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Field Man: Life as a Desert Archaeologist by Julian D. Hayden; edited by Bill Broyles and Diane E. Boyer

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Reviewed by Todd W. Bostwick, Verde Valley Archaeology Center, Camp Verde, and PaleoWest Archaeology, Phoenix.
Field Man: Life as a Desert Archaeologist by Julian D. Hayden; edited by Bill Broyles and Diane E. Boyer.
280 pp., 114 halftones and illustrations, 1 map, 1 table, foreword, epilogue, appendices, bibliography, index.
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Leaving Mesa Verde: Peril and Change in the Thirteenth-Century Southwest edited by Timothy A. Kohler, Mark D. Varien, and Aaron M. Wright

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. [...]

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Behavioral Archaeology: Principles and Practice by Michael Brian Schiffer

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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The Neighbors of Casas Grandes: Excavating Medio Period Communities of Northwest Chihuahua, Mexico by Michael E. Whalen and Paul E. Minnis

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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Toward a Behavioral Ecology of Lithic Technology: Cases from Paleoindian Archaeology by Todd A. Surovell

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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The Archaeology of Regional Interaction: Religion, Warfare and Exchange across the American Southwest and Beyond, edited by Michelle Hegmon

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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Ancestral Landscapes of the Pueblo World by James E Snead

Kiva Vol 76, No 4
Reviewed by Ruth Van Dyke

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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

Kiva Book Review Vol 76, No 3
Reviewed by Todd Pitezel

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

Kiva Book Review Vol 76, No 3
Reviewed by Yvonne R Oakes

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Matilda Coxe Stevenson: Pioneering Anthropologist by Darlis A. Miller

Kiva Book Review Vol 76, No 1
Reviewed by Don D Fowler

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