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ment relationship as well as address a need to truly integrate environmental data with research in problem-oriented archaeology. The multidisciplinary, team-based character of environmental archaeology, in the view of the assemblers of this anthology, embraces aspects of earth and biological sciences in a pursuit of an understanding of behavior sensu lato embedded in the archaeological record. It is an archaeology that looks beyond the material culture to reveal what it connotes about the people who left it. This paradigm rests heavily upon the framework of Karl Butzer's archaeology as human ecology, the contextual approach of which is an interdisciplinary bridge that melds the many elements of an environmental archaeology. But the content of some of the contributions to this volume is admittedly multidisciplinary, rather than interdisciplinary. As such, the articles make methodological statements but their content does not focus on method; their instructive value is in the ways by which analyses are interpreted. Recurring themes among and within the 20 chapters are the systemic relationships between humans and the physical-biological world, nutrition and health, strategies for resource acquisition, domestication, exchange systems, and the emergence of social complexity. The chapters, each with its own list of references, are organized into five parts preceded by brief introductions. A diverse spectrum of topics is pursued in environments ranging from the hyperaridity of Death Valley to the tropical forests of Ecuador. The topics themselves range from middens in the Pacific Northwest to middens on the central Andean coast, from the Archaic period to the historic, from migration to sedentism, from parasites to people, from fishermen to horticulturalists, from latrines to isotopes. The first chapter sweeps through the disciplines that are viewed as integral to environmental archaeology. The four subfields of environmental archaeology are, arguably, archaeobotany, bioarchaeology (human remains), the earth sciences, and zooarchaeology (non-human remains). Bioand zooarchaeology are most extensively represented here since many of the contributors acknowledge the influence of Elizabeth S. Wing, to whom the book is dedicated. The listing of earth sciences is extensive (archaeogeology, archaeological geology, archaeometry, archaeopedology ("the study of ancient soils"), geoarchaeology, geomorphology, and sedimentology with a focus on size class distributions) but uncritically assembled, reflecting a failure to appreciate the distinction between the practitioner as an archaeologist, or as an earth scientist. Still, the interaction of people in the four subdisciplines is "probably the most significant factor in the field (of environmental archaeology) today" [p. 12]. In Chapter 2, William Marquardt shows that enhanced archaeological productivity results from the wider range of perspectives and questions that is introduced by multidisciplinary, team research. He recounts how this approach in sw Florida overturned four postulates of the regional preColumbian archaeology, among them the realization that coastal/estuarine habitation was year-around--a topic visited in a later article by Russo and Quitmyer. Archaeological work also corroborated an independently determined, rev ionist interpretation of sea levels of the first millennium A.C. in this coastal area. More attention needs to be

Ten scholars with specialities ranging from ethno-history to remote sensing and lithic analysis to bio-archaeology chronicle the changes in the way prehistory in the South-east has been studied since the 19th century. Each brings to the task the particular perspective provided by his or her own subdiscipline. The result is a multifaceted overview of the history of archaeology in a region that has played an important but variable role in the overall development of North American archaeology. Some of the specialities discussed in this book were traditionally relegated to appendices or ignored completely in site reports that are more than 20 years old. Today, most are part of the bodies of the reports but this integration has been hard won. Others have been, and will continue to be, of central concern to archaeologists. Whatever the case, each chapter details the way in which changes in method can be related to changes in theory by reviewing major landmarks in the literature. As a consequence, the reader can compare the development of each of the subdisciplines, which is not always uniform. Also, each chapter provides access to a different aspect of the rich literature on south-eastern prehistory. The book should be valuable to south-eastern archaeologists. Because many of the major figures in American archaeology have worked in the south-east, the book also provides important insights for archaeologists everywhere. The general reader should find the book of interest because the development of Southeastern archaeology reflects trends in the development of social science as a whole.

Puerto Real was a Spanish town founded between 1502 and 1505 on the island of Hispaniola, in what is now Haiti. Analysis of the vertebrate fauna excavated in 1981 from one section of the town, Locus 39, indicates that cattle were abundant and that use of other taxa was limited. The faunal collection included 71,179 bones, weighing 207,703.92 g. The remains of at least 60 individuals were identified, most of which were cattle. These were represented primarily by bones forming the radio-carpal and tibia-tarsal joints. Analysis of these data suggests that cattle were an important part of Puerto Real's economy and that Locus 39 was both a residential and a special-activity area where cattle were processed for commercial products.