Greenwood Publishing Group is announcing the development of a new reference work, Archaeology in America: An Encyclopedia. This three-volume encyclopedia is aimed at public, college, and school libraries and the patrons of these libraries. The goal of the work is to provide nonscholars with an accessible, interesting, and informative resource on the sites and the cultures that archaeologists study in America. Instead of viewing archaeology as the study of dead civilizations and foreign lands, the books will show archaeology to be a vibrant method of understanding the history and culture of one’s own “backyard.” Greenwood plans to publish this encyclopedia in 2006.

The encyclopedia editors are: 
        Francis P. McManamon, National Park Service
        Linda S. Cordell, University of Colorado
        Kent Lightfoot, University of California
        George R. Milner, Pennsylvania State University
        
The entries will be organized by geographical region and will provide clear, concise, and, well-written summaries of particularly important, educational, interesting, or evocative prehistoric and historic archaeological sites across the United States and Canada. Entries will stress sites for which accessible, detailed references can be provided and those that have museum displays or can be visited in public parks with interpretive materials. In addition to the entries on individual sites, there will be essays introducing the unique cultural and archaeological properties of the various regions, as well as longer essays on broad topics introducing the set.  

For further information or queries, please email the Managing Editor of the Encyclopedia:

        Dr. Thalia Gray
        [log in to unmask]