Prehistoric Warfare in the American Southwest, by Stephen A. LeBlanc. University of Utah Press, 1999

The history of archaeology has often, not surprisingly, bene mainlyconcerned with sites, their excava­tors, and what they found. But of equal importanceare the attitudes, beliefs, and assumptions that shape the interpretation ofarchaeological data. LeBlanc, in Prehistoric Warfare in American Southwest, argues thatthe long held belief in the essential peacefulness of the prehistoric Anasazi and otherSouth­ western peoples can be shown to be wholly incorrect, and therefore much that hasbeen written about the prehistoric Southwest needs extensive rethinking. Warfare was animportant feature of the ancient Southwest, and he presents carefully marshalledevidence, in great details, to uphold his conclusions