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Kiva Book Review Vol 77 (3), Book Review 2

Reviewed by Linda S. Cordell, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe

Leaving Mesa Verde: Peril and Change in the Thirteenth-Century Southwest, edited
by Timothy A. Kohler, Mark D. Varien, and Aaron M. Wright

480 pp., 42 illustrations,

27 tables, foreward, preface, index, references cited.

Amerind Studies in Archaeology, University of Arizona Press, 2010. $65.00 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-8165-2885-1.

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Kiva Book Review Vol 77 (3) Book Review 1

Reviewed by Christine R. Szuter, Arizona State University, Tempe

Behavioral Archaeology: Principles and Practice, by Michael Brian Schiffer with the
assistance of Kacy L. Hollenback and contributions by Kacy L. Hollenback, James, M. Skibo, and William H. Walker.

220 pages. Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2010.

$45.00 (Paper). ISBN 978-1-84553-288-8.

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Kiva Book Review Vol 77, No 1

Reviewed by Christine S. VanPool

The Neighbors of Casas Grandes: Excavating Medio Period Communities of Northwest

Chihuahua, Mexico by Michael E. Whalen and Paul E. Minnis. 464 pp., 31 b/w

photos, 89 illustrations, 100 tables. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 2009.

$60.00 (Cloth). ISBN 978-0-8165-2760-1.

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Kiva Book Review Vol 77, No 1

Reviewed by William Andrefsky Jr.

Toward a Behavioral Ecology of Lithic Technology: Cases from Paleoindian Archaeology

by Todd A. Surovell. 280 pp., 10 b/w photos, 66 illustrations, 2 maps, 20 tables,

Preface, Index, References Cited. University of Arizona Press, 2009. $60.00 (Cloth).

ISBN 978-0-8165-2810-3.

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Kiva Book Review Vol 77, No 1

Reviewed by Catherine Cameron

The Archaeology of Regional Interaction: Religion, Warfare and Exchange across the

American Southwest and Beyond, edited by Michelle Hegmon. 467 pp., 22 maps,

34 fi gures, 18 tables, Foreword, Preface, Index. The University Press of Colorado,

2008. $34.95 (Paper). ISBN 978-0-87081-904-9.

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Kiva Book Review Vol 76, No 4

Reviewed by Ruth M. Van Dyke

Ancestral Landscapes of the Pueblo World by James E. Snead. 256 pp., 4 illustrations,

16 maps, Acknowledgments, Index, References Cited. The University of Arizona

Press, Tucson, 2008. $45.00 (Cloth). ISBN 978-0-8165-2308-5

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Kiva Book Review Vol 76, No 3

Reviewed by Todd Pitezel

Archaeology Without Borders: Contact, Commerce, and Change in the U.S. Southwest and Northwestern New Mexico, edited by Laurie D. Webster and Maxine E. McBrinn; with Mexican editor Eduardo Gamboa Carrera. 420 pp., 53 fi gures, 15 tables,

Index, List of Contributors. University Press of Colorado and CONACULTA/

INAH, 2008. $65.00 (Cloth). ISBN 978-0-87081-889-9.

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Kiva Book Review Vol 76, No 3

Reviewed by Yvonne R Oakes

Exploring Variability in Mogollon Pit Houses, edited by Barbara J. Roth and Robert

Stokes. 142 pp., 47 figures, 2 plates, 20 tables. Arizona State University, Anthropological

Research Paper No. 58, 2007. $33.50 (Paper). ISBN 0-936249-38-2.

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Kiva Book Review Vol 76, No 1

Reviewed by Don D. Fowler

Matilda Coxe Stevenson: Pioneering Anthropologist by Darlis A. Miller.

304 pp., 14 halftones, 2 maps, Foreword, Index, References Cited.

University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. $29.95 (Cloth). ISBN 978-8061-3832-9.

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Kiva Book Review Vol 76, No 1

Reviewed by Wesley Bernardini

Zuni Origins: Toward a New Synthesis of Southwestern Archaeology, edited by David A.
Gregory and David R. Wilcox.

624 pp., 207 illustrations, 48 tables, Foreword. The
University of Arizona Press, 2008. $75.00 (Cloth). ISBN 978-0-8165-2486-0.

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