Americas - Donald A. Proulx. A Sourcebook of Nasca Ceramic Iconography: Readinga Culture through its Art. xiv+236 pages, 335 figures, 40 colour plates. 2006. Iowa City (IA): University of Iowa Press; 978-0-87745-979-8 hardback $59.95. - Robert D. Drennan. Prehispanic Chiefdoms in the Valle de la Plata, Volume 5: Regional Settlement Patterns/Cacicazgos Prehispanicos del Valle de la Plata, Tomo 5: Patrones de Asentamiento Regionales (University ofPittsburgh Memoirs in Latin American Archaeology 16). xxvi+236 pages, 119 illustrations, 23 tables. 2006. Pittsburgh & Bogotá: University of Pittsburgh Department of Anthropology & Universidad de Los Andes Departamento de Antropología; 978-1-877812-82-8 paperback $36. - Steve Bourget. Sex, Death, and Sacrifice in Moche Religion and Visual Culture. xiv+258 pages, 260 illustrations, 25 colour plates, 4 tables. 2006. Austin (TX): University of Texas Press; 978-0-292-71279-9 hardback £38. - Jessica Joyce Christie & Patricia Joan Sarro (ed). Palaces and Power in the Americas: From Peru to the Northwest Coast. xiv+414 pages, 126 illustrations, 4 tables. 2006. Austin (TX): University of Texas Press; 978-0-292-70984-3 hardback £29. - Helaine Silverman (ed.). Archaeological Site Museums in Latin America. xviii+302 pages, 92 illustrations, 1 table. 2006. Gainesville (FL): University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-3001-2 hardback $65. - Stephen Houston, David Stuart & Karl Taube. The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya. viii+324 pages, 265 illustrations. Austin (TX): University of Texas Press; 0-292-71294-4 hardback £35. - Traci Ardren & Scott R. Hutson (ed.). The SocialExperience ofChildhoodin AncientMesoamerica. xxii+310 pages, 73 illustrations, 11 tables. 2006. Boulder (CO): University Press of Colorado; 9780-87081-827-1 hardback $45. - Jon M. Weeks & Jane A. Hill (ed.). The Carnegie Maya: The Carnegie Institution ofWashington Maya Research Program, 1913–1957. 784 pages, 25 illustrations, 44 tables. 2006. Boulder (CO): University Press of Colorado; 978-0-87081-833-2 hardback with CD-ROM $275; 978-0-87081-8349 CD-ROM only $200. - Vera Tiesler & Andrea Cucina (ed.). Janaab’Pakal of Palenque: Reconstructing the Life and Death of a Maya Ruler. xiv+220 pages, 47 illustrations, 13 tables. 2006. Tucson (AZ): University of Arizona Press; 9780-8165-2510-2 hardback $50. - A. Martin Byers. Cahokia: A World Renewal Cult Heterarchy. xiv+600 pages, 53 illustrations, 25 tables. 2006. Gainesville (FL): University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-2958-0 hardback $69.95. - RONALD J. Mason. Inconstant Companions: Archaeology and North American Indian Oral Traditions. xii+298 pages, 2006. Tuscaloosa (AL): University of Alabama Press; 978-0-8173-1533-7 hardback $50. - Jordan E. Kerber (ed.). Cross-Cultural Collaboration: Native Peoples and Archaeology in the Northeastern United States. xxxii+378 pages, 27 illustrations. 2006. Lincoln (NE): University of Nebraska Press; 978-0-8032-7817-2 paperback; 9780-8032-2765-1 hardback £40. - Clarence R. Geier, David G. Orr & Matthew B. Reeves (ed.). Huts and History: The Historical Archaeology of Military Encampment during the American Civil War. xviii+280 pages, 82 illustrations, 3 tables. 2006. Gainesville (FL): University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-2941-2 hardback $65. - David Erroll & John Erroll, photographs by Anne Day. American Genius: Nineteenth-Century Banklocks and Time Locks. 368 pages, 400 b&w & colour illustrations. 2006. New York: Quantuck Lane Press; 978-1-59372-016-2 hardback £35, $95 & CAN$125.