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2023 Book Reviews

Explanations in Iconography: Ancient American Indian Art, Symbol, and Meaning (pdf)

• Oxbow Press
• Edited by Carol Diaz-Granados
• Reviewed by Dr. Thomas Emerson

Archaeologies of Cosmoscapes in the Americas (pdf)

• Oxbow Press
• Edited by J. Grant Stauffer, Bretton T. Giles, and Shawn P. Lambert
• Reviewed by Dr. Thomas Emerson

The Archaeology of Craft and Industry (pdf)

• University Press of Florida
• By Christopher C. Fennell
• Reviewed by Metin I. Eren

The Calf Creek Horizon: A Mid-Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Adaptation in the Central and Southern Plains of North America (pdf)

• Texas A&M University Press
• Edited by Jon C. Lohse, Marjorie A. Duncan, and Don G. Wyckoff
• Reviewed by Metin I. Eren

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2022 Book Reviews

New Methods and Theories for Analyzing Mississippian Imagery (pdf)

• University of Florida Press
• Edited by Bretton T. Giles and Shawn P. Lambert
• Reviewed by Thomas E. Emerson

Being Scioto Hopewell: Ritual Drama and Personhood in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Volumes 1 & 2 (pdf)

• Springer
• By Christopher Carr with contributions by Anna C. Novotny, William Rex Weeks, Jr., Christopher R. Caseldine, Brianna J. Rafidi, Heather L. Smyth, Mary F. Kupsch, and Samantha R. Feinberg
• Reviewed by Eve A. Hargrave and Kristin M. Hedman

Repatriation and Erasing the Past (pdf)

• University of Florida Press
• By Elizabeth Weiss and James W. Springer
• Reviewed by Brooke M. Morgan

Reconsidering Mississippian Communities and Households (pdf)

• University of Alabama Press
• Edited by Elizabeth Watts Malouchos and Alleen Betzenhauser
• Reviewed by Alice P. Wright

Bioarchaeology of the American Southeast: Approaches to Bridging Health and Identity in the Past (pdf)

• The University of Alabama Press
• Edited by Shannon Chappell Hodge and Kristrina A. Shuler
• Reviewed by Ryan M. Campbell

New Materialisms Ancient Urbanisms (pdf)

• Routledge
• Edited by Susan M. Alt and Timothy R. Pauketat
• Reviewed by Christina M. Friberg

Ancient Pottery, Cuisine, and Society at the Northern Great Lakes (pdf)

• University of Notre Dame Press & Midwest Archaeological Conference, Inc.
• By Susan M. Kooiman
• Reviewed by Sean B. Dunham

The Archaeology of American Childhood and Adolescence (pdf)

• The University Press of Florida
• By Jane Eva Baxter
• Reviewed by Robert C. Chidester

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2021 Book Reviews

Indigenous Life Around the Great Lakes: War, Climate, and Culture (pdf)

• Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame
• By Richard W. Edwards IV
• Reviewed by Metin I. Eren

People & Culture in Ice Age Americas: New Dimensions in Paleoamerican Archaeology (pdf)

• The University of Utah Press
• Edited by Rafael Suarez and Ciprian F. Ardelean
• Reviewed by Metin I. Eren

A Universal Theory of Pottery Production: Irving Rouse, Attributes, Modes, and Ethnography (pdf)

• The University of Alabama Press
• By Richard A. Krause
• Reviewed by Alison E. Manley

Modeling Entradas: Sixteenth-Century Assemblages in North America (pdf)

• University of Florida Press
• By Clay Mathers
• Reviewed by Kurt W. Haas

A Primer on Chiefs and Chiefdoms (pdf)

• Eliot Werner Publications, Inc.
• By Timothy Earle
• Reviewed by Thomas E. Emerson

The Archaeology of the Logging Industry (pdf)

• University Press of Florida
• By John G. Franzen
• Reviewed by Sean B. Dunham

Bears: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Perspectives in Native North America (pdf)

• University of Florida Press
• Edited by Heather A. Lapham and Gregory A. Waselkov
• Reviewed by Steven R. Kuehn

Household Economy at Wall Ridge: A Fourteenth-Century Central Plains Farmstead in the Missouri Valley (pdf)

• The University of Utah Press
• Edited by Stephen C. Lensink, Joseph A. Tiffany, and Shirley J. Schermer
• Reviewed by Lauren W. Ritterbush

Chipped Stone Technological Organization: Central Place Foraging and Exchange on the Northern Great Plains (pdf)

• The University of Utah Press
• By Craig M. Johnson
• Reviewed by Metin I. Eren

The Poetics of Processing: Memory Formation, Identity, and the Handling of the Dead (pdf)

• University Press of Colorado
• Edited by Anna J. Osterholtz
• Reviewed by Jessica Spencer and Kaleigh Best

The Historical Turn in Southeastern Archaeology (pdf)

• University of Florida Press
• Edited by Robbie Ethridge and Eric E. Brown
• Reviewed by Edward R. Henry

 

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2020 Book Reviews

Fort St. Joseph Revealed: The Historical Archaeology of a Fur Trading Post (pdf)

• University Press of Florida
• Edited by Michael S. Nassaney
• Reviewed by Robert Stark

The Archaeology of Ancient Cities (pdf)

• Eliot Werner Publications
• By Glenn R. Storey
• Reviewed by Dr. Thomas E. Emerson

Encountering Hopewell in the Twenty-first Century, Ohio and Beyond: Volume 1: Monuments and Ceremony and Volume 2: Settlements, Foodways, and Interactions (pdf)

• University of Akron Press (Volume 1) and (Volume 2)
• Edited by Brian G. Redmond, Bret J. Ruby, and Jarrod Burks
• Reviewed by Edward R. Henry

Experiencing Archaeology: A Laboratory Manual of Classroom Activities, Demonstrations, and Minilabs for Introductory Archaeology (pdf)

• Berghahn Books
• Edited by Lara Homsey-Messer, Tracy Michaud, Angela Lockard Reed, and Victoria Bobo
• Reviewed by Kaleigh Best, Teresa Palomares, and Jessica Spencer

The Archaeology of Villages in Eastern North America (pdf)

• University of Florida Press, Gainesville
• Edited by Jennifer Birch and Victor D. Thompson
• Reviewed by Sarah E. Baires

Color in the Ancestral Pueblo Southwest (pdf)

• The University of Utah Press
• Edited by Marit K. Munson and Kelley Hays-Gilpin
• Reviewed by Dr. Corin C.O. Pursell

Cahokia in Context: Hegemony and Diaspora (pdf)

• University of Florida Press
• Edited by Charles H. McNutt and Ryan D. Parish
• Reviewed by Brian M Butler

The Archaeologist’s Laboratory: The Analysis of Archaeological Evidence. Second Edition (pdf)

• Springer Nature
• By Edward B. Banning
• Reviewed by Thomas E. Emerson

Contact, Colonialism, and Native Communities in the Southeastern United States (pdf)

• University of Florida Press
• Edited by Edmond A. Boudreaux III, Maureen Meyers, and Jay K. Johnson
• Reviewed by Mary Elizabeth Fitts

Communities and Households in the Greater American Southwest (pdf)

• University Press of Colorado
• Edited by Robert J. Stokes
• Reviewed by Michael Aiuvalasit

Cahokia’s Complexities: Ceremonies and Politics of the First Mississippian Farmers (pdf)

• University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa
• By Susan M. Alt
• Reviewed by Steven L. Boles

L’Archaïque au Québec: Six Millénaires d’histoire Amérindienne (pdf)

• Recherches amérindiennes au Québec, Montréal
• Edited by Adrian L. Burke and Claude Chapdelaine
• Reviewed by Clare Tolmie

Using and Curating Archaeological Collections (pdf)

• Society for American Archaeology
• Edited by S. Terry Childs and Mark S. Warner
• Reviewed by Brooke M. Morgan

 

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2019 Book Reviews

New Life for Archaeological Collections (pdf)

• University of Nebraska Press
• Edited by Rebecca Allen and Ben Ford
• Reviewed by Danielle M. Benden

Strategies for Quantitative Research: Archaeology by Numbers (pdf)

• Routledge
• By Grant S. McCall
• Reviewed by Paul D. Welch

British Forts and Their Communities, Archaeological and Historical Perspective (pdf)

• University Press of Florida
• Edited by Christopher R. Decorse and Zachary J. M. Beier
• Reviewed by Mark J. Wagner

The Carolina Backcountry Venture (pdf)

• The University of South Carolina Press
• By Kenneth E. Lewis
• Reviewed by Mark J. Wagner

Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas: Alterity, Ontology, and Shifting Paradigms (pdf)

• Rowman & Littlefield
• Edited by Melissa R. Baltus and Sarah E. Baires
• Reviewed by Zackary I. Gilmore

An Essay on Political Economies in Prehistory (pdf)

• Amazon
• By Timothy Earle
• Reviewed by Jon Muller

Reading the Bones: Activity, Biology, and Culture (pdf)

• University Press of Florida
• By Elizabeth Weiss
• Reviewed by Meadow Campbell

Revealing Greater Cahokia, North America’s First Native City: Rediscovery and Large-Scale Excavations of the East St. Louis Precinct (pdf)

• Illinois State Archaeological Survey
• Edited by Thomas E. Emerson, Brad H. Koldehoff, and Tamira K. Brennan
• Reviewed by John F. Doershuk

Feeding Cahokia: Early Agriculture in the North American Heartland (pdf)

• University of Alabama Press
• By Gayle Fritz
• Reviewed by Mary Simon

Food Production in Native North America: An Archaeological Perspective (pdf)

• The Society for American Archaeology Press
• By Kristen J. Gremillion
• Reviewed by Justine McKnight

Identified Skeletal Collections: The Testing Ground of Anthropology? (pdf)

• Archaeopress Publishing Ltd.
• Edited by Charlotte Yvette Henderson and Francisca Alves Cardoso
• Reviewed by Kaleigh C. Best

Elements of Architecture: Assembling Archaeology, Atmosphere and the Performance of Building Spaces (pdf)

• Routledge
• Edited by Mikkel Bille and Tim Flohr Sørensen
• Reviewed by Dr. Corin C.O. Pursell

The Archaeology of Large-Scale Manipulation of Prey: The Economic and Social
Dynamics of Mass Hunting (pdf)

• University Press of Colorado
• Edited by Kristen Carlson and Leland C. Bement
• Reviewed by Thomas Loebel

The Cumberland Archaic of Middle Tennessee (pdf)

• University of Florida Press
• Edited by Tanya M. Peres and Aaron Deter-Wolf
• Reviewed by Brian Butler

The Archaeology of American Mining (pdf)

• University Press of Florida  
• By Paul J. White
• Reviewed by Philip G. Millhouse

Children and Childhood in Bioarchaeology (pdf)

• University Press of Florida
• Edited by Patrick Beauchesne and Sabrina C. Agarwal
• Reviewed by Anne Marie E. Snoddy

Massacres: Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology Approaches (pdf)

• University of Florida Press
• By Cheryl P. Anderson and Debra L. Martin
• Reviewed by Christiane Baigent

New Histories of Village Life at Crystal River (pdf)

• University of Florida Press
• By Thomas J. Pluckhahn and Victor D. Thompson
• Reviewed by Jayur Madhusudan Mehta

Rediscovering Lost Innocence: Archaeology at the State Home and School (pdf)

• Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• By E. Pierre Morenon
• Reviewed by Jane Eva Baxter

Process and Meaning in Spatial Archaeology: Investigations into Pre-Columbian Iroquoian Space and Place (pdf)

• University Press of Colorado, Boulder
• Edited by Eric E. Jones and John L. Creese
• Reviewed by Timothy J. Abel

 

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2018 Book Reviews

Storage in Ancient Complex Societies: Administration, Organization, and Control (pdf)

• Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
• Edited by Linda R. Manzanilla and Mitchell S. Rothham
• Reviewed by Alleen Betzenhauser

Transforming the Landscape: Rock Art and the Mississippian Cosmos (pdf)

• Oxbow Books
• Edited by Carol Diaz-Granados, Jan Simek, George Sabo III, and Mark Wagner
• Reviewed by Robert "Ernie" Boszhardt

Investigating the Ordinary: Everyday Matters in Southeast Archaeology (pdf)

• The University of Florida Press
• By Sarah E. Price and Philip J. Carr
• Reviewed by Erin M. Benson

Land of Water, City of the Dead: Religion and Cahokia's Emergence (pdf)

• The University of Alamaba Press
• By Sarah E. Baires
• Reviewed by Gregory D. Wilson

From Colonization to Domestication: Population, Environment, and the Origins of the Eastern Agricultural Complex (pdf)

• The University of Utah Press
• By D. Shane Miller
• Reviewed by Natalie Mueller

Archaeological Perspectives on Warfare on the Great Plains (pdf)

• University of Colorado Press
• Edited by Andrew J. Clark and Douglas B. Bamforth
• Reviewed by Thomas E. Emerson

Life beyond the Boundaries: Constructing Indentity in Edge Regions of the North American Southwest (pdf)

• University Press of Colorado
• Edited by Karen G. Harry and Sarah Herr
• Reviewed by Kerry F. Thompson

Maihot-Curran: un village Ironquoien du XVI^e siècle (pdf)

• Recherches Amérindiennes au Québec
• Edited by Claude Chapdelaine
• Reviewed by Clare Tolmie

New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee: Intellectual, Methodological, and Theoretical Contributions (pdf)

• University of Alabama Press
• Edited by David H. Dye
• Reviewed by Michael Brent Lansdell

In the Eastern Fluted Point Tradition, Volume II (pdf)

• University of Utah Press
• Edited by Joseph A. M. Gingerich
• Reviewed by John M. Lambert

North American Before the European Invasions, 2nd Edition (pdf)

• Routledge
• By Alice Beck Kehoe
• Reviewed by Amanda F. Butler

Native American Landscapes: An Engendered Perspective (pdf)

• University of Tennesee Press
• Edited by Cheryl Claasen
• Reviewed by Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood

Archaeological Theory in the New Millennium: Introducing Current Perspectives (pdf)

• Routledge Press
• By Olivery J. T. Harris and Craig N. Cipolla
• Reviewed by Timothy R. Pauketat

Main Street Mound A Ridgetop Monument at the East St. Louis Mound Complex (pdf)

• Illinois State Archaeological Survey Research Reports
• Edited by Tamira K. Brennan
• Reviewed by David G. Anderson

Indian Mounds of Wisconsin, Second Edition (pdf)

• University of Wisconsin Press
• By Robert A. Birmingham and Amy L. Rosebrough
• Reviewed by Albert M. LeBeau III

 

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2017 Book Reviews

Archaeological Remote Sensing in North America: Innovative Techniques for Anthropological Applications (pdf)
University of Alabama Press
Edited by Duncan P. McKinnon and Bryan S. Haley
Reviewed by Robert McCullough

 

Forging Southeastern Identities: Social Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Folkflore of the Mississippian to Early Historical South (pdf)
University of Alabama Press
Edited by Gregory A. Waselkov and Marvin T. Smith
Reviewed by Alleen Betzenhauser

 

Archaeological Perspectives on the French in the New World (pdf)
University of Florida Press
Edited by Elizabeth M. Scott
Reviewed by Fay Gitlin

 

Viewing the Future in the Past (pdf)
University of South Carolina Press
Edited by H. Thomas Foster II, Lisa M. Paciulli, and David J. Goldstein
Reviewed by Michael Brent Lansdell

 

Mississippian Beginnings (pdf)
University of Florida Press
Edited by Gregory D. Wilson
Reviewed by Meghan E. Buchanan

 

Vernacular Architecture in the Pre-Columbian Americas (pdf)
Routledge
Edited by Christina T. Halperin and Lauren E. Schwartz
Reviewed by Cameron H. Lacquement

 

The Archaeology of Houses and Households in the Native Southeast (pdf)
The University of Alabama Press
By Benjamin A. Steere
Reviewed by B. Jacob Skousen

 

Chiefdoms: Yesterday and Today (pdf)
Eliot Werner Publications, Inc. 
Edited by Robert L. Carneiro, Leonid E. Grinin, and Andrey V. Korotayev    
Reviewed by Thomas E. Emerson

 

Medieval Mississippians: The Cahokian World (pdf)
School for Advanced Research Press 
Edited by Timothy R. Pauketat and Susan M. Alt    
Reviewed by Susan Caba

 

American Antiquities: Revisiting the Origins of American Archaeology (pdf)
University of Nebraska Press 
by Terry A. Barnhart    
Reviewed by Kenneth B. Farnsworth

 

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2016 Book Reviews

Sunken Dreams: A Jake Caine Archaeology Mystery (pdf)
Five Star Publishing 
by Steven Kuehn    
Reviewed by Victoria E. Potter

 

Rethinking Colonialism: Comparative Archaeological Approaches (pdf)
University Press of Florida 
Edited by Craig N. Cipolla and Katherine Howlett Hayes     
Reviewed by Dwayne L. Scheid    

 

Modified Predator Mandible and Maxilla Artifacts and Predator Symbolism in Illinois Hopewell (pdf)
Illinois State Archaeological Survey 
by Kenneth B. Farnsworth, Terrance J. Martin, and Angela R. Perri    
Reviewed by T. Cregg Madrigal    

 

Archaeology in South Carolina: Exploring the Hidden Heritage of the Palmetto State (pdf)
University of South Carolina Press 
by Adam King   
Reviewed by Sarah A. Stephens

 

The Nature and Pace of Change in American Indian Culture: Pennsylvania, 4000 to 3000 B.P. (pdf)
Penn State University Press 
Edited by R. Michael Stewart, Kurt W. Carr, and Paul A. Raber   
Reviewed by Justin M. Reamer   

 

Rethinking Moundville and Its Hinterland (pdf)
University Press of Florida 
Edited by Vincas P. Steponaitis and C. Margaret Scarry  
Reviewed by Thomas E. Emerson  

 

The Archaeological Guide to Iowa (pdf)
University of Iowa Press 
Edited by William E. Whittaker, Lynn M. Alex, and Mary C. De La Garza 
Reviewed by Thomas Loebel 

 

The Archaeology of the North American Fur Trade (pdf)
University Press of Florida
by Michael S. Nassaney
Reviewed by Douglas C. Wilson

 

Transforming the Dead: Culturally Modified Bone in the Prehistoric Midwest (pdf)
University of Alabama Press
Edited by Eve A. Hargrave, Shirley J. Schermer, Kristin M. Hedman, and Robin M. Lillie
Reviewed by George R. Milner

 

Protohistory at the Grand Village of the Kaskaskia: The Illinois Country on the Eve of Colony (pdf)
Illinois State Archaeological Survey
Edited by Robert F. Mazrim
Reviewed by Jeffery A. Behm

 

Coming of Age In Chicago: The 1893 World’s Fair and the Coalescence of American Anthropology (pdf)
University of Nebraska Press
Edited by Curtis M. Hinsley and David R. Wilcox
Reviewed by Brian Adams

 

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2015 Book Reviews

Building the Past: Prehistoric Wooden Post Architecture in the Ohio Valley—Great Lakes (pdf)
University Press of Florida
Edited by Brian G. Redmond and Robert A. Genheimer     
Reviewed by William R. Iseminger   

 

Radiocarbon Dating: An Archaeological Perspective, Second Edition (pdf)
Left Coast Press
by R. E. Taylor and Ofer Bar-Yosef      
Reviewed by John P. Hart    

 

Hopewell Ceremonial Landscapes of Ohio: More than Mounds and Geometric Earthworks (pdf)
Oxbow Books
by Mark J. Lynott      
Reviewed by Mark F. Seeman    

 

A Desolate Place for a Defiant People: The Archaeology of Maroons, Indigenous Americans, and Enslaved Laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp (pdf)
University Press of Florida
by Daniel O. Sayers    
Reviewed by Noeleen McIlvenna  

 

From These Honored Dead: Historical Archaeology of the American Civil War (pdf)
University Press of Florida
Edited by Clarence R. Geier, Douglas S. Scott, and Lawrence E. Babits     
Reviewed by Jonathan E. Reyman   

 

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2014 Book Reviews

The Archaeology of American Cities (pdf)
University Press of Florida
by Nan A. Rothschild and Diana diZerega Wall   
Reviewed by Dr. Claire P. Dappert 

 

Use of Plants by the Hidatsas of the Northern Plains (pdf)
University of Nebraska Press
by Gilbert Livingston Wilson. Edited and Annotated by Michael Scullin.   
Reviewed by Kimberly Schaefer 

 

The Archaeology of American Cemeteries and Gravemarkers (pdf)
University Press of Florida
by Sherene Baugher and Richard F. Veit  
Reviewed by Dawn Cobb

 

The Archaeology of Hybrid Material Culture (pdf)
Southern Illinois University Press
Edited by Jeb J. Card 
Reviewed by Susan M. Alt 

 

Trends and Traditions in Southeastern Zooarchaeology (pdf)
University Press of Florida
Edited by Tanya Peres 
Reviewed by Heather A. Lapham 

 

Tracing Childhood: Bioarchaeological Investigations of Early Lives in Antiquity (pdf)
University Press of Florida
Edited by Jennifer L. Thompson, Marta P. Alfonso-Durruty, and John J. Crandall
Reviewed by Aimée Carbaugh

 

The Archaeology of Downtown Cahokia Volume II: The 1960 Excavation of Tract 15B (pdf)
Illinois State Archaeological Survey 
Edited by Timothy R. Pauketat
Reviewed by Dr. Adam King

 

The Archaeology of French and Indian War Frontier Forts (pdf)
University Press of Florida
Edited by Lawrence E. Babits and Stephanie Gandulla
Reviewed by Vergil E. Noble 

 

Critically Reading the Theory and Methods of Archaeology: An Introductory Guide (pdf)
AltaMira Press
by Guy Gibbon
Reviewed by Julie Zimmermann Holt 

 

Drawing with Great Needles: Ancient Tattoo Traditions of North America (pdf)
University of Texas Press
edited by Aaron Deter-Wolf and Carol Diaz-Granados
Reviewed by Jonathan E. Reyman

 

The Egan Site: A Massey Phase and White Hall Phase Campsite in Western Illinois (pdf)
Illinois State Archaeological Survey
by Andrew C. Fortier with contributions by Mary Simon and Emanuel Breitburg
Reviewed by Michael D. Conner

 

Late Prehistoric Florida: Archaeology at the Edge of the Mississippian World (pdf)
University­ Press­ of­ Florida
Edited by Keith Ashley and Nancy Marie White­
Reviewed by Duane Esarey

 

Archaic Occupations at White Bend: Helton, Falling Springs, and Hemphill Horizons (pdf)
Illinois State Archaeological Survey
Edited by Richard L. Fishel with contributions by Richard L. Fishel, Michael F. Kolb, Steven R. Kuehn, David J. No- lan, and Mary L. Simon
Reviewed by Steven R. Ahler

 

Pinson Mounds: Middle Woodland Ceremonialism in the Midsouth (pdf)
The University of Arkansas Press
by Robert C. Mainfort, Jr.
Reviewed by Bret J. Ruby 

 

The Hoxie Farm Site Fortified Village: Late Fisher Phase Occupation and Fortification in South Chicago (pdf)
Illinois State Archaeological Survey
Edited by Douglas K. Jackson and Thomas E. Emerson
Reviewed by Dale R. Henning

 

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2013 Book Reviews

 

The Creation of Inequality: How our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire (pdf)
Harvard University Press
by Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus
Reviewed by Kenneth E. Sassaman

 

In the Eastern Fluted Point Tradition (pdf)
University of Utah Press
Edited by Joseph A. M. Gingerich
Reviewed by Brad H. Koldehoff

 

Native and Spanish New Worlds: Sixteenth Century Entradas in the American Southwest and Southeast (pdf)
University of Arizona Press
Edited by Clay Mathers, Jeffrey M. Mitchem, and Charles M. Haecker
Reviewed by Dr. Mark J. Wagner 

 

Becoming Brothertown: Native American Ethnogenesis and Endurance in the Modern World (pdf)
University of Arizona Press
by Craig N. Cipolla
Reviewed by Diana DiPaolo Loren 

 

Community-Based Archaeology: Research with, by, and for Indigenous and Local Communities (pdf)
University of California Press
by Sonya Atalay
Reviewed by Melody Pope 

 

Paleoindian Lifeways of the Cody Complex (pdf)
University of Utah Press
Edited by Edward J. Knell and Mark P. Muniz
Reviewed by Dr. Thomas J. Loebel

 

Making Archaeology Happen: Design versus Dogma (pdf)
Left Coast Press
by Marvin Carver
Reviewed by Dr. Thomas E. Emerson

 

Woodland Potters and Archaeological Ceramics of the North Carolina Coast (pdf)
The University of Alabama Press
by Joseph M. Herbert
Reviewed by Ann S. Cordell

 

Mound Builders and Monument Makers of the Northern Great Lakes 1200–1600 (pdf)
University of Oklahoma Press
by Meghan C. L. Howey
Reviewed by Robert J. Jeske

 

Chinese Export Porcelains (pdf)
Left Coast Press
by Andrew D. Madsen and Carolyn L. White
Reviewed by Robert Mazrim

 

A Persistent Place: A Landscape Approach to The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Greenlee Tract in Southern Ohio (pdf)
Gray & Pape, Inc.
Edited by Matthew P. Purtill, contributions by Karen Leone and Emmanuel Breitburg
Reviewed by A. Gwynn Henderson

 

Foraging in the Tennessee River Valley: 12,500 to 8,000 Years Ago (pdf)
The University of Alabama Press
by Kandace D. Hollenbach
Reviewed by Dr. Philip J. Carr

 

Late Pleistocene Archaeology and Ecology in the Far Northeast (pdf)
Texas A&M University Press
Edited by Claude Chapdelaine
Reviewed by Brad H. Koldehoff

 

Life, Death, Archaeology at Fort Blue Mounds: A Settler’s Fortification of the Black Hawk War (pdf)
Wisconsin Historical Society Press
by Robert A. Birmingham
Reviewed by Vicki Twinde-Javner

 

The Rhoads Site: A Historic Kickapoo Village on the Illinois Prairie (pdf)
Illinois State Archaeological Survey
by Mark J. Wagner
Reviewed by Brian G. Redmond

 

Archaeology of Minnesota: The Prehistory of the Upper Mississippi River Region (pdf)
University of Minnesota Press
by Guy Gibbon
Reviewed by William Green

 

The Archaeological Imagination (pdf)
Left Coast Press
by Michael Shanks
Reviewed by Sarah E. Baires

 

At Home in the Illinois Country: French Colonial Domestic Site Archaeology in the Midwest 1730–1800 (pdf)
Illinois State Archaeological Survey
by Robert F. Mazrim
Reviewed by Ashley A. Dumas

 

Climate and Culture Change in North America AD 900–1600 (pdf)
University of Texas Press
by William C. Foster
Reviewed by Tristram R. Kidder

 

Interpreting Ground-penetrating Radar for Archaeology (pdf)
Left Coast Press
by Lawrence B. Conyers
Reviewed by Dr. Michael L. Hargrave

 

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2012 Book Reviews

 

Spirits of the Earth: The Effigy Mound Landscape of Madison and the Four Lakes (pdf)
The University of Wisconsin Press
by Robert A. Birmingham 
Reviewed by Shirley J. Schermer

 

The Peabody Man: Jeffrey P. Brain (pdf)
Borgo Press
Edited by Ian W. Brown and Vincas P. Steponaitis
Reviewed by Christopher S. Peebles

 

Feasting with Shellfish in the Southern Ohio Valley: Archaic Sites and Rituals (pdf)
The University of Tennessee Press
by Cheryl Claassen
Reviewed by Patrick D. Trader

 

Arch Lake Woman: Physical Anthropology and Geoarchaeology (pdf)
Texas A & M University Press
by Douglas W. Owsley, Margaret A. Jodry, Thomas W. Stafford, Jr., C. Vance Haynes, Jr., and Dennis Stafford
Reviewed by Della Collins Cook

 

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2011 Book Reviews

 

Sam Dellinger: Raiders of the Lost Arkansas (pdf)
The University of Arkansas Press
by Robert C. Mainfort, Jr.  
Reviewed by John R. Halsey

 

The Headpots of Northeast Arkansas and Southern Pemiscot County, Missouri (pdf)
The University of Arkansas Press
by James F. Cherry
Reviewed by John P. Hart 

 

Archaeology and Community Service Learning (pdf)
University Press of Florida
Edited by Michael S. Nassaney and Mary Ann Levine
Reviewed by Gail W. Brown 

 

The Archaeology of Regions: A Case for Full-Coverage Survey (pdf)
Percheron Press
by Suzanne K. Fish and Stephen A. Kowalewski
Reviewed by Michael J. Shott 

 

The Archaeology of Institutional Life (pdf)
University of Alabama Press
by April M. Beisaw and James G. Gibb
Reviewed by Russell K. Skowronek

 

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2010 Book Reviews

 

Frontier Forts of Iowa: Indians, Traders, and Soldiers, 1682–1862 (pdf)
University of Iowa Press
Edited by William E. Whittaker 
Reviewed by Michael S. Nassaney 

 

Digging for History at Old Washington (pdf)
University of Arkansas Press
by Mary L. Kwas with a forward by Jay S. Miller
Reviewed by Timothy E. Baumann 

 

Historical Archaeology of the Irish Diaspora: A Transnational Approach (pdf)
University of Tennessee Press
by Stephen A. Brighton
Reviewed by Deborah L. Rotman 

 

Transitions: Archaic and Early Woodland Research in the Ohio Country (pdf)
Ohio University Press
Edited by Martha P. Otto and Brian G. Redmond
Reviewed by Kenneth B. Farnsworth 

 

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1988 Book Reviews

 

Early Woodland Archaeology (pdf)
Center for American Archeology
Edited by Kenneth B. Farnsworth and Thomas E. Emerson
Reviewed by Kevin P. McGown