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 Excavation of Los Muertos and Neighboring Ruins in the Salt River Valley, Southern Arizona
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Emil W. Haury. 1945. The Excavation of Los Muertos and Neighboring Ruins in the Salt River Valley, Southern Arizona, Pp. 306. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press. READ ONLINE
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Peabody Museum Papers Volume 24, no. 1The 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.
The Hieroglyphic Stairway, Ruins of Copan: Report on Explorations by the Museum
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George Byron Gordon. 1902. The Hieroglyphic Stairway, Ruins of Copan: Report on Explorations by the Museum, Pp. 83. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press. READ ONLINE
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Peabody Museum Memoirs Volume 1, no. 6The Living Races of the Sahara Desert
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L. Cabot Briggs. 1958. The Living Races of the Sahara Desert, Pp. 318. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press. READ ONLINE
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Peabody Museum Papers Volume 28, no. 2The Moche of Ancient Peru: Media and Messages
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Jeffrey Quilter. 2/28/2011. The Moche of Ancient Peru: Media and Messages, Pp. 172. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press. BUY THIS BOOK
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Peru’s ancient Moche culture is represented in a magnificent collection of artifacts at Harvard’s Peabody Museum. In this richly illustrated volume, Jeffrey Quilter presents a fascinating introduction to this intriguing culture and explores current thinking about Moche politics, history, society, and religion.
Quilter utilizes the Peabody’s collection as a means to investigate how the Moche used various media, particularly ceramics, to convey messages about their lives and beliefs. His presentation provides a critical examination and rethinking of many of the commonly held interpretations of Moche artifacts and their imagery, raising important issues of art production and its role in ancient and modern societies.
The most up-to-date monograph available on the Moche—and the first extensive discussion of the Peabody Museum’s collection of Moche ceramics—this volume provides an introduction for the general reader and contributes to ongoing scholarly discussions. Quilter’s fresh reading of Moche visual imagery raises new questions about the art and culture of ancient Peru.
The Monagrillo Culture of Panama
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Gordon R. Willey, Charles R. McGimsey, and Robert E. Greengo. 1954. The Monagrillo Culture of Panama, Pp. 215. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press. READ ONLINE
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Peabody Museum Papers Volume 49, no. 2Series
The Reduction of Mayan Dates
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Herbert J. Spinden. 1924. The Reduction of Mayan Dates, Pp. 286. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press. READ ONLINE
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Peabody Museum Papers Volume 6, no. 4The 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. 2The Turner Group of Earthworks, Hamilton County, Ohio
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Charles C. Willoughby. 1922. The Turner Group of Earthworks, Hamilton County, Ohio, Pp. 198. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum Press. READ ONLINE
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Peabody Museum Papers Volume 8, no. 3Anthropological Literature
The Peabody Museum also publishes Anthropological Literature, a research database that indexes over 660 journals in multiple languages -- a highly recommended research tool.