Product Description: The Archaeologist's Field Handbook: North American Edition is a hands-on manual that provides step-by-step guidance for archaeological field work. Specially designed for students (both undergraduate and graduate) and avocational archaeologists, this informative guide combines clear and accessible information on doing fieldwork with practical advice on cultural heritage management projects...read more

Featuring more than 140 startling, revealing color photographs and illustrations, this sweeping survey of North American Indian tribes highlights the mythology, art, major religious motifs, unique lore, and powerful wisdom of these indigenous people. Original.

Ethics in the field of archaeological research, particularly arising in response to the recent trend of contract archaeology, becomes increasingly more complicated as a result of changing human relations surrounding historical evidence. The past is in fact no "dead and buried", and ethical questions about this living record demand an ongoing discussion within the complex social and cultural domains that contend to interpret this record. Authored largely by members of the Society for American Archaeology Ethics Committee, this volume of original articles tackles issues such as the origin of archaeological ethics, responsibilities to the archaeological record (including discussion of documented and undocumented excavation) and responsibilities to diverse publics and between those in the field. This work should fuel a necessary debate among professionals and students of archaeology alike.

Product Description: Using the right media, archeologists can and must educate and excite the people who need their information. Larry Zimmerman's earnestly engaging guide to reporting archaeological findings argues that communication is one of archaeology's primary tasks...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Indios americanos nos presenta las distintas tribus indias norteamericanas, desde los Inuit, de la región del Ártico canadiense, hasta los indios Pueblo del desierto del Suroeste. Esta obra, lujosamente ilustrada, trata temas clave de la vida, mitología y el arte de los indios de EE...read more

Product Description: In 1969 Vine Deloria, Jr., in his controversial book Custer Died for Your Sins, criticized the anthropological community for its impersonal dissection of living Native American cultures. Twenty-five years later, anthropologists have become more sensitive to Native American concerns, and Indian people have become more active in fighting for accurate representations of their cultures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Provides an account of the spritual traditions of Native Americans. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Book by Zimmerman, Larry J.