The Mesa Verde World: Explorations in Ancestral Puebloan Archaeology (Southwest Archaeology)
This beautiful, well written, and informative book…with its many photographs, illustrations, and maps is…[a] lavishly illustrated…useful collection of ideas, images, and interpretations [that] successfully highlights what contemporary archaeologists, researchers, and descendent community members know or have learned about the Ancestral Pueblos of the Mesa Verde Region. David Grant Noble's gift for anticipating what interested readers want and need to know about a given archaeological area clearly shines forth in this collection, and his choice of writers and topics are excellent. [E]ach author seems to have been encouraged to present his or her data and methods in such a way as to involve the reader in the debate or nurture the reader's imagination. --Carla R. Van West, Kiva: The Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History,Vol. 72, No. 4, Summer 2007