MONOGRAPH 46
Domestic Ritual in Ancient Mesoamerica
Edited by Patricia Plunket

Although the concepts and patterns of ritual varied through time in re-lation to general sociopolitical transformations and local historical circumstances in ancient Mesoamerica, most archaeologists would agree that certain underlying themes and structures modeled the ritual phenomena of this complex culture area. By focusing on ritual expression at the household level, this volume seeks to compare the manifestations of domestic ritual across time and space in both the cores and peripheries, in the cities and in the villages. The authors explore the ways in which cosmological principles and concepts of the sacred were used in the construction of ritual space and practice, how local landscapes provided templates for the images and paraphernalia recovered from archaeological contexts, how foreign enclaves relied on ritual for social reproduction, and how domestic ritual was related to, and indeed embedded in, institutionalized state religions.

Contributors are Linda A. Brown, Susan D. Gillespie, David C. Grove, Linda Manzanilla, Patricia A. McAnany, Patricia Plunket, Payson Sheets, Scott E. Simmons, Michael E. Smith, Michael W. Spence, Gabriela Uruñuela, and Marcus Winter.

MONOGRAPH 45
Pathways to Prismatic Blades
A Study in Mesoamerican Obsidian Core-Blade Technology
Edited by Kenneth Hirth and Bradford Andrews

Obsidian prismatic blades are among the sharpest cutting implements ever produced in the prehistoric world. This volume explores the social and economic processes involved in their manufacture in ancient Mesoamerica. Contributors examine the variation in the way obsidian prismatic blades were manufactured across Mesoamerica and the causes behind this variation. The volume contributes to a broader understanding of prehistoric stone tool production and craft specialization in the ancient world.

Contributors are Bradford Andrews, Thomas P. Barrett, Maria de los Dolores Soto de Arechavaleta, J. Jeffrey Flenniken, Dan M. Healan, Kenneth Hirth, William Parry, Alejandro Pastrana, Robert S. Santley, Michael W. Spence, Rissa M. Trachman, and Phil C. Weigand.

MONOGRAPH 44
Ceramic Production and Circulation in the Greater Southwest
Source Determination by INAA and Complementary Mineralogical Investigations
Edited by Donna M. Glowacki and Hector Neff

The use of instrumental neutron acti-vation analysis (INAA) in ceramic research in the American Southwest has become widespread over the last ten years. This volume presents case studies in which INAA is used as the primary analytical technique. These studies use provenance determination to explore such issues as exchange, migration, social identity, and economic organization. Case studies from the Southwestern periphery provide a comparative perspective from which to view the range of variation in Southwestern ceramic circulation patterns. Several of the case studies use mineralogical approaches to supplement chemical sourcing data. And, a case study using petrographic analyses provides a counterpoint to the emphasis on chemical approaches in this volume. This volume documents the cumulative contribution of INAA-based ceramic characterization to knowledge of the prehistory of the Southwest.

Contributors are Hector Neff, Donna M. Glowacki, Darrell Creel, Matthew Williams, Michael D. Glascock, Jill E. Neitzel, Ronald L. Bishop, Michelle Hegmon, James W. Kendrick, W. James Judge, M. Nieves Zedeño, Daniela Triadan, Barbara J. Mills, Andrew I. Duff, Karen G. Harry, Paul R. Fish, Suzanne K. Fish, Douglas K. Boyd, Kathryn Reese-Taylor, John A. Hildebrand, G. Timothy Gross, Jerry Schaefer, Jelmer W. Eerkens, James M. Heidke, Elizabeth J. Miksa, and Henry D. Wallace.

MONOGRAPH 43
Ceramics of Postclassic Cholula, Mexico
Typology and Seriation of the Pottery from the UA-1 Domestic Compound
Geoffrey G. McCafferty

The polychrome ceramics of pre-Columbian Cholula are renowned as among the most beautiful pottery of ancient Mexico, with their iconography regarded as a cornerstone of the Mixteca-Puebla stylistic tradition. This study presents a detailed analysis of the ceramics from domestic contexts in Postclassic Cholula that includes a descriptive and well illustrated typology of serving, utilitarian, and ceremonial wares. A seriation analysis of primary depositional contexts provides a basis to establish a new chronological sequence for the Postclassic that then allows for a reassessment of Cholula's culture history. Because of the influential role played by Cholula in Postclassic Mesoamerica, this volume is a significant resource for understanding the cultural context of the Mixteca-Puebla tradition.

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MONUMENTA ARCHAEOLOGICA 20
Prehistoric Sitagroi
Excavations in Northeast Greece 1968­1970, Vol. 2: The Final Report
Edited by Ernestine S. Elster and Colin Renfrew

Volume 2 offers unparalleled insights into the life of the prehistoric in-habitants of the area in the later Neolithic and Early Bronze Age (ca. 5500­2200 bc), making Sitagroi one of the most comprehensively published sites from prehistoric Europe. Includes chapters on flora, bone tools, chipped stone, pottery, metallurgy, spinning and weaving, groundstone, adornment, miniatures and models, clay objects, and a contextual analysis of the site.

MONOGRAPH 47
Archaeology in the Borderlands
Investigations in Caucasia and Beyond
Edited by Adam T. Smith and Karen S. Rubinson

This volume covers current research in the archaeology of Caucasia and eastern Anatolia. These studies highlight the heterogeneous forces of cultural production that simultaneously marginalize centers and centralize margins in various archaeological places. The changing picture through time in this one geographical area clearly demonstrates such shifts. The chapters represent an important intermingling of western and local traditions both in the methodologies employed in research and in the interpretive priorities of each chapter. Along a more disciplinary axis, the papers collected here arise from a range of different intellectual approaches, including anthropology, art history, archaeology, and classics. Rather than trying to force these into a singular vision, the goal of this book is to represent the vibrancy that arises from this pluralism.

MONUMENTA ARCHAEOLOGICA 21
Social Approaches to Regional Archaeological Survey
The Sydney Cyprus Survey Project
Michael Given and A. Bernard Knapp

The Sydney Cyprus Survey Project devoted five seasons of fieldwork (1992­1997) to an intensive archaeological survey in the north-central foothills of the Troodos Mountains on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus. This pedi-montane region has always been reputed for its natural resources, not least the copper-sulfide ore deposits of Cyprus¹s Lower Pillow Lavas, which in this region lie adjacent to the fertile agricultural plain. A primary goal was to understand through archaeological data and to exemplify through archaeological practice the relationship between the production and distribution of agricultural and metallurgical resources, on the one hand, and the changing configurations of a complex society and the individuals within it, on the other.

MONOGRAPH 48
Yeki Bud, Yeki Nabud
Essays on the Archaeology of Iran in Honor of William M. Sumner
Edited by Naomi F. Miller and Kamyar Abdi

This volume is a collection of essays put together by colleagues, friends, and students of William M. Sumner in appreciation of his outstanding contribution to Iranian archaeology, especially to our archaeological knowledge of Fars, a center of Iranian civilization. Contributors to this volume mostly share a not-too-distant history of working in Iran, either at Malyan or other sites. As systematic archaeological fieldwork in Iran by foreign expeditions was halted for the past two decades, some authors, eager to take part, contributed chapters on their current research dealing with geographical areas beyond modern Iranian borders, but that nonetheless demonstrate the breadth of cultural interaction in the ancient Near East, of which Iran was an important part.