This is a new feature of the MAS Newsletter is to provide a guide to books or long articles that might be of interest to MAS members. Booknotes will not include professional-style book reviews with an obligatory critical examination of the ideas, but rather they will offer descriptions of materials that the readership may wish to explore.

     The first Booknote is on Current Northeast Paleoethnobotany edited by John P. Hart and published by the New York State Museum, 1999. The book is available for $29.95 through the New York State Museum, Publication sales, Albany, New York 12230 (Phone: 518/449-1404). For a full review, Click here

    This Booknote is on The Archaeological Northeast edited by Mary Ann Levine, Kenneth E. Sassaman, and Michael S. Nassaney. The book was published in 1999 by Bergin and Garvey of Westport, Connecticut. The hardbound edition is available for about $75.00 from Greenwood Publishing Group, 88 Post Road West, Westport, Connectiut 06881. I believe that a cheaper paperback has been printed. You can call the distributor at 1/800/225-5800 for further information. For those of you with internet access, there is a website at info.greenwood.com. For a full review, Click here

    This Booknote is on Cultural Resource Archaeology by Thomas W. Newmann and Robert M. Sanford. The book was published by Altimira
Press 2001, and is available in paperback for $24.95. You can call 1-800-462-6420 for more information. For a full review Click Here.

    This Booknote is on Vikings : The North Atlantic Saga, which was edited by William Fitzhugh and Elizabeth Ward. the book was published by Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000, $34.95 paperback, 750 Ninth St. NW, Washington, DC 20560-0950, or 202-275-2300, or www.sipress.si.edu. for a full review Click Here.