Book Thread

[DesertWalker]

Westfall's books are fun to read, and educational.

Mostly Sand and Gravel: Artifact Adventures on the High Plains - Tom Westfall

Only The Rock Last Forever - Tom Westfall

Flint chips and pottery shards - Tom Westfall

[Mojave]

For the western folks, one of the best books on the earliest stuff I have is:
Early Human Occupation If Far Western North America: The Clovis-Archaic Interface (Nevada State Museum Anthropological Papers Number 21)Ed. by Judith A. Willig, C. Melvin Aikens and John L. Fagan (1988). 22 papers: 477 pp., 158 figs., 53 tables.

[papa]

Sometimes I miss threads and don't notice them. If I'd seen this I would have posted my new book on this thread. Well here is my alltime favorite book on indians. "The Moundbuilders" by Robert Silverberg Ohio University Press. That book is awesome. I need to get me a new copy lol. (kids!!) My other favorite is "An Archeological History of the Hocking Valley" (very good read) and of course I have all of anything by lar hothem the axe book is very informative. Mine unfortunately has pen marks, rips, tears, extra plates courtesy of my mean kids when they were little. One of these days when I feel safe I'm going to start collecting some more books. Several of my books were given to me though from an old friend and they were already in pretty bad shape. Some of those you folks have mentioned sound pretty good. I have tons of good stuff downloaded on pdf files from book archives. There is some pretty good stuff available for download. But its not the same as having the book itself though. Nonethelesss you can still gain the knowledge from them. The best books are the ones you haven't read yet.

[DesertWalker]

I collect certain First Edition books too. These two are signed first editions of mine.

This book is a fun read. The author grew up arrowhead hunting in SW Wyoming:
ARROWHEADS: 50 YEARS OF COLLECTING - 1925-1975 by Albert Dolene

This is a great book to start to understand ancient rock art:
THE ROCKS BEGIN TO SPEAK - by LaVan Martineau

[mootsman]

Originally Posted by Steve Valentine

Here's a few of my favorite books.

Sun Circles and Human Hands - The Southeastern Indians Art and Industries, written by [i]Mary Douglass, Fundaburk Foreman, Vernon James Knight Jr.

That's one of my favorites and was the first one that I bought in the late 1960's. I was looking through it last night and always wonder where most of the relics ended up over the last 50+ years since the original publication.

[Aboman]

Sun Circles is about my favorite artifact book, that and Tribes That Slumber by Kneburg. Much of the super material in that book is still visible for collectors to see as well. Frank Morast's vast collection continues to be in private hands, and a lot of the pottery in the book are in the U. of Arkansas museum and the Museum of Native Americans in Bentonville AR. I own quite a few of the Morast pots from Sun Circles, as well as most of the cones and some other material. So most of the Sun Circles relics are still around, in private collections.

[erinhickey]

There are some great free resources on Google Books. I especially enjoy browsing some of the older materials like:

Prehistoric relics: an illustrated catalogue describing some eight hundred and fifty different specimens
By Warren King Moorehead
1905 full text with illustrations
http://tinyurl.com/2eu6b2v

and

Catalogue of prehistoric works east of the Rocky Mountains
By Cyrus Thomas
1891 full text with illustrations
http://tinyurl.com/23n58up

and

THE MOUND BUILDERS
By J. P. MACI. EAN.
1879 full text with illustrations
http://tinyurl.com/22ltkbb

[Trask]

Erin Thank You

[erinhickey]

My pleasure, Trask!

[silver lake]

I too thank you Erin! I noticed a reprint is available, but I'll try and get an original copy of Prehistoric Relics if possible.