Several recent books on the history and prehistory of Central America make it clear that exciting things are happening in Mesoamerican archaeology.
Jeffrey Quilter's latest book, Cobble Circles and Standing Stones, is a wonderful introduction to the science of archaeology, and to Central American prehistory.
An archaeological site report of the "Pompeii of North America", the 1400-year old Classic village of Ceren, in El Salvador.
In the Mexican state of Chihuahua lies Paquimé, the capital city of what is considered the third great regional state of prehistory in the 10th, 11th, and 12th centuries of the American Southwest.
Stephen Lekson's provocative and challenging book takes pieces of the puzzle of the American southwest and reassembles them into a straight line; one connecting the sites of Chaco Canyon, Aztec Ruin and Paquime or Casas Grandes.
This book by Roger C. Smith takes the reader on a trip both underwater and into the past of the Cayman Islands.
The second volume of a collection of new and classic articles on ceramic figurines in the New World, edited by Terry Stocker and Cynthia Otis Charlton.
The first book in a two-book series edited by Takeshi Inomata and Stephen Houston provides the background on this interesting study of the Maya, reminding this reader that the more things change the more they stay the same. The second volume is great too.
The second edition of John Henderson's book provides a broad level introduction to the Maya world.
A revised and updated edition of Anthony Aveni's Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico brings a wealth of information about archaeoastronomy and the history of science.
