PUBLISHING

	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

Bannerstones of the North American Indian
Byron W. Knoblock (1939)
	The most sought after archaeological reference book written by Byron W. Knoblock.  The originals of this book are highly prized and will set you back between $600.00 and $1,000.00 according to condition and binding edition. This book has become the de facto resource on the subject and is used by professional archaeologists as well as amateurs. It's most important contribution is providing a systematic categorization and detailed description of  the various forms of these fascinating artifacts.  With 596 pages and hundreds of illustrations and plates, the depth of coverage is astounding and includes contributions from legendary archaeologists as well as amateurs.   A must have for anyone interested in United States archaeology.
Having started this project quite a while ago, we pulled it off of the back burner recently due to the large number of requests.  This is truly an important contribution to United States archaeology and is our largest single volume reprint, check out the details here.

	Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley
	Squier and Davis - 1848
	160th Anniversary
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

	Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley - 48 Plate Set
	This is the same plate set (with a different cover) that we are providing to the gift shop of the Hopewell Culture National Historical Park at the Hopewell Mound Group near Chillicothe, Ohio. Spiral bound, plates are enlarged 120%,

	A Wisconsin Variant of the Hopewell Culture
	W.C. McKern (1931)
	Another excellent publication from the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee.  The Hopewell Culture was alive and well in areas distant from Ohio.  Excellent photographs of artifacts including copper, silver, bear claws, pearls, etc. A must read for Hopewell aficionados.

	An Archaeological Survey of Guntersville Basin, Webb and Wilder (1959)
	Antiquities of Tennessee, Gates P. Thruston (1890)
	The Thruston Collection - Vanderbilt University (1910)
	Explorations of the Aboriginal Remains of Tennessee, Jones (1876)

	Societies in Eclipse - Smithsonian Institution Press
	Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands Indians, A.D. 1400-1700
	David S. Brose C. Wesley Cowan Robert C., Jr. Mainfort
	These books were published by the now defunct Smithsonian Institution Press and have been out of print for about 5 years or so.  Dr. Brose, who we met through a mutual friend, was gracious enough to allow us to offer a small quantity of them to our customers from his own limited stock.  These are brand new,  right out of the box originals - in mint condition.  We only have a few and I know a lot of our customers will be interested in the subject matter, so please see the detail page 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

Indian Knoll - Two New Titles

	Clarence B. Moore Some Aboriginal Sites on Green River, Kentucky Certain Aboriginal Sites on Lower Ohio River Additional Investigation on Mississippi River Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol XVI
"Along part of Green river, Ky., and particularly in "The Indian Knoll," Ohio County, were found by us objects of antler, hooked at one end and having a cavity in the other end, in which sometimes was asphalt, used for fastening something introduced into the cavity... Usually in intimate association with these hooked implements of antler were found, in nearly every instance where the hooked implements were present, as exactly described later in this report, other objects, some of antler (most of which were made from the base of the horn), some of stone... Hereafter in this report, for convenience and not because we are fully convinced they are such, we shall designate the hooked implements as needles and the objects found with them as sizers. We were aware that we had to face two probable objections in connection with our determination, namely, the orifices in the ends of the needles, and the perforations in the sizers, neither of which seem absolutely necessary for the use to which the needles and sizers were assigned." Clarence B. Moore The Original excavation of Indian Knoll by Clarence B. Moore in 1915.  These are the findings which piqued Webb's curiosity about the hooked antler implements and bannerstones.  Also contains the  four colored plates of bannerstones by Mary Louise Baker.

	Atlatls and Bannerstones
	Excavations at Indian Knoll - W.S. Webb
	"From a careful study of this body of artifacts, their position in the graves, and their association with each other, the conviction has grown that all of these antler hooks are the distal ends of atlatls. All of the antler sections are handles, attached to the proximal end of the atlatl, and the "banner" stones, subrectangular bars, and composit shell artifacts are all atatl weights.”
As a teenager, in the mid-1960's, my uncle took me to meet one of the well known artifact collectors of Ohio.  While looking at his collection of bannerstones I mentioned that I had read somewhere of them being used as altatl weights.  His response was that atlatls had been found in caves in the Southwest but not in the East, so there was no evidence of this.  Little did I realize at that time that a definitive study of their use as weights had been published 20 years previously by William S, Webb of the University of Kentucky.   The in-situ finds of atlatl handles, weights and hooks left little doubt of their aboriginal use. The first excavation at the site was by Clarence B. Moore in 1915 but it was confined to a  limited area.  We are  very fortunate that the Moore excavations did not destroy the entire site and that Webb was able to recover some of the most compelling evidence of the use and construction of the atlatl in the Eastern United States.

The Aborigines of Minnesota - Now Available!

Earthworks in Minnesota  is a 330 page excerpt of The Aborigines of Minnesota containing the earthworks of Minnesota by county as well as all of the mound foldouts.  This excerpt is targeted at readers who are more interested in a county archaeological atlas of the state of Minnesota than the full  two part book..

	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.

Indian Baskets

We've had numerous requests to reprint books on Indian basketry and the first in this series Basketry Designs of the Indians of Northern California (Dixon - 1902), Basket Designs of the Mission Indians of California (Kroeber - 1922), Basket-Work of the North American Aborigines (Mason -1884), Basket Designs of the Indians of Northwestern California, (Kroeber -1904), Basketry of the San Carlos Apache (Roberts -1929) and Pomo Indian Basketry (Barrett - 1908) are now ready. Link to them from the Archaeology page.