Volume 74 Number 1 January 2009

ARTICLES

In Pursuit of Mobile Prey: Martu Hunting Strategies and Archaeofaunal Interpretation
Douglas W. Bird, Rebecca Bliege Bird, and Brian F. Codding

Understanding Household Population through Ceramic Assemblage Formation: Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology among the Gamo of Southwestern Ethiopia
John W. Arthur

Variation in Ohio Hopewell Political Economies
Matthew S. Coon

Hierarchy, Communalism and the Spatial Order of Northwest Coast Plank Houses: A Comparative Study
Gary Coupland, Terence Clark, and Amanda Palmer


REPORTS

The Age of the Paleoindian Assemblage at Sheriden Cave, Ohio
Michael R. Waters, Thomas W. Stafford, Jr., Brian G. Redmond, And Kenneth B. Tankersley

Problems of Ceramic Chronology in the Southeast: Does Shell-Tempered Pottery Appear Earlier than We Think?
James K. Feathers

A Review of Lichenometric Dating and its Applications to Archaeology
James B. Benedict

COMMENTS
On Linguistics and Cascading Inventions: A Comment on Arnold’s Dismissal of a Polynesian Contact Event In Southern California
Terry L. Jones And Kathryn A. Klar

Comments on Howey and O'shea "Bear's Journey and the Study of Ritual in Archaeology"
David S. Whitley

Bear’s Journey and the Study of Ritual in Archaeology: Some Comments on Howey and O’Shea's Midewiwin Paper
Ronald J. Mason

On Archaeology AND the Study of Ritual: Considering Inadequacies in the Culture-History Approach and Quests for Internal “Meaning”
Meghan C.L. Howey and John O’Shea


REVIEWS

Book Review Essay

Indigenous Archaeologies: The Quiet Revolution Is Here

Indigenous Archaeologies: Decolonizing Theory and Practice, edited by Claire Smith and H. Martn Wobst; Cross-Cultural Collaboration: Native Peoples and Archaeology in the Northeastern United States, edited by Jordan E. Kerber; History Is in the Land: Multivocal Tribal Traditions in Arizona’s San Pedro Valley, by T.J. Ferguson and Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh
Jeffrey L. Hantman

Review

Myths of the Archaic State: Evolution of the Earliest Cities, States, and Civilizations, by Norman Yoffee
Jeffrey P. Blomster