ABSTRACT

This comprehensive text is intended for the junior-senior level course in North American Archaeology. Written by accomplished scholar Dean Snow, this new text approaches native North America from the perspective of evolutionary ecology. Succinct, streamlined chapters present an extensive groundwork for supplementary material, or serve as a core text.The narrative covers all of Mesoamerica, and explicates the links between the part of North America covered by the United States and Canada and the portions covered by Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and the Greater Antilles. Additionally, book is extensively illustrated with the author's own research and findings.

chapter 1|23 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|17 pages

Eurasian Origins

chapter 3|23 pages

The Peopling of America

chapter 4|26 pages

Archaic Adaptations

chapter 5|22 pages

The Moundbuilders

chapter 6|28 pages

The Greater Southwest

chapter 7|32 pages

Mesoamerican Civilization

chapter 8|23 pages

Postclassic Mesoamerica

chapter 9|23 pages

The Mississippians

chapter 10|23 pages

The Northeastern Forests

chapter 11|16 pages

The Gulf Rim

chapter 12|21 pages

The Interior West

chapter 13|26 pages

The West Coast

chapter 14|17 pages

The Arctic and Subarctic

chapter 15|16 pages

Worlds in Collision