Tikal: Dynasties, Foreigners, & Affairs of State
2003. Edited by Jeremy A. Sabloff
New insights from the Tikal excavations and epigraphic breakthroughs suggest that a thriving marketplace existed in the center of the city, that foreigners comprised a significant element of its populace, and that differences in tomb form and contents signal the changing fortunes of Tikal’s rulers.
Unkar Delta
1980. Douglas W. Schwartz, Richard C. Chapman, and Jane Kepp
This book is the first volume in SAR’s Archaeology of the Grand Canyon series. It provides information on the archaeological excavation conducted at the site during the late 1960s.
Uruk Mesopotamia & Its Neighbors
2001. Edited by Mitchell S. RothmanThe contributing field and theoretical archaeologists in this volume radically reassess the chronological framework for the region, assemble the basic data sets on both local and regional levels, and interpret and synthesize these data in order to put local patterns and dynamics into their widest regional context.
The Valley of Mexico
1976. Edited by Eric R. WolfThe chapters in this volume present an important contemporary interpretation of the cultural and archaeological legacy of the Valley of Mexico, a rich and ancient place where the presence of the past is all around.
The Walhalla Plateau
1979. Douglas W. Schwartz, Jane Kepp, and Richard C. ChapmanThis book presents data from the School of American Research’s survey and excavation on the Walhalla Plateau, discussing the dynamics of settlement expansion and decline and the economic adaptation to this marginal, high-altitude environment.
Walling In and Walling Out
2020. Edited by Laura McAtackney and Randall H. McGuireThe contributors to this volume illuminate the roles and uses of walls around the world—in contexts ranging from historic neighborhoods to contemporary national borders.
Women & Men in the Prehispanic Southwest
2001. Edited by Patricia L. CrownThis volume takes a groundbreaking look at gendered activities in prehistory and the differential access that women and men had to sources and symbols of power and prestige. The authors’ probe the time period during which Southwestern populations shifted from migratory gatherer-hunters to sedentary agriculturalists and from living in small bands to settling in large aggregated communities.