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  • Pushing Boundaries in Southwestern Archaeology

    Chronometry, Collections, and Contexts

    Edited by Stephen E. Nash, Erin L. Baxter ...
    Series series Proceedings of SW Symposium
    Pushing Boundaries in Southwestern Archaeology draws together the proceedings from the sixteenth biennial Southwest Symposium. In exploring the conference theme, contributors consider topics ranging from the resuscitation of archaeomagnetic dating to the issue of Athapaskan origins, from collections-based studies of social identity, foodways, and obsidian trade to the origins of a rock art ... Read more

    $44.69 USD

  • Shovel Ready

    Archaeology and Roosevelt's New Deal for America

    by Bernard K. Means, John L. Cordell, John F. Doershuk, David H. Dye, Scott W. Hammerstedt, Janet R. Johnson, Kevin Kiernan, Gregory D. Lattanzi, Anna R. Lunn0, Stephen E. Nash1, Amanda L. Regnier2, Sissel Schroeder3, James R. Wettstaed4, Patrick C. Livingood5 ...
    Shovel Ready provides a comprehensive lens through which to view the New Deal period, a fascinating and prolific time in American archaeology.In this collection of diverse essays united by a common theme, Bernard K. Means and his contributors deliver a valuable research tool for practicing archaeologists and historians of archaeology, as well as New Deal scholars in general.To rescue Americans ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Stories in Stone

    The Enchanted Gem Carvings of Vasily Konovalenko

    by Stephen E. Nash, James W. Hagadorn, Tatiana Muntian ...
    Vasily Konovalenko’s unique, dynamic, and theatrical sculptures stand alone in the gem-carving world—bawdy but not salacious, political but not diplomatic, boisterous and exuberant yet occasionally sensitive*. Stories in Stone* offers the first comprehensive treatment of the life of this little-known Russian artist and the remarkable history of his wonderful sculptures.Part art catalogue and part ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • An Anthropologist's Arrival

    A Memoir

    by Ruth M. Underhill ...
    Ruth M. Underhill (1883–1984) was one of the twentieth century’s legendary anthropologists, forged in the same crucible as Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead. After decades of trying to escape her Victorian roots, Underhill took on a new adventure at the age of forty-six, when she entered Columbia University as a doctoral student of anthropology. Celebrated now as one of America’s ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Crossroads of Culture

    Anthropology Collections at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science

    by Stephen E. Nash, Steven R. Holen, Chip Colwell ...
    The hectic front of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science hides an unseen back of the museum that is also bustling. Less than 1 percent of the museum's collections are on display at any given time, and the Department of Anthropology alone cares for more than 50,000 objects from every corner of the globe not normally available to the public. This lavishly illustrated book presents and celebrates ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

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    Multidisciplinary Research at Chunchucmil

    Edited by Scott R. Hutson ...
    Ancient Maya Commerce presents nearly two decades of multidisciplinary research at Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico—a thriving Classic period Maya center organized around commercial exchange rather than agriculture. An urban center without a king and unable to sustain agrarian independence, Chunchucmil is a rare example of a Maya city in which economics, not political rituals, served as the engine of ... Read more

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  • Changes in the Land

    Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

    by William Cronon, John Demos ...
    The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated.Winner of the Francis Parkman PrizeIn this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • New Mexico and the Pimería Alta

    The Colonial Period in the American Southwest

    Edited by John G. Douglass, William Graves ...
    Focusing on the two major areas of the Southwest that witnessed the most intensive and sustained colonial encounters, New Mexico and the Pimería Alta compares how different forms of colonialism and indigenous political economies resulted in diverse outcomes for colonists and Native peoples. Taking a holistic approach and studying both colonist and indigenous perspectives through archaeological, ... Read more

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  • Mapping the Nation

    History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Susan Schulten ...
    "A compelling read" that reveals how maps became informational tools charting everything from epidemics to slavery ( Journal of American History).In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and prevent epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate and rainfall to uncover weather patterns, educators ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere

    by Paulette F. C. Steeves ...
    2022 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North and South America during the Paleolithic. Paulette F. C. Steeves mines evidence from archaeology sites and Paleolithic environments, landscapes, and mammalian and human migrations to make the case that people have been in the Western ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Gotham Unbound

    The Ecological History of Greater New York

    by Ted Steinberg ...
    **Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award for US HistoryA “fascinating, encyclopedic history…of greater New York City through an ecological lens” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)—the sweeping story of one of the most man-made spots on earth.**Gotham Unbound recounts the four-century history of how hundreds of square miles of open marshlands became home to six percent of the nation’s population. Ted ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Bone Rooms

    From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums

    by Samuel J. Redman ...
    A Smithsonian Book of the YearA Nature Book of the Year“Provides much-needed foundation of the relationship between museums and Native Americans.”—SmithsonianIn 1864 a US Army doctor dug up the remains of a Dakota man who had been killed in Minnesota and sent the skeleton to a museum in Washington that was collecting human remains for research. In the “bone rooms” of the Smithsonian, a scientific ... Read more

    $28.79 USD