Books published by University of Utah Press,U.S.

Covers recent Paleoamerican research and site excavations from Patagonia to Canada. Contributors discuss the peopling of the Americas, early American assemblages, lifeways, and regional differences. Many scholars present current data previously unavailable in English.

The California coastline has long been of interest to archaeologists. This book directs attention to the largely ignored Pecho Coast, a rugged, 20 km long peninsula between Morro Bay and Pismo Beach. Jones and Codding bring together extensive contract work and field school studies, shedding new light on the region's early inhabitants.

Presents a collection of studies on the ancient games of indigenous peoples of North America. The authors, all archaeologists, muster evidence from artifacts, archaeological features, ethnography, ethnohistory, and to a lesser extent linguistics and folklore. Chapters sometimes centre on a particular game or sometimes on a specific prehistoric society and its games.

Robert Smithson's earthwork, Spiral Jetty is located on the northern shores of Utah's Great Salt Lake. The Spiral Jetty Encyclo draws on Smithson's writings for encyclopaedic entries that bring to light the context of the earthwork and Smithson's many points of reference in creating it.

Details the efforts of one of America's most under appreciated public servants. In 1934, Franklin D. Roosevelt invited Marriner S. Eccles, a Mormon from Utah, to join his administration. Presenting the first comprehensive and independent analysis of Eccles's influential career, Jumping the Abyss wrestles with economic issues that remain relevant today.

Competitive technology for sourcing renewable energy, marketplace readiness, and pressures from climate change all signal that the fossil fuel era is coming to an end. This book explains the alternatives and suggests when and how change will occur. Employing a global perspective, it provides recommendations on policies and strategies to make a smooth and wholesale transition to renewables.

Hidden away in the canyons of a highly restricted military base on the edge of the Mojave Desert is the largest concentration of rock art in North America, possibly in the world. Images of animals, shamans, and puzzling abstract forms were peckedand painted on stone over thousands of years by a now long-gone culture. Talking Stone is a multivocal investigation of this art.

In these dynamic essays, thirteen wise women review their lives for meaning and purpose, striving to integrate both head and heart. They consider how their spiritual paradigms have shaped their vocations as teachers, scholars, guides, mentors, and advocates and how these roles have been integral to their life's work, not merely to their work life.

Travel back in memory to the people, sights, and sounds of Poplarhaven, known to most as Huntington, Utah.

An anthology of fine writing, adventurous storytelling, droll humor, and vivid description of one of America's most beloved national parks

In late 2012, crowds gathered to hear a long anticipated announcement: The Trust for Public Land had prevented natural gas development in the remote Hoback Basin of Wyoming by buying the leases owned by Plains Exploration Company. This title tells the inspiring story of determined citizens who worked together to protect the land that they loved and made a difference.

Between 1967 and 1975 archaeologists from SUNY-Buffalo led a multidisciplinary project in the Marismas Nacionales, a vast, resource-rich estuary and mangrove forest of coastal Sinaloa and Nayarit, west Mexico. This volume provides a much-needed synthesis of these investigations, drawing from previously unpublished data and published reports to provide a comprehensive look at the region.

Philip Garrison says his book of essays is ""in praise of mixed feelings"", particularly the mixed feelings he and his neighbors have toward the places they came from. Following a meandering, though purposeful trail, Garrison catches hillbillies and newer Mexican arrivals in ambiguous, wary encounters on a set four hundred years in the making, built on a foundation of Native American displacement.

Around 1700 AD the Lacandon Maya took refuge in the forest lowlands of Chiapas, Mexico, and in western Peten, Guatemala. Their language belongs to the Yucatecan branch of the Maya language. Today the Lancandon are split into northern and southern linguistic groups. This dictionary focuses on the southern Lacandon of Lacanja. This reference contains pronunciation and grammatical information.

Family history, usually destined or even designed for limited consumption, is a familiar genre within Mormon culture. Mostly written with little attention to standards of historical scholarship, such works are a distinctly hagiographic form of family memorabilia. Kerry Bate proceeds on the premise that a story centering on the women of the clan could provide fresh perspective and insight.

The story of America's most accomplished track and field athlete in the early twentieth century and the first Utahn and Mormon to win an Olympic gold medal

If you had traveled from one community to another in the prehistoric Southwest, you would have observed tremendous diversity in how people looked and spoke. This volume is the first to look at how prehistoric people's appearance and speech conveyed their identities. This colorful book uses a holistic, comparative approach to consider all aspects of appearance.

Showcases new testamentary sources from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. It provides readers with translations and analyses of wills written in Spanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya, K'iche' Maya, Mixtec, and Wampanoag. Divided into three thematic sections, the book provides insights and details that further our understanding of indigenous life in the Americas under colonial rule.

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, founded July 1, 1978, at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, was established by the American scholar, industrialist, and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner. Volume 27 features lectures given by Ruth Reichl, James Q. Wilson, Marshall Sahlins, David Brion Davis, Allan Gibbard, and Margaret H. Marshall.

An unprecedented scholarly effort surveying the very important, but neglected role of and consequences for the Ottoman state of World War I

Brings together the work of archaeologists investigating prehistoric hunter-gatherers and early farmers in both the Southwest and the Great Basin. Here the studies of archaeologists working in both the Southwest and the Great Basin are presented side by side to illustrate the similarities in environmental challenges and cultural practices of the prehistoric peoples who lived in these areas.

The half century between statehood in 1896 and the end of World War II in 1945 was a period of transformation and transition for Utah. This book interprets those profound changes, revealing sweeping impacts on both institutions and ordinary people.

Behavioural archaeology, defined as the study of people-object interactions in all times and places, emerged in the 1970s, in large part because of the innovative work of Michael Schiffer and colleagues. This volume provides an overview of how behavioural archaeology has evolved and how it has affected the field of archaeology at large.

This collection celebrates one of America's most loved places, Rocky Mountain National Park, which marks its 100th birthday in 2015. Engagement with place and the events that loom large in park history are the underlying themes that connect the thirty-three selections that make up this anthology.