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.

University of Arizona Press, 2011

$45 (Cloth). ISBN 978-0-8165-2905-6.

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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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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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This very popular USED book sale is sponsored  by the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society to benefit the Arizona State Museum Library. Books start at $1, journals as low as 25¢, huge selections in anthropology with emphasis on the southwestern U.S. and Mexico; non-academic materials, too!

 AAHS and ASM members admitted one hour early for exclusive shopping! 

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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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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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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In the 1960’s and 1970’s, AAHS volunteers, University of Arizona students, and Pima College students excavated Whiptail Ruin, a mid- to late A.D. 1200s village in the northeastern Tucson Basin. The village may have been home to hunting specialists and had strong ties both to the Tucson Basin and the San Pedro Valley. It is one of the first sites in the Tucson Basin to be tree-ring dated. AAHS collaboratively with the Arizona State Museum has just published the analysis of the data as volume 203 in the Arizona State Museum Archaeological Series. This is the first special publication to use the endowed fund established to honor Emil Haury by the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society.

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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