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This volume includes a large number of the papers presented at the important XIth Southwest Symposium held in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico in January 2010: Building Transnational Archaeologies. The volume was edited by Elisa Villalpando and Randy H. McGuire and includes chapters in English and Spanish. The chapters report new data concerning the prehistory and history of the U.S. Southwest and northern/western Mexico, consider the relationships of archaeologists in both areas to the native communities in their areas, and explore the differences in the practice and roles of archaeology and...

The intriguing hilltop archaeological sites known as "cerros de trincheras" span almost three millennia, from 1250 BC to AD 1450. Archaeologists have long viewed them as a unitary phenomenon because they all have masonry architecture and occur mostly on low volcanic peaks. Scattered across the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, these sites received little comprehensive research until the 1980s. This first volume in the Amerind Studies in Archaeology series from the Amerind Foundation documents considerable variability among trincheras sites with respect to age, geographic...

This edited volume integrates a remarkable body of new data representing current issues and methodologies in the archaeology of hilltop sites, known as cerros de trincheras, in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.