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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.
		The American Bisons, Living and Extinct
		J. A. Allen - 1876
		Now Available
		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.
		The George C. Davis Site, Cherokee County, Texas
		Newell and  Krieger - 1949
		The Davis site is a planned civic-ceremonial center that has three earthen mounds—Mound A, a large platform mound with elite residences and special purpose structures; Mound B, a second platform mound; and Mound C, a burial mound used as a cemetery for the elite or ranked members of the society—a borrow pit, and a large associated village (estimated at more than 110 acres) with more than 100 known or suspected structures. The structures include the domestic residences of the commoners that lived at the site as well as the residences for the elites (chiefs and religious leaders) and special structures used for ritual and ceremonial purpose
		Archaeological Survey of Indiana
		4 Volumes - 17 Counties
		From the 1920s through the late 1950's, the Indiana Historical Bureau started an archaeological survey of Indiana counties.  As far as we can determine there were only 17 surveys that were actually completed and we have grouped these surveys geographically into four volumes.  Township maps show the location of the sites and surface surveys that were conducted and the plates are of outstanding artifacts of bone, flint, stone, pottery and copper.
		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.
		The Archaeology of New Jersey Volume 1
		Dorothy Cross - 1941
		Rare work on the Archaeology of New Jersey produced jointly by The Archaeological Society Of New Jersey And The New Jersey State Museum Trenton, New Jersey and Prepared With The Assistance Of Work Projects Administration.
New Cahokia Map on the Archaeology Map Page
		The Cahokia Mound Group and Its Village Site Materials
		P.F. Titterington - 1938
		A classic work on the Cahokia Mound Group, Titterington describes the wide variety of artifacts found in the village site of the largest temple mound in the United States.
		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.
		The Adena People
		With Chapter on Adena Pottery by James B. Griffin
		William S. Webb and Charles E. Snow - 1931
		One of Webb's best works.  The Adena people draws from Webb's and Snow's own excavations as well as extensive references to Excavation of Coon Mound by Greenman (below).  Highly recommended resource for early mound building.
		Ohio Hopewell Ceramics
		An Examination of the Extant Collections
		Olaf H. Prufer - 1968
		An excellent resource on the Hopewell pottery of Ohio. Sites examined include: Harness, Rockhold, Hopewell, Ater, Ginther, Tremper, Mound City, Seip, Fort Ancient, Fort Hill, Marriott-1, Turner and Russell Brown.
		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.
		Analysis of Indian Village Site Collections from Louisiana and Mississippi
		Anthropological Study Number 2
		James A. Ford - 1936
		Excellent work by Ford examining the prehistoric cultures of the Southeast through their artifacts and pottery.
		Crooks Site: A Marksville Period Burial Mound in LaSalle Parish, Louisiana
		Anthropological Study Number 3
		James A. Ford and Gordon Willey - 1940
		Excavation of the the famous Marksville period site in Louisiana, carried out from 1938-1939. The large mound was previously examined in 1909 by Clarence B. Moore but his test pits found no features and he subsequently abandoned the site.
		Archaeological Survey of Eastern Colorado
		First, Second  and Third Reports
		E. B. Renaud - 1931-33
		Eastern Colorado sites surveyed under  the direction of E. B. Renaud. This publication covers various types of sites as well as: enclosures, pictographs, petroglyphs, pottery, projectile types, stone tools, etc.. With color map of Eastern Colorado sites.
		2 New Archaeological Maps
		Fort Ancient Map and Features, 13 x 19
		Serpent Mound Map and Features 13 x 17
		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
		Ohio Prehist Monuments Vintage Guidebooks
		Map and Guide to Fort Ancient
		Map and Guide to the Great Serpent Mound
		Cahokia Mounds - Moorehead 1929
		Explorations of 1922, 1923, 1924, and 1927 - Moorehead Mound Technique - Taylor Some Geological Aspects - Leighton The Use of Molluscan Shells by the Cahokia Mound Builders - Baker   The early explorations and history  of the  most famous mound group in North America.   Includes discussions of Cahokia and the other mounds and village in this area.
		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.
		Archaeology of the Missouri River Valley
		Three papers concerning Missouri River Archaeology and George F. Will. Archaeology of the Missouri Valley, Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. XXII, Part VI, 1924, George F. Will The Upper Missouri River Valley Aboriginal Culture in North Dakota, North Dakota Historical Quarterly, Vol. XI, No. 1 and No. 2, January-April, 1944, George F. Will and Thad. C. Hecker George Francis Will, A Biography, North Dakota History, Volume 23, No, 1, Harlow Leslie Walster
		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..
		Source Material on the History and Ethnology of the Caddo Indians
		John R. Swanton - 1942
		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.
		Big Bend Basket Maker Papers Nos. 1-3
		Witte Memorial Museum Bulletins 1-3
		Extraordinarily rare bulletins of the Witte Memorial Museum focusing on the Basket Maker culture in Texas.
		Painted Pebbles
		From The Lower Pecos and Big Bend Regions of Texas
		Witte Memorial Museum Bulletin 5
		Another rare bulletin of the Witte Memorial Museum.  We will reprint bulletin number 4 as soon as we can acquire a copy (see publication assistance request at top of page).

	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

Hopewellian Communities in Illinois Edited by Deuel Thorne   An excellent resource on the Hopewell of Illinois and the Hopewell in general. Paper authors to this volume include: Thorne Deuel, Illinois State Museum , James B. Griffin, University of Michigan, Winslow M. Walker, John C. McGregor, University of Illinois, Melvin L. Fowler, Illinois State Museum, and Georg K. Neumann, Indiana University

	The Wulfing Plates
	Products of Prehistoric Americans - Watson (1950)
	Primitive Copper Working: An Experimental Study - Cushing
	Primitive Metal Working - Willoughby
	An archaeologically isolated find of 8 repousse' copper plates, made in Dunklin County, Missouri in 1906 generates two questions: who made these copper plates and how did they end up buried in a field that has no known mounds or village sites in the vicinity? An excellent discussion of these plates' manufacture, design and cultural significance.

	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.

	The Mound-Builders, Henry Clyde Shetrone
	The classic work on the Mound-Builders of the United States by Henry Clyde Shetrone.  This work examines earthworks and mounds from North Dakota to Florida and Kansas to the East Coast. Our reprint features the full color Mound-Builder plate as well as the full size color foldout map of mound and earthwork distribution of the Eastern United States.

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
	Contributions to the Archaeology of the Illinois River Valley
	By Frank C. Baker, James B. Griffin, Richard G. Morgan, Georg K. Neumann, Jay L. B. Taylor
	Edited by James B. Griffin and Richard G. Morgan
	A look at the archaeology of the Illjinois River Valley dedicated to Warren K. Moorehead.   This publication also includes the ethnozoology of the prehistoric Indians of Illinois and a section on Hagan Mound Crania. Sites include Havana,  Hagan, Rose, Hilderbrand, Naples, Kamp Brangenberg, Utica mounds and Snicarte Village Site
	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.
	Californian Bone Artifacts and Californian Shell Artifacts
	Appendix: Additional Bone Artifacts By Phil C. Orr
	E. W. Gifford
	University of California Anthropological Records, Volume 3, Number 2 and Anthropological Records, Volume 9, Number 1.  The bone and shell artifacts of California are examined by E. W. Gifford.    Profusely illustrated with 96 full-page plates illustrating hundreds of bone and shell artifacts.
	Survey of Ohio Fluted Points
	Olaf H. Prufer - 1960-1964
	All 10 volumes complete in one book
	The fluted point survey undertaken by Olaf H. Prufer of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History was conducted between 1960 and 1964 with a total of 10 volumes produced over that period.  As many of these originals haven't survived the past 50 years we were extremely fortunate in acquiring a full set for republication.  We are indebted, again, to Larry Conrad of the Western Illinois University Archaeological Research Laboratory for his help in obtaining a complete set of these rare originals.
	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), Plants Used In Basketry By The California Indians (Ruth Earl Merrill - 1923).

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.
	The Belcher Mound
	A Stratified Caddoan Site in Caddo Parish, Louisiana
	James A. Ford & Clarence H. Webb (1952)
	With a new foreword by Timothy Perttula
	Another rare title of Caddo archeology, Belcher Mound has been out of print for 50 years.  Tim Perttula, archaeologist for the Caddo Nation, has provided a new foreword to bring this  important publication up to date.
	Poverty Point
	A Late Archaic Site in Louisiana
	Clarence H. Webb  (1956)
	We have updated this publication by the inclusion of the full page color plate of the famous Poverty Point clay objects from Clarence B. Moore's Some Aboriginal Sites in Louisiana and in Arkansas that was not included with the original publication.
	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 - 1967
	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.

 

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 An Archaeological Survey of Texas - Sayles 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.

	Archaeological Survey of Kentucky- Volume 1
	The University of Kentucky. Reports in Archaeology and Anthropology, Volume 1, Parts 1-6
	Webb and Funkhouser
		The Williams Site in Christian County, KY The So Called “Ash Caves” in Lee County, KY The Page Site in Logan County, KY Rock Shelters of Wolfe and Powell Counties, KY The Tolu Site in Crittendon County, KY The Duncan Site on the Kentucky-Tennessee Line

	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.