Publications
The Peabody Museum has long published a variety of print and electronic publications relating to collections, projects, and excavations conducted by Peabody Museum staff and Department of Anthropology faculty.
Current publications can be found under Books with links to purchase, while pre-1970s publications include links to texts when available.
Books
The Ruins of Holmul, Guatemala
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Raymond E. Merwin and George C. Vaillant. 1932. The Ruins of Holmul, Guatemala, Pp. 172. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press. READ ONLINE
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Peabody Museum Memoirs Volume 3, no. 2The Stalling’s Island Mound, Columbia County, Georgia
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Jr. William H. Claflin. 1931. The Stalling’s Island Mound, Columbia County, Georgia, Pp. 134. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press. READ ONLINE
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Peabody Museum Papers Volume 14, no. 1The Talamancan Tribes of Costa Rica
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Doris Stone. 1962. The Talamancan Tribes of Costa Rica, Pp. 158. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press. READ ONLINE
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Peabody Museum Papers Volume 43, no. 2Three Navaho Households: A Comparative Study in Small Group Culture
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John M. Roberts. 1951. Three Navaho Households: A Comparative Study in Small Group Culture, Pp. 128. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press. READ ONLINE
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Peabody Museum Papers Volume 40, no. 3
(Report no. 3, Ramah Project)
Tribes of the Liberian Hinterland
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George Schwab. 1947. Tribes of the Liberian Hinterland. Edited by George W. Harley, Pp. 643. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press. READ ONLINE
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Peabody Museum Papers Volume 31Tribes of the Rif
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Carleton Stevens Coon. 1931. Tribes of the Rif, Pp. 582. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press. READ ONLINE
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Harvard African Studies Volume 9Series
The Faunas of Hayonim Cave, Israel: A 200,000-Year Record of Paleolithic Diet, Demography, and Society
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Mary C. Stiner. 2/28/2006. The Faunas of Hayonim Cave, Israel: A 200,000-Year Record of Paleolithic Diet, Demography, and Society, Pp. 330. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press. BUY THIS BOOK
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A decade of zooarchaeological fieldwork (1992-2001) went into Mary Stiner’s pathbreaking analysis of changes in human ecology from the early Mousterian period through the end of Paleolithic cultures in the Levant. Stiner employs a comparative approach to understanding early human behavioral and environmental change, based on a detailed study of fourteen bone assemblages from Hayonim Cave and Meged Rockshelter in Israel’s Galilee. Principally anthropological in outlook, Stiner’s analysis also integrates chemistry, foraging and population ecology, vertebrate paleontology, and biogeography. Her research focuses first on the formation history, or taphonomy, of bone accumulations, and second on questions about the economic behaviors of early humans, including the early development of human adaptations for hunting large prey and the relative "footprint" of humans in Pleistocene ecosystems of the Levant.
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Excavations at Seibal, Department of Peten, Guatemala, IV
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III Gair Tourtellot. 10/5/1989. Excavations at Seibal, Department of Peten, Guatemala, IV. Edited by Gordon R. Willey, Pp. 496. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press. BUY THIS BOOK
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Peripheral Survey and Excavation, Settlement and Community Patterns
Seibal is a major ruin of the southern Maya lowlands, its vast ceremonial center covering several high hills on the banks of the Pasion River in the Guatemalan Department of Peten. In five volumes published over a 15-year period, the archaeological team headed by Gordon R. Willey presents a comprehensive review of their fieldwork from 1964 to 1968 and the results of many years of subsequent data analysis. The volumes also report on explorations in the peripheral settlements outside of the Seibal center and provide a regional view of the evolution of lowland Maya culture from the Middle and Late Preclassic through the Late Classic periods.
Excavations at Seibal, Department of Peten, Guatemala, V
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Gordon R. Willey, John A. Graham, III Gair Tourtellot, and Mary Pohl. 12/12/1990. Excavations at Seibal, Department of Peten, Guatemala, V, Pp. 290. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press. BUY THIS BOOK
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Volume 1. Monumental Sculpture and Hieroglyphic Inscriptions
Volume 2. Burials
Volume 3. The Ethnozoology of the Maya
Volume 4. General Summary and Conclusions
Seibal is a major ruin of the southern Maya lowlands, its vast ceremonial center covering several high hills on the banks of the Pasion River in the Guatemalan Department of Peten. In five volumes published over a 15-year period, the archaeological team headed by Gordon R. Willey presents a comprehensive review of their fieldwork from 1964 to 1968 and the results of many years of subsequent data analysis. The volumes also report on explorations in the peripheral settlements outside of the Seibal center and provide a regional view of the evolution of lowland Maya culture from the Middle and Late Preclassic through the Late Classic periods.
Explorations in the Department of Peten, Guatemala, and Adjacent Region: Motul de San José, Peten-Itza
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Teobert Maler. 1910. Explorations in the Department of Peten, Guatemala, and Adjacent Region: Motul de San José, Peten-Itza, Pp. 52. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press. READ ONLINE
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Peabody Museum Memoirs Volume 4, no. 3Explorations in the Department of Peten, Guatemala, and Adjacent Region: Topoxté, Yaxhá, Benque Viejo, Naranjo
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Teobert Maler. 1908. Explorations in the Department of Peten, Guatemala, and Adjacent Region: Topoxté, Yaxhá, Benque Viejo, Naranjo, Pp. 144. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press. READ ONLINE
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Peabody Museum Memoirs Volume 4, no. 2An Osteology of Some Maya Mammals
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Stanley J. Olsen. 2/4/1982. An Osteology of Some Maya Mammals, Pp. 104. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press. BUY THIS BOOK
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The bone remains of a considerable range of vertebrate mammals have been recovered in the course of excavations at Maya archaeological sites. Many of the mammals represented in those collections are peculiar to Central America and have not been treated in osteological studies. This volume has been designed to aid in the identification of faunal remains recovered in the Maya area and is intended particularly for those archaeologists not having the large comparative mammal collections in their institutions. A number of the skeletons are figured for the first time.
Animal Figures in the Maya Codices
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Alfred M. Tozzer and Glover M. Allen. 2/1910. Animal Figures in the Maya Codices, Pp. 184. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press. READ ONLINE
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Peabody Museum Papers Volume 4, no. 3Anthropology of Iraq: Kurdistan and Conclusions
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Henry Field. 1952. Anthropology of Iraq: Kurdistan and Conclusions, Pp. 303. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press. READ ONLINE
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Peabody Museum Papers Volume 46, nos. 2-3
Anthropometry of the Natives of Arnhem Land and the Australian Race Problem
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W. W. Howells. 1937. Anthropometry of the Natives of Arnhem Land and the Australian Race Problem, Pp. 114. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press. READ ONLINE
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Peabody Museum Papers Volume 16, no. 1Anthropological Literature
The Peabody Museum also publishes Anthropological Literature, a research database that indexes over 660 journals in multiple languages -- a highly recommended research tool.