RECOMMENDED READINGS
These books can be found at your libraries, state historical societies,
ordered through your local bookstores, online booksellers, or purchased
directly from their publishers. Where a book remains in print, the
website addresses are listed after the publisher name.
An excellent source of books and videos on the topic of
rock art—regional, national and international—is Piedra Pintada Books.
Alex, Lynn Marie.
Iowa's Archaeological Past.
(A Bur Oak Book.) Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000.
Alex, Lynn Marie.
Exploring Iowa's Past: A Guide
to Prehistoric Archaeology. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press,
1980.
Anfinson, Scott. F.
Southwestern Minnesota Archaeology:
12,000 Years in the Prairie Lake Region (Minnesota Prehistoric Archaeology
Series, No 14). St. Paul MN: Minnesota Historical Society, 1997.
NEW! Arzigian, Constance and Katherine
P. Stevenson.
Minnesota's Indian Mounds and Burial
Sites: A Synthesis of Prehistoric and Early Historic Archaeological Data.
St. Paul: Minnesota Office of the State Archaeologist, 2003.
Birmingham, Robert A. and William Green.
Wisconsin Rock Art.
The Wisconsin Archeologist: Volume 68, Number 4. December
1987.
Birmingham, Robert A. and Katherine H. Rankin.
Native American
Mounds in Madison and Dane County. (Madison Heritage Publication
Series.) Madison: City of Madison and State Historical Society of
Wisconsin, 1996. Contact the
Madison Historic Preservation Landmarks
Commission at 608-266-6552
Birmingham, Robert A. and Leslie Eisenberg.
Indian Mounds
of Wisconsin. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin,
2000.
NEW! Boszhardt, Robert A.
Deep
Cave Rock Art. St. Paul MN:
Prairie Smoke Press, 2003.
Budak, Michael.
Grand Mound. Minnesota Historic
Site Series. St. Paul MN: Minnesota Historical Society, 1995.
Callahan, Kevin L.
The Jeffers Petroglyphs: Native American
Rock Art on the Midwestern Plains. St. Paul MN:
Prairie Smoke Press, 2001.
Conway, Thor & Julie Conway.
Spirits on Stone: The Agawa
Pictographs. Heritage Discoveries, Inc., 1990.
Dewdney, Selwyn & Kenneth Kidd.
Indian Rock Paintings
of the Great Lakes. Published for the Quetico Foundation. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 1962.
Furtman, Michael.
Magic on the Rocks: Canoe Country Pictographs.
Duluth, MN: Birch Portage Press, 2000.
Highsmith, Hugh.
The Mounds of Koshkonong and Rock River.
Fort Atkinson,WI: Highsmith Press, 1997. Available from the
Hoard Historical Museum, Fort Atkinson
WI. (920) 563-7769
Holliday, Diane Young and Bobbie Malone.
Digging and Discovery:
Wisconsin Archaeology. Madison: State Historical Society of
Wisconsin, 1997.
Johnson, Elden.
Prehistoric Peoples of Minnesota.
St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1988 (3rd edition).
Lapham, Increase A.
The Antiquities of Wisconsin, as surveyed
and described by I.A. Lapham, Civil Engineer, etc. For the American
Antiquarian Society. Washington, D.C.: Smithonian Institution, 1855.
Republication by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 2001.
NEW! Morse-Kahn, Deborah.
A Guide to the Archaeology Parks
of the Upper Midwest. Lanham, MD: Roberts Rinehart, Rowman
& Littlefield Publishing Group, 2003
Rajnovich, Grace.
Reading Rock Art: Interpreting the Indian Rock
Paintings of the Canadian Shield. Ontario: Natural Heritage/Natural
History Inc., 2002 (1994).
Ritzenthaler, Robert.
Prehistoric Indians of
Wisconsin. Aperture, 1985.
Salzer, Robert J. and Grace Rajnovich.
The Gottschall Rockshelter:
An Archaeological Mystery. St. Paul MN:
Prairie Smoke Press, 2000.
Winchell, Newton H. and Theodore H. Lewis.
The Aborigines
of Minnesota. St. Paul MN: Minnesota Historical Society, 1911.
