San Antonio College Library

From dust jacket: "Students, professional archaeologists, and laymen interested in the fascinating prehistory of the Indians of the southwestern United States will welcome this greatly revised, reorganized, expanded, and up-to-date edition of John C. McGregor's comprehensive general introduction to Southwestern archaeology. This new edition reflects the many important discoveries and developments in Southwestern archaeology, and archaeology generally,...

Includes a chapter on Eskimos. Gives the history cultural-anthropological description of the Eskimos. Other chapters focus on the various types of Indians spread across the American continents.

."Although humans in the Southwest were hunter-gatherers for about 85% of their history, the majority of the archaeological research in the region has focused on the Formative period. In recent years, however, the amount of data on the Archaic period has grown exponentially due to the magnitude of cultural resource management projects in this region. The Archaic Southwest: Foragers in an Arid Land is the first volume to synthesize this new data. The...

The first integrated analysis of rock art styles throughout the western Colorado region, dating from pre-A.D. 1 to the middle of the twentieth century.

Contains an edition of Bandelier's original French text, Histoire de la colonisation et des missions de Sonora, Chihuahua, Nouveau-Mexique, et Arizona jusqu'à l'année 1700 (edited from the manuscript Vatican City, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana Vat. Lat. 14111), along with chapter-by-chapter English summaries and introductions in English.

Until quite recently Southwest prehistory studies have largely missed or ignored evidence of violent competition. Christy and Jacqueline Turner's study of prehistoric violence, homicide, and cannibalism explodes the myth that the Anasazi and other Southwest Indians were simple, peaceful farmers. Using detailed osteological and forensic analyses, plus other lines of evidence, the Turners show that warfare, violence, and their concomitant horrors were...