This comprehensive text is intended for the junior-senior level course in North American Archaeology.
Written by accomplished scholar Dean Snow, this new text approaches native North America from the perspective of evolutionary ecology. Succinct, streamlined chapters present an extensive groundwork for supplementary material, or serve as a core text.The narrative covers all of Mesoamerica, and explicates the links between the part of North America covered by the United States and Canada and the portions covered by Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and the Greater Antilles. Additionally, book is extensively illustrated with the author’s own research and findings.
Dean R. Snow has been teaching within the Department of Anthropology at the Pennsylvania State University since 1995. Before that, he spent significant time in various faculty and administrative positions at the University of Albany, SUNY. In addition to the Archaeology of Native North America, Professor Snow has written multiple articles on human migration as well as on topics integrating cyber-technology with archaeological methods. He is a member of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Society for American Archaeology.
