Foreign Objects: Rethinking Indigenous Consumption in American Archaeology

Brass tinklers and pendants. Owl effigies, copper kettles, crucifixes with blue glass stones. What do they have in common? The answer spans thousands of years and a multitude of peoples and places, and reveals how people made sense of their world as they collected and used the objects they encountered.

Foreign Objects demonstrates the breadth and vibrancy of contemporary archaeology. Taking a broad set of archaeological cases from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816531919
• ISBN13: 9780816531912
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"