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An Archaeology of the Cosmos
An Archaeology of the Cosmos seeks answers to two fundamental questions of humanity and human history. The first question concerns that which some use as a defining element of …
New Materialisms Ancient Urbanisms
The future of humanity is urban, and knowledge of urbanism’s deep past is critical for us all to navigate that future. The time has come for archaeologists to rethink this global …
Temples for Cahokia Lords
Preston Holder, a brilliant iconoclast, excavated these mounds in 1955. Decades later, the excavation still stands as one of the best-documented major excavations of the Cahokia …
Chiefdoms and Other Archaeological Delusions
In recent decades anthropology, especially ethnography, has supplied the prevailing models of how human beings have constructed, and been constructed by, their social arrangements. …
Big Histories, Human Lives
We may be due an Ice Age any day now as the earth wobbles through its complex long-term cycles of axial tilt, precession, and eccentricity. Not only are these cycles—on the scale …
North American Archaeology
This volume offers a rich and informative introduction to North American archaeology for all those interested in the history and culture of North American natives. Organized …
The Ascent of Chiefs
This volume provides a theoretical explanation of how pre-historic Cahokia became a stratified society, and ultimately, the pinnacle of Native American cultural achievement north …
Medieval Mississippians
The eighth volume in the award-winning Popular Archaeology series introduces a key historical period in pre-Columbian eastern North America - the “Mississippian” era - via a series …