New Life for Archaeological Collections

Abstract

of a general trend, Thomas concludes, for indigenous groups within colonial settings being part of a practice of appropriation and reappropriation of colonial material goods for use and transformation through their own indigenous social practices. The logical organization of this volume helps build the arguments regarding the evidence and larger context for metal production at Paa-ko during the early colonial era in New Mexico. The topic of metallurgy at Paa-ko is an important one with wide implications for other parts of the Pueblo world and neighboring arid regions such as southern California. Thomas’s book is well argued, well supported, and offers insight into a topic that is not well understood. I highly recommend this volume to people interested in the technology of metallurgy, indigenous-colonial interaction in the hinterlands of empires, and indigenous social practice in colonial contexts.