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The Aztec Herbal

by Luigi Guerrini,

Amanda Herrin

and Simon Varey

The album

published here is

Cassianos copyo the Codex

Badianus, a re-

markable herbal

o Aztec plants

and medicine

prepared or the

Viceroy o Mexico

in 1552 and pre-

sented to Cassianos patron, Cardinal Francesco

Barberini, during a papal legation to Spain in 1626.

The earliest medical text and herbal known to have

been written in the New World, the Codex Badianus

was copied on the Cardinals return to Rome or

Cassianos ellow members o the Accademia dei

Lincei, engaged at that time in completing their own

vast illustrated natural history o Central America, the

Tesoro Messicano (based on the notes and illustra-

tions collected in Mexico by Francisco Hernndez).

272p, 160 col illus (Harvey Miller Publishers 2009, The Paper

Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Series B: Natural History 8)

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The David Brown Book Company Presents

The Techoog

o Maa Ciiizatio

Political Economy

and Beyond

in Lithic Studies

by Zachary X Hruby,

Georey E Braswell

and Oswaldo ChinchillaMazariegos

The ancient Maya shaped

their world with stone tools.

Lithic artiacts helped create

the cityscape, were central

to warare and hunting,

were key to crat activi-

ties, were used to process ood, and were employed in ritual

perormance. This volume expands our understanding o the

past by considering Maya lithic artiacts made o chert, ob-

sidian, silicied limestone, and jade. Using these as sources

o data, lithic specialists examine the relationship betweenancient people and natural resources, and ask questions

regarding social organization and political economy. The edi-

tors bring together a detailed, comprehensive view o Maya

stone artiacts that is crated rom new research, progressive

analytical methods, and innovative anthropological theory.288p, 58 illus (Equinox Publishing, April 2010, Approaches to

Anthropological Archaeology) hardback, 9781845535087, $100.00.

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Bood ad Beaut

Organized Violence in the Art

and Archaeology o Mesoamerica

and Central America

edited by Heather Orr

and Rex Koontz

Authors specializing in the

anthropology, archaeology, art histo

and linguistics o Mesoamerica and

Central America bring new data and

interpretive strategies to bear on the

nature o institutional violence in

these ancient societies. The volume covers a broad time rame,

rom circa 1200 BCE to the sixteenth century, including recent

ethnography. The volume contextualizes violence and violent

acts within the matrix o indigenous thought and culture.398p, col illus (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press 2009,

Ideas, Debates and Perspectives 4)

paperback, 9781931745031, $65.00. Special Ofer $52.00

hardback, 9781931745802, $95.00. Special Ofer $76.00

Gaiazo

An Early Cultural Tradition

on the Peruvian North Coast

edited by Jean-Franois Millaire

and Magali Morlion

Over the last decades, consider-

able eort has been directed

towards the study o early

complex societies o northern

Peru. Yet, comparatively little

attention has been paid to theearlier cultural oundations o

north coast civilization: the Gallinazo. This volume is the result

o a round table, which discussed the Gallinazo phenomenon.

In ourteen chapters, authors with dierent perspectives and

backgrounds reconsider the nature o the Gallinazo culture

and its position within north-coast cultural history, while

addressing wider issues about the development o complex

societies in this area and within the Andean region in gen-

eral. The contributions reveal a diversity o perspectives.

267p (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press 2009, Cotsen Monograph 66)

paperback, 9781931745758, $55.00. Special Ofer $44.00

hardback, 9781931745741, $95.00. Special Ofer $76.00

Ica Rituas ad Sacred Moutais

A Study o the Worlds Highest Archaeological Site

by Johan Reinhard and Maria Constanza Ceruti

The Incas carried out some o the most dramatic ceremonies

known to us rom ancient times. Groups o people walked hun-

dreds o miles across arid and mountainous terrain to perorm

them on mountains over 6,096 m (20,000 eet) high. The most

important oerings made during these pilgrimages involved

human sacrices (capacochas). Although Spanish chroniclers

wrote about these oerings and the state sponsored proces-sions o which they were a part, their accounts were based on

second-hand sources, and the only direct evidence we have

o the capacocha sacrices comes to us rom archaeologi-

cal excavations. This study describes the results o research

undertaken on Mount Llullaillaco. The types o ruins and ar-

tiact assemblages recovered are described and analyzed.

300p (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, Summer 2010,

Cotsen Monograph 67)

paperback, 9781931745772, $65.00. Pre-publication Ofer $52.00

hardback, 9781931745765, $95.00. Pre-publication Ofer $76.00

Settemet ad Subsistei Ear Formatie

Socousco

El Varal and the Problem o

Inter-Site Assemblage Variatio

edited by Richard G Lesure

This volume sets archaeological

excavations at a special-

purpose estuary site in coastal

Chiapas, Mexico, into the larger

anthropological context o

the origins o agriculture and

sedentary lie in ancient Mesoamerica. The site o El Varal islocated in the Soconusco region, a narrow strip o the Pacic

coast o Chiapas and neighboring Guatemala that is sharply

dened inland by the rise o the Sierra Madre escarpment. The

diverse biotic zones o the area run in strips parallel to the ocea

This work is important or understandings o Early Formative

social lie in the region.

275p (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, Spring 2010,

Cotsen Monograph 65)

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Huter-Gatherer Foragig

Five Simple Models

by Robert L Bettinger

This is a primer on oraging

models relevant to the study o

hunter-gatherers. It is intended

or students new to the subject

matter, especially those with

little mathematical training, and

similarly challenged ethnogra-

phers, ethnologists, and archae-ologists who are amiliar with the

principles o oraging theory but

have never mastered any o its individual models. There are

more o them than one might think. The diet breadth model

is the backbone o hunter-gatherer oraging research.

This volume presents exercises designed to convey

oraging models in a hands-on manner. An excel-

lent resource or upper-division undergraduate and

graduate-level classes ocused on topics ranging rom

analytical methods in anthropology/ archaeology to

hunter-gatherers. Gary M Feinman, The Field Museum

124p (Eliot Werner Publications 2009) paperback, 9780979773136,$29.50. Special Ofer $24.00

Recet Archaeoog o the Ear Moder Period

i Qubec Cit

Post-Medieval Archaeology, Volume 43, Part 1 (2009)

edited by William Moss

This volume contains sixteen papers including accounts o exciting

discoveries relating to the port, the great chateau on the crag abov

it, the deenses, and the newly discovered remains o the short-live

colony o the 1540s. The papers underline Quebecs status as one o

the leading centers o urban research in North America. The volum

provides the only modern overview o archaeological work in the c

in the English language.256p (Maney Publishing 2009) paperback, 9781906540890, $48.00.

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Taig Artiacts

The Twentieth-Century

Legacy

by Stanley South

Researchers are becoming

increasingly interested in

understanding the behav-

iors and processes rep-

resentative o the recent

past. This book provides

an illustration, analysis,

and pattern recognition

o the artiact legacy o a twentieth century middle-class

American amily. Historical archaeologists, historians,

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book and the authors Household Artiact Pattern useul in

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acts in the cultural processes at work in the past century.330p (Eliot Werner Publications, Spring 2010) paperback,

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Wetad Archaeoog 9 (2009)

Sunken Village, Sauvie Island, Orego

USA

edited by Bryony Coles

Volume nine is dedicated to the well-

preserved wet site o Sunken Village,

on the southern end o Sauvie Island,Portland, Oregon, USA. The site

report looks at physical setting, the

archaeological investigations, foral

and aunal remains, artiacts, and the

ecological, artiactual, and unctional context.218p (Oxbow Books 2009) paperback, 9781842173619, $40.00.

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Icoograa de a Cutura Toita

Lecturas del discurso ideolgico en

las representaciones gurativas del

Desarrollo Regional

by Maria Fernanda Ugalde

The Tolita culture is known or its in-

tricately modeled gurines that oten

depict beings with both human and

animal traits. Analyzing these gu-

rines, the author attempts to approach

the imaginative world o their cre-

ators and to draw conclusions about

the social structure o the Tolita culture. Spanish text.

224p, 80 b/w & 65 col illus (Reichert Verlag 2009) hardback,

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