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Not So Far from Paquimé: Essays on the Archaeology of Chihuahua, Mexico. JANE H. KELLEY and DAVID A. PHILLIPS JR., editors. 2017. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. xiii + 234 pp. $65.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-607-81572-3.

and protohistoric periods. The most well known of these is the Belcher site in Caddo Parish. This site’s mounds are composed of a chronological series of burned and buried structures, which were excavated by Clarence Webb and numerous volunteer laborers off and on between 1936 and 1954. The final two chapters of the book deal with the effects of European colonization and American expansion. Following a rapid influx of American settlers in the decades following the Louisiana Purchase, the Caddo of Louisiana sold their lands to the US government in 1835. After a brief stay in Texas, most Caddos moved to Oklahoma, where many of their descendants live today. This book is a testament to the value of Louisiana’s regional archaeology program, in which the author served as the northwest regional archaeologist until his retirement in 2015. Due to state budget cuts, however, this program was recently disbanded—an unfortunate occurrence since much of what we know about Louisiana’s past is a result of the efforts of the state’s former regional archaeologists. The impacts of amateurs and interested locals are also apparent when reading about the sites mentioned in the book. It is often these individuals who identify and help preserve archaeological sites, and in many instances, they have collected valuable data from sites that are in the process of being destroyed. Finally, it is clear that archaeologists in the Caddo area work well with the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma and that these two groups routinely benefit from each other’s knowledge and expertise.