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• Archaeometry of Pre-Columbian Sites and Artifacts (Marina del Rey, CA: Getty Conservation Institute, c1994), ed. by David A. Scott and Pieter Meyers (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)

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• Nature and Antiquities: The Making of Archaeology in the Americas (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c2014), ed. by Philip L. Kohl, Irina Podgorny, and Stefanie Gänger (PDF with commentary at Open Arizona)
• Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology (partial serial archives)
• Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology (New York: Harper and Bros., c1871), by John D. Baldwin (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Los Animales Domesticos de la America Precolombiana (Publicaciones del Museo de Etonologia y Antropologia #3, in Spanish; Santiago de Chile: Imp. Cervantes, 1922), by Ricardo E. Latcham
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Prehistoric America (5 volumes; Chicago: American Antiquarian Office, 1898-1905), by Stephen D. Peet
  • Volume 1 (The Mound Builders, second edition): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (Emblematic Mounds and Animal Effigies): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3 (The Cliff Dwellers and Pueblos): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4 (Ancient Monuments and Ruined Cities): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 5 (Myths and Symbols): multiple formats at archive.org
• An Inquiry Into the Origin of the Antiquities of America (New York: J. C. Colt.; et al., 1839), by John Delafield, contrib. by James Lakey and Charles Pettit McIlvaine, illust. by James A. Cleveland
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• An Inquiry Into the Origin of the Antiquities of America (Cincinnati: N. G. Burgess and Co., 1839), by John Delafield, contrib. by James Lakey and Charles Pettit McIlvaine, illust. by James A. Cleveland (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Prehistoria e historia de la civilizacion indigena de Amerika, i de su destruccion por los barbaros del este (Editorial "La Baskonia", 1925), by Florenzio de Basalduá and Juana Canut de Basaldúa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cabinet d'antiquités américaines à Copenhague. Rapport ethnographique (De l'Impr. de Thiele, 1858), by Carl Christian Rafn and Kongelige Nordiske oldskriftselskab (Denmark) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abstract art before Columbus. (André Emmerich Gallery, 1957), by Dore Ashton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art and architecture of ancient America; the Mexican, Maya, and Andean peoples. (Penguin Books, 1962), by George Kubler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual de arqueologia americana (Daniel Jorro, 1918), by Henri Beuchat and Domingo Vaca (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lettres américaines, dans lesquelles on examine l'origine, l'etat civil, politique, militaire & religieux, les arts, l'industrie, les sciences, les mœurs, les usages des anciens habitans de l'Amérique; les grandes epoques de la nature, l'ancienne communication des deux hémisphères, & la dernière révolution qui a fait disparoître l'Atlantide: pour servir de suite aux Mémoires de D. Ulloa. (chez Buisson, 1788), by Gian Rinaldo Carli, F. Buisson, and Jean-Baptiste Lefebvre de Villebrune (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traditions of De-coo-dah : And antiquarian researches: comprising extensive explorations, surveys, and excavations of the wonderful and mysterious earthen remains of the mound-builders in America; the traditions of the last prophet of the Elk nation relative to their origin and use; and the evidences of an ancient population more numerous than the present aborigines (Thayer, 1852), by William Pidgeon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels amongst American Indians : their ancient earthworks and temples : including a journey in Guatemala, Mexico and Yucatan, and a visit to the ruins of Patinamit, Utatlan, Palenque and Uxmal (S. Low, Marston & Company, 1894), by Lindesay Brine (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Indian and antiquities of America (Sherman & Co., printers, 1897), by Barnard Shipp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Décades americanæ. Mémoires d'archéologie et d'ethnographie américaines, [1.-6. dédades] (E. Leroux, 1884), by E. T. Hamy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The manners, customs, and antiquities of the Indians of North and South America. (Bradbury, Soden, 1844), by Samuel G. Goodrich and Soden & Co Bradbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Galerie américaine du Musée d'ethnographie du Trocadéro; choix de pièces archéologiques et ethnographiques. (E. Leroux, 1897), by E. T. Hamy and Musée d'ethnographie du Trocadéro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Book of Mormon and the claims of the Mormons re-examined (The Standard publishing company, 1910), by Charles A. Shook (page images at HathiTrust)
• Researches on America; being an attempt to settle some points relative to the aborigines of America, &c. (Joseph Robinson, 1817), by J. H. McCulloh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pre-historic America (J. Murray, 1885), by Jean-François-Albert du Pouget Nadaillac and William Healey Dall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pre-historic America (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1893), by Jean-François-Albert du Pouget Nadaillac, William Healey Dall, and N. D'Anvers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le travail en Amérique avant et après Colomb. (F. Alcan, 1914), by L. Capitan and Henri Lorin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The story of extinct civilizations of the East and of the West (D. Appleton and company, 1927), by R. E. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Histoire légendaire de la Nouvelle-Espagne (C. Klincksieck, 1912), by Hyacinthe Charencey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Décades américaines. (Imp. Wellhof et Roche], 1907), by L. Capitan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of America before Columbus, according to documents and approved authors (J.B. Lippincott company, 1900), by Peter De Roo (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of extinct civilizations of the West (D. Appleton and company, 1904), by R. E. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prehistoria e historia de la civilizacion indigena de Amerika, i de su destrucción por los bárbaros del este (Editorial "La Baskonia", 1925), by Florenzio de Basaldua and Juana Canut de Basaldua (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Traditions of De-coo-dah. And antiquarian researches: comprising extensive explorations, surveys, and excavations of the wonderful and mysterious earthen remains of the mound-builders in America (Thayer, Bridgman & Fanning, 1853), by William Pidgeon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sites des Cordillères et monuments des peuples indigènes (Pomey et Crouzet, 1868), by Alexander von Humboldt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbuch der präkolumbischen Kulturen in Lateinamerika (Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, 1927), by Theodor-Wilhelm Danzel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Culturvölker Alt-Amerikas. (Benziger Bros., 1875), by Gustav Brühl (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of extinct civilizations of the West (D. Appleton and company, 1912), by R. E. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Amérique préhistorique ... Avec 219 figures dans le texte. (G. Masson, 1883), by Jean-François-Albert du Pouget Nadaillac (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prehistoric America. (Office of the American antiquarian, 1905), by Stephen D. Peet (page images at HathiTrust)
• An abstract of the catalogue of the archaeological collection of Joseph Jones; preserved at his residence, 1138 Washington Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana. (Press of Searcy & Pfaff, 1901), by Joseph Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Décades americanae. mémoires d'archéologie et d'ethnographie américaines (E. Leroux, 1899), by E. T. Hamy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• American antiquities (Printed by Hoffman and White, 1835), by Josiah Priest (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of an archaeological collection formed in Central and South America by Professor Comm. Ernesto Mazzei = Catalogo della collezione archeologica americana Mazzei (Casa Mazzei, 1891), by Enrico Hillyer Giglioli and Ernesto Mazzei (page images at HathiTrust)
• Researches, philosophical and antiquarian, concerning the aboriginal history of America. (F. Lucas, Jr., 1829), by J. H. McCulloh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches historiques et géographiques sur le Nouveau-monde. (Brunet, 1777), by Jean-Benoît Schérer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cabinet d'antiquités américaines à Copenhague. Rapport ethnographique (Imprimerie de Thiele, 1858), by Carl Christian Rafn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pittoreske Ansichten der Cordilleren und Monumente americanischer Völker (J. G. Cotta, 1810), by Alexander von Humboldt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettere americane ([s.n.], 1780), by Gian Rinaldo Carli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches sur les antiquités de l'Amérique Septentrionale (Everat, 1827), by David Bailie Warden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient America : in notes on American archaeology (Knowledge Resources, Inc., 1986), by John D. Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die americanische Völkerwanderung. Eine studie. (A. Hilzhausen, 1866), by Friedrich von Hellwald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Décades americanae : mémoires d'archéologie et d'ethnographie américaines (E. Leroux, 1896), by E. T. Hamy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traditions of De-coo-dah. And antiquarian researches: comprising extensive explorations, surveys, and excavations of the wonderful and mysterious earthen remains of the mound-builders in America; the traditions of the last prophet of the Elk nation relative to their origin and use; and the evidences of an ancient population more numerous than the present aborigines. (H. Thayer, 1858), by William Pidgeon and Elk Indian De-coo-dah (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of extinct civilizations of the West (University Society, 1909), by R. E. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of extinct civilizations of the West (McClure, Phillips, 1904), by Robert E. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historia de la América antecolombiana (Montaner y Simón, 1892), by Francisco Pí y Margall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of extinct civilizations of the West (Appleton, 1904), by Robert E. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pittoreske Ansichten der Cordilleren und Monumente americanischer Völker (J. G. Cotta, 1810), by Alexander von Humboldt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pre-historic America (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1884), by Jean-François-Albert du Pouget Nadaillac, William Healey Dall, and N. D'Anvers (page images at HathiTrust)
• América precolombiana : ensayo etnológico, basado en las investigaciones arqueológicas y etnográficas de las tradiciones, monumentos y antigüedades de América indígena : dedicado á la Sociedad de Ciencias y Artes ([s.n.], 1887), by Mariano Delmiro Encarnación Soler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extinct civilizations of the West (Hodder and Stoughton, in the 1900s), by Robert E. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Evidences of ancient civilization in America constituting a lecture delivered on behalf of the Mechanics' Institute on Tuesday, 1st of March, 1870 (Mechanics' Institute of Guelph, 1870), by W. E. Bessey and Mechanics' Institute of Guelph (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient America, in notes on American archæology (Harper, 1872), by John D. Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of America before Columbus according to documents and approved authors (J.B. Lippincott, 1900), by Peter De Roo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pre-historic America (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1884), by marquis de Nadaillac, N. D'Anvers, and William Healey Dall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft the native races : vol. IV, antiquities. (A.L. Bancroft, 1883), by Hubert Howe Bancroft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pre-historic America (J. Murray, 1885), by marquis de Nadaillac and William Healey Dall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The antiquity of the red race in America (s.n., 1895), by Thomas Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduction to the study of North American archaeology (R. Clarke, 1898), by Cyrus Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• American antiquities and discoveries in the west being an exhibition of the evidence that an ancient population of partially civilized nations differing entirely from those of the present Indians peopled America many centuries before its discovery by Columbus, and inquiries into their origin, with a copious description of many of their stupendous works now in ruins, with conjectures concerning what may have become of them (s.n.], 1838), by Josiah Priest (page images at HathiTrust)
• American antiquities and discoveries in the west being an exhibition of the evidence that an ancient population of partially civilized nations, differing entirely from those of the present Indians, peopled America, many centuries before its discovery by Colombus, an inquiry into their origin ... with conjectures concerning what may have become of them (s.n.], 1833), by Josiah Priest (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Amérique préhistorique (G. Masson, 1883), by marquis de Nadaillac (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le préhistorique Américain (s.n.], 1893), by marquis de Nadaillac (page images at HathiTrust)
• American antiquities and discoveries in the west being an exhibition of the evidence that an ancient population of partially civilized nations differing entirely from those of the present Indians peopled America many centuries before its discovery by Columbus, and inquiries into their origin, with a copious description of many of their stupendous works now in ruins, with conjectures concerning what may have become of them (s.n.], 1833), by Josiah Priest (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pre-historic America (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1893), by marquis de Nadaillac and William Healey Dall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian notes and monographs. Miscellaneous series. (New York, 1920), by Heye Foundation Museum of the American Indian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tiahuanacu; estudio de prehistoria americana. (Impr. Artística de Castillo y c.a, 1903), by B. Díaz Romero (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die archäologischen und ethnographischen Sammlungen aus Amerika im K. K. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseum in Wien. (Wien, 1908), by Franz Heger, Naturhistorisches Museum (Austria), and Austria) International Congress of Americanists (16th : 1908 : Vienna (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aboriginal America. (Houghton, Mifflin, 1889), by Justin Winsor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prehistoric America. (Chicago, 1890), by Stephen D. Peet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of extinct civilizations of the West (D. Appleton and Co., 1913), by R. E. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Pamphlets (1891-1917., 1891), by Jesse Walter Fewkes, Alexander MacGregor Stephen, and J. G. Owens (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sitios de las Cordilleras y monumentos de los pueblos indígenas de América (Imprenta y librería de Gaspar, 1878), by Alexander von Humboldt and Bernardo Giner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die americanische völkerwanderung. (A. Holzhausen, 1866), by Friedrich von Hellwald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber die alt-americanischen denkmäler. (G. Reimer, 1840), by Johann Daniel von Braunschweig and Carl Ritter (page images at HathiTrust)
• América en la época del descubrimiento. (Sucesores de Rivadeneyra, 1892), by Francisco Pí y Margall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Briefe über Amerika; nach der neusten verbesserten und mit dem dritten theile vermehrten ausgabe (C.F. Bekmann, 1785), by Carlo Carli and Christian Gottfried Hennig (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art in shell of the ancient Americans (Government Printing Office, 1883), by William Henry Holmes, Huntington Free Library, and Heye Foundation Museum of the American Indian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vues des Cordillères, et monumens des peuples indigènes de l'Amérique (N. Maze, 1816), by Alexander von Humboldt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the Peabody Museum (The Museum, 1937), by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pre-historic America (New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1890), by Jean-François-Albert du Pouget Nadaillac and William Healey Dall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Archaeological frontiers : papers on New World high cultures in honor of J. Charles Kelley (University Museum and Art Galleries, Southern Illinois University, 1976), by J. Charles Kelley and Robert B. Pickering (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mundo Nuevo, o, Descripción de las Indias Occidentales (Universidad Simón Bolívar, Instituto de Altos Estudios de América Latina, 1988), by Joannes de Laet and Marisa Vannini de Gerulewicz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mirrors of ancient America ([Philadelphia?, 1927), by John Alden Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• América antes de Colón (Hernando, 1926), by Raoul d' Harcourt and Miguel López y Atocha (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Amérique avant Colomb (Stock, 1925), by Raoul d' Harcourt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Spindle whorls in archaeology (Museum of Anthropology, University of Northern Colorado, 1984), by Louis C. Raymond (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Researches on America; being an attempt to settle some points relative to the aborigines of America, &c... (J. Robinson, 1817), by James Haines McCulloh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. (The Museum, 1896), by Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology (page images at HathiTrust)
• Resenã de investigaciones arqueológicas en las Américas en 1926. (La Unión Panamericana, 1927), by Pan American Union and Conferencia Internacional Americana sobre Protección de los Restos Arqueológicos (5th) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Décades americanae. Mémoires d'archéologie et d'ethnographie américaines (E. Leroux, in the 1880s), by E. T. Hamy (page images at HathiTrust)
• American antiquities, being the entire section devoted to the subject in the author's series on the native races. (The Bancroft company, 1921), by Hubert Howe Bancroft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels Amongst American Indians, Their Ancient Earthworks and Temples: Including a Journey in Guatemala, Mexico and Yucatan, and a Visit to the Ruins of Patinamit, Utatlan, Palenque and Uxmal, by Lindesay Brine (Gutenberg ebook)
• Art in Shell of the Ancient Americans: Second annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, pages 179-306, by William Henry Holmes (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West, by Robert E. Anderson (Gutenberg ebook)

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