Pre-Columbian Books


Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs, Fifth EditionMexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs, Fifth Edition
Best Price: $14.10
this is a great book, lots of detailed photos. i am reading this book for a chicano studies...
The Incas and Their Ancestors: The Archaeology of Peru (Revised Edition)The Incas and Their Ancestors: The Archaeology of Peru (Revised Edition)
Best Price: $20.23
The book is written in elaborate English - not easy to read but very elegant. Although it is...
Chaco Canyon: Archaeology and ArchaeologistsChaco Canyon: Archaeology and Archaeologists
Best Price: $21.95
Chaco Canyon, sprawled in the desert of northwestern New Mexico and uninhabited since the...
The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of ColumbusThe Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus
Best Price: $19.99
The first landings in the Atlantic World generated striking and terrifying impressions of...
Stone Age Spear and Arrow Points of the Midcontinental and Eastern United States: A Modern Survey and ReferenceStone Age Spear and Arrow Points of the Midcontinental and Eastern United States: A Modern Survey and Reference
Best Price: $18.74
Justice's "Stone Age Spear and Arrow Points" is a must have for anyone interested in...


Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens: Deciphering the Dynasties of the Ancient MayaChronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens: Deciphering the Dynasties of the Ancient Maya
Best Price: $17.98
The Maya Kings & Queens is a great reference book on the succession of Royal leaders during...
Indian Mounds of the Middle Ohio Valley: A Guide to Mounds and Earthworks of the Adena, Hopewell, Cole, and Fort Ancient People (Mcdonald & Woodward Guide to the American Landscape.)Indian Mounds of the Middle Ohio Valley: A Guide to Mounds and Earthworks of the Adena, Hopewell, Cole, and Fort Ancient People (Mcdonald & Woodward Guide to the American Landscape.)
Best Price: $16.06
We spent a few days hunting down the mounds in Southern Ohio. We used this book as a guide and...
Between the Lines: The Mystery of the Giant Ground Drawings of Ancient Nasca, PeruBetween the Lines: The Mystery of the Giant Ground Drawings of Ancient Nasca, Peru
Best Price: $12.00
Aveni, though he has done a good job on the Nasca lines, rambles on aimlessly...
Alfred Maudslay and the Maya: A BiographyAlfred Maudslay and the Maya: A Biography
Best Price: $22.91
Ian Graham's intelligent and accessible biography of the great Mayanist Alfred Maudslay is a...
Ancient Mexico: The History and Culture of the Maya, Aztects and Other Pre-Columbian PeoplesAncient Mexico: The History and Culture of the Maya, Aztects and Other Pre-Columbian Peoples
This oversize coffee-table book has beautifully reproduced, well-chosen photographs, but...


Hardaway Revisited: Early Archaic Settlement in the SoutheastHardaway Revisited: Early Archaic Settlement in the Southeast
Best Price: $6.99
While Randolph Daniel tried to write a up-date on the Hardaway Site in Stanly County, North...
Pulltrouser Swamp: Ancient Maya Habitat, Agriculture and Settlement in Northern BelizePulltrouser Swamp: Ancient Maya Habitat, Agriculture and Settlement in Northern Belize
Best Price: $18.99
From Mounds to Mammoths: A Field Guide to Oklahoma PrehistoryFrom Mounds to Mammoths: A Field Guide to Oklahoma Prehistory
Best Price: $10.62
This little book is a small format, very short little book, perhaps not 100 pages, poor quality...
Lords of Sipan: A True Story of Pre-Inca Tombs, Archaeology, and CrimeLords of Sipan: A True Story of Pre-Inca Tombs, Archaeology, and Crime
Best Price: $17.89
There is probably more about the illegal sale of pre-Columbian art objects than about the...
The Magnificent Maya (Lost Civilizations)The Magnificent Maya (Lost Civilizations)
Best Price: $6.30

The Cities of the Ancient AndesThe Cities of the Ancient Andes
Best Price: $15.32
Von Hagen first explains the definition of a city. Then in chronological order she starts...
Enciclopedia de los Aztecas y Mayas: La historia, leyenda, mitos y cultura de los nativos de Mexico y America Central. (Enciclopedias y grandes obras)Enciclopedia de los Aztecas y Mayas: La historia, leyenda, mitos y cultura de los nativos de Mexico y America Central. (Enciclopedias y grandes obras)
Best Price: $22.99
Featuring time lines, photographs, original documents, maps, and charts, these reference guide...
Mysteries Of The Ancient AmericasMysteries Of The Ancient Americas
Best Price: $1.99
Prehistoric Cannibalism at Mancos 5Mtumr-2346Prehistoric Cannibalism at Mancos 5Mtumr-2346
Best Price: $64.99
The politically correct view has been that there never were any cannibals, it was just a slur...
Garnsey Spring Campside: Late Prehistoric Occupation in Southeastern New Mexico (Technical Reports (University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology))Garnsey Spring Campside: Late Prehistoric Occupation in Southeastern New Mexico (Technical Reports (University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology))
Best Price: $8.00

Famous Florida Sites: Mt.  Royal and Crystal River (Southeastern Classics in Archaeology, Anthropology, and History)Famous Florida Sites: Mt. Royal and Crystal River (Southeastern Classics in Archaeology, Anthropology, and History)
Best Price: $29.95
The Lost Realms (Book IV) (4th Book of Earth Chronicles)The Lost Realms (Book IV) (4th Book of Earth Chronicles)
Best Price: $10.99
Sitchin is the greatest! Why to bother with a review. The abundance of wealth of information,...
BONES OF MAYABONES OF MAYA
Best Price: $18.98
Lamar Archaeology: Mississippian Chiefdoms in the Deep SouthLamar Archaeology: Mississippian Chiefdoms in the Deep South
Best Price: $33.32
The Sowing and the Dawning: Termination, Dedication, and Transformation in the Archaeological and Ethnographic Record of MesoamericaThe Sowing and the Dawning: Termination, Dedication, and Transformation in the Archaeological and Ethnographic Record of Mesoamerica
Best Price: $12.98
This collection combines archaeology and ethnography to explore the Mesoamerican archaeological...

Mayan Script : A Civilization and its WritingMayan Script : A Civilization and its Writing
Best Price: $12.10
This is up against a lot of competition. Maya civilization has attracted some excellent writers....
Pyramids of Tucume: The Quest for Peru's Forgotten CityPyramids of Tucume: The Quest for Peru's Forgotten City
Best Price: $34.81
This book, by legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and two archaeologist colleagues, has something...
Art and Archaeology of Pre-Columbian Cuba (Pitt Latin American Studies)Art and Archaeology of Pre-Columbian Cuba (Pitt Latin American Studies)
Best Price: $38.65
"Art and archaeology of Pre-columbian Cuba" is an important book for the distribution...
SLOAN (Smithsonian Series in Archaeological Inquiry)SLOAN (Smithsonian Series in Archaeological Inquiry)Scribes, Warriors, and Kings: The City of Copan and the Ancient Maya, Revised EditionScribes, Warriors, and Kings: The City of Copan and the Ancient Maya, Revised Edition
Best Price: $14.88
the first 60 pages talks mainly about archaeological expeditions to Copan and who sponsored them...

Central Plains Prehistory: Holocene Environments and Culture Change in the Republican River BasinCentral Plains Prehistory: Holocene Environments and Culture Change in the Republican River BasinAncient Celtic AmericaAncient Celtic America
Fascinating premise that seems to have been lost by the know it alls. There are dozens stone...
A Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs (Civilization of the American Indian Series)A Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs (Civilization of the American Indian Series)Skull Wars : Kennewick Man, Archeology, and the Battle for Native American IdentitySkull Wars : Kennewick Man, Archeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity
Best Price: $18.95
I really savored every page of this book. One of the best I have EVER read on both an OVERVIEW...
Indian Mounds of the Middle Ohio Valley: A Guide to the Adena and Ohio Hopewell Sites (Guides to the American Landscape)Indian Mounds of the Middle Ohio Valley: A Guide to the Adena and Ohio Hopewell Sites (Guides to the American Landscape)
Best Price: $25.00
Mounds and earthworks are the most conspicuous elements of prehistoric Native American culture...

The Day Before AmericaThe Day Before America
Best Price: $3.85
The Pottery from Arroyo Hondo Pueblo: Tribalization and Trade in the Northern Rio Grande (Arroyo Hondo Archaeological Series, Vol. 8) (Arroyo Hondo Archaeological Series)The Pottery from Arroyo Hondo Pueblo: Tribalization and Trade in the Northern Rio Grande (Arroyo Hondo Archaeological Series, Vol. 8) (Arroyo Hondo Archaeological Series)
Best Price: $118.66
Arroyo Hondo Pueblo, one of the largest fourteenth century sites in the northern Rio Grande...
Archaeology of the Mississippian Culture: A Research Guide (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)Archaeology of the Mississippian Culture: A Research Guide (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Best Price: $73.00
Ancient Mexico and Central America: Archaeology and Culture HistoryAncient Mexico and Central America: Archaeology and Culture History
Actually, I don't know if this book is good or not because I ordered it AND AMAZON NEVER SENT IT...
Quetzalcoatl and the Irony of EmpireQuetzalcoatl and the Irony of Empire
Best Price: $24.92

Prehistoric Life on the Mississippi Floodplain: Stone Tool Use, Settlement Organization, and Subsistence Practices at the Labras Lake Site, Illinois (Prehistoric Archeology and Ecology)Prehistoric Life on the Mississippi Floodplain: Stone Tool Use, Settlement Organization, and Subsistence Practices at the Labras Lake Site, Illinois (Prehistoric Archeology and Ecology)
Best Price: $15.00
Teotihuacan: An Experiment in LivingTeotihuacan: An Experiment in Living
Best Price: $34.00
Social Patterns in Pre-Classic Mesoamerica (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Conference Proceedings)Social Patterns in Pre-Classic Mesoamerica (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Conference Proceedings)
Best Price: $19.98
Ancient North AmericansAncient North AmericansTula: The Toltec Capital of Ancient Mexico (New Aspects of Antiquity)Tula: The Toltec Capital of Ancient Mexico (New Aspects of Antiquity)
Wow, what a great book. It turns a potentially boring and poorly researched subject into a very...

The Anasazi: Ancient Indian People of the American SouthwestThe Anasazi: Ancient Indian People of the American Southwest
Best Price: $225.00
Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains, Second Edition (New World Archaeological Record) (New World Archaeological Record)Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains, Second Edition (New World Archaeological Record) (New World Archaeological Record)
Best Price: $113.00
Dr. Frison covers most everything one could want to know about the prehistoric hunters of the...
Chalcatzingo: Excavations on the Olmec Frontier (New Aspects of Antiquity)Chalcatzingo: Excavations on the Olmec Frontier (New Aspects of Antiquity)
Best Price: $33.39
A History of the Timucua Indians and Missions (Ripley P. Bullen Series)A History of the Timucua Indians and Missions (Ripley P. Bullen Series)
Best Price: $52.13
When Spanish and French explorers first landed in Florida early in the 16th century, Timucua...
Prehistoric Cultures of the Delmarva Peninsula: An Archaeological StudyPrehistoric Cultures of the Delmarva Peninsula: An Archaeological Study

Classic Maya Political History: Hieroglyphic and Archaeological Evidence (School of American Research Advanced Seminars)Classic Maya Political History: Hieroglyphic and Archaeological Evidence (School of American Research Advanced Seminars)
Best Price: $67.93
This volume is the first to present in detail the results of recent decipherment of Maya...
Prehistoric MesoamericaPrehistoric Mesoamerica
Best Price: $3.00
Poorly edited (multiple mistakes regarding very specific names and places), bad use of poorly...
Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World: The Serial Stelae Cycle of "18-Rabbit-God K," King of Copan (The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World: The Serial Stelae Cycle of "18-Rabbit-God K," King of Copan (The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)
Best Price: $45.00
Assemblies of rectangular stone pillars, or stelae, fill the plazas and courts of ancient Maya...
The Lords of Tikal: Rulers of an Ancient Maya CityThe Lords of Tikal: Rulers of an Ancient Maya City
Best Price: $57.02
I had a problem at first when the author stated that the population of Tikal was 100,000 and...
Legacy on Stone: Rock Art of the Colorado Plateau and Four Corners RegionLegacy on Stone: Rock Art of the Colorado Plateau and Four Corners Region
Best Price: $54.31
This book takes a look at many of the different rock ar symbols and their possible meanings....

Traces Behind the Esmeraldas ShoreTraces Behind the Esmeraldas Shore
Best Price: $3.97
    
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