Books by Alice Beck Kehoe

Alice Kehoe uses critical analysis of large bodies of interdisciplinary evidence to help scholars and students reevaluate the highly controversial theory that people sailed large distances across oceans in ancient times.

This volume offers a history of the discipline of archaeology in America. The book reveals the 19th-century century bourgeois value system behind the field, its goals and its current condition. The author argues that American archaeology has been shaped by an ethic of Manifest Destiny.

Archaeologists are bombarded with questions about the "mysteries" of the past. They are also constantly addressing more realistic controversies such as: origins of the First Americans, ownership of antiquities, and national claims to historical territories. This work offers students a method of evaluating and assessing these claims about the past.