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, or would like to add a title, please get in touch. List updated April 2024

Available titles:

Andrews, Brian N., and Danielle A. Macdonald. 2022. More than Shelter from the Storm: Hunter-Gatherer Houses and the Built Environment. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Atici, Levent, and Benjamin S. Arbuckle, eds. 2022. Food Provisioning in Complex Societies: Zooarchaeological Perspectives. Denver: University Press of Colorado.

Barton, Christopher P., ed. 2021. Trowels in the Trenches: Archaeology as Social Activism. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

———. 2022. The Archaeology of Race and Class at Timbuctoo: A Black Community in New Jersey. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Bercken, Ben van den, ed. 2023. Alternative Egyptology: Papers on the Relation between Alternative and Academic Interpretations of Ancient Egypt. Leiden: Sidestone Press.

Bindi, Letizia, ed. 2022. Grazing Communities: Pastoralism on the Move and Biocultural Heritage Frictions. 1st ed. Berghahn Books. https://doi.org/10.3167/9781800734753.

Brian N. Andrews, David J. Meltzer, & Mark Stiger. 2021. The Mountaineer Site: A Folsom Winter Camp in the Rockies. University Press of Colorado. https://upcolorado.com/university-press-of-colorado/item/4009-the-mountaineer-site.

Burkhart, Louise M. 2023. Staging Christ’s Passion in Eighteenth-Century Nahua Mexico. Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph Series. Denver: 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. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Castrorao Barba, Angelo, Davide Tanasi, and Roberto Miccichè, eds. 2023. Archaeology of the Mediterranean during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. 1st ed. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Chacon, Yamilette, and Richard J. Chacon, eds. 2023. Archaeological and Ethnographic Evidence of Domination in Indigenous Latin America. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Christie, Jessica Joyce, and Paul A. Shackel. 2021. Earth Politics and Intangible Heritage: Three Case Studies in the Americas. Cultural Heritage Studies. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Collins, Rob, Jane Harrison, Ian Kille, Kathryn Murphy, and Kerry Shaw. 2023. Community Archaeology on Hadrian’s Wall 2019-2022. Paperback. Philadelphia: Oxbow Books.

Coltman, Jeremy D., and John M. D. Pohl. 2021. Sorcery in Mesoamerica. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.

Cordova, Carlos E., and Christopher T. Morehart, eds. 2023. The Legacies of the Basin of Mexico, the Ecological Processes in the Evolution of a Civilization. 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. 1st ed. Berghahn Books. https://doi.org/10.3167/9781800735491.

Deagan, Kathleen A. 2023. En Bas Saline: A Taíno Town before and after Columbus. First. Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.

Diserens Morgan, Kasey, Tiffany C. Fryer, and John G. Douglass, eds. 2022. Coloniality in the Maya Lowlands: Archaeological Perspectives. Global Colonialism. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.

Edgar, Heather J. H., and C. M. Willermet, eds. 2023. The Biocultural Consequences of Contact in Mexico: Five Centuries of Change. 1st ed. Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.

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.

Fracchia, Adam D., and Patricia Samford. 2023a. Below Baltimore: An Archaeology of Charm City. 1st ed. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

———. 2023b. Below Baltimore: An Archaeology of Charm City. 1st ed. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Hauser, Mark W., and Julia Jong Haines, eds. 2023. The Archaeology of Modern Worlds in the Indian Ocean. 1st ed. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Hays-Gilpin, Kelley, Sarah A. Herr, and Patrick D. Lyons, eds. 2021. Engaged Archaeology in the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico. Proceedings of the Southwest Symposium. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.

Hirth, Kenn, Susan Grant Hirth, George Hasemann, and Gloria Lara Pinto. 2023. Ritual and Economy in a Pre-Columbian Chiefdom: The El Cajón Region of Honduras. Denver: University Press of Colorado.

Kassabaum, Megan C. 2021. A History of Platform Mound Ceremonialism: Finding Meaning in Elevated Ground. Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.

Klyukanov, Igor. 2022. Communication: A House Seen from Everywhere. Studies in Linguistic Anthropology, volume 2. New York: Berghahn Books.

Koons, Michele L., and Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod. 2021. The Egyptian Mummies and Coffins of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science: History, Technical Analysis, and Conservation. Louisville (Colo.): University Press of Colorado.

Lafrenz Samuels, Kathryn, and Jon Darin Daehnke, eds. 2023. Heritage and Democracy: Crisis, Critique, and Collaboration. 1st ed. Cultural Heritage Studies. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Last, Jonathan, ed. 2021. Marking Place: New Perspectives on Early Neolithic Enclosures: 18. Oxford (GB): Oxbow Books.

Lukezic &amp, Craig, and John P. McCarthy. 2021. The Archaeology of New Netherland: A World Built on Trade. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Marcone Flores, Giancarlo, ed. 2022. Unveiling Pachacamac: New Hypotheses for an Old Andean Sanctuary. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Marken, Damien B., and Marie-Charlotte Arnauld, eds. 2023. Building an Archaeology of Maya Urbanism: Planning and Flexibility in the American Tropics. Louisville, CO: University Press of Colorado.

Metz, Brent E. 2022. Where Did the Eastern Mayas Go? Decolonizing Ethnography and the Historical, Relational, and Contingent Interplay of Ch’orti’ Indigeneity. IMS Studies on Culture and Society. Louisville : Albany, New York: University Press of Colorado ; Institute for Mesoamerican Studies.

Mohr, Sara, and Shane M. Thompson, eds. 2023. Power and Identity at the Margins of the Ancient Near East. Louisville, CO: University Press of Colorado.

More Than Shelter From The Storm: Hunter-Gatherer Houses and the Built Environment. 2022. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida.

Morgan, David. 2021. The Thing about Religion: An Introduction to the Material Study of Religions. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press.

Motzfeldt Loades, Celine. 2022. Walls and Gateways: Contested Heritage in Dubrovnik. 1st ed. Berghahn Books. https://doi.org/10.3167/9781800733541.

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. Society and Ecology in Island and Coastal Archaeology. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Oleszkiewicz-Peralba, Małgorzata. 2022. MYTHOLOGY AND SYMBOLISM OF EURASIA AND INDIGENOUS AMERICAS: Manifestations in Artifacts and Rituals. 1st ed. Berghahn Books. https://doi.org/10.3167/9781800738164.

Orser, Charles E. 2023. Living Ceramics, Storied Ground: A History of African American Archaeology. 1st ed. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Pollack, David, Anne Tobbe Bader, and Justin N. Carlson, eds. 2021. Falls of the Ohio River: Archaeology of Native American Settlement. Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.

Ramshaw, Gregory, Sean Gammon, and Paul A. Shackel, eds. 2022. Baseball and Cultural Heritage. Cultural Heritage Studies. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Redman, Samuel J. 2021. Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

Rosa, Frederico Delgado, and Han F. Vermeulen, eds. 2022. Ethnographers before Malinowski: Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922. 1st ed. Berghahn Books. https://doi.org/10.3167/9781800735316.

Rosales, Marta Vilar. 2023. Things of the House: Material Culture and Migration from Post-Colonial Mozambique to Portugal. European Anthropology in Translation, volume 11. New York: Berghahn Books.

Sampson, Christina Perry, Victor D. Thompson, and Scott M. Fitzpatrick, eds. 2023. Fisher-Hunter-Gatherer Complexity in North America. First. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Santasilia, Catharina E., Guy David Hepp, and Richard A. Diehl. 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. The American Experience in Archaeological Perspective. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Scarry, C. Margaret, Dale L. Hutchinson, and Benjamin S. Arbuckle, eds. 2023. Ancient Foodways: Integrative Approaches to Understanding Subsistence and Society. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Schmidt, Peter R., and Alice Beck Kehoe, eds. 2022. Archaeologies of Listening. Gainesville Tallahassee Tampa Boca Raton Pensacola Orlando Miami Jacksonville Ft. Myers Sarasota: University Press of Florida.

Schrenk, Alecia A., and Lori A. Tremblay. 2022. Bioarchaeology of Care through Population-Level Analyses. Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past. Gainesville (Fla.): University of Florida Press.

Seymour, Deni J. 2022. A Green Band in a Parched and Burning Land: Sobaipuri O’odham Landscapes. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.

Sharpe, Ashley E., and John Krigbaum, eds. 2022. Isotope Research in Zooarchaeology: Methods, Applications, and Advances. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Siefkes, Christian. 2022. Edible People: The Historical Consumption of Slaves and Foreigners and the Cannibalistic Trade in Human Flesh: 11. New York, New York: Berghahn Books.

Skowronek, Russell K., and Charles R. Ewen, eds. 2023. Dead Man’s Chest: Exploring the Archaeology of Piracy. 1st ed. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Smith, Monica L., ed. 2022. The Power of Nature: Archaeology and Human-Environmental Dynamics. Denver: University Press of Colorado.

Solomon-Woldekiros, Helina. 2023. The Boundaries of Ancient Trade: Kings, Commoners, and the Aksumite Salt Trade of Ethiopia. Denver: University Press of Colorado.

Thompson, Victor D., Scott M. Fitzpatrick, Heather B. Thakar, and Carola Flores Fernandez, eds. 2022. Human Behavioral Ecology and Coastal Environments. Society and Ecology in Island and Coastal Archaeology. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Tveskov, Mark Axel, Ashley Ann Bissonnette, and Paul A. Shackel, eds. 2023. Conflict Archaeology, Historical Memory, and the Experience of War: Beyond the Battlefield. Cultural Heritage Studies. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Van Dyke, Ruth M., and Carrie C. Heitman, eds. 2021. The Greater Chaco Landscape: Ancestors, Scholarship, and Advocacy. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.

Watrall, Ethan, and Lynne Goldstein, eds. 2022. Digital Heritage and Archaeology in Practice: Presentation, Teaching, and Engagement. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Webster, Maud. 2021. Heritage and the Existential Need for History. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

White, Nancy Marie, Lynne Sullivan, and Rochelle Marrinan, eds. 2023. Grit-Tempered, with a New Preface. University Press of Florida. https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9780813080468.

Willey, Patrick S., Peter Gavette, Eric J. Bartelink, and Colleen F. Milligan, eds. 2023. Archaeology and Bioarchaeology of Anatomical Dissection at a Nineteenth-Century Army Hospital in San Francisco. 1st ed. Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.

Wright, David, and Francisco Marco Simón, eds. 2022. From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico: Religious Globalization in the Context of Empire. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.