Exploring Ancient Native America: An Archaeological Guide

David Hurst Thomas

ISBN 10: 0671880500 / ISBN 13: 9780671880507

Published by Macmillan, New York, NY, 1994

About this Item

Macmillan, New York. 1994. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: Fine; NOT Price Clipped (25.00). Yellow paper over boards with brown cloth overlay on the spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 314 pp 8vo. This book is a lavishly illustrated guide to more than 400 of the most important Indian archaeological sites in the United States and Canada. Authoritative and insightful, this volume provides an overview of these prehistoric cultures and describes the evolution of the numerous Native American civilizations. A clean very presentable copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Exploring Ancient Native America: An Archaeological Guide
• Publisher: Macmillan, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671880500
• ISBN 13: 9780671880507
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Indian Wars/American Indian Matters
  • Explorers/Archaeology/Anthropology

About this title

Synopsis

Documents the rise and fall of ancient Indian cultures in the U.S. and Canada through examinations of ruins, burial mounds, and artifacts

About the Author

David Hurst Thomas has been a curator at the American Museum of Natural History for over twenty years and is a Founding Trustee of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. He has excavated hundreds of sites, has edited more than eighty volumes, and is the author of Archaeology (1998) and Archaeology: Down to Earth (1999).