius (ca. 551-479 BC) laid the intellectual foundations of traditional Chinese...

Agricultural Strategies , 2006
Abstract: This volume brings together a diverse set of new studies--archaeological, ethnohistoric, and ethnographic—that focus on agricultural intensification and hydraulic systems around the world. Fifteen chapters—written by many of the world's leading experts—combine extensive regional overviews...

Bawden, Garth; Blom, Deborah E.; Bourget, Steve; Buikstra, Jane E.; Heckman, Andrea M.; Janusek, John Wayne et al.: Us and Them: Archaeology and Ethnicity in the Andes, 2005
Abstract: This volume brings together a corpus of scholars whose work collectively represents a significant advancement in the study of prehistoric ethnicity in the Andean region. The assembled research represents an outstanding collection of theoretical and...

Watrous, L. Vance; Hadzi-Vallianou, Despoina; Blitzer, Harriet: Plain of Phaistos: Cycles of Social Complexity in the Mesara Region of Crete, 2005
Abstract: The volume presents the results on an interdisciplinary regional field project (1984 - 1987) carried out on the island Of Crete. This volume traces the changing patterns of settlement and cycles of social complexity from...

Advances in Titicaca Basin Archaeology-1, 2005
Abstract: Advances in Titicaca Basin Archaeology-I is the first in a series of edited volumes that reports on recent research in the south central Andes. Volume I contains 18 chapters that cover the entire range of...

Foundations of Chumash Complexity, 2005
Abstract: This volume highlights the latest research on the foundations of sociopolitical complexity in coastal California. The populous maritime societies of southern California, particularly the groups known collectively as the Chumash, have gone largely unrecognized as...

Beaubien, Harriet F.; Emery, Kitty F.; Henderson, John; Joyce, Rosemary; Longstaffe, Fred L.; Masson, Marilyn A. et al.: Maya Zooarchaeology: New Directions in Method and Theory, 2004
Abstract: A comprehensive work, combining traditional zooarchaeological reports and various state-of-the-art summaries of methods and theoretical perspectives. This combination of detailed discussions of basic zooarchaeological data with reviews of important themes in Maya zooarchaeology emphasizes the...

Archaeological Research on the Islands of the Sun and Moon, Lake Titicaca, Bolivia: Final Results from the Proyecto Tiksi Kjarka, 2004
Abstract: Beginning in 1994, the Proyecto Tiksi Kjarka conducted a complete survey of the Islands of the Sun and Moon in southern Lake Titicaca, along with test excavations of important Inca, Tiwanaku, and pre-Tiwanaku sites. This...

Archaeology in the Borderlands: Investigations in Caucasia and Beyond, 2004
Abstract: Set on a broad isthmus between the Black and Caspian Seas, Caucasia has traditionally been portrayed as either a well-trod highway linking southwest Asia and the Eurasian Steppe or an isolated periphery of the political...

K’axob: Ritual, Work, and Family in an Ancient Maya Village, 2004
Abstract: Shortly after 800 B.C., a village was founded in the wetland and riverine habitat of northern Belize. Now called K’axob, this Maya community grew and prospered through Formative and Classic times. A millennial-long record of...

Cruz Pool, Christopher: Settlement Archaeology & Political Economy at Tres Zapotes, Veracruz, Mexico, 2003
Abstract: This volume presents new information from a program of intensive archaeological survey and surface collection at an important Olmec and Epi-Olmec center. A dual strategy of systematic interval transect sampling and full-coverage survey of architectural...

Iannone, Gyles; Connell, Samuel V: Perspectives on Ancient Maya Rural Complexity, 2003
Abstract: Settlement archaeology in the Maya area has focused much of its attention on the polar extremes of the settlement continuum. As a result of this urban/rural bias, a whole range of complex rural settlements remain...

Renfrew, Colin; Elster , Ernestine:  Prehistoric Sitagroi: Excavations in Northeast Greece, 1968-1970 Volume 2: Final Report , 2003
Abstract: Volume 2 presents the concluding research on Sitagroi, a prehistoric settlement mound in northeastern Greece, excavated between 1968 and 1970. This volume offers a detailed report on the plant remains along with a full treatment...

Prehistoric Sitagroi: Exavations in Northeast Greece, 1968-1970 Volume 2: The Final Report, 2003
Abstract: Volume 2 presents the concluding research on Sitagroi, a prehistoric settlement mound in northeastern Greece, excavated between 1968 and 1970. This volume offers a detailed report on the plant remains along with a full treatment...

Theory and Practice in Mediterranean Archaeology: Old World and New World Perspectives, 2003
Abstract: Theory and Practice in Mediterranean Archaeology: Old World and New World Perspectives brings together leading scholars from the Old World and the Americas to discuss some of the most pressing issues facing archaeology today. These...

Yeki bud, yeki nabud: Essays on the Archaeoogy of Iran in Honor of William M. Sumner, 2003
Abstract: This volume is a collection of essays by colleagues, friends, and students of William M. Sumner in appreciation of his outstanding contribution to Iranian archaeology, especially to our archaeological knowledge of Fars, a center of...

Arnold, Jeanne E.: Catalysts to Complexity, 2002
Abstract: When the Spanish colonized it in AD 1769, the California Coast was inhabited by speakers of no fewer than 16 distinct languages and an untold number of small, autonomous Native communities. These societies all survived...

Brown, Linda A.; Gillepsie, Susan D.; Grove, David C.; Manzanilla, Linda; McAnany, Patricia A.; Plunket, Patricia et al.: Domestic Ritual in Ancient Mesoamerica, 2002
Abstract: Although the concepts and patterns of ritual varied through time in relation to general sociopolitical transformations and local historical circumstances in ancient Mesoamerica, most archaeologists would agree that certain underlying themes and structures modeled the...

Hirth, Kenneth; Andrews, Bradford: Pathways to Prismatic Blades: A Study in Mesoamerican Obsidian Core-Blade Technology, 2002
Abstract: The obsidian prismatic blade is one of the sharpest cutting implements ever produced in the prehistoric world. This volume explores the social and economic processes involved in its manufacture in ancient Mesoamerica. Contributors examine the...

McCafferty, Geoffrey G.: Ceramics of Postclassic Cholula, Mexico: Typology and Seriation of Pottery from the UA-1 Domestic Compound, 2001
Abstract: As the center for the religious cult of Quetzalcoatl, Cholula played a prominent role in shaping events of central Mexico’s Postclassic period. Yet confusion over historical events in Cholula itself have limited its place in...

Beaudry-Corbett, Marilyn; Begley, Christopher Taylor; Bove, Frederick J.; Boxt, Matthew A.; Dillon, Brian D.; Fowler, William R. et al.: Early Scholars' Visits to Central America, 2000

Anderson, Patricia C: Prehistory of Agriculture: New Experimental and Ethnographic Approaches, 1999
Abstract: The twenty-eight contributors to this book show how experimental and ethnographic approaches are being used to shed new light on the process of domestication, and harvesting techniques, tools and technology in the period just before...

Sackett, James: Archaeology of Solvieux: An Upper Paleolithic Open Air Site in France, 1999
Abstract: Few open-air sites of this age have the same extent, complexity and diversity of deposits, as was found at the site of Solvieux in South-west France. The complexities of the site and the intensity of...

Allen, Rebecca: Native Americans at Mission Santa Cruz, 1791-1834, 1998
Abstract: When the Spanish colonized it in AD 1769, the California Coast was inhabited by speakers of no fewer than 16 distinct languages and an untold number of small, autonomous Native communities. These societies all survived...

Recent Advances in the Archaeology of the Northern Andes: In Memory of Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, 1998
Abstract: The Northern Andes has had a subdued voice in the literature of American archaeology - even though it is a pivotal region for understanding many of the social, economic, political and ideological changes which pre-Columbian...

Approaches to the Historical Archaeology of Mexico, Central & South America, 1997
Abstract: This volume brings together for the first time a collection of articles by scholars working in the field of historical archaeology in Mexico, Central, and South America. Even though archaeologists have conducted investigations on historical...

Archaeology of the California Coast During the Middle Holocene, 1997

Greenwood, Roberta S.: Down by the Station: Los Angeles Chinatown 1880-1933, 1996
Abstract: In 1933, the demolition of the thriving Los Angeles Chinatown for the construction of Union Station sealed the remains of this intact community 14 feet below the railroad tracks. The planning and construction of the...

Loring, J. Malcolm; Loring, Louise: Pictographs & Petroglyphs of the Oregon Country, Parts I & II, 1996

Jones, Terry L.; Waugh , Georgie: Central California Coastal Prehistory: A View from Little Pico Creek, 1995
Abstract: Reports on excavations at Little Pico Creek in San Luis Obispo County and assesses the temporal components and issues of cultural chronology, subsistence, mobility, and social structure. Series: Perspectives in California...

Lass, Barbara: Hawaiian Adze Production and Distribution: Implications for the Development of Chiefdoms, 1994
Abstract: Using a study of stone adzes of the precontact period on the island of Hawai'i, Lass examines the role of a material resource in the development of cultural complexity. Archaeological evidence is used to analyze...

Sease, Catherine: A Conservation Manual for the Field Archaeologist, 1994
Abstract: Conservation treatments and techniques for the archaeologist in the field, emphasizing how to conserve an excavated object before it is taken to a trained conservator offsite. Safety procedures and conservation supplies and materials are recommended....

New Light on Old Art: Recent Advances in Hunter-Gatherer Rock Art Research, 1994
Abstract: Rock art is the most visible aspect of the prehistoric hunter-gatherer archaeological record. Covering cave walls, cliff slides and boulder faces with painted and engraved designs, it challenges the archaeologist to address the symbolic, aesthetic,...

Pottery of Prehistoric Honduras: Regional Classification and Analysis, 1993
Abstract: The contributors to this volume have addressed issues of systematics in pottery analysis that perplex archaeologists wherever they work. These issues are not approached by setting forth rules or by adopting a how-to approach but...

Practical Archaeology: Field and Laboratory techniques and Archaeological logistics, 1993
Abstract: All archaeological writing can be placed in two categories: that which reports on or interprets archaeological discoveries and that which proposes the ways and means by which new discoveries can be made or interpreted. Archaeological...

Luedtke, Barbara E.: An Archaeologist's Guide to Chert and Flint, 1992
Abstract: For at least 2.5 million years, humans have been using tools, and until just a few thousand years ago their most important tools were of stone. The single most important and widely used stone in...

Hunter-Gatherers of Early Holocene Coastal California, 1991

Watson, Patty Jo; LeBlanc, Steven A.: Girikihaciyan: A Halafian Site in Southeastern Turkey, 1990
Abstract: This report presents the results of excavations undertaken at the site of Girikihaciyan in southeastern Turkey during 1968 and 1970 by the Joint Prehistoric Project, Istanbul-Chicago under the overal direction of Professor Halet Cambel, University...

Dillon, Brian D.; Boxt, Matthew A.: Archaeology of the Three Springs Valley, California: A Study in Functional Cultural History, 1989

Costello, Julia G.; Maniery, Mary L.: Rice Bowls in the Delta: Artifacts Recovered from the 1915 Asian Community of Walnut Grove, California, 1988
Abstract: The artifacts recovered from the Walnut Grove are a significant addition to the research of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Asian material culture. Of particular significance is the large collection of recovered Japanese ceramics....

Excavations at Sitagroi: A Prehistoric Village in Northeast Greece Volume 1, 1986
Abstract: The first of 2 volumes reporting on excavations at a middle neolithic to early bronze age site in northeast Greece. Vol. 1 presents the full sequence of culture exposed by excavation of this settlement mound,...

Tzavella-Evjen, Hara: Lithares: An Early Bronze Age Settlement in Boeotia, 1985
Abstract: Series: Occasional Paper 15...

Gates, Charles: From Cremation to Inhumation: Burial Practices at Ialysos and Kameiros during the Mid-Archaic Period, ca. 625-525 B.C., 1983

La Lone, Mary: Gabrielino Indians of Southern California: an Annotated Ethnohistoric Bibliography, 1980

Clewlow, C. W. Jr.; Whitley, David S.: The Archaeology of Oak Park, Ventura County, California Volume III, 1979

Georgiou, Hara: The Late Minoan Destruction of Crete: Metal Groups and Stratigraphic Considerations, 1979

Rock Art of East Mexico and Central America: An Annotated Bibliography, 1979
Abstract: Strecker’s introduction to the first edition, reprinted here largely unchanged, raises questions about the techniques of production and avenues of interpretation, then concludes with a stylistic summary of Lower Central American rock art based upon...

Clewlow, C. William Jr.; Wells, Helen F.; Ambro, Richard D.: History and Prehistory at Grass Valley, Nevada, 1978

Obsidian Dates II: A Compendium of the Obsidian Hydration Determinations Made ast the UCLA Obsidian Hydration Laboratory, 1978

Rutter, Jeremy B.; Rutter, Sarah H.: The Transition to Mycenaean: A Stratified Middle Helladic II to Late Helladic IIA pottery sequence from Ayios Stephanos in Lakonia, 1976
Abstract: The following study is concerned only with pottery of the later Middle Helladic and early Mycenaean periods. In spite of its limited scope, we feel that the stratified ceramic sequence presented here has a unique...