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Top Picks: Books on American Archaeology

As your Guide for Archaeology is located in the midst of the North American continent, it would only seem logical that I would get a lot of books on the Americas, and indeed that has been the case.

Central American Archaeology
A selection of books on the archaeology of central America, Mexico, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

• The Casas Grandes World
• The Chaco Meridian
• The Maritime History of the Cayman Islands
• The New World Figurine Project, Volume 2
• Royal Court of the Ancient Maya, Volume 1
• The World of the Ancient Maya
• Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya, Volume 2
• Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World
• Classic Period Mixtequilla
• Skywatchers

South American Archaeology
Numerous recent books on the archaeology of South America have been published, bringing us information on the Inca, the Nazca, and the Chinchorro peoples, among others.

• Between the Lines: The Mystery of the Giant Ground Drawings of Ancient Nasca, Peru
• Mummies and Mortuary Monuments
• The Mummy Congress
• Reading Inca History
• The Sacred Landscape of the Inca
• Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient Peru
• The Archaeology and Pottery of Nazca, Peru
• Narrative Threads: Accounting and Recounting in Andean Khipu

American Southeast
Recent books on the American southeast, consisting of the southeast quadrant of the United States, from Florida to Kentucky, and Louisiana to North Carolina.

• An Early Florida Adventure Story
• Indians of the Greater Southeast
• The Place of Rings: The Ancient Mounds of Poverty Point
• Florida's Indians: From Ancient Times to the Present
• Spanish Colonial Gold Coins in the Florida Collections
• Archaeological Studies of Gender in the Southeastern United States
• Archaeological Perspectives on the American Civil War

American Southwest
Recent books on the American southwest, known as the Four Corners region consisting of the American states of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona.

• Bandelier: The Life and Adventures of Adolph Bandelier
• Grasshopper Pueblo
• The Chaco Meridian
• Elena and the Coin
• The Casas Grandes World

North America
Recent books on the archaeology of the North American continent (excluding the American southeast and southwest).

• An Archaeology of the Soul
• Bones, Boats, and Bison
• Cahokia: Domination and Ideology in the Mississippian World
• Top The First Peoples of the Northeast
• Gottschall Rockshelter
• Interpretations of Native North American Life
• Koster: Americans in Search of their Prehistoric Past
• Indian Mounds of Wisconsin

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