The Cherokee Excavations: Holocene Ecology and Human Adaptations in Northwestern Iowa

of Montauk individuals. I recommend looking at these first and letting their expressive faces haunt you as you read the rest of the volume. Amid all of the valuable primary and secondary sources in this volume, the only discordant note is struck by the archaeological report. This is the first part of a full report on the site and includes only the background of the investigations, the environmental setting, and brief descriptions of the structures and features at the site. There is little description of artifacts and no interpretation of the site. It would have been better either to hold this volume until the entire report was available or to eliminate the archaeological aspect, as in its present form this report adds little to our understanding of the Montauk. The Suffolk County Archaeological Association and the series editor are to be commended for their work, and this series deserves strong support here and emulation elsewhere. Our understanding of the past proceeds by "excavation" and reanalysis of earlier writings, as well as by excavation of new sites. It is a truism in archaeology that the more we know about an area, the more interesting our research questions become. These volumes help define what we know about this significant section of the coastal zone and point out the many questions still to be answered. Future volumes in this series will be eagerly awaited.