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Book Review Database
| Title | Author | Excerpt | Publisher | Copyright Date | Media Type | Review Date | Volume | Number |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Homol’ovi: An Ancient Hopi Settlement Cluster |
Adams, E. Charles
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Archaeologist Charles Adams has conducted 15 years of research at Homol’ovi, a cluster of five Hopi villages and related sites on the Little Colorado River near Winslow, Arizona, some 60... | University of Arizona Press | 2002 | Book | Fall 2002 | Vol. 6 | No. 3 |
| The First Americans: In Pursuit of Archaeology’s Greatest Mystery |
Adovasio, J.M.
Page, Jake |
In the summer of 1973, University of Pittsburgh archaeologist James Adovasio began to excavate a nearby rock shelter. By the next summer, he had dug a hole 10 feet deep... | Random House | 2002 | Book | Winter 2002-03 | Vol. 6 | No. 4 |
| Strangers in a New Land: What Archaeology Reveals About the First Americans |
Adovasio, J.M.
Pedler, David |
The most hotly debated question in American archaeology for the past two decades concerns the fundamental questions: Who were the First Americans? From where did they come? How did they... | Firefly Books | 2016 | Book | Winter 2016-17 | Vol. 20 | No. 4 |
| Cahokia’s Complexities: Ceremonies and Politics of the First Mississippian Farmers |
Alt, Susan M.
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Cahokia, which developed around A.D. 1050 and then declined about 1350, was the largest and most important pre-Columbian city north of Mexico. Located on the Mississippi River flood plain just... | University of Alabama Press | 2018 | Book | Summer 2019 | Vol. 23 | No. 2 |
| Peoples of the Northwest Coast: Their Archaeology and Prehistory |
Ames, Kenneth M.
Maschner, Herbert D.G. |
From northern California to Alaska, the Northwest Coast of North America is one of the continent’s richest cultural areas. Long famous for its magnificent art, it also contains some of... | Thames and Hudson | 1999 | Book | Summer 1999 | Vol. 3 | No. 2 |
| Late Prehistoric Florida: Archaeology at the Edge of the Mississippian World |
Ashley, Keith
White, Nancy Marie |
This collection of 12 essays by some of the most prominent researchers in the field examines the latest research and most recent excavations throughout Florida for the Mississippian period—A.D. 1000... | University Press of Florida | 2012 | Book | Fall 2012 | Vol. 16 | No. 3 |
| Buried Beneath Us: Discovering the Ancient Cities of the Americas |
Aveni, Anthony
Roy, Katherine |
This book for young people (age 10 and up) tells the story of the development of cities via an examination of four major ancient American ones—Cahokia, Tenochtitlan, Cuzco, and Copán.... | Roaring Brook Press | 2013 | Book | Spring 2014 | Vol. 18 | No. 1 |
| The Archaeology of French and Indian War Forts |
Babits, Lawrence E.
Gandulla, Stephanie |
The Seven Years War of 1756 to 1763 saw the great empires of France and Britain and all their allies fight for control of trade and colonies on four continents.... | University Press of Florida | 2013 | Book | Spring 2014 | Vol. 18 | No. 1 |
| The Archaeology of Hollywood |
Bahn, Paul G.
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The Archaeology of Hollywood is a light-hearted investigation of a magical era that is more a state of mind than a compact physical place. It is instead a group of... | Rowman & Littlefield | 2014 | Book | Spring 2014 | Vol. 18 | No. 1 |
| Land of Water, City of the Dead: Religion and Cahokia’s Emergence |
Baires, Sarah E.
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Located twelve miles east of St. Louis in the American Bottom, Cahokia was the largest American city north of Mexico. With a peak population of 20,000 or more, it was... | University of Alabama Press | 2017 | Book | Fall 2017 | Vol. 21 | No. 3 |
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