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 November 2023

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.

Anon. n.d. “The History of Starved Rock by Mark Walczynski | Paperback.” Cornell University Press. Retrieved November 20, 2023 (https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501748240/the-history-of-starved-rock/).

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.

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

Baxter, Jane Eva, and Michael S. Nassaney. 2019. The Archaeology of American Childhood and Adolescence. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Bender, Susan J., and Phyllis Mauch Messenger. 2019. Pedagogy and Practice in Heritage Studies. 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.

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. 1st ed. 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.

Brian N. Andrews, David J. Meltzer, & Mark Stiger. 2021. The Mountaineer Site: A Folsom Winter Camp in the Rockies. University Press of Colorado.

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.

Burkhart, Louise M. 2023. Staging Christ’s Passion in Eighteenth-Century Nahua Mexico. 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.

Chase, Arlen Frank, Diane Z. Chase, and Christopher Stockard Beekman. 2019. Migrations in Late Mesoamerica. Gainesville: University press of Florida.

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

Clark, Bonnie J. 2020. Finding Solace in the Soil: An Archaeology of Gardens and Gardeners at Amache. 1st edition. University Press of Colorado.

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.

D. RAE GOULD, HOLLY HERBSTER, HEATHER LAW PEZZAROSSI, AND STEPHEN A. MROZOWSKI. 2020. Historical Archaeology and Indigenous Collaboration: Discovering Histories That Have Futures. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida.

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.

Deagan, Kathleen A. 2023. En Bas Saline: A Taíno Town before and after Columbus. First. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.

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.

Díaz Alvarez, Ana María, ed. 2020. Reshaping the World: Debates on Mesoamerican Cosmologies. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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. 2019. Archaeology of Identity and Dissonance: Contexts for a Brave New World. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida.

Gibson, J. 2019. Archaic Earthworks of the Lower Mississippi Valley. LSU Press.

Hart, Siobhan M., and Paul A. Shackel. 2019. Colonialism, Community, and Heritage in Native New England. 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. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.

Hepp, Guy David. 2019. La Consentida: Settlement, Subsistence, and Social Organization in an Early Formative Mesoamerican Community. Louisville, Colorado: University press of Colorado.

Hirth, Kenn, and Ann Cyphers Guillén. 2020. Olmec Lithic Economy at San Lorenzo. Louisville (Colo.): University Press of Colorado.

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

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

Hirth, Kenneth G., David M. Carballo, and Barbara Arroyo, eds. 2020. Teotihuacan: The World Beyond the City. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Horowitz, Rachel A., and Grant McCall. 2019. Lithic Technologies in Sedentary Societies. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.

Houk, Brett Alan, Bárbara Arroyo, Terry G. Powis, Arlen Frank Chase, and Diane Elizabeth Zaino Chase, eds. 2020. Approaches to Monumental Landscapes of the Ancient Maya. 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., 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. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Lamoureux-St-Hilaire, Maxime, and Scott Macrae. 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: 18. Oxford (GB): Oxbow Books.

Livingston, Julie. 2019. Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa. Durham, NC: 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. 2019. Andean Ontologies: New Archaeological Perspectives. Gainesville: University press of Florida.

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.

Masson, Marilyn A., David A. Freidel, Arthur Andrew Demarest, Diane Z. Chase, and Arlen Frank Chase, 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, Colo: 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.

Mikulksa, Katarzyna, and Jerome A. Offner, eds. 2019. Indigenous Graphic Communication Systems: A Theoretical Approach. Chicago: University Press of Colorado.

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.

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 Gregory, and Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown. 2019. Seeking Conflict in Mesoamerica: Operational, Cognitive, and Experiential Approaches. Louisville, Colo: University Press of Colorado.

Motzfeldt Loades, Celine. 2022. Walls and Gateways: Contested Heritage in Dubrovnik. 1st ed. 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.

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

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

Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios, and Diana Espirito Santo, eds. 2019. Articulate Necrographies: Comparative Perspectives on the Voices and Silences of the Dead. New York: Berghahn Books.

PETER W. STAHL, FERNANDO J. ASTUDILLO, ROSS W. JAMIESON, DIEGO QUIROGA, AND FLORENCIO DELGADO. 2020. Historical Ecology and Archaeology in the Galápagos Islands: A Legacy of Human Occupation. 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. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.

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

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

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.

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

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

Rose, Chelsea, and Jonathan Ryan Kennedy, eds. 2020. Chinese Diaspora Archaeology in North America. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

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. 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. 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.

Sparks, Garry G. 2019. Rewriting Maya Religion: Domingo de Vico, K’Iche’ Maya Intellectuals, and the Theologia Indorum. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.

Stanton, Travis W., and M. Kathryn Brown, eds. 2020. A Forest of History: The Maya After the Emergence of Divine Kingship. Louisville, Colo: University Press of Colorado.

Stokes, Robert J. 2019. Communities and Households in the Greater American Southwest: New Perspectives and Case Studies. 1st edition. Louisville: University Press of Colorado.

Sullivan, Nikki, and Craig Middleton. 2019. Queering the Museum. 1st edition. 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.

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

Wallman (editor), Mark W. Hauser &. Diane. 2020. Archaeology in Dominica: Everyday Ecologies and Economies at Morne Patate. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Wardle, Joseph. n.d. Archaeology on the Threshold. Studies in the Processes of Change. University Press of Florida.

Watrall, Ethan, and Lynne Goldstein, eds. 2022. 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.

White, Nancy Marie, Lynne Sullivan, and Rochelle Marrinan, eds. 2023. Grit-Tempered, with a New Preface. University Press of Florida.

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. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.

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.

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.

Yamin, Rebecca, Donna J. Seifert, and Michael S. Nassaney. 2019. The Archaeology of Prostitution and Clandestine Pursuits. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.