Book List

Listed below are some excellent books on archaeology in general and archaeology specific to Pennsylvania.

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If requested Amazon Books will attempt to locate used copies of out of print books.

• Stone Age Spear and Arrow Points of the Midcontinental and Eastern United States : A Modern Survey and Reference - This is a book on point typology and is loaded with illistrations and color photos. Covers 104 point types with distribution maps.
• Prehistoric Cultures in Eastern Pennsylvania (Anthropological Series (Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission), No 7) - This is a very comprehensive book that describes how the lifeways of prehistoric people changed through time, based on an analysis of the archaeological record in eastern Pennsylvania.
• Flintknapping : Making and Understanding Stone Tools - An excellent book for learning to flintknapp and interpret the use and life-cycle of stone tools
• The Archaeology Handbook : A Field Manual and Resource Guide - A begginers guide to archaeology and feild work

Out of Print Books

• Foundations of Pennsylvania Prehistory
  The Anthropological Series Number 1
  Edited by Barry C. Kent, Ira F. Smith III, Catherine McCann
  Pennsyvania Historical and Museum Commision
  Harrisburg, Pennsyvania 1971
  
  
• Prehistory of the Upper Ohio Valley : An Introductory Archeological Study
  Anthropological Series, No. 2
  by William J. Mayer-Oakes
  Annals of Carnegie Museum Vol. 34
  Pittsburgh, PA. 1955
  
  
• A Typology and Nomenclature for New York Projectile Points
  by William A. Ritchie, New Youk State Museum and Science Service,
  Bulletin Number 384, Albany, New York, April 1961, Revised 1971

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