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
Still Points
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Still Points is a collection of remarkable and evocative still photographs taken by award-winning nonfiction filmmaker and author Robert Gardner during his anthropological and filming expeditions around the world. Thousands of his original photographic transparencies and negatives from the Kalahari Desert, New Guinea, Colombia, India, Ethiopia, Niger, and other remote locations are now housed in the Photographic Archives of Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. This elegantly produced volume presents a curated selection of more than 70 color and black-and-white images made by Gardner between the 1950s and the 1980s. Edited by Adele Pressman, Gardner’s wife and literary executor, and with a foreword by Eliot Weinberger, Still Points both honors an important and influential artist and reveals new dimensions in his work.
Stránská skála: Origins of the Upper Paleolithic in the Brno Basin, Moravia, Czech Republic
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In this volume, an international and interdisciplinary team of scholars—Czech and American archaeologists, paleoanthropologists, geologists, and biologists—report on the results of the investigations from 1980 through the 1990s at Stránská skála, a complex of open-air loess sites on the outskirts of the Brno Basin in the Czech Republic.
The volume presents in-depth studies of the geology, paleopedology, frost processes, vegetation, fauna, and archaeological features of Stránská skála that break new ground in our understanding of early modern humans in central Europe.
Jirí Svoboda is Professor at the University of Brno and Director of the Institute of Archaeology, Dolni Vestonice, Academy of Science of the Czech Republic.
Ofer Bar-Yosef is MacCurdy Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology, Harvard University.
Studies in the Anthropology of Bougainville, Soloman Islands
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Peabody Museum Papers Volume 29, nos. 1-4Studies in the Anthropology of Oceania and Asia: Presented in Memory of Roland Burrage Dixon
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Peabody Museum Papers Volume 20, no. 1Studies in the Anthropology of Oceania and Asia: Presented in Memory of Roland Burrage Dixon
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Peabody Museum Papers Volume 20, no. 1Studies in the Anthropology of Oceania and Asia: Presented in Memory of Roland Burrage Dixon
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Peabody Museum Papers Volume 20, no. 1Series
Explorations in the Department of Peten, Guatemala, Tikal: Report of Explorations for the Museum, by Teobert Maler and A Preliminary Study of the Prehistoric Ruins of Tikal, Guatemala: A Report of the Peabody Museum Expedition, 1909–1910
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Peabody Museum Memoirs Volume 5, nos. 1-2Explorations of the Upper Usumatsintla and Adjacent Region
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Peabody Museum Memoirs Volume 4, no. 1Metals from the Cenote of Sacrifice, Chichen Itza, Yucatan
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Prehistoric Ruins of Copan, Honduras: A Preliminary Report of the Explorations by the Museum, 1891–1895
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Peabody Museum Memoirs Volume 1, no. 1Archaeological Investigations in Central Utah: Joint Expedition of the University of Utah and the Peabody Museum, Harvard University
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Peabody Museum Papers Volume 17, no. 2Archaeological Survey in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, 1940–1947
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Peabody Museum Papers Volume 25, no. 1Archaeology of Northwestern Venezuela
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Peabody Museum Papers Volume 26, no. 1Archaeology of the Diquís Delta, Costa Rica
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Peabody Museum Papers Volume 51Anthropological Literature
The Peabody Museum also publishes Anthropological Literature, a research database that indexes over 660 journals in multiple languages -- a highly recommended research tool.