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Suggested Reading

The following books and articles provide additional information on the topics of ancient Arizona and the Verde Valley.

Ancient Arizona

 

Hodge, Carle, Ruins Along The River (Montezuma Castle and Tuzigoot National Monuments), Western National Parks Association, 1986

Lister, Robert H. and Florence C. Lister, Those Who Came Before: Southwestern Archaeology in the National Park System, Southwest Parks & Monuments Association, 1993

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: Reid, Jefferson and Stephanie Whittlesey, The Archaeology of Ancient Arizona, University of Arizona Press, 1997

Zoll, Kenneth, Understanding the Rock Art of Sedona and the Verde Valley, VVAC Press, 2009


Sinagua

Fewkes, Jesse Walter, "Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895," in 17th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1898). 519—46. His later research appeared in "Antiquities of the Upper Verde River and Walnut Canyon Valleys, Arizona," in 28th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1912)

Fish, Paul R. and Suzanne K. Fish, Verde Valley Archaeology: Review & Prospective, Flagstaff: Museum of Northern Arizona, Anthropology research report #8, 1977

Mindeleff, Cosmos, "Aboriginal Remains in the Verde Valley, Arizona," in 13th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1896), 179—261

Pilles, Peter, Jr. "The Southern Sinagua." Plateau, 53 (1981):6-17

Wilcox, David R. and James Holmlund, The Archaeology of Perry Mesa and Its World, Bilby Research Center Occasional Papers No. 3, Northern Arizona University, 2007

Zoll, Kenneth, Sinagua Sunwatchers, VVAC Press, 2008

Yavapai-Apache

 

Braatz, Timothy, Surviving Conquest: A History of the Yavapai Peoples, University of Nebraska Press, 2003

Harrison, Mike, Williams, John, Khera, Sigrid, Butler, Carolina C., Oral History of the Yavapai, University of Arizona Press, 2015

Historic Period

 

Lightbourn, Til and Mary Lyons, By the Banks of Beaver Creek, Evangel Press, 1989

Munson, Robert, "Territorial Verde Valley," Plateau 53 (1981): 25—29

Whipple, Lt. A. W., "Report upon the Indian Tribes," in Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean 1853—54, vol. 3 (Washington, D.C.: A.O.P. Nicholson, 1856), 14—15

Laws and Regulations

 

Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA)

Archaeological and Historic Preservation Act (AHPA), as amended

American Antiquities Act of 1906, as amended

Code of Federal Regulations: Preservation of American Antiquities

Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), as amended


Code of Federal Regulations for NAGPRA

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