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Adolph F. Bandelier's The Discovery of New Mexico by the Franciscan Monk Friar Marcos de Niza in 1539. Translated and edited by Madeleine Turrell Rodack. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1981. Pp. 135. Maps. Bibliography. Index. No price.)

Bandelier was an early exponent of the interdisciplinary approach which has again become fashionable. To quote the Foreword (p. 8), "Bandelier was not only an archaeologist and historian but he was also interested in botany, geology, geography and zoology. He incorporated all these fields into his anthropological and historical studies This combination of methodological sophistication and control of archival data makes the Marcos de Niza paper important, not only as a landmark in Southwestern ethnohistory but as a work of scholarship in its own right." His study in French (here translated) is by far his best on Niza and on the beginnings of Southwestern exploration.