This introduction to the archaeology of the New World deals with the pre-Columbian cultures of North and South America and Mesoamerica. A survey of each area takes into account the work of pioneering explorers and archaeologists, and examines the pre-Columbian finds they discovered.

"An Equinox book." First ed. published Oxford : Elsevier, c1975, under title: The New World; with Warwick Bray as first named author. Includes index.