Archaeology and Heritage Studies
Please note that this is not a complete list. We aim to keep this list updated with books published within the last two years that have not yet been reviewed by the Forum. If you would like to review a title not listed here, please get in touch.
List updated October 2022
Available titles:
Anderson, Cheryl P., Debra L. Martin, and Clark Spencer Larsen, eds. 2018. Massacres: Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology Approaches. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.
Andrews, Brian N., and Danielle A. Macdonald, eds. 2022. More than Shelter from the Storm: Hunter-Gatherer Houses and the Built Environment. 1st ed. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Andrews, Brian N., David J. Meltzer, and Mark Stiger, eds. 2021. The Mountaineer Site: A Folsom Winter Camp in the Rockies. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.
Barton, Christopher P., ed. 2021. Trowels in the Trenches: Archaeology as Social Activism. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Barton, Christopher P., and Guy Weston. 2022. The Archaeology of Race and Class at Timbuctoo: A Black Community in New Jersey. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Bassie-Sweet, Karen, and Nicholas A. Hopkins. 2018. Maya Narrative Arts. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.
Bates, Lynsey A., John M. Chenoweth, and James A. Delle, eds. 2018. Archaeologies of Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean: Exploring the Spaces. Place of publication not identified: UNIV PR OF FLORIDA.
Baxter, Jane Eva, and Michael S. Nassaney. 2019. The Archaeology of American Childhood and Adolescence. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Beekman, Christopher Stockard, Arlen F. Chase, and Diane Z. Chase, eds. 2019. Migrations in Late Mesoamerica. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Bender, Susan J., Phyllis Mauch Messenger, and Paul A. Shackel, eds. 2019. Pedagogy and Practice in Heritage Studies. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Bense, Judith Ann. 2022. Presidios of Spanish West Florida. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.
Bernick, Kathryn N. 2019. Waterlogged: Examples and Procedures for Northwest Coast Archaeologists. Pullman, Washington: Washington State University Press.
Bindi, Letizia, ed. 2022. Grazing Communities: Pastoralism on the Move and Biocultural Heritage Frictions. New York: Berghahn Books.
Boyce, Travis D., and Winsome M. Chunnu, eds. 2019. Historicizing Fear: Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.
Brewer, John, Neil Alan Fromer, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, and Frank Trentmann, eds. 2019. Scarcity in the Modern World: History, Politics, Society and Sustainability, 1800-2075. London ; New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
Brunswig, Robert H., ed. 2020. Spirit Lands of the Eagle and Bear: Numic Archaeology and Ethnohistory in the Rocky Mountains and Borderlands. Louisville, Colorado: University Press of Colorado.
Carlson, Kristen, and Leland C. Bement, eds. 2018. Archaeology of Large-Scale Manipulation of Prey: The Economic and Social Dynamics of Mass Hunting. Boulder: University Press of Colorado.
Carrasco, Michael, Angélica Cibrián-Jaramillo, Mark Bonta, and Joshua Englehardt, eds. 2022. Under the Shade of Thipaak: The Ethnoecology of Cycads in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean. 1st ed. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Chidester, David. 2018. Religion: Material Dynamics. Oakland, California: University of California Press.
Christie, Jessica Joyce, and Paul A. Shackel. 2021. Earth Politics and Intangible Heritage: Three Case Studies in the Americas. 1st ed. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Clark, Bonnie J. 2020. Finding Solace in the Soil: An Archaeology of Gardens and Gardeners at Amache. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.
Coltman, Jeremy D., and John M. D. Pohl, eds. 2021. Sorcery in Mesoamerica. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.
Damsholt, Tine, Marie Riegels Melchior, Christina Petterson, and Tine Reeh, eds. 2022. Crossroads of Heritage and Religion: Legacy and Sustainability of World-Heritage-Site Moravian Christiansfeld. New York ; Oxford: Berghahn Books.
Delgado, James P., and Stephen D. Nagiewicz. 2020. Robert J. Walker: The History and Archaeology of a U.S. Coast Survey Steamship. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Delle, James A., and Michael S. Nassaney. 2019. The Archaeology of Northern Slavery and Freedom. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Diaz Alvarez, Ana Maria, ed. 2020. Reshaping the World: Debates on Mesoamerican Cosmologies. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.
Eeckhout, Peter, ed. 2020. Archaeological Interpretations: Symbolic Meaning within Andes Prehistory. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Eger, A. Asa, ed. 2019. The Archaeology of Medieval Islamic Frontiers: From the Mediterranean to the Caspian Sea. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.
El-Shaarawi, Nadia, and Stéphanie Larchanché, eds. 2022. Migration and Health: Challenging the Borders of Belonging, Care, and Policy. New York: Berghahn Books.
Engelmann, Lukas, Caroline Humphrey, and Christos Lynteris, eds. 2022. Working with Diagrams. New York: Berghahn Books.
Englehardt, Joshua, and Michael Carrasco, eds. 2019. Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.
Englehardt, Joshua, Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza, and Christopher Beekman, eds. 2020. Ancient West Mexicos: Time, Space, and Diversity. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Eren, Metin I., and Briggs Buchanan, eds. 2022. Defining and Measuring Diversity in Archaeology: Another Step toward an Evolutionary Synthesis of Culture. New York: Berghahn.
Faugère, Brigitte, and Christopher Beekman, eds. 2019. Anthropomorphic Imagery in the Mesoamerican Highlands: Gods, Ancestors, and Human Beings. Louisville, Colorado: University Press of Colorado.
Fellows, Kristen R., Angela J. Smith, and Anna M. Munns, eds. 2020. Historical Sex Work: New Contributions from History and Archaeology. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Fox, Georgia Lynne, ed. 2020. An Archaeology and History of a Caribbean Sugar Plantation on Antigua. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.
Franzen, John G., and Michael S. Nassaney. 2020. The Archaeology of the Logging Industry. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
George, Diane F., and Bernice Kurchin, eds. 2019. Archaeology of Identity and Dissonance: Contexts for a Brave New World. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Gibson, Jon L. 2019. Archaic Earthworks of the Lower Mississippi Valley: Interpretations from the Field. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
Gould, D. Rae, Holly Herbster, Heather Law Pezzarossi, and Stephen A. Mrozowski. 2020. Historical Archaeology and Indigenous Collaboration: Discovering Histories That Have Futures. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Harrison-Buck, Eleanor, and Julia A. Hendon, eds. 2018. Relational Identities and Other-than-Human Agency in Archaeology. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.
Harry, Karen G., and Barbara J. Roth, eds. 2018. Interaction and Connectivity in the Greater Southwest. Louisville, Colorado: University Press of Colorado.
Hart, Siobhan M., and Paul A. Shackel. 2019. Colonialism, Community, and Heritage in Native New England. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Hauser, Mark W., and Diane E. Wallman, eds. 2020. Archaeology in Dominica: Everyday Ecologies and Economies at Morne Patate. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.
Hays-Gilpin, Kelley, Sarah A. Herr, and Patrick D. Lyons, eds. 2021. Engaged Archaeology in the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.
Hepp, Guy David. 2019. La Consentida: Settlement, Subsistence, and Social Organization in an Early Formative Mesoamerican Community. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.
Hirth, Kenn, David M. Carballo, and Bárbara Arroyo, eds. 2020. Teotihuacan: The World beyond the City. Washington, D.C: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.
Hirth, Kenn, and Ann Cyphers. 2020. Olmec Lithic Economy at San Lorenzo. Louisville, Colorado: University Press of Colorado.
Hodder, Ian, ed. 2018. Religion, History and Place in the Origin of Settled Life. Boulder: University Press of Colorado.
Horowitz, Rachel A., and Grant S. McCall, eds. 2019. Lithic Technologies in Sedentary Societies. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.
Houk, Brett A., Bárbara Arroyo, Terry G. Powis, Arlen F. Chase, and Diane Z. Chase, eds. 2020. Approaches to Monumental Landscapes of the Ancient Maya. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Jordán, Mina García. 2018. Idolatry and the Construction of the Spanish Empire. Louisville, Colorado: University Press of Colorado.
Kaplan, Jonathan H., Federico Paredes-Umaña, Arlen F. Chase, and Diane Z. Chase. 2018. Water, Cacao, and the Early Maya of Chocolá. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Kassabaum, Megan C. 2021. A History of Platform Mound Ceremonialism: Finding Meaning in Elevated Ground. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.
Klyukanov, Igor. 2022. Communication: A House Seen from Everywhere. New York: Berghahn Books.
Knudson, Kelly J., and Christopher M. Stojanowski, eds. 2020. Bioarchaeology and Identity Revisited. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.
Kohl, Karl-Heinz, and Jeremy Gaines. 2020. Powerful Things: The History and Theory of Sacred Objects. Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing.
Koons, Michele L., Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod, and Denver Museum of Nature and Science, eds. 2021. The Egyptian Mummies and Coffins of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science: History, Technical Analysis, and Conservation. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.
Lafrenz Samuels, Kathryn, and Paul A. Shackel. 2018. Mobilizing Heritage: Anthropological Practice and Transnational Prospects. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Lamoureux-St-Hilaire, Maxime, and Scott Macrae, eds. 2020. Detachment from Place: Beyond an Archaeology of Settlement Abandonment. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.
Last, Jonathan, ed. 2021. Marking Place: New Perspectives on Early Neolithic Enclosures. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Lemke, Ashley K., ed. 2018. Foraging in the Past: Archaeological Studies of Hunter-Gatherer Diversity. Boulder: University Press of Colorado.
Livingston, Julie. 2019. Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa. Durham: Duke University Press.
Lowrey, Kathleen Bolling. 2020. Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.
Lozada, María Cecilia, and Henry Tantaleán, eds. 2019. Andean Ontologies: New Archaeological Perspectives. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Lukezic, Craig, and John P. McCarthy. 2021. The Archaeology of New Netherland: A World Built on Trade.
Marcone Flores, Giancarlo, ed. 2022. Unveiling Pachacamac: New Hypotheses for an Old Andean Sanctuary. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Masson, Marilyn A., David A. Freidel, and Arthur Andrew Demarest, eds. 2020. The Real Business of Ancient Maya Economies: From Farmers’ Fields to Rulers’ Realms. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida.
Mathers, Clay, ed. 2020. Modeling Entradas: Sixteenth-Century Assemblages in North America. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.
Matthews, Christopher N. 2020. A Struggle for Heritage: Archaeology and Civil Rights in a Long Island Community. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Megged, Amos. 2019. Rituals and Sisterhoods: Single Women’s Households in Mexico, 1560-1750. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.
Messenger, Phyllis Mauch, Susan J. Bender, and Paul A. Shackel, eds. 2019. History and Approaches to Heritage Studies. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Mickel, Allison. 2021. Why Those Who Shovel Are Silent: A History of Local Archaeological Knowledge and Labor. Louisville, CO: University Press of Colorado.
Montgomery, Lindsay M., and Chip Colwell. 2019. Objects of Survivance: A Material History of the American Indian School Experience. Denver, Colorado : Louisville, Colorado: Denver Museum of Nature & Science ; University Press of Colorado.
Morgan, David. 2021. The Thing about Religion: An Introduction to the Material Study of Religions. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press.
Morton, Shawn, and Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown, eds. 2019. Seeking Conflict in Mesoamerica: Operational, Cognitive, and Experiential Approaches. Louisville, Colorado: University Press of Colorado.
Motzfeldt Loades, Celine. 2022. Walls and Gateways: Contested Heritage in Post-War Dubrovnik. New York ; Oxford: Berghahn Books.
Napolitano, Matthew F., Jessica H. Stone, Robert J. DiNapoli, and Victor D. Thompson, eds. 2021. The Archaeology of Island Colonization: Global Approaches to Initial Human Settlement. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Nassaney, Michael S., ed. 2019. Fort St. Joseph Revealed: The Historical Archaeology of a Fur Trading Post. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Nyman, James A., Kevin R. Fogle, and Mary Carolyn Beaudry, eds. 2019. The Historical Archaeology of Shadow and Intimate Economies. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Offner, Jerome A., and Katarzyna Mikulska, eds. 2019. Indigenous Graphic Communication Systems: A Theoretical Approach. Louisville, Colorado: University Press of Colorado.
Oleskiewicz-Peralba, Malgorzata. 2022. Mythology and Symbolism of Eurasia and Indigenous Americas: Manifestations in Artefacts and Rituals. S.l.: BERGHAHN BOOKS.
Olko, Justyna, John Sullivan, and Jan Szemiński, eds. 2018. Dialogue with Europe, Dialogue with the Past: Colonial Nahua and Quechua Elites in Their Own Words. Louisville, Colorado: University Press of Colorado.
Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios, and Diana Espirito Santo, eds. 2019. Articulate Necrographies: Comparative Perspectives on the Voices and Silences of the Dead. New York: Berghahn Books.
Pollack, David, Anne Tobbe Bader, and Justin N. Carlson, eds. 2021. Falls of the Ohio River: Archaeology of Native American Settlement. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.
Ramshaw, Gregory, and Sean Gammon, eds. 2022. Baseball and Cultural Heritage. Pennsylvania: University Press of Florida.
Reeder-Myers, Leslie A., John A. Turck, Torben C. Rick, and Victor D. Thompson, eds. 2019. The Archaeology of Human-Environmental Dynamics on the North American Atlantic Coast. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida.
Rice, Prudence M. 2019. Anthropomorphizing the Cosmos: Middle Preclassic Lowland Maya Figurines, Ritual, and Time. Louisville, Colorado: University Press of Colorado.
Rivera Andía, Juan Javier, ed. 2019. Non-Humans in Amerindian South America: Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals and Songs. New York: Berghahn.
Rocek, Thomas R., and Nancy Adele Kenmotsu, eds. 2018. Late Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers and Farmers of the Jornada Mogollon. Louisville, Colorado: University Press of Colorado.
Roller, Michael P., and Paul A. Shackel. 2018. An Archaeology of Structural Violence: Life in a Twentieth-Century Coal Town. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Rosa, Frederico Delgado, and Han F. Vermeulen, eds. 2022. Ethnographers before Malinowski: Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922. New York: Berghahn Books.
Rose, Chelsea, and Jonathan Ryan Kennedy, eds. 2020. Chinese Diaspora Archaeology in North America. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Santasilia, Catharina E., Guy David Hepp, and Richard A. Diehl, eds. 2022. Identities, Experience, and Change in Early Mexican Villages. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Sayers, Daniel O., Michael S. Nassaney, and Krysta Ryzewski. 2023. The Archaeology of the Homed and the Unhomed. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Scarry, C. Margaret, Dale L. Hutchinson, and Benjamin S. Arbuckle, eds. 2022. Ancient Foodways: Integrative Approaches to Understanding Subsistence and Society. 1st ed. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Schmidt, Peter R., and Alice Beck Kehoe, eds. 2019. Archaeologies of Listening. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Schrenk, Alecia, and Lori A. Tremblay, eds. 2022. Bioarchaeology of Care Through Population-Level Analyses. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.
Seymour, Deni J. 2022. A Green Band in a Parched and Burning Land: Sobaipuri O’odham Landscapes. Louisville, CO: University Press of Colorado.
Sharpe, Ashley E., and John Krigbaum, eds. 2022. Isotope Research in Zooarchaeology: Methods, Applications, and Advances. 1st ed. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Siefkes, Christian. 2022. Edible People: The Historical Consumption of Slaves and Foreigners and the Cannibalistic Trade in Human Flesh. New York, New York: Berghahn Books.
Sparks, Garry. 2019. Rewriting Maya Religion: Domingo de Vico, k’iche’ Maya Intellectuals, and the Theologia Indorum. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.
Stahl, Peter W., Fernando J. Astudillo, Ross W. Jamieson, Diego Quiroga, Florencio Delgado, and Victor D. Thompson. 2019. Historical Ecology and Archaeology in the Galápagos Islands: A Legacy of Human Occupation. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Stanton, Travis W., and M. Kathryn Brown, eds. 2020. A Forest of History: The Maya after the Emergence of Divine Kingship. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.
Stokes, Robert James, ed. 2019. Communities & Households in the Greater American Southwest: New Perspectives and Case Studies. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.
Sullivian, Nikki, and Craig Middleton. 2019. Queering the Museum. 1st ed. New York: Routledge.
Thompson, Victor D., Scott M. Fitzpatrick, Heather B. Thakar, and Carola Flores Fernandez, eds. 2022. Human Behavioral Ecology and Coastal Environments. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Tica, Cristina I., Debra L. Martin, and Clark Spencer Larsen, eds. 2019. Bioarchaeology of Frontiers and Borderlands. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.
Tveskov, Mark Axel, Ashley Ann Bissonnette, and Paul A. Shackel, eds. 2023. Conflict Archaeology, Historical Memory, and the Experience of War: Beyond the Battlefield. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Tyson, Craig W., and Virginia Rimmer Herrmann, eds. 2018. Imperial Peripheries in the Neo-Assyrian Period. Boulder: University Press of Colorado.
Van Dyke, Ruth M., and Carrie C. Heitman, eds. 2021. The Greater Chaco Landscape: Ancestors, Scholarship, and Advocacy. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.
Walczynski, Mark. 2020. The History of Starved Rock, 1673-1911. DeKalb, IL: NIU Press.
Wardle, Joseph D., Robert K. Hitchcock, Matthew Schmader, and Pei-Lin Yu, eds. 2023. Archaeology on the Threshold: Studies in the Processes of Change. First. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Watrall, Ethan, and Lynne Goldstein, eds. 2022a. Digital Heritage and Archaeology in Practice: Data, Ethics, and Professionalism. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Watrall, Ethan, and Lynne Goldstein, eds. 2022b. Digital Heritage and Archaeology in Practice: Presentation, Teaching, and Engagement. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Watson, James T., and Gordon F. M. Rakita, eds. 2020. Ancient Southwestern Mortuary Practices. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.
Webster, Maud. 2021. Heritage and the Existential Need for History. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Weik, Terrance M., ed. 2019. The Archaeology of Removal in North America. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Weiss, Elizabeth, and James W. Springer. 2020. Repatriation and Erasing the Past. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.
Wheeler, Ryan J., Joanna Ostapkowicz, Lee A. Newsom, and Vernon J. Knight, eds. 2019. Iconography and Wetsite Archaeology of Florida’s Watery Realms. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.
Willermet, C. M., Andrea Cucina, and Clark Spencer Larsen, eds. 2018. Bioarchaeology of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Willey, P., Peter Gavette, Eric Bartelink, and Colleen Milligan, eds. 2022. Archaeology and Bioarchaeology of Anatomical Dissection at a Nineteenth-Century Army Hospital in San Francisco. S.l.: UNIV PR OF FLORIDA.
Williams, Kimberly D., Lesley A. Gregoricka, and Clark Spencer Larsen, eds. 2019. Mortuary and Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Bronze Age Arabia. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.
Yamin, Rebecca, Donna J. Seifert, and Michael S. Nassaney. 2019. The Archaeology of Prostitution and Clandestine Pursuits. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.