Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Foreword xv
5. A Practical Preface xvii
6. Acknowledgments xxi
7. Prologue: Crying Indians, Tipi Dwellers, and Other Stereotypes 1
8. 1. Archaeology: A Way of Telling Stories 10
9. 2. In Their Beginning 20
10. 3. Are You Ready to Rock? 34
11. 4. European Encounter with a “New World” 43
12. 5. First Peoples: Origins 66
13. 6. First Peoples: Clovis and Folsom 92
14. 7. First Peoples: Older Still? 104
15. 8. Learning to Live in a New World 114
16. 9. More Than Maize: Native Farmers of North America 136
17. 10. Into the Woods 156
18. 11. Into the Cold 169
19. 12. Monument Builders of the Midwest 191
20. 13. City Dwellers 210
21. 14. Great Houses and Cliff Castles 224
22. 15. Northwest Coast: Ocean Farmers and Totem Poles 275
23. 16. Art: History, Hunting, Sacred Imagery, and the Sky 291
24. 17. War 322
25. 18. Archaeology and Ethnic Cleansing 353
26. Epilogue: A Story Still Being Written 372
27. Notes 375
28. References 383
29. Index 393
30. A NOTE ON THE TYPE 407