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The explorer John Wesley Powell first described this small, relatively isolated site at the mouth of Bright Angel Creek. With its own kiva, Bright Angel Pueblo was probably a fairly self-contained residence, though trade pottery clearly indicates contacts with other communities. This book describes the site, its artifacts, and its settlement history.

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Presents in detail the results of decipherment and to consider the implications of a Classic Maya written history. Contributors examine the way in which the Maya elite created the kinship, alliance, warfare, and ceremonial networks on which the civilization was founded. Drawing upon important material recently made available, they have transformed our understanding of the Maya.

Clarifies the reasons for using systems models and computer simulations in seeking to understand dynamic cultural patterns. The chapters cover simulations within the framework of four case studies, from site abandonment in Wetherill Mesa, Colorado, to urban growth and decay in ancient Rome, from hunting and gathering to agriculture, and from feudalism to capitalism.

Presents an important contemporary interpretation of the cultural and archaeological legacy of the Valley of Mexico. The contributors apply a powerful explanatory model for the development of civilization in terms of environment, population growth, food production, settlement, social differentiation and hierarchy, along with the importance of local and regional interactions involving trade.

Contemporary archaeology is increasingly reliant upon photography as a working tool and as a medium for communicating the results of field research. The chapters in this book provide detailed, practical advice and information on photography in the field - from the air, underwater, and in the lab.

A new cross-disciplinary field of biocultural research is emerging at the start of the twenty-first century: developmental evolutionary biology. Looking at the behaviourial ontogeny of primates, the authors pose questions that probe our understanding of the human species. The authors postulate answers that will change the way we look at how cognition, language, and behaviour develop in primates.

Encompasses a diverse group of voices from Australia and North America in order to investigate social relations of possession through the artifacts and motifs of expressive culture. The contributors - artists, curators, art historians, and anthropologists - speak from the standpoints of indigenous systems of knowledge as well as from western epistemologies and their institutions, interrogating what it means to own culture from these standpoints.

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Deals with the methods and theories used to study variation within and among human populations, specifically looking at genetics research conducted in the 1960s and 1970s. It presents empirical support for many modern theories in population genetics and demography.

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