The art of reconstructing civilizations from the artifacts of daily life demands integrity and imagination. "Indians of North America" displays both in its description of the enormous variation of culture patterns among Indians from the Arctic to Panama at the high points of their histories a variation which was greater than that among the nations of Europe.
For this second edition, Harold Driver made extensive revisions in chapter content and organization, incorporating many new discoveries and interpretations in archeology and related fields. He also revised several of the maps and...