Books Recommended for Avocational Archaeologists
Colorado Archaeology
Cassells, E. Steve, The Archaeology of Colorado, August, 1997
Stone, Tammy, The Prehistory Of Colorado and Adjacent Areas Paperback , January 12, 1999
Ute Culture
Martin, Curtis, Ephemeral Bounty: Wickiups, Trade Goods, and the Final Years of the Autonomous Ute , April 5, 2016
Petit, Jan, Utes: The Mountain People
Silbernagel, Robert, Troubled Trails: The Meeker Affair and the Expulsion of Utes from Colorado, August 31, 2011
Prehistoric Southwest – General
Cordell, Linda S. and Maxine McBrinn, Archaeology of the Southwest, March 31, 2012
Kantner, John, Ancient Puebloan Southwest, December 13, 2004
Plog, Stephen, Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest, April 21, 2008
Lekson, Stehpen, A History of the Ancient Southwest, June 22, 2009
Prehistoric Southwest – Popular
Childs, Craig, House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest, July 3, 2008
Roberts, David, In Search of the Old Ones, April 9, 1997
Roberts, David, The Lost World of the Old Ones, Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest, April 13, 2015
Prehistoric Southwest – Chaco
Noble, David Grant, In Search of Chaco: New Approaches to an Archaeological Enigma, August 1, 2004
Lekson, Stephen, The Chaco Meridian: One Thousand Years of Political and Religious Power in the Ancient Southwest, March 19, 2015
Viviain, Gwinn and Bruce Hilpert, Chaco Handbook: An Encyclopedia Guide, November 30, 2012
Prehistoric Southwest – Mimbres
LeBlanc, Steven, Painted by a Distant Hand: Mimbres Pottery from the American Southwest,
May 30, 2005
Nelson, Margaret C. and Michelle Hegmon, Mimbres Lives and Landscapes, October 18, 2010
Brody, J.J., To Touch the Past: The Painted Pottery of the Mimbres People, April 17, 1996
Prehistoric Southwest – Mesa Verde
Noble, David Grant, The Mesa Verde World: Explorations in Ancestral Puebloan Archaeology, May 1, 2006
Prehistoric Southwest – Other
Powers, Robert, The Peopling of Bandelier: New Insights from the Archaeology of the Pajarito Plateau, May 1, 2005
Downum, Christian, Hisat’sinom: Ancient Peoples in a Land Without Water, May 16, 2012
Fish, Suzanne K. & Paul R., The Hohokam Millennium
The First Americans
Meltzer, David, First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America, November 30, 2010
Stanford, Dennis and Bruce A. Bradley, Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America’s Clovis Culture, June 3, 2013
Dillehay, Thomas, Settlement Of The Americas A New Prehistory, February 14, 2001
Kennewick Man
Benedict, Jeff, No Bone Unturned: The Adventures of a Top Smithsonian Forensic Scientist and the Legal Battle for America’s Oldest Skeletons, March 25, 2003
Walker, Sally & Douglas W. Owsley, Their Skeletons Speak: Kennewick Man and the Paleoamerican World, August 1, 2012
Rock Art
Cole, Sally, Legacy on Stone: Rock Art of the Colorado Plateau and Four Corners Region, Mar 19, 2012
Loendorf, Lawrence, Thunder and Herds: Rock Art of the High Plains, October 31, 2008
Keyser, James, Art of the Warriors: Rock Art of the American Plains, October 20, 2004
Schaafsma, Polly, Rock Art Of Utah, January 7, 2002
Patterson, Carol, Petroglyphs of Western Colorado and the Northern Ute Indian Reservation as Interpreted by Clifford Duncan , April 8, 2016