Shelley Carr asked Marilyn Johnson:

I loved Lives in Ruins and This book is overdue! I'm actually a librarian, and am just getting into cultural heritage. Do you have any suggestions on books I can recommend to students at the university I work for to help start the conversation? Or great archeology books. Both would be awesome :)

Marilyn Johnson Thank you, Shelley! Charles C. Mann's 1491 was a pleasurable and engaging read about all sorts of recent discoveries in the Americas. I found James Deetz's In Small Things Forgotten: an Archaeology of Early American Life to be a short and haunting book about what the colonial people left behind; I also loved A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich for what it taught me about colonial life. Shamans, Queens, and Figurines by Sarah Milledge Nelson is a good look back at a pioneering archaeologist's efforts to find women in Asia's past. I met some of the authors for the Heritage Matters series (in particular, Laurie Rush, a wonderful guide to the field), and perhaps this would be a good series for your university library. https://boydellandbrewer.com/series/h... I discovered Brian Fagan's Archaeologists: Explorers of the Human Past after I wrote Lives in Ruins, or I would have included its short profiles of past and present archaeologists in my bibliography.

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