Introduction: Nature in the Making of Archaeology in the Americas / Stefanie Gänger, Philip Kohl, and Irina Podgorny
Part I. Interplays
Skulls and Idols : Anthropometrics, Antiquity Collections, and the Origin of American Map, 1810-1850 / Miruna Achim
Finding the Ancient in the Andes : Archaeology and Geology, 1850-1890 / Joanne Pillsbury
Place Names and Indigenous Languages : Samuel Alexander Lafone Quevedo and British Antiquarian Methods in Nineteenth-Century Argentina / Máximo Farro
Part II. Settings
The Museum of the Camacho Brothers in Campeche, Mexico, c. 1830-1845 / Adam Sellen
About the Nature of Antiquities : Ana María Centeno's Cabinet of Curiosities, Peru, c. 1832-1874 / Stefanie Gänger
From Lake Titicaca to Guatemala : The Travels of Joseph Charles Manó and His Wife of Unknown Name / Irina Podgorny
Visualizing Culture and Nature : William Taylor's Murals in the Hall of the Northwest Coast Indians, American Museum of Natural History / Susan Roy
Part III. Narratives
Arrows and Sciences : Odd Displays for Another Brazil, 1840-1882 / M. Margaret Lopes
Manifest Destiny as the Order of Nature / Alice Kehoe
Saving the Natives : The Long Emergence and Transformation of Indigeneity / John Gilkeson.
Nature and antiquities : the making of archaeology in the Americas. ISBN 9780816531127. Published by The University of Arizona Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.