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The most extensive list of titles we publish is in archaeology. Our founder, Mitch Allen, is part of the tribe, after all. In building this collection of books, we have tried to focus on what we see as the future of the field: professionalization of the academic discipline; the connection between archaeologists, indigenous communities and other stakeholders; the importance of educating the public in the value of our work. Thus, you will see we publish many things that fall under the rubric of public archaeology and heritage studies.

But not exclusively. The field has many dimensions and you can find here everything from site reports to methodological works to theretical treatises, from regional syntheses to teaching novels to textbooks. We have archaeology for the specialist, archaeology for the public and more than a small dose of archaeology for students. Note that we publish videos and journals as well as books. We hope you will look to us first to meet your needs in research, practice and teaching. Look at our list of series and our books for courses to get the flavor of our publications program.

Nor are we ideaologically driven. Processual or post, academic or CRM, feminist, evolutionist, or marxist, we welcome them all under the Left Coast umbrella.

Subject Titles

A Fearsome Heritage
Diverse Legacies of the Cold War
Dr John Schofield (Editor), Wayne Cocroft (Editor)
A Future for Archaeology
Robert Layton (Editor), Stephen Shennan (Editor), Peter Stone (Editor)
A Future for the Past
Petrie’s Palestinian Collection
Peter Ucko, Rachael Thyrza Sparks, Stuart Laidlaw
A Millennium of Cultural Contact
Alistair Paterson (Author)
A New Human
The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the
Mike Morwood, Penny van Oosterzee
African Homecoming
Pan-African Ideology and Contested Heritage
Katharina Schramm (Author)
African Re-Genesis
Confronting Social Issues in the Diaspora
Jay B. Haviser (Editor), Kevin C. MacDonald (Editor)
Agency Uncovered
Archaeological Perspectives on Social Agency, Power, and Being Human
Andrew Gardner (Editor)
American Industrial Archaeology
A Field Guide
Douglas C. McVarish
An Archaeology of Identity
Soldiers and Society in Later Roman Britain
Andrew Gardner (Author)
Ancient Egypt in Africa
David O'Connor (Editor), Andrew Reid (Editor)
Ancient Peoples of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau
Steven R. Simms
Ancient Perspectives on Egypt
Roger Matthews (Editor), Cornelia Roemer (Editor)
Ancient Starch Research
Robin Torrence (Editor), Huw Barton (Editor)
Archaeological Approaches to Technology
Heather Margaret-Louise Miller
Archaeological Field Schools
A Guide for Teaching in the Field
Jane Eva Baxter
Archaeological Parenchyma
Jon G. Hather
Archaeological Sediments and Soils
Analysis, Interpretation and Management
Anthony J. Barham, Richard I MacPhail
Archaeological Surveys in Baluchistan, 1948 and 1957
Beatrice de Cardi
Archaeological Theory in Practice
Patricia A. Urban (Author), Edward Schortman (Author)
Archaeologies of Art
Time, Place, and Identity
Inés Domingo Sanz (Editor), Dánae Fiore (Editor), Sally K. May (Editor)
Archaeologies of Placemaking
Monuments, Memories, and Engagement in Native North America
Patricia E. Rubertone (Editor)
Archaeology After Interpretation
Returning Materials to Archaeological Theory
Benjamin Alberti (Editor), Andrew Meirion Jones (Editor), Joshua Pollard (Editor)
Archaeology and Capitalism
From Ethics to Politics
Yannis Hamilakis (Editor), Philip Duke (Editor)
Archaeology and the Media
Timothy Clack (Editor), Marcus Brittain (Editor)
Archaeology and Women
Sue Hamilton (Editor), Ruth D. Whitehouse (Editor), Katherine I. Wright (Editor)
Archaeology is a Brand!
The Meaning of Archaeology in Contemporary Popular Culture
Cornelius Holtorf (Author)
Archaeology Matters
Action Archaeology in the Modern World
Jeremy A. Sabloff
Archaeology of Religion
Cultures and their Beliefs in Worldwide Context
Sharon R. Steadman
Archaeology of the Southeastern United States
Paleoindian to World War I
Judith A. Bense
Archaeology of the Southwest, Second Edition
Linda S. Cordell (Author)
Archaeology of the Southwest, Third Edition
Linda S. Cordell (Author), Maxine E. McBrinn (Author)
Archaeology to Delight and Instruct
Active Learning in the University Classroom
Heather Burke (Editor), Claire Smith (Editor)
Archaeology, History and Science
Integrating Approaches to Ancient Materials
Marcos Martinón-Torres (Editor), Thilo Rehren (Editor)
Archaic Hunters and Gatherers in the American Midwest
James L. Phillips (Editor), James A. Brown (Editor)
Artifact Classification
A Conceptual and Methodological Approach
Dwight W. Read (Author)
Auditory Archaeology
Understanding Sound and Hearing in the Past
Steve Mills (Author)
Avoiding Archaeological Disasters
A Risk Management Approach
Darby Stapp (Author), Julia Longenecker (Author)
Basketry Technology
A Guide to Identification and Analysis, Updated Edition
J. M. Adovasio
Becoming Roman?
Diverging Identities and Experiences in Ancient Northwest Italy
Ralph Haeussler (Author)
Before Modern Humans
New Perspectives on the African Stone Age
Grant S. McCall (Author)
Being and Becoming Indigenous Archaeologists
George Nicholas (Editor)
Belief in the Past
Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Religion
David S. Whitley (Editor), Kelley Hays-Gilpin (Editor)
Beyond the Glass Case
The Past, the Heritage and the Public
Nick Merriman
Bioarchaeology
The Contextual Analysis of Human Remains
Jane Buikstra, Lane Beck
Black Feminist Archaeology
Whitney Battle-Baptiste (Author)
Body and Image
Explorations in Landscape Phenomenology 2
Christopher Tilley (Author), Wayne Bennett
Box Office Archaeology
Refining Hollywood’s Portrayals of the Past
Julie M. Schablitsky (Editor)
Bridging the Divide
Indigenous Communities and Archaeology into the 21st Century
Caroline Phillips (Editor), Harry Allen (Editor)
Buddhist Landscapes in Central India
Sanchi Hill and Archaeologies of Religious and Social Change, c. Third Century BC to Fifth Century AD
Julia Shaw (Author)
California and Great Basin Olivella Shell Bead Guide
Randall T Milliken (Author), Al W Schwitalla (Author)
Ceramic Makers' Marks
Erica Gibson (Author)
Ceramics Before Farming
The Dispersal of Pottery Among Prehistoric Eurasian Hunter-Gatherers
Peter Jordan, Marek Zvelebil
Ceramics of the Merv Oasis
Recycling the City
Gabriele Puschnigg (Author)
Chinese Export Porcelains
Andrew D. Madsen (Author), Carolyn L White (Author)
Coexistence and Cultural Transmission in East Asia
Naoko Matsumoto (Editor), Hidetaka Bessho (Editor), Makoto Tomii (Editor)
Computational Approaches to Archaeological Spaces
Andrew Bevan (Editor), Mark Lake (Editor)
Connections and Complexity
New Approaches to the Archaeology of South Asia
Shinu Anna Abraham (Editor), Praveena Gullapalli (Editor), Teresa P Raczek (Editor), Uzma Z. Rizvi (Editor)
Consuming Ancient Egypt
Sally MacDonald (Editor), Michael Rice (Editor)
Contemporary Issues in California Archaeology
Terry L Jones (Editor), Jennifer E Perry (Editor)
Controversies in Archaeology
Alice Beck Kehoe
Cultural Property Acquisitions
Navigating the Shifting Landscape
Aimée L. Taberner (Author)
Dame Kathleen Kenyon
Digging Up the Holy Land
Miriam Davis
Debating Archaeology
Updated Edition
Lewis R. Binford
Decolonizing Conservation
Caring for Maori Meeting Houses outside New Zealand
Dean Sully (Editor)
DNA for Archaeologists
Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith (Author), K. Ann Horsburgh (Author)
Documentary Filmmaking for Archaeologists
Peter Pepe (Author), Joseph W Zarzynski (Author)
Doing Archaeology
A Cultural Resource Management Perspective
Thomas F. King (Author)
Ebla and its Landscape
Early State Formation in the Ancient Near East
Paolo Matthiae (Editor), Nicolò Marchetti (Editor)
Egyptology, the Missing Millennium
Ancient Egypt in Medieval Arabic Writings
Okasha El Daly (Author)
Empire and Local Worlds
A Chinese Model of Long-Term Historical Anthropology
Mingming Wang
Encounters with Ancient Egypt
Complete Set
Peter Ucko (Editor)
Envisioning Landscape
Situations and Standpoints in Archaeology and Heritage
Dan Hicks (Editor), Laura McAtackney (Editor), Graham Fairclough (Editor)
Evolutionary and Interpretive Archaeologies
A Dialogue
Ethan Cochrane (Editor), Andrew Gardner (Editor)
Excavations in Iona 1964 to 1974
Richard Reece
Exhuming Loss
Memory, Materiality and Mass Graves of the Spanish Civil War
Layla Renshaw (Author)
Faking Ancient Mesoamerica
Nancy L. Kelker (Author), Karen O. Bruhns (Author)
Faking the Ancient Andes
Karen O. Bruhns, Nancy L. Kelker
Field Methods in Archaeology
Thomas J. Hester, Harry Shafer, Kenneth Feder
Folsom Technology and Lifeways
John E. Clark, Michael B. Collins
Gender & Italian Archaeology
Challenging the Stereotypes
Ruth D. Whitehouse (Editor)
Guilá Naquitz
Archaic Foraging and Early Agriculture in Oaxaca, Mexico
Kent V. Flannery
Handbook of Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology
Soren Blau (Editor), Douglas H. Ubelaker (Editor)
Handbook of Landscape Archaeology
Bruno David (Editor), Julian Thomas (Editor)
Handbook of Postcolonial Archaeology
Jane Lydon (Editor), Uzma Z. Rizvi (Editor)
Heads of State
Icons, Power, and Politics in the Ancient and Modern Andes
Denise Y Arnold, Christine A Hastorf
Heritage Values in Contemporary Society
George Smith (Editor), Phyllis Mauch Messenger (Editor), Hilary Soderland (Editor)
Historical Archaeology
Why the Past Matters
Barbara J. Little (Author)
Histories of Maize
Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Prehistory, Linguistics, Biogeography, Domestication, and Evolution of Maize
John E. Staller (Editor), Robert H. Tykot (Editor), Bruce F. Benz (Editor)
Histories of Maize in Mesoamerica
Multidisciplinary Approaches
John E. Staller (Editor), Robert H. Tykot (Editor), Bruce F. Benz (Editor)
How Culture Makes Us Human
Primate Social Evolution and the Formation of Human Societies
Dwight W. Read (Author)
Hunter-Gatherer Archaeobotany
Perspectives from the northern temperate zone
Sarah Mason (Editor), Jon G. Hather (Editor)
Hunter-Gatherer Behavior
Human Response During The Younger Dryas
Metin I Eren (Editor)
Identification Guide for Near Eastern Grass Seeds
Mark Nesbitt
Imhotep Today
Egyptianizing Architecture
Jean-Marcel Humbert (Editor), Clifford Price (Editor)
Inauthentic Archaeologies
Public Uses and Abuses of the Past
Troy Lovata (Author)
Inconvenient Heritage
Erasure and Global Tourism in Luang Prabang
Lynne M. Dearborn (Author), John C. Stallmeyer (Author)
Indigenous Archaeologies
A Reader on Decolonization
Margaret Bruchac (Editor), Siobhan Hart (Editor), H Martin Wobst (Editor)
Indigenous Peoples and Archaeology in Latin America
Cristóbal Gnecco (Editor), Patricia Ayala (Editor)
Interpreting Ground-penetrating Radar for Archaeology
Lawrence B Conyers (Author)
Interpreting Landscapes
Geologies, Topographies, Identities; Explorations in Landscape Phenomenology 3
Christopher Tilley
Introduction to Rock Art Research, Second Edition
David S. Whitley (Author)
Islamic Art and Archaeology in Palestine
Myriam Rosen-Ayalon (Author)
Islands in the Rainforest
Landscape Management in Pre-Columbian Amazonia
Stéphen Rostain (Author)
Issues in Environmental Archaeology
Nicholas Balaam (Editor), James Rackham (Editor)
Jade Dragon
Sarah Milledge Nelson
Kennewick Man
Perspectives on the Ancient One
Heather Burke (Editor), Claire Smith (Editor), Dorothy Lippert (Editor), Joe E Watkins (Editor), Larry Zimmerman (Editor)
Landscape and Culture in Northern Eurasia
Peter Jordan (Editor)
Landscapes of Clearance
Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives
Angèle Smith (Editor), Amy Gazin-Schwartz (Editor)
Legionary Recruitment and Veteran Settlement During the Principate
J.C. Mann
Lithic Analysis at the Millennium
Norah Moloney (Editor), Michael J. Shott (Editor)
Living Images
Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum
Janet Picton (Editor), Stephen Quirke (Editor), Paul C. Roberts (Editor)
Living Under the Shadow
Cultural Impacts of Volcanic Eruptions
John Grattan (Editor), Robin Torrence (Editor)
Loot
The Plundered Heritage
Arlen F Chase (Archaeological Director), Diane Z Chase (Archaeological Director), Robert Schyberg (Executive Producer, Director, Writer)
Making Archaeology Happen
Design versus Dogma
Martin Carver (Author)
Mammal Bones and Teeth
An Introductory Guide to Methods of Identification
Simon Hillson
Managing Archaeological Resources
Global Context, National Programs, Local Actions
Francis P McManamon (Editor), Andrew Stout (Editor), Jodi A Barnes (Editor)
Maritime Archaeology
A Technical Handbook, Second Edition
Jeremy Green
Material Culture of Breweries
Herman Wiley Ronnenberg
Modelling Ecological Change
Perspectives from Neoecology, Palaeoecology and Environmental Archaeology
David R. Harris, Kenneth D. Thomas
Mundane Objects
Materiality and Non-verbal Communication
Pierre Lemonnier (Author)
Mysterious Lands
David O'Connor (Editor), Stephen Quirke (Editor)
National Treasure
Peter Bleed
Native Title and the Transformation of Archaeology in the Postcolonial World
Ian Lilley (Author)
Negotiation Basics for Cultural Resource Managers
Nicholas Dorochoff (Author)
Never Had the Like Occurred
Egypt's View of its Past
John Tait
Nukak
Ethnoarchaeology of an Amazonian People
Gustavo Politis (Author), Benjamin Alberti (Translator)
Our Unprotected Heritage
Whitewashing the Destruction of Our Cultural and Natural Environment
Thomas F. King
Paleoanthropology and Paleolithic Archaeology in the People's Republic of China
Wu Rukang (Editor), John Olsen (Editor)
Paleoepidemiology
The Measure of Disease in the Human Past
Tony Waldron
Paleoethnobotany
A Handbook of Procedures, Second Edition
Deborah M Pearsall
Palestine in the Bronze and Iron Ages
Papers in Honour of Olga Tufnell
Jonathan N. Tubb
Past and Present in Hunter Gatherer Studies
Carmel Schrire (Editor)
Petrie’s Ptolemaic and Roman Memphis
Sally-Ann Ashton (Author)
Placing Animals in the Neolithic
Social Zooarchaeology of Prehistoric Farming Communities
Arkadiusz Marciniak (Author)
Pottery and the Archaeologist
Martin Millett
Prehistoric Europe
Timothy Champion, Clive Gamble, Stephen Shennan, Alasdair Whittle
Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of the High Plains and Rockies, Third Edition
Marcel Kornfeld, George C. Frison, Mary Lou Larson
Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains, Second Edition
George C. Frison
Prehistoric Woodworking
The Analysis and Interpretation of Bronze and Iron Age Toolmakers
Rob Sands
Prehistory of the Oregon Coast
The Effects of Excavation Strategies and Assemblage Size on Archaeological Inquiry
R. Lee Lyman
Privy to the Past
Janet Pape (Producer), Adrian Praetzellis (Producer)
Protecting Çatalhöyük
Memoir of an Archaeological Site Guard
Sadrettin Dural (Author), Ian Hodder (Contributor)
Reclaiming Heritage
Alternative Imaginaries of Memory in West Africa
Ferdinand de Jong (Editor), Michael Rowlands (Editor)
Research Problems in Zooarchaeology
D.R. Brothwell, Kenneth D. Thomas, Juliet Clutton-Brock
Rethinking Agriculture
Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives
Timothy P. Denham (Editor), Jose Iriarte (Editor), Luc Vrydaghs (Editor)
Return to Alexandria
An Ethnography of Cultural Heritage Revivalism and Museum Memory
Beverley Butler (Author)
Sacred Geographies of Ancient Amazonia
Historical Ecology of Social Complexity
Denise P. Schaan (Author)
Saving Places that Matter
A Citizen's Guide to the National Historic Preservation Act
Thomas F. King (Author)
Seeing and Knowing
Understanding Rock Art with and without Ethnography
Geoffrey Blundell (Editor), Christopher Chippindale (Editor), Benjamin Smith (Editor)
Shamanism and the Origin of States
Spirit, Power, and Gender in East Asia
Sarah Milledge Nelson
Silver Economy in the Viking Age
James Graham-Campbell (Editor), Gareth Williams (Editor)
Social Archaeologies of Trade and Exchange
Exploring Relationships among People, Places, and Things
Alexander A. Bauer (Editor), Anna S Agbe-Davies (Editor)
Spirit Bird Journey
Sarah Milledge Nelson
Stone Mirror
A Novel of the Neolithic
Rob Swigart
Stone Worlds
Narrative and Reflexivity in Landscape Archaeology
Barbara Bender (Author), Sue Hamilton (Author), Christopher Tilley (Author)
The Acconia Survey: Neolithic Settlement and the Obsidian Trade
A J Ammerman
The Anthropology Graduate’s Guide
From Student to a Career
Carol J Ellick (Author), Joe E Watkins (Author)
The Archaeological Imagination
Michael Shanks
The Archaeological Survey Manual
Gregory G. White (Author), Thomas F. King (Author)
The Archaeologist's Book of Quotations
K Kris Hirst
The Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life
Theresa A. Singleton (Editor)
The Aztecs, Maya, and Their Predecessors
Archaeology of Mesoamerica, Third Edition
Muriel Porter Weaver
The Bone Readers
Science and Politics in Human Origins Research
Claudio Tuniz (Author), Richard Gillespie (Author), Cheryl Jones (Author)
The Dolmens and Passage Graves of Sweden
An Introduction and Guide
Christopher Tilley
The Early Mesoamerican Village
Kent V. Flannery
The Evolution of Cultural Diversity
A Phylogenetic Approach
Ruth Mace (Editor), Clare J. Holden (Editor), Stephen Shennan (Editor)
The Flocks of the Wamani
A Study of Llama Herders on the Punas of Ayacucho, Peru
Kent V. Flannery, Joyce Marcus, Robert Reynolds
The Funeral Kit
Mortuary Practices in the Archaeological Record
Jill L Baker (Author)
The Goddess and the Bull
Çatalhöyük: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization
Michael Balter (Author)
The Identification of Slags from Archaeological Sites
Hans-Gert Bachmann
The Identification of the Northern European Woods
A guide for archaeologists and conservators
Jon G. Hather
The Invisible Sex
Uncovering the True Roles of Women in Prehistory
J. M. Adovasio, Jake Page, Olga Soffer
The Later Roman Empire Today
Papers Given in Honour of Professor John Mann
D.F. Clark, M.M. Roxan, J.J. Wilkes
The Magic Children
Racial Identity at the End of the Age of Race
Roger Echo-Hawk (Author)
The Origin of Early Israel; Current Debate
Biblical, Historical and Archaeological Perspectives
Shmuel Ahituv, Eliezar Oren
The Origins and Spread of Domestic Animals in Southwest Asia and Europe
Sue Colledge (Editor), James Conolly (Editor), Keith Dobney (Editor), Katie Manning (Editor), Stephen Shennan (Editor)
The Origins and Spread of Domestic Plants in Southwest Asia and Europe
Sue Colledge (Editor), James Conolly (Editor)
The Politics of Heritage Management in Mali
From UNESCO to Djenné
Charlotte Joy (Author)
The Potters of Buur Heybe, Somalia
Steven Brandt (Archaeological Director), Tara Belkin (Producer)
The Power of Touch
Handling Objects in Museum and Heritage Contexts
Elizabeth Pye (Editor)
The Prehistory of the Northwest Coast
R.G. Matson, Gary Coupland
The Silence of Great Zimbabwe
Contested Landscapes and the Power of Heritage
Joost Fontein (Author)
The Tombs of the Middle Bronze Age II Period From the ‘500’ Cemetery at Tell Fara (South)
D. Price Williams
The Tourists Gaze, The Cretans Glance
Archaeology and Tourism on a Greek Island
Philip Duke
The Wisdom of Egypt
Changing Visions Through the Ages
Peter Ucko (Editor), Timothy Champion (Editor)
The World System and The Earth System
Global Socioenvironmental Change and Sustainability Since the Neolithic
Alf Hornborg (Editor), Carole L. Crumley (Editor)
Thunder and Herds
Rock Art of the High Plains
Lawrence Loendorf
Trees and Woodlands of South India
Archaeological Perspectives
Eleni Asouti (Author), Dorian Q. Fuller (Author)
Uncovering Identity in Mortuary Analysis
Community-Sensitive Methods for Identifying Group Affiliation in Historical Cemeteries
Michael P Heilen (Editor)
Underwater and Maritime Archaeology in Latin America and the Caribbean
Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton (Editor), Pilar Luna Erreguerena (Editor)
Views of Ancient Egypt
Imperialism, Colonialism and Modern Appropriations
David Jeffreys (Editor)
What Objects Mean
An Introduction to Material Culture
Arthur Asa Berger
Woman the Toolmaker
Hideworking and Stone Tool Use in Konso, Ethiopia
Steven Brandt (Archaeological Director), Kathryn Weedman (Archaeological Director), Tara Belkin (Writer, Producer, & Editor), Justin Shipley (Director of Photography and Field Producer)
Writing Archaeology, Second Edition
Telling Stories About the Past
Brian Fagan (Author)
Yearbook of Cultural Property Law 2006
Sherry Hutt (Editor), David Tarler (Assistant Editor)
Yearbook of Cultural Property Law 2007
Sherry Hutt (Editor), David Tarler (Assistant Editor)
Yearbook of Cultural Property Law 2008
Sherry Hutt (Editor), David Tarler (Assistant Editor)
Yearbook of Cultural Property Law 2009
Sherry Hutt (Editor), David Tarler (Assistant Editor)

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