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Zuni, Hopi, Copan publishes one hundred annotated letters from John Gundy Owens¿one of the first graduate students in anthropology at Harvard¿to Deborah Harker Stratton. They offer vivid, highly entertaining accounts of his fieldwork at Zuni pueblo in New Mexico, Hopi mesa villages in Arizona, and the Maya site of Copan in Honduras.

Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions, Volume 3: Part 4 documents thirty stelae at Yaxchilan, a Classic Maya city in Chiapas, Mexico. Precisely rendered line drawings and three-dimensional scans bring out details of the monuments that would otherwise be invisible. Descriptions of the stelae in English and Spanish accompany the illustrations.

Touching on themes of colonialism, cultural hybridity, resistance, and assimilation, Magdalena de Cao is the first in-depth and heavily illustrated examination of what life was like at one town and church complex in Peru during the early Colonial Period, when native peoples and Christian arrivals met.

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Highlighting one of the Peabody Museum¿s most important archaeological expeditions¿the excavation of the Swarts Ranch Ruin in southwestern New Mexico by Harriet and Burton Cosgrove in the mid-1920s¿LeBlanc¿s book features rare, never-before-published examples of Mimbres painted pottery.

This volume addresses the methodology and application of a faunal analysis, specifically as it pertains to data from the Middle East. Topics include a wide range of approaches to the study of the faunal remains, from the methodology of investigating issuses of domestication to the utilization of computer analysis in the identification of remains.

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Utilizing and expanding the database presented in his earlier monographs "Cranial Variation in Man" and "Skull Shapes and the Map, " Howells develops methods for allocating a human skull to one of 28 modern populations for historical or forensic purposes.

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Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos presents the first of four volumes on the site of Cotzumalhuapa in Guatemala. The book describes the site and history of exploration at one of the major Late Classic cities of Mesoamerica, as well as the city's interchange and cultural overlaps with the lowland Maya region.

Still Points is a collection of remarkable photographs taken by award-winning nonfiction filmmaker and author Robert Gardner during his anthropological and filming expeditions around the world. His images¿from the Kalahari Desert, New Guinea, Colombia, India, Ethiopia, Niger, and other remote locations¿are now in Harvard's Peabody Museum.

Since its founding in 1886, the Peabody Museum has been collecting, caring for, exhibiting, and researching objects produced by human cultures around the world. Far & Near provides a tantalizing glimpse into the wonders of these collections, which reflect the skilled artistry of human hands and the endless creativity of the human mind.