Investigating how and why styles, materials, conflicts, and religious ideas spread across the prehistoric American Southwest, this volume "makes a significant effort to dissolve past conceptual boundaries and . . . addresses ...

The prevailing view of the lowland Maya during the Postclassic period (A.D. 1050-1500) has been one of an impoverished, degenerated" society devoid of cultural accomplishment. However, Marilyn A. Masson offers a fresh ...

The rural sector of agrarian societies has historically been viewed as composed of undifferentiated households primarily interested in self-sufficiency. In more recent times, households have been seen as more diverse than ...

This spellbinding tribute to "Puma concolor" honors the big cat's presence on the land and in our psyches. Essays describe chance meetings with cougars. Biologists describe aspects of cougar ecology. Conservationists relate ...

An overview of both past research and significant new findings and interpretations of archaeological work conducted in Colorado's Upper Gunnison Basin, including a massive body of data from the author's eight years of work ...