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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Ancient visions	Julie E Francis	"The Bighorn and Wind River basins of north-central Wyoming and southern Montana have been home to Native American tribes for at least 11,000 years and contain some of the most diverse assemblages of…	OL12019524W
Catawba Valley Mississippian	David G. Moore	"By the 18th century, the modern Catawba Indians were living along the river and throughout the valley that bears their name near the present North Carolina/South Carolina border, but little was know…	OL12032151W
Archaic hunters and gatherers in the American Midwest	James L. Phillips,James Allison Brown	xvi, 349 pages : 24 cm	OL18235912W
Pioneer in space and time	Brent Richards Weisman	"This biography of John Mann Goggin recounts the story of Florida archaeology from its nineteenth-century beginnings to the present through the life of its most influential pioneer, a charismatic per…	OL1927379W
People of the high country	Gary A. Wright	ii, 181 p., [5] p. of plates : 23 cm	OL19478738W
Calumet & fleur-de-lys	Thomas E. Emerson,John A. Walthall	viii, 307 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm	OL19480106W
The lost world of the Old Ones	David Stuart Roberts	"An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants. In The Lost World of the Old Ones, David Roberts expa…	OL19668239W
Kennewick Man	Richard L. Jantz,Douglas W. Owsley	"Almost from the day of its accidental discovery along the banks of the Columbia River in Washington State in July 1996, the ancient skeleton of Kennewick Man has garnered significant attention from …	OL19988689W
Mesa of sorrows	Brooks, James	The Hopi community of Awat'ovi existed peacefully on Arizona's Antelope Mesa for generations. Then one bleak morning in the fall of 1700 raiders from nearby Hopi villages descended on Awat'ovi, slaug…	OL20020309W
Cities in the sand	Scott S. Warren	Discusses some of the things archaeologists have learned about three major groups of Indians that lived in the American Southwest: the Anasazi, the Hohokam, and the Mogollon.	OL3231504W
Digging and discovery	Diane Holliday,Bobbie Malone,Diane Young Holliday	Takes a look at Wisconsin's past through the various archaeological sites in the state.	OL3354247W
An account of the antiquities of the Indians	Fray Ramon Pané	Accompanying Columbus on his second voyage to the New World in 1494 was a young Spanish friar named Ramón Pané. The friar’s assignment was to live among the “Indians” whom Columbus had “discovered” o…	OL3669418W
All about arrowheads and spear points	Howard Everett Smith	Describes the different types of arrowheads and spear points of the Americas, where they may be found, and what they reveal about the life of ancient peoples.	OL4649420W
The archaeology and history of the Native Georgia tribes	Max E. White	"It is the only comprehensive, up-to-date, and text-based overview of its kind in print. Max White draws on an extensive body of archaeological and historical data, tracing Native American cultural d…	OL4653217W
A Personal Tour of Mesa Verde	Young, Robert	Grade 4-6-A pleasant, if bland, series designed to reinforce the "real-life" side of history. Between the introduction and afterword, each of these slim volumes contains five fictional vignettes that…	OL476160W
Stone Age Spear and Arrow Points of California and the Great Basin:	Noel D. Justice	"This reference to projectile points of California and the Great Basin is the latest in a series of regional guides that survey, describe, and categorize the projectile points and cutting tools used …	OL5279948W
Water panthers, bears, and thunderbirds	Amy Rosebrough	Introduces effigy mound sites, man-made hills shaped like animals usually used to bury the dead, that are found in five southern Wisconsin counties, and provides exercises in comparing, contrasting, …	OL6030713W
The collector's guide to American Indian artifacts	Lloyd Harnishfeger	An introduction to collecting Indian relics, covering such topics as where to hunt for them, how to identify them, how to clean, mount, display, and catalog them, and how to restore broken artifacts.	OL7016950W
Native Seattle	Coll Thrush	1 online resource (xxxv, 324 pages) :	OL9154315W
Drawing Back Culture	Ann M. Tweedie	"The Makah Indians of Washington State - briefly in the national spotlight when they resumed their ancient whaling traditions in 1999 - have begun a process that will eventually lead to the repatriat…	OL9181135W