The Power of Nature
Archaeology and Human-Environmental Dynamics
Climatic events, pathogens, and animals as nonhuman agents, ranging in size from viruses to mega-storms, have presented our species with dynamic conditions that overwhelm human capacities.
Paul Kontny
A Modern Artist in Europe and America
The Community in Rural America
The Community in Rural America, by Kenneth P. Wilkinson, is a foundational theoretical work that both defines the interactional approach to the study of the community in rural areas and frames its application to encourage and promote rural community development.
Food Provisioning in Complex Societies
Zooarchaeological Perspectives
Through creative combinations of ethnohistoric evidence, iconography, and contextual analysis of faunal remains, this work offers new insight into the mechanisms involved in food provisioning for complex societies.
Sweeping the Way
Divine Transformation in the Aztec Festival of Ochpaniztli
Remembering Ludlow but Forgetting the Columbine
The 1927-1928 Colorado Coal Strike
Remembering Ludlow but Forgetting the Columbine examines the causes, context, and legacies of the 1927 Columbine Massacre in relation to the history of labor organizing and coal mining in both Colorado and the United States.
Came Men on Horses
The Conquistador Expeditions of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado and Don Juan de Oñate
Archaeology without Borders
Contact, Commerce, and Change in the U.S. Southwest and Northwestern Mexico
Western Water A to Z
The History, Nature, and Culture of a Vanishing Resource
Western Water A to Z is the first ever field guide to Western water.
Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain
Nahua Sacred Journeys in Mexico's Huasteca Veracruzana
An ethnographic study based on decades of field research, Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain explores five sacred journeys to the peaks of venerated mountains undertaken by Nahua people living in northern Veracruz, Mexico.
Coloniality in the Maya Lowlands
Archaeological Perspectives
Coloniality in the Maya Lowlands explores what has been required of the Maya to survive both internal and external threats and other destabilizing forces.
A Green Band in a Parched and Burning Land
Sobaipuri O’odham Landscapes
The result of decades of research, A Green Band in a Parched and Burning Land presents a thorough and detailed understanding of the Sobaipuri O’odham—arguably the most influential and powerful Indigenous group in southern Arizona in the terminal prehistoric and early historic periods, yet one of the least understood and under-studied to have occupied the region.
Beyond the Betrayal
The Memoir of a World War II Japanese American Draft Resister of Conscience
Beyond the Betrayal is a lyrically written memoir by Yoshito Kuromiya, a Nisei member of the Fair Play Committee (FPC) that was organized at the Heart Mountain War Relocation Authority camp.
A Dream of Justice
The Story of Keyes v. Denver Public Schools
A Dream of Justice is Colorado state senator and former teacher Pat Pascoe’s firsthand account of the decades-long fight to desegregate Denver’s public schools.
The Title of Totonicapán
This work is the first English translation of the complete text of the Title of Totonicapán, one of the most important documents composed by the K’iche’ Maya in the highlands of Guatemala, second only to the Popol Vuh.