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Archeology and Volcanism in Central America: The Zapotitan Valley of El Salvador. Payson D. Sheets, editor. University of Texas Press, Austin, 1983. 307 pp., tables, figures, appendices, index, references cited. $35.00 (cloth).
John A. Gifford
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20 January 2017, pp. 188-189
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Linguistic Adaptation and the Great Basin
David Leedom Shaul
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20 January 2017, pp. 415-416
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It has been proposed that the spread of the Numic languages (and peoples) across the Great Basin from their California homeland correlates with a shift archaeologically in the area from a hunting focus to a seed-gathering focus, and that this shift may represent a Numic replacement of the non-Numic hunters. The actual linguistic adaptations of attested foraging groups contradict this idea: linguistic homogeneity will persist over large areas where a foraging economy is practiced. This is due partly to the incest taboo (the local social organization is a form of biological family) and partly to the adaptive advantage a mutually intelligible language gives foragers when food resources fail and the local group is dispersed among kin. Linguistic diversification among foragers is maladaptive, and dialect chains among foragers may persist through millennia over vast areas. Technological shifts could easily diffuse through such networks.

Approaches to the Archaeological Heritage, A Comparative Study of World Cultural Resource Management Systems. Henry Cleere, editor. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1984. x + 138 pp., figures, maps, tables, references, index. $39.50 (cloth).
Mark R. Barnes
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20 January 2017, pp. 665-666
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The Grand Village of the Natchez Revisited. Excavations at the Fatherland Site, Adams County, Mississippi, 1972. Robert S. Neitzel. Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Archaeological Report No. 12, Patricia Galloway, series editor, Jackson, 1983. 183 pp., plates, biblio., appendices. $15.00 (paper).
Chester DePratter
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20 January 2017, p. 878
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Life and Land Use on the Bahrain Islands: The Geoarchaeology of an Ancient Society. Curtis E. Larsen Prehistoric Archeology and Ecology Series, Karl W. Butzer and Leslie G. Freeman, editors, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1983. xx + 339 pp., illustrations, tables, appendices, references, index. $20.00 (cloth); $9.00 (paper).
Patrick V. Kirch
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20 January 2017, pp. 189-190
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Current Research
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20 January 2017, pp. 417-427
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McKeithen Weeden Island: The Culture of Northern Florida, A.D. 200-900. Jerald T. Milanich, Ann S. Cordell, Vernon J. Knight, Timothy A. Kohler, and Brenda Sigler-Lavelle. Academic Press, Orlando, 1984. xviii + 222 pp., figures, tables, references, index. $44.50 (cloth).
James B. Stoltman
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20 January 2017, pp. 878-879
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Mortuary Variability: An Archaeological Investigation. John O'Shea. Academic Press, Inc., New York, 1984. xii + 338 pp., figures, tables, references, index. $49.00 (cloth).
Clark Spencer Larsen
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20 January 2017, pp. 666-667
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Palaeoenvironments and Prehistory in the Middle Son Valley. Sharma G.R. and J. D. Clark, editors. A. H.Wheeler and Co. (Put) Ltd., Marg, Allahabad, India, 1983. xii + 320 pp., tables, figures, appendices, references. Cloth.
Richard S. Davis
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20 January 2017, pp. 190-191
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The Galaz Ruin: A Prehistoric Mimbres Village in Southwestern New Mexico. Roger An Yon and Steven Leblanc with contributions by P. Minnis, M. Nelson, and J. Lancaster, and edited by P. Sabloff. Maxwell Museum of Anthropology Publication Series, The University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1984. xi + 612 pp., figures, tables, references, appendices, plates. $35.00 (paper).
Robert C. Euler
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20 January 2017, pp. 879-880
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Constructing Civilizations. Carl J. Couch, Contemporary Studies in Sociology, vol. 5, John Clark, editor-in-chief. Jai Press, Inc., Greenwich, 1984. xvii + 401 pp., references, indices. $23.75 (cloth).
C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky
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20 January 2017, p. 428
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Arctic Life: Challenge to Survive. Martina Magenau Jacobs and James B. RichardsonIII , editors. Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1983. 206 pp., plates, reading lists, index. $17.50 (paper).
James A. Tuck
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20 January 2017, pp. 667-668
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Susquehanna's Indians. Barry C. Kent. The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Anthopological Series, No. 6, Barry C. Kent, editor. Harrisburg,State University of New York 1984. xi + 438 pp., figures, tables, biblio., appendix, index. $15.95 (cloth).
Dean Snow
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20 January 2017, pp. 429-430
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Analyzing Activity Areas: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of the Use of Space. Susan Kent. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1984. xvi + 259 pp., figures, tables, appendices, references, index. $24.95 (cloth); $12.95 (paper).
Janet Rafferty
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20 January 2017, pp. 191-192
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Papers on the Archaeology of Black Mesa, Arizona, Volume II. Stephen Plog and Shirley Powell, editors. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Publications in Archaeology, George Gumerman, general editor, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, 1984. xxii +241 pp., figures, tables, plates, references, index. $25.00 (cloth).
Frances Joan Mathien
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20 January 2017, pp. 880-881
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Delaware Prehistoric Archaeology: An Ecological Approach. Jay F. Custer. University of Delaware Press, Newark, 1984. 224 pp., tables, plates, figures, appendices, references, index. $28.50 (cloth).
Herbert C. Kraft
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20 January 2017, p. 668
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Origins of the Domestic Dog: The Fossil Record. Stanley J. Olsen. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1985. xiv +118 pp., figures, references, index. $19.95 (cloth). - Animal Bone Archaeology: From Objectives to Analysis. Brian Hesse and Paula Wapnish. Manuals on Archeology 5, Taraxacum, Washington, D.C., 1985. xi + 132 pp., figures, tables, literature cited, analytical table of contents. $18.00 (cloth).
Paul W. Parmalee
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20 January 2017, pp. 668-669
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Those Who Have Vanished: An Introduction to Prehistory. Ronald Wallace. Dorsey Press, Homewood, Illinois, 1983. xiii + 527 pp., illustrations, glossary, index. $26.95 (cloth). - Clash of Cultures. Brian M. Fagan, W. H. Freeman and Company, New York, 1984. xi + 318 pp., references, index. $15.95 (paper); $28.95 (cloth). - Mexico. Michael D. Coe, Thames and Hudson, New York, 1984 (third edition revised and enlarged). 180 pp., illustrations, selected bibliography, text references, index. $9.95 (paper).
Robert Wenke
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20 January 2017, pp. 428-429
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Prehistoric Chert Exploitation: Studies from the Midcontinent. Brian M. Butler and Ernest E. May, editors. Center for Archaeological Investigations Occasional Paper No. 2, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1984. xxiii + 350 pp., figures, tables, plates, appendix, references. $ 13.50 (paper)
Kenneth B. Tankersley
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20 January 2017, pp. 192-193
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The Lowland Maya Postclassic. Arlen F. Chase and Prudence M. Rice, editors. University of Texas, Austin, 1985. viii + 352 pp., figures, tables, biblio., index. $27.50 (cloth).
T. Patrick Culbert
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20 January 2017, pp. 881-882
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Archeology and Volcanism in Central America: The Zapotitan Valley of El Salvador. Payson D. Sheets, editor. University of Texas Press, Austin, 1983. 307 pp., tables, figures, appendices, index, references cited. $35.00 (cloth).

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Approaches to the Archaeological Heritage, A Comparative Study of World Cultural Resource Management Systems. Henry Cleere, editor. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1984. x + 138 pp., figures, maps, tables, references, index. $39.50 (cloth).

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McKeithen Weeden Island: The Culture of Northern Florida, A.D. 200-900. Jerald T. Milanich, Ann S. Cordell, Vernon J. Knight, Timothy A. Kohler, and Brenda Sigler-Lavelle. Academic Press, Orlando, 1984. xviii + 222 pp., figures, tables, references, index. $44.50 (cloth).

Mortuary Variability: An Archaeological Investigation. John O'Shea. Academic Press, Inc., New York, 1984. xii + 338 pp., figures, tables, references, index. $49.00 (cloth).

Palaeoenvironments and Prehistory in the Middle Son Valley. Sharma G.R. and J. D. Clark, editors. A. H.Wheeler and Co. (Put) Ltd., Marg, Allahabad, India, 1983. xii + 320 pp., tables, figures, appendices, references. Cloth.

Constructing Civilizations. Carl J. Couch, Contemporary Studies in Sociology, vol. 5, John Clark, editor-in-chief. Jai Press, Inc., Greenwich, 1984. xvii + 401 pp., references, indices. $23.75 (cloth).

Arctic Life: Challenge to Survive. Martina Magenau Jacobs and James B. RichardsonIII , editors. Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1983. 206 pp., plates, reading lists, index. $17.50 (paper).

Susquehanna's Indians. Barry C. Kent. The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Anthopological Series, No. 6, Barry C. Kent, editor. Harrisburg,State University of New York 1984. xi + 438 pp., figures, tables, biblio., appendix, index. $15.95 (cloth).

Analyzing Activity Areas: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of the Use of Space. Susan Kent. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1984. xvi + 259 pp., figures, tables, appendices, references, index. $24.95 (cloth); $12.95 (paper).

Delaware Prehistoric Archaeology: An Ecological Approach. Jay F. Custer. University of Delaware Press, Newark, 1984. 224 pp., tables, plates, figures, appendices, references, index. $28.50 (cloth).

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Prehistoric Chert Exploitation: Studies from the Midcontinent. Brian M. Butler and Ernest E. May, editors. Center for Archaeological Investigations Occasional Paper No. 2, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1984. xxiii + 350 pp., figures, tables, plates, appendix, references. $ 13.50 (paper)

The Lowland Maya Postclassic. Arlen F. Chase and Prudence M. Rice, editors. University of Texas, Austin, 1985. viii + 352 pp., figures, tables, biblio., index. $27.50 (cloth).

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