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Archaeological Booklets
These archaeological booklets are usually less than 100 pages and focus on single or a limited number of subjects .   A wealth of information in a small package.  Check out our booklets by clicking here.
		Mound Explorations Poster
		Although the actual title of the map is "Distribution of Mounds in the Eastern United States"  it also illustrates mounds  as far west of the Mississippi River as North and South Dakota.
		Printed on an offset press, the semi-gloss finish paper is coated on both sides, 18" x 24".
		Archeological Atlas of Ohio
		This large format (approximately 12" x 17") soft cover book is printed on acid-free, premium heavyweight paper and features the full-size, color maps of each of the 88 Ohio counties as well as the county archaeological descriptions, trail and mound distribution maps  as found in the original.
		Ohio Flint Types Poster
		Printed on an offset press, matte finish paper is coated on both sides, 24" x 36", 73 flint artifacts  illustrated.
		Data and artifact outlines were provided by Ohio archaeologist Jonathan "Jeb" Bowen, Ph.D.
New Petroglyph Titles
		Petroglyphs of California
		An excellent resource on the pteroglyphs of California as well as Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah, .Features distribution maps of  petroglyphs grouped by design type..
		Petroglyphs of Oregon
		Features distribution maps of Oregon's petroglyphs grouped by design type.
		The Technique of Porcupine-Quillwork Decoration Among the North American Indians
		William C. Orchard - 1916
		Prehistoric Remains Which Were  Found on the Site of the City of Cincinnati and a Vindication of the Cincinnati Tablet
		Robert Clarke - 1876
		The American Bisons, Living and Extinct
		J. A. Allen - 1876
		Another extraordinarily rare work that was published in 1876.  Allen has split this report into two parts:  Part 1 concerns the extinct Bison of North America and Part 2 the modern species.
		Relics of the Revolution
		Reginald Pelham Bolton - 1916
		Early excavations of the hut camps of the American Revolution provides insight into the soldier's lives of both the British and American armies.
New Cahokia Map on the Archaeology Map Page
		Origin of the Cahokia Mounds  & Cahokia and Surrounding  Mound Groups
		A. R. Crook & D. I. Bushnell, Jr.
		Two early works on Cahokia, some of the earliest aerial photographs of Cahokia were taken by the United States Army Air Service pilot, Lieutenant G. W. Goddard, and 12 are included
		Cahokia or Monks Mound - Greatest Monument of Prehistoric Man
		Various Contributors - 1913
		An early work on the Cahokia Mound Group (circa 1913), it contains the sketch by H. M. Brackenridge, written in 1811, which is one of the earliest descriptions of Cahokia.
		Native Village and Village Sites East of the Mississippi
		Bureau of American Ethnology - Bulletin 69
		David I. Bushnell, Jr. - 1919
		A discussion of village sites of the of the Eastern United States drawing from documents and maps dating back to the 16th century.
		Native Cemeteries and Forms of Burial East of the Mississippi
		Bureau of American Ethnology - Bulletin 71
		David I. Bushnell, Jr. - 1920
		A discussion of burial practices of the Eastern United States  drawing from documents and maps dating back to the 16th century.
		3 New Volumes of Classics in Texas Archeology
		Volume 3 - Texas Coastal Archeology
		Volume 4 - Panhandle and Southern High Plains Archeology
		Volume 5 - Central Texas and Lower Pecos Archeology
		Indian Beadwork
		A Help For Students Of Design Clark Wissler - 1922 Authoritative paper covering manufacture and design of beadwork articles.  The designs are from the Arapaho and Dakota tribes and are generally representative of the Plains Indians as a whole.  Of special interest are the diagrams of design elements and their meanings.
		The Serpent Mound of Ohio
		And Prehistoric Remains in the Ohio Valley F. W. Putnam Extraordinarily rare, Putnam wrote these papers for the The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine between November, 1899 and April 1890.  Containing excellent engravings and material that is not readily available in other sources it provides an excellent resource on Serpent Mound.
		The Wesleyan University Collection of Antiquities of Tennessee
		And  Some Mounds of Eastern Tennessee George Grant MacCurdy - 1917 Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Council of Americanists, Washington, 1915.  An examination of early collections of Tennessee archaeological material featuring some extraordinary shell artifacts that were used by William H. Homes in his Art in Shell of the Ancient Americans.
		Great Plains Archaeology
		New Old Stock Titles
		The J and L Reprint Company produced some excellent reprints, as well as original papers, concerning the archaeology of the Great Plains. These quality reprints are not used copies but new old stock and still wrapped and packed in the boxes just as they were delivered from the printer.
		As supplies of these are limited to stock on hand we have listed them on a special page. See the Great Plains Titles Page.
		Archeological Atlas of Ohio
		Individual County Archaeological  Maps Now Available
		13" x 19" individual county maps on heavyweight stock
		We have reproduced the famous county maps (full size) from Mills' Archeological Atlas of Ohio on a heavyweight paper and have added the list of township archeological features, cartographic table of map symbols and a mound distribution map of Ohio. Available in heavyweight paper as well as extra heavyweight coated glossy.  See the archaeological maps page.
		Archeology in Arkansas
		Volume 1 - Caddo Archeology
		Assembled and edited by Duncan P. McKinnon
		We have partnered with the Arkansas Archeological Society to produce the first of a planned 3 volumes on Arkansas archeology. This first assemblage of 13 articles from past issues of the Arkansas Archeologist features a foreword by Duncan McKinnon and focuses on Caddo archaeology. Please take a look at the AAS description page and then follow the embedded links to their site.  Another archeological organization well worth joining. Arkansas Archeological Society description page
		The Serpent Mound
		Adams County, Ohio
		E. O. Randall
		E.O. Randall was the secretary of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society when he wrote this book in 1916,  includes sections on the History of the Serpent and construction of the mound with various theories of the Mound Builders and discussions on serpent worship and foreign serpent mounds..

	Aboriginal Pottery of the Eastern United States
	William H. Holmes (1903)
	The classic work on pottery by William H. Holmes, the former director of the U.S. Bureau of Ethnology. This publication explains pottery types and methods of manufacture and is profusely illustrated with 177 full page plates (7  full color), 79 illustrations  and a color pottery distribution map of the Eastern United States.
Archeological Atlas of Ohio, Mills (1914 ) ON CD After we released our hardcopy reprint of the Archeological Atlas of Ohio we addressed  a request by our customers that we also develop a CD that would allow viewing of this important archaeological  atlas.  This CD uses the industry standard Adobe Reader, and has a zoom capability that allows a magnification of 400-600%+ on the map images.

	Archeological Atlas of Ohio - Hardcopy

	Spiro Mound
	The Spiro Mound Collection in the Museum - E. K. Burnett
	Historical Sketch of the Spiro Mound - Forrest E. Clements
	Since the original Spiro Mound amateur excavations resulted in the scattering of the contents into numerous private collections, the Heye Museum of the American Indian produced this publication to catalog the objects that were acquired by the museum. Also included is an historical sketch of the Spiro Mound.

Contributions to the Archaeology of Missouri Part I. Pottery The Archaeological Section of the St. Louis Academy of Science - 1880 Archaeological Remains in Southeastern Missouri by W. B. Potter The Ancient Pottery of Southeastern Missouri by Edward Evers
ARCHAEOLOGICAL  MAPS
Archaeological maps from various publications
	Fort Ancient
	The Great Prehistoric Earthwork of Warren County, Ohio
	Warren K. Moorehead
	"On a slightly rolling plateau in Warren County, Ohio, overlooking the beautiful valley of the Little Miami river, is situated Fort Ancient, the greatest of all prehistoric earthworks in the Mississippi basin.    This plateau is remarkable in its configuration. There is nothing precisely like it to be found in the Ohio valley, so far as the writer's observation extends. The plateau is cut up irregularly by ravines, and although none are of great length, yet all of them are precipitous and attain their depth within a few hundred yards from the beginning of their erosion ... The distance around the inclosure (following the center of the embankment) is 18,712.2 feet." (Warren K. Moorehead, 1908)
	Masterpieces of the Ohio Mound Builders
	Hilltop Fortifications Including Fort Ancient
	E. O. Randall
	E.O. Randall was the secretary of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society when he wrote this book in 1916,  includes sections on Mound Builders, and forts of Ohio including: Fort Ancient,  Spruce Hill Fort, Fort Hill, Glenford Stone Fort, Miami Fort, Fortified Hill (Butler County),  and even Cahokia Mound in Illinois merits a discussion.
	Basket Designs of the Indians of California
	A Collection of four of our books on California Indian Baskets in one volume
	Basketry Designs of the Indians of Northern California (Dixon - 1902),  Basket Designs Of The Indians Of Northwestern California, Basket Designs of the Mission Indians of California (Kroeber - 1922),

Early Bulletins of the Texas Archeological and Paleontological Society 1929-1952 Project Complete The first 24 years of  this fine archeological publication.  It's extreme scarcity is primarily due to the extraordinarily low number published (300 per year) as well as the high demand it now enjoys.  We would like to express our appreciation to the Texas Archeological Society for allowing us to reprint these volumes.  We would also like to offer a special thanks to Tim Perttula for his invaluable assistance over the last 18 months  in making some of these rare Texas archaeological reprints possible. Click here to access the Bulletin Page
Crania Americana
A Comparative View of Skulls of Various Aboriginal Nations of North and South America
Samuel George Morton, M.D. - 1839
With a New Introduction by Jane E. Buikstra, Ph.D.
	Published  in 1839, 22 years before the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War, Crania Americana is an  extraordinarily rare book in any condition. Criticized in this modern, somewhat more enlightened age,  for its early 19th Century views on race, the publication of Crania Americana did provide important early steps toward the modern science of  physical anthropology. We wish to thank Dr. Jane Buikstra Professor of Bioarchaeology, Arizona State University for providing us with an excellent new introduction to this historically important work.
	Indian Trails of the Southeast
	William E. Meyer(1925)
	Preface and Trail Map Index by John R. Swanton
	Extract from the 42nd Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology
	Published after his death, Myer worked with John R. Swanton And Charles Rau from the Smithsonian on this excellent publication.  The map of Tennessee is a whopping 35" long and the general Southeast map is 12" x 15"  The area covered encompasses Kentucky to Florida and the Atlantic Ocean to the Texas border.  A wonderful companion to Ohio Indian Trails by Frank N. Wilcox, another of our reprints.
	Texas Type Descriptions - Suhm &Jelks (1962)
	2009 Reprint Edition
	With a new Foreword by Dee Ann Suhm Story and Edward B. Jelks
	One of the most sought after titles on Texas archaeology this classic has been updated with a new foreword by Dee Ann Suhm Story and Edward B. Jelks, the original authors. We would like to thank the Texas Archeological Society for making this important work available again.
	Classics in Texas Archeology, Volume 2
	Jornada Mogollon Archeology
	Second in a planned series of 5 volumes, this is a compilation of selected articles from The Bulletin of the Texas Archeological and Paleontological Society, spanning the years 1934 to 1954,  assembled and with a new foreword by archaeologist Myles R. Miller (series editor Timothy K. Perttula).  Volume 2 is a collection of articles discussing Jornada Mogollon archaeology,  an egg-shaped cultural region comprising parts of west Texas, south-central New Mexico, and northern Chihuahua, Mexico. Click here to visit Archaeology Page 14 on this website.

 

	A Pilot Study of Wichita Indian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
	Robert E. Bell, Edward B. Jelks, W. W. Newcomb
	A very rare publication on the Wichita Indian tribes utilizing both archival research and and excavations of sites in Texas and Oklahoma. An excellent study of the Wichita Indians.  Grant GS-964, National Science Foundation

 

The Texas Archeological Society has provided valuable archaeological publications since 1928 and if you have an interest in Texas archaeology we heartily recommend joining.  Please click on the logo above to read more about this organization.
Picture-Writing of the Texas Indians - Jackson An Introductory Handbook Of Texas Archeology -Suhm & Krieger Classics in Texas Archeology - Caddo Archeology - Perttula A Survey of Oklahoma Archaeology - Bell and Baerreis
Additional Texas Titles
The Corner-Tang Flint Artifacts of Texas - Patterson Fall Creek and Buchanan Lake Sites - Jackson & Woolsey Findings of Primitive Man Near Abilene, Texas - Leighton A Prehistoric Rock Shelter in Val Verde County, Texas - Jackson

	Available Again - Enhanced Edition
	Certain Caddo Sites in Arkansas, Harrington
	Part of the Indian Notes & Monographs series, this book conducts a detailed examination of the  Caddo Indians.  Harrington's excavations and research of historical sources builds on the previous  work of Clarence B. Moore and provides a vivid picture of this vanished culture.

	Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley
	Squier and Davis - 1848
The legendary book that started it all.  Exceedingly rare and arguably one of the most important books on United States archaeology ever written, this 160 year old publication was written to document the earthworks of prehistoric America before the plow and advancing civilization could obliterate them forever.  See the detail page by clicking here
This is the only reprint available with the two Marietta Works plates (numbers 1 and 45) rendered in color as in the original.
See plates and description for the Ancient Works at Marietta, Ohio - from Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley by clicking here

	Pipes and Smoking Customs of the American Aborigines, Based on Material in the U. S. National Museum, Joseph D. McGuire
	Prehistoric Ethnology of a Kentucky Site, Harlan I. Smith
	Prehistoric Textile Art, William H. Holmes
	Origin and Development of Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art, William H. Holmes
	Burial Mounds of the Northern Sections of the United States, Cyrus Thomas
	Indian Village Site and Cemetery Near Madisonville, Ohio, Earnest A. Hooten with notes on the Artifacts by Charles Willoughby
	Folsom, The Lindenmeier Site, Frank H.H. Roberts, Jr., Kirk Bryan and Louis L. Ray

	The Archeological History of New York, Part 1 Aboriginal Occupation of New York Arthur C. Parker, 1920
	A rare archaeological description of the aboriginal occupation of New York state.  This book discusses the various occupations (Mound Builder, Eskimo, Iroquois and Algonkian) as well as in-depth descriptions of excavations of 12 sites by famous archaeologists such as: M.R. Harrington, Arthur C. Parker, E.G. Squier (of Squier and Davis fame) and Frank H. Cushing.

	The Archeological History of New York, Part 2 Archaeological Atlas by Counties Arthur C. Parker, 1920
	A rare archaeological atlas for the Empire State, this book features maps of the counties of New York along with locations and descriptions of their sites.

	Archeological Investigations Bulletin 76 of the Bureau of American Ethnology Cave Explorations MO, IN, IL, KY, TN, AL, NE and Archaeology in Hawaii Gerard Fowke, 1922
	Gerard Fowke examines the archaeology of caves in the Ozark Region of Central Missouri as well as selected caves and rock shelters from Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee not to mention sites in Kansas and Nebraska.  Just to top it off, he also includes some early archaeological information concerning Hawaii as well.

	Primitive Methods of Working Stone Based on Experiments of Halvor L. Skavlem With an new introduction by John C. Whittaker, Ph.D. Alonzo W. Pond, 1930
	A very rare work on early experimental stone tool manufacturing.  Mr. Skavlem independently developed these techniques for ground stone and flaked tools over a fifteen year period starting in the first part of the 20th Century.  A must read for anyone interested in methods of producing stone tools.

	Primitive Industry Illustrations of the Handiwork in stone, bone and clay of the Native Races of the Northern Atlantic Seaboard of the United States of America Charles C. Abbott - 1881
	A rare and comprehensive work of the artifacts of the Northern Atlantic Seaboard of the United States. From the common pitted stones to exquisite pipes and copper artifacts.