...Douglas W. Richmond The Archaeologist Was a Spy: Sylvanus G. Morley and the Office of Naval Intelligence. By charles h. harris iii and louis r. sadler. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. Photographs. Plate. Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 450 pp. Cloth...

...Mónica Salas Landa Abstract Whereas scholars of postrevolutionary Mexico have long attended to the ideological significance of pre-Hispanic monuments, this article looks at the actual work involved in reconstructing them. Field reports from state archaeologists for the pyramid at Tajín (in the...

.... Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. vii, 472 pp. Cloth , $70.00 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 Merchants, Markets, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World is a collection of essays by archaeologists of Mesoamerica and the Andes. It derives from a...

... widespread belief in early origins by most archaeologists and art historians, a smaller but powerful group of Mesoamericanists held fast against it, notably Mayanist Sir Eric Thompson, who did not want to see the Maya dethroned from the position of first civilization. Readers of Grove's new book may be...

... Stasis is not a word that can be applied to the archaeology of the classic Maya lowlands. Throughout the latter part of the twentieth century archaeologists heatedly debated whether late classic Maya society (ca. 600–800 BCE) could be classified as having achieved statehood, whether its governmental...

...-growing numbers of tourists the opportunity to stage their own ersatz expeditions of discovery. In the past 20 years, the volume of tourism has stimulated the improvement of new jungle destinations—new Inca trails and lost cities—and Peruvian archaeologists have returned to some of the most important...

... Library and Collection , 2014 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliographies. Index. xiii, 424 pp. Cloth , $65.00 . Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Embattled Bodies, Embattled Places is a book largely by archaeologists, but it is not intended to be...

... obsidian sources supplied what percentage of the stone-tool inventory, what proportion of meat came from what animals, when and where slingstones were stashed in the community. However, it is comparative discussion that gives a sense of daily life and community social organization. Some archaeologists...

... intervention. A surprising absence from the book, especially given its international contextualization, is neighboring Chile. Both Argentina and Chile are characterized as less indigenous than many Latin American countries, and recent scholarship has shown the role of archaeologists in turn-of-the-century...

... . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvii, 220 pp. Paper , $27.95 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 This edited volume, written by historical anthropologists, archaeologists, and not a few historians, makes a wonderful addition to the growing literature on...

... that is today Mexico and especially on recent research from Sonora. This region has been neglected for many years by Mexican archaeologists but in recent decades has gained importance and recognition. The book contributes to understanding a region that is typically divided into two areas: the US...

... symbolic viewpoint, to explain different conceptions of the dead and how some of them transformed into ancestors, to uncover why the living and the dead maintained links, and to display the different methodologies and interpretations presently used by archaeologists and anthropologists to study this...

... the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He spent the rest of his teaching career at Illinois until his retirement in 1993. Donald Lathrap, the archaeologist of Amazonian South America, was instrumental in bringing Zuidema to Illinois, interested in the...

... component, the line, and draws compelling connections between a range of cultural objects and spaces. De Havenon's and Pillsbury's interdisciplinary studies situate ancient art within the history of natural science, archaeology, and representation, suggesting how artists, archaeologists, and explorers...

... “to make the people’s opinion uniform about the goddess.”3 He chose Inspector Batres and the historian and archaeologist Alfredo Chavero to form a committee, and although what became of it is not clear, its purpose was to determine the goddess’s “true meaning,” an apt turn of phrase, as this was...

... archaeological zones and for the foreigners who visited them. She then examines why Mexico's political elites sought to legislate state control over monumental ruins and artifacts and explores the relationship of archaeology to nationalism. In part 2, Bueno discusses the Mexican archaeologists and public...

... regarding political rule derived from archaeological data, insisting on the emergence of multiple vantage points that have informed archaeologists engaged in postprocessual approaches. In the end, while its case studies tend to focus on the production and endurance of authority rather than on contradictions...

... court. In this sense, Aguateca is extraordinary because of both its remarkable preservation and its elite finds. One reading of Takeshi Inomata and Daniela Triadan's volume is a record of something very special but also something that is removed from what most archaeologists will find, or what most...

... family names, specific pottery types, other archaeological sites, colonial-period authors and texts, and CIW archaeologists make up much of the chapters but are given no introduction. Chapters 3–6 contain a dizzying amount of architectural and archaeological data and analyses (chapter 6 alone is 156...

..., capitalized on the image of Mexican antiquity by supporting archaeological projects and endorsing a modern aesthetic that utilized pre-Hispanic themes. In preparation for Mexico's 1910 centennial celebrations, government archaeologist Leopoldo Batres led a major excavation and renovation at Teotihuacan...