Archaeology/Anthropology

January 2023, 236 pp., 7 x 10 31 b/w and 30 color Illustrations eBook 978-1-64769-116-5 Hardcover 978-1-64769-114-1 $80.00s

ALSO OF INTEREST: Ground Stone Analysis

A Technological Approach Jenny L. Adams

eBook 978-1-60781-274-6 Paper 978-1-60781-273-9 $40.00s

Ephemeral Bounty

Wickiups, Trade Goods, and the Final Years of the Autonomous Ute Curtis Martin

eBook 978-1-60781-468-9 Paper 978-1-60781-467-2 $45.00s 10,000 Years of Indigenous Cooking in the Arid Landscapes of North America

Edited by Charles W. Koenig and Myles R. Miller

The first geographically broad compilation of earth oven studies

For over 10,000 years, earth ovens (semi-subterranean, layered arrangements of heated rocks, packing material, and food stuffs capped by earth) have played important economic and social roles for Indigenous peoples living across the arid landscapes of North America. From huntergatherers to formative horticulturalists, sedentary farmers, and contemporary Indigenous groups, earth ovens were used to convert inedible plants into digestible food, fiber, and beverages. The remains of earth ovens range from tight, circular clusters of burned rocks, generally labeled “hearths” by archaeologists, to the massive accumulations of fire-cracked rock referred to as earth oven facilities, roasting pits, or burned rock middens. All such features are common across the arid and semi-arid landscapes that stretch from Texas to California and south into Mexico. Despite the long-term ubiquity and broad spatial and cultural distribution of earth ovens from late Paleoindian times until today, these features have earned relatively little attention in the way of directed archaeological research, and remain an under-studied aspect of Indigenous lifeways.

This edited volume explores the longevity and diversity of earth oven baking and examines the subsistence strategies, technological organization, and social contexts within which earth ovens functioned. It serves as the first compilation of these studies from such a broad geographic area, reflecting an array of promising research that highlights ongoing efforts to understand the archaeological record of earth ovens.

Charles W. Koenig is a North American archaeologist specializing in earth oven technology, rock art documentation, and Structure from Motion (SfM) photogrammetry.

Myles R. Miller is a professional southwestern archaeologist who has spent nearly four decades investigating the prehistory and history of the Jornada Mogollon region of southern New Mexico and Trans-Pecos Texas, focusing on chronometric and ceramic compositional studies, earth oven technologies, landscapes, and ritual.

“This timely and much-needed collection of articles about hot-rock cooking adds dimension and richness to our understanding of the significance of this technique to landscape use, diet, technological systems, social organization, and traditional cultural values.”

—Pei-Lin Yu, Boise State University

November 2022, 194 pp., 7 x 10 34 Illustrations eBook 978-1-64769-107-3 Hardcover 978-1-64769-105-9 $65.00s

ALSO OF INTEREST: The Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Environment of the Marismas Nacionales Edited by Michael S. Foster

eBook 978-1-60781-562-4 Hardcover 978-1-60781-561-7 $70.00s

The Archaic Southwest

Foragers in an Arid Land Edited by Bradley J. Vierra

eBook 978-1-60781-581-5 Paper 978-1-60781-742-0 $35.00 People and Environmental Change in the Protohistoric and Early Historic Americas

Emily Lena Jones and Jacob L. Fisher

Nuanced environmental change as the result of human modification and abandonment of landscapes

The record of human impact on world environments is undeniable; scholarship has shown that the ecosystems we live in today are structured by human behavior. Equally undeniable is the fact that events such as war, disaster, disease, or economic decay have, at various times throughout history, led to the human abandonment of particular environments. What happens to a human-structured environment when the way people use it suddenly changes? In Questioning Rebound, authors Emily Lena Jones and Jacob L. Fisher explore the archaeological record of a time when the human footprint on the land abruptly shifted: the period immediately following European contact in the Americas. During this time of disease-driven mortality, genocide, incarceration, and forced labor of Indigenous peoples, American landscapes changed in fundamental ways, producing short-lived ecosystems that later became the basis of myths about the American environments.

Questioning Rebound explores the record and the causes of environmental change during the post-Columbian period, featuring case studies throughout the Americas. While both the record for and the apparent causes of the changes in the human footprint vary, the record of postColumbian environmental change consistently reflects the environmental impacts of past social upheaval.

Emily Lena Jones is associate professor of anthropology and faculty associate of the Latin American and Iberian Institute and Center for Stable Isotopes at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of In Search of the Broad Spectrum Revolution in Paleolithic Southwest Europe. She studies past humanenvironment interactions through the lens of archaeological animal remains, with a particular interest in the connections between humans, non-human animals, and environmental change.

Jacob L. Fisher is professor of anthropology and director of the Archaeological Curation Facility at California State University, Sacramento. His interests primarily lie in the role animal resources played in foraging-based societies with secondary research goals in conservation paleobiology and historical ecology.

“Questioning Rebound considers the environmental implications of rebound through an excellent assortment of case studies and reviews from various regions across the Americas. This book makes an important contribution to the field and relates well to other scholarship regarding Americanist archaeology as a whole."

—Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch, University of Georgia

November 2022, 244 pp., 7 x 10 51 Illustrations eBook 978-1-64769-111-0 Hardcover 978-1-64769-113-4 $70.00s

ALSO OF INTEREST: The Archaeology of the Eastern Nevada Paleoarchaic, Part I

The Sunshine Locality by Charlotte Beck and George T. Jones

Paper 978-0-87480-939-8 $40.00s

Plainview

The Enigmatic Paleoindian Artifact Style of the Great Plains Edited by Vance T. Holliday, Eileen Johnson, and Ruthann Knudson

eBook 978-1-60781-575-4 Hardcover 978-1-60781-574-7 $70.00s Michael F. Rondeau

A ready reference to current fluted point research across the West

Fluted Points of the Far West provides the first large scale overview of fluted points in the far western United States, including details of their attributes, the production trends, and their range of variability. It serves as a compendium of groundbreaking research by the California Fluted Lanceolate Uniform Testing and Evaluation Database (CalFLUTED) project. Details regarding size, morphology, toolstones, basal flaking technology, breakage patterns, repair patterns, manufacturing (as revealed by unfinished fluted bifaces), margin grinding, and flute scratching are provided through this research, both in terms of general trends and noteworthy exceptions.

Designed as a ready reference, these data are also summarized for each of the four sample states (California, Nevada, Oregon, Utah). Summaries introduce the history and circumstances of fluted point studies by state, a list of references for each state used in the CalFLUTED study reports, a comprehensive listing of the relevant CalFLUTED study reports, and a breakdown by state of fluted point attribute details as listed above.

Reviews and discussions cover a range of topics, including classification of fluted points, identifying flute scars, and traits that indicate a fluted point is not from the prehistoric Far West. Additional discussions cover hafting alternatives, fluted point dating, far western fluted point typology, and the likely direction of further research on a range of fluted point topics.

Michael F. Rondeau has worked as research director of the Archaeological Study Center at the California State University, Sacramento, as an archaeologist for the Office of Historic Preservation within the California State Department of Parks and Recreation, and for the California State Department of Transportation. He is currently the sole proprietor of Rondeau Archeological in Sacramento.

“Over the course of twenty-one chapters, Rondeau discusses just about everything one might want to know about fluted points in the Far West. In doing so, he provides a wealth of data that will be useful to researchers interested in understanding how the region’s fluted point record fits into broader questions about the peopling of the Americas, population movements and the spread of technology, and lithic technology. In these regards, Rondeau has done a masterful job.”

—Geoffrey M. Smith, University of Nevada, Reno

January 2023, 294 pp., 7 x 10 82 Illustrations eBook 978-1-64769-119-6 Hardcover 978-1-64769-117-2 $80.00s

ALSO OF INTEREST: Sending the Spirits Home

The Archaeology of Hohokam Mortuary Practices By Glen E. Rice

eBook 978-1-60781-460-3 Hardcover 978-1-60781-459-7 $60.00s

Deadly Landscapes

Case Studies in Prehistoric Southwestern Warfare Edited by Glen E. Rice and Steven Leblanc

Paper 978-0-87480-858-2 $30.00s Ancestral O’Odham Platform Mounds of the Sonoran Desert

Glen E. Rice, Arleyn W. Simon, and Chris Loendorf

New applications for and reassessments of Hohokam platform mounds

This volume presents a far-ranging conversation on the topic of Hohokam platform mounds in the history of the southern Arizona desert, exploring why they were built, how they were used, and what they meant in the lives of the farmers who built them. Vapaki brings together diverse theoretical approaches, a mix of big-picture and tightly focused perspectives, coverage of the variation in mounds that provides depth for specialists, breadth for those working in other areas and on other topics, and a rich corpus of research ideas and theoretical perspectives. Contributors grapple with questions about platform mounds, including the social, political, ideological, symbolic, and adaptive factors that contributed to their development, spread, and eventual cessation.

The differing perspectives presented here about what motivated Ancestral O’Odham populations of the Hohokam Period to build these monuments, whether as displays of status, identity, political ability, membership in regional networks, and as architectural models of the cosmological order, offer insights to researchers studying monumental architecture in other contexts. O’Odham knowledge of the history and uses of mounds is combined with archaeological data to understand the place of platform mounds in the lives of the Ancestors and as a continuing presence among their modern descendants.

Glen E. Rice is a professor emeritus, School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. He is the author of Sending the Spirits Home: The Archaeology of Hohokam Mortuary Practices, and co-editor of Deadly Landscapes; Case Studies in Prehistoric Southwestern Warfare.

Arleyn W. Simon is associate research professor emeritus, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, where she directed the Archaeological Research Institute (1995-2018).

Chris Loendorf is the senior project manager for the Gila River Indian Community Cultural Resource Management Program. He has directed large-scale excavations at Salado, Hohokam, and O’Odham sites for over three decades.

“An exceptional collection of essays relating to the origin, spread, function, purpose, and demise of these prominent architectural features at villages across the larger Hohokam cultural area or sphere of influence in the later thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.”

—T. Kathleen Henderson, Desert Archaeology

“This volume makes a significant contribution by successfully uniting a diverse mix of works under the umbrella of understanding Hohokam area platform mounds. Although the only thing that unites some of these chapters is the topic of platform mounds, that approach works well here; there ought to be something in this volume for everyone.”

November 2022, 242 pp., 7 x 10 32 b/w and 44 color Illustrations eBook 978-1-64769-110-3 Hardcover 978-1-64769-108-0 $80.00s

Contributions by

Agustín Agnolin, Pedro Andrade, Hassan Aouraghe, Said Bengamra, Alfonso Benito-Calvo, César Borie, Adam Burke, Adrian Burke, Gisela Cassiodoro, Luciana Catella, M. Gema Chacón, Gabriela Coelho dos Santos, Josefina Flores Coni, Kane Ditchfield, Trudy Doelman, Stéphan Dubernet, Analia Castro Esnal, Silvana Espinosa, Carola Flores, Bretton Giles, Michael Glascock, Rafael Goñi, Bernard Gratuze, Hamid Haddoumi, Jillian Huntley, Rebekah Kurpiel, Juan Ignacio Morales, Khori Newlander, Laura Olguín, Fernando Oliva, César Parcero-Oubiña, Cecilia. Pérez de Micou, Ximena Power, Robert Sala-Ramos, Diego Salazar, Marta Sánchez de la Torre, Morgan Smith, María Soto, Mohamed Souhir, Charles Stern, Andoni Tarriño, Norberto Uriz, Ingrid Ward, John Webb, and François Xavier Le Bourdonnec.

Sourcing Archaeological Lithic Assemblages

New Perspectives and Integrated Approaches

Edited by Charles A. Speer, Ryan M. Parish, and Gustavo Barrientos

Explores sourcing of lithic raw materials with integrated methods

For most of our existence, humans have used stone as a primary resource for survival. Stone tools are generally resistant to degradation, and consequently comprise a large amount of the material culture found at archaeological sites worldwide. Recovery of stone tools during archaeological excavation indicates the location where they were discarded, often tied to where they were used. Determination of where the raw materials to produce those tools came from, or “sourcing” and the path it took to reach that ultimate destination, offers insight into trade and procurement patterns. The scholars gathered in this volume employ a variety of unique and novel approaches to real-life contexts in multiple geographic regions. These studies illustrate the numerous, robust options available to archaeologists and researchers today, as well as the problems that must be faced and resolved.

The first section focuses on technological aspects of sourcing, presenting a specific method of chemical analysis and, often, avenues for improving it. The second section focuses on region-specific and methodological sourcing applications. A concluding review by Michael Glascock critiques each of the chapters and presents his views on sourcing raw materials gained over 40 years of experience in the field. Broadly, these contributions demonstrate how a more thorough knowledge of lithic sources, geologic processes, the nature of variation, and regional availability can provide a more thorough understanding of past peoples.

Charles A. Speer is an associate professor of anthropology at Idaho State University and is the curator of anthropology at Idaho Museum of Natural History.

Ryan M. Parish is an associate professor of archaeology at the University of Memphis.

Gustavo Barrientos is a professor of archaeology at the National University of La Plata and principal researcher of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina.

“The studies presented in this volume demonstrate creativity and a depth of thought rarely found in many lithic-sourcing studies, and this volume will be a welcome addition to anyone interested in connecting stone artifacts to their sources.”

—Matthew T. Boulanger, Southern Methodist University

“The editors and authors of this volume are to be commended. It was fascinating to see so many different approaches to the issue of lithic provenance analysis, and to see the many different stages at which these programs of research are established globally.”