part 2. Arts and industries -- Objects of stone -- Objects of copper -- Objects of bone and shell -- Pottery -- The textile arts -- basketry and cloth -- Trade and commerce part 3. The earliest ...
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America, by Pekka Hämäläinen. Liveright. 576 pages. $40. In the 1630s, the powerful Pequot Confederacy of southern New England found itself beset by ...
The field of archaeology is known by many for its numerous controversies. Because archaeologists only study what few artifacts remain from a given time period, we often get a fragmentary or incomplete ...
When discussions turn to ancient wonders and vast historical cities, names like the pyramids of Egypt, the Roman Forum, or the Mayan temples often come to mind. But what if we told you that one of the ...