Many members of our Society take active part in monthly specific interest groups or "SIGs". These forums afford members the ability to explore specific Pre-columbian subjects in more detail and depth. Examples have been Maya Hieroglyphic reading, book club and Moche studies.

Some of the books our book club has read include:

PCS BOOK CLUB SELECTIONS

ADOVASIO, J. M. with Jake Page. 2002. The first Americans: in pursuit of archaeology’s greatest mystery. New York: Random House.

BIERHORST, John. 1988. The mythology of South America. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

BRADY, James E. and Keith M. Prufer. Eds. 2005. In the maw of the earth monster: Mesoamerican ritual cave use. Austin: University of Texas Press.
BRASWELL, Geoffrey E., ed. 2003. The Maya and Teotihuacán: reinterpreting early classic interaction. Austin: University of Texas Press.

BAUER, Brian S. 2004. Ancient Cuzco: heartland of the Inca. 2004. Austin: University of Texas Press.

CROWN, Patricia L. and W. James Judge., eds. 1991. Chaco & Hohokam: prehistoric regional systems in the American Southwest. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press.

DEWAR, Elaine. 2001. Bones: discovering the first Americans. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers.

DIAZ, Bernal. 1963. The conquest of New Spain. London: Penguin Classics.

DIEHL, Richard A. 2004. The Olmecs: America’s first civilization. New York: Thames & Hudson.

EVANS, Susan Toby and Joanne Pillsbury, eds. 2004. Palaces of the ancient new world. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks.

HARRISON, Peter D. 2000. The lords of Tikal: rulers of an ancient Maya city. New York: Thames & Hudson.

HUDSON, Charles. 1997. Knights of Spain, warriors of the sun. Athens: The University of Georgia Press.

KANTER, John. 2004. Ancient Puebloan Southwest. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

KANTNER, John and Nancy M. Mahoney, eds. 2000. Great House communities across the Chacoan landscape. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press.

LANDA, Diego de (Translated by William Gates). 1978. Yucatan before and after the conquest. New York: Dover Publications Inc.

LEKSON, Stephen H. 1999. The Chaco meridian: centers of political power in the ancient Southwest. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press.

MANN, Charles C. 2005. 1491: new revelations of the Americas before Columbus. New York: Alfred A. Knoff.

NEITZEL, Jill E., ed. 1999. Great towns and regional polities in the prehistoric American Southwest and Southeast. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

PAUKETAT, Timothy R. 2009. Cahokia: ancient America’s great city on the Mississippi. London: Viking Press.

PAUKETAT, Timothy R. and Thomas E. Emerson, eds. 1997. Cahokia: domination and Ideology in the Mississippian world. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

QUILTER, Jeffrey. 2004. Cobble circles and standing stones: archaeology at the Rivas site, Costa Rica. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.

ROUSE, Irving. 1992. The Tainos: rise and decline of the people who greeted Columbus. New Haven: Yale University Press.


SCHELE, Linda and Peter Mathews. 1999. The code of kings: the language of seven sacred Maya temples and tombs. New York: Touchstone.

SEBASTIAN, Lynne. 1996. The Chaco Anasazi: sociopolitical evolution in the prehistoric Southwest. New York: Cambridge University Press.

SMITH, Michael E. 2003 (2nd ed). The Aztecs. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

SMITH, Michael E. 2008. Aztec city-state capitals. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

STUART, David E. 2000. Anasazi America. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

WEBSTER, David. 2002. The fall of the ancient Maya. New York: Thames & Hudson.

WILLIAMSON, Ray A. 1984. Living the sky: the cosmos of the American Indian. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.

WILSON, Samuel M. 2007. The archaeology of the Caribbean. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

ZARATE, Agustin de. 1968. The discovery and conquest of Peru. Baltimore: Penguin Classics.