ARCHAEOLOGY IN FICTION BIBLIOGRAPHY Anita G. Cohen-Williams Arizona State University Summer 1994 In compiling this bibliography, I used the following sources: _The Fiction Catalog_ (New York: H.W. Wilson); Margaret A. Hoyt, "Archaeology in Literature: A Semi-Annotated Bibliography," _Bulletin of the Philadelphia Anthropological Society_, vol .29, 1977 (issued 1980): 1-47; Tasha Mackler, _Murder...By Category: A Subject Guide to Mystery Fiction_ (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1991); Everett F. Bleiler's _Science-Fiction: The Early Years_ (Kent State University Press, 1990); and the suggestions of everyone on ARCH-L (the archaeology list on Internet), and HISTARCH (the historical archaeology list). Aeby, Jacquelyn. _Romance of the Turquoise Cat_. New York: Bouregy, 1969. [A main character is a "crazy old" archaeologist.] ---------------. _Serena: A Candlelit Romance_. New York: Dell, 1975. [Action on a dig in New Mexico.] Ackroyd, Peter. _First Light_. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, c.1989. [Excavation of a Bronze Age barrow. Pretty bad.] Albert, Marvin. _The Last Smile_. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1988. [Etruscan tomb robbing, and the antiquities market.] Amis, Kingsley, and Robert Conquest. _The Egyptologists_. New York: Random House, 1966, c.1965. [Pseudo-archaeologists in London.] Arkham, Candace. _Ancient Evil_. New York: Popular Library, 1977. [Archaeology student as zombie in Yucatan jungle.] Arnold, Margot. _Exit Actors, Dying_. Chicago: Playboy Press, 1979. [Main characters are archaeologists.] --------------. _The Cape Cod Conundrum: a Penny Spring and Sir Toby Glendower Mystery_. Woodstock, VT: Countryman Press, 1992. [Fresh body in old Indian grave.] --------------. _Dirge for a Dorset Druid :_ _a Penny Spring and Sir Toby Glendower Mystery_. Woodstock, VT: Countryman Press, 1994. [Main characters are archaeologists, dealing with a stolen museum item and murder.] Bagley, D. _The Vivero Letter_. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968. [A thriller, artifact sets off archaeological expedition to Yucatan.] Baxt, George. _The Bette Davis Murder Case_. New York: St. Martin's, 1994. [Celebrity murder mystery with Bette Davis and Agatha Christie. Victim is an archaeologist.] Beck, K.K. _Murder in a Mummy Case_. New York: Ballentine, 1986. [1920's Egyptology.] Bell, Josephine. _Bones in the Barrow_. New York: MacMillan, 1955, c.1953. [Murder mystery with archaeology thrown in.] Benford, Gregory. _Artifact_. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1985. [Archaeologist working in Aegean finds an artifact with earth-shattering (literally) implications.] Bourjaily, Vance. _Brill Among the Ruins_. New York: Dial Press, 1970. [Dig in Mexico.] Bower, Bertha M. _The Adam Chasers_. Boston: Little, Brown, 1927. [Creationist archaeologist in Nevada searching for ancient civilization. The title refers to archaeologists who are concerned with human origins (possibly coined by the author?).] Buchan, John. _Greenmantle_. New York: Georg H. Doran, 1915. [Character is an archaeologist.] Buchanan, Marie. _The Dark Backward_. New York: Coward, McCann and Geohegan, 1975. [Bronze Age druid takes over archaeologist.] Butler, Robert Olen. _Countrymen of Bones_. New York: Horizon Press, 1983. [An archaeologist racing to complete a dig before the A-bomb is tested next door.] Cadell, Elizabeth. _Remains to Be Seen_. New York: Morrow, 1983. [Romantic novel w/descriptions of an archaeological treasure as backdrop.] Cameron, Lou. _The Amphorae Pirates_. New York: Random House, 1970. [Underwater archaeology in the Aegean.] Carl, Lillian Stewart. _Ashes to Ashes_. New York: Charter/Diamond, 1990. [Archaeologists solve a murder mystery.] ---------------------. _Dust To Dust_. New York: Diamond, 1991. [Dig in Scotland, comes complete with ghosts and a murder.] ---------------------. _Garden of Thorns_. New York: Diamond, 1992. [Archaeologist involved in murder.] Carter, Elizabeth Eliot. _Valley of the Kings: A Novel of Tutankhamun_. New York: Dutton, 1977. [Narrated from Howard Carter's point of view with flashbacks to Tut's time.] Casson, Stanley. _Murder by Burial_. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938. [Archaeology as the murder weapon. A tantalizing artifact is planted in a trench that the archaeologist can't resist, and when he tries to excavate it, the trench collapses and kills him.] Cather, Willa. _The Professor's House_. New York: Knopf, 1925. [One of the characters explores a cliff dwelling.] Christie, Agatha. _Death Comes as the End_. New York: Dodd, 1944. [Murder mystery set in Thebes, 2000 B.C.] ----------------. _The Man in the Brown Suit_. London: J. Lane, 1926. [Heroine's father is an absent-minded archaeologist.] ----------------. _Murder in Mesopotamia_. New York: Berkeley, 1936. [Possibly inspired by a dig with the Woollseys.] ----------------. _They Came to Baghdad_. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1951. [Archaeology in Baghdad.] Cleary, Jon. _The Fall of an Eagle_. New York: Morrow, 1964. [Main character is a female archaeologist from Australia.] Clemeau, Carol. _The Ariadne Clue_. New York: Scribner, 1982. [Missing artifacts and a missing graduate student.] Converse, Jane. _Expedition Nurse_. New York: New American Library, 1968. [Archaeological expedition to the Peruvian jungle.] Cook, Robin. _Sphinx_. New York: G.P. Putnam's, 1979. [Egyptology. Got bad reviews.] Cooper, Lynna. _The Brittany Stones_. New York: Beagle, 1974. [A main character is an archaeologist.] Craven, Sara. _Temple of the Moon_. Toronto: Harlequin, 1977. [Expedition to Yucatan with archaeologists as main characters.] Crichton, Michael. _Congo_. New York: Knopf, 1980. [Ruins in Africa and a gorilla who speaks sign language.] Cussler, Clive. _Raise the Titanic!_ New York: Viking, 1976. [The title is self-explanatory.] --------------. _Vixen 03_. New York: Viking, 1978. [Underwater intrigue.] --------------._Night Probe!_ New York: Bantam, 1981. [Underwater salvage.] --------------. _Treasure_. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. [Museums and archaeology.] --------------. _Inca Gold_. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. [Lost Incan treasure, smuggling of artifacts, and Cussler's adventurer hero, Dirk Pitt.] Danbury, Iris. _Feast of the Candles_. London: Mills & Boon, 1968. [Archaeology in Italy.] Daniel, Glyn. _The Cambridge Murders_. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1945. [Archaeologist/detective hero.] ------------. _Welcome Death_. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1954. [More adventures of _Cambridge Murders_ detective.] Daniels, Dorothy. _The Maya Temple_. New York: Warner, 1972. [Looking for a lost archaeologist in Mexico.] Davidson, Lionel. _The Menorah Men_ (also published as _The Long Way From Shiloh_). New York: Harper, 1966. [Looking for the "true" Menorah using a newly-discovered Dead Sea Scroll.] Dodge, David. _Plunder of the Sun_. New York: Random House, 1959. [Murder adventure with artifact smuggling and a search for the treasure of the Incas thrown in.] Donnelly, Jane. _The Man Outside_. Toronto: Harlequin, 1975. [Archaeological expedition in Scotland. Odd cast of characters, good techniques.] Dowdell, Dorothy. _Strange Rapture_. New York: Bouregy, 1961. [Archaeological search for sunken treasure off Majorca.] Drabble, Margaret. _The Realms of Gold_. New York: Knopf, 1975. [Main character is an archaeologist.] Edwards, Paul. _John Eagle, Expeditor: The Glyphs of Gold_. New York: Pyramid, 1974. [A truly bizarre collection of characters from secret agents to assorted Mayanists, all searching for the "Maya El Dorado".] Elkins, Aaron J. _The Dark Place_. New York: Walker, 1983. [Gideon Oliver, forensic anthropologist, is called in on a body of a missing hiker, killed by an atlatl.] ---------------. _Murder in the Queen's Armes_. New York: Walker, 1985. [Gideon Oliver in England visiting a dig.] ---------------. _Old Bones_. New York: Mysterious Press, 1987. [Gideon Oliver and a skeleton from World War II in France.] ---------------. _Curses!_ New York: Mysterious Press, 1989. [Ancient curse on a dig in the Yucatan.] ---------------. _Icy Clutches_. New York: Mysterious Press, 1990 . [Gideon Oliver turns up human bones in Alaska.] ---------------. _Make No Bones_. New York: Mysterious Press, 1991. [Gideon Oliver with a mystery at the Western Association of Forensic Anthropologists Conference.] Finley, Glenna. _Treasure of the Heart_. New York: New American Library, 1971. [Archaeologists and others trying to recover/steal some missing Egyptian tools.] Fish, Robert L. _The Gold of Troy_. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980. [Lost treasure of Troy and murder.] Fletcher, Aaron. _Treasure of the Lost City_. New York: Leisure, 1976. [Searching for the Cutzulcan, "the oldest civilization in the Americas.] Ford, Norrey. _The Love Goddess_. New York: Harlequin, 1976. [Underwater archaeology in Greece, complete with a lovely young thing, and a tall, blond archaeologist.] Frankos, Laura. _St. Oswald's Niche_. New York: Ballentine, 1981. [Archaeology and murder in the Anglican church.] Freeman, R. Austin. _The Eye of Osiris_. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1911. [Noted Egyptologist disappears.] Freund, Philip. _Searching_. New York: P.S. Eriksson, 1975, c.1974. [Archaeologist looking for the Meaning of Life. (And, yes, it is a novel.)] Gardner, Matt. _The Curse of Quintana Roo_. New York: Popular Library, 1972. [Giant alien in a Mayan cenote.] Garve, Andrew (Paul Winterton). _The House of Soldiers_. New York: Harper & Row, 1961. [Main character is an Irish archaeologist (whether this means he is Irish or studies Ireland I have no idea).] Gilbert, Michael. _The Family Tomb_. New York: Harper & Row, 1969. (First published in England under title - _The Etruscan Net_.) [Robbing of Etruscan tombs and the international antiquities market.] Grant-Adamson, Lesley. _Death on Widow's Walk_. New York: Scribner, 1985. [Recent body in English dig.] Green, Gerald. _The Lotus Eaters_. New York: Scribner, 1959. [Archaeologist in Florida.] Greenan, Russell H. _The Secret Life of Algernon Pendleton_. New York: Random House, 1973. [An unscrupulous female archaeologist, the rather odd great-grandson of an Egyptologist, and his talking urn.] Gruber, Frank. _Bridge of Sand_. New York: Dutton, 1969. [American dig in Israel.] Haggard, H. Rider. _King Solomon's Mines_. London: Cassell, 1885. [Search for treasure.] Harvester, Simon. _Sahara Road_. New York: Manor, 1973. [Archaeologists and secret agents.] Hawkes, Jacquetta. _Providence Island_. New York: Random House, 1959. [Archaeologists find unknown island culture in Polynesia, written by a noted British archaeologist.] Hayes, Ralph. _The Golden God_. New York: Manor, 1976. [Searching for the Inca treasure with our Hero, Mark Stoner, adventurer/treasure hunter.] Hillerman, Tony. _Dance Hall of the Dead_. New York: Harper & Row, 1973. [Zunis, Navajos and archaeologists involved with a murder.] ---------------. _A Thief of Time; A Novel_. New York: Harper & Row, 1988. [Plot revolves around a missing Anasazi archaeologist.] ---------------. _Talking God_. New York: Harper & Row, 1991. [Smithsonian conservator arrested for grave robbing.] Holt, Victoria. _The Curse of the Kings_. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1973. [Egyptian archaeology.] Houston, Robert. _The Fourth Codex_. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. Hoving, Thomas. _Discovery_. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989. [Italian archaeology with a murderous twist.] Hoy, Elizabeth. _The Immortal Flower_. Toronto: Harlequin, 1972. [Archaeology in Tunisia with usual cast; sunbronzed archaeologist, lovely young thing, etc.] --------------. _Shadows on the Sand_. Toronto: Harlequin, 1974. [Young secretary goes on archaeological expedition to Egypt.] Hubbard, P.M. _The Dancing Man_. New York: Atheneum, 1971. [An archaeologist dies in a climbing accident or was it? Set in Wales with a backdrop of megaliths.] Hylton, Sara. _The Talisman of Set_. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. [Egyptian archaeology; romantic novel with reincarnation thrown in.] Ing, Dean. _Anasazi_. New York: Ace, 1980. [Using anomalies in Southwestern archaeology to postulate a variation of the alien invasion theme.] Innes, Hammond. _Isvik_. New York: St. Martin's, 1992 (c.1991). [Expedition to the Anarctic in search of a frozen ancient frigate.] --------------. _Levkas Man_. New York: Knopf, 1971. [A missing Dutch archaeologist in Greece.] Johnston, Velda. _The Etruscan Smile_. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1977. [Etruscan archaeology with lovely young thing involved.] Judson, Jeanne. _Marcia and the Inca Gold_. New York: Thomas Bouregy, 1966. [Archaeological expedition to southern Peru. Watch them do their own radiocarbon dating!] Karig, Walter. _Zotz!_ New York: Rinehart, 1947. [Main character is a linguist and archaeologist who reads an ancient Middle Eastern inscription and learns to kill by pointing his finger and saying, "Zotz!"] Kiefer, Warren. _The Pontius Pilate Papers_. New York: Harper & Row, 1976. [Millionaire playboy archaeologist.] Kirk, Lydia. _The Cuernavaca Question_. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974. [Murder mystery with Mexican artifacts.] Kunetka, James W. _Shadow Man_. New York: Warner, 1988. [Dead scientist found at Tsankawi ruins, New Mexico.] Lange, John. _The Last Tomb_. New York: Bantam, 1974. [Treasure of the Pharaohs.] Lathen, Emma. _When in Greece_. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1969. [A few female archaeologists thrown into the plot.] LaTourette, Jacqueline. _The Pompeii Scroll_. New York: Delacorte, 1975. (Published in paperback by Dell as _Pompeii Splendor_.) [Female archaeologist involved with stolen Etruscan artifact and Pompeiian scroll, as well as the usual cast of handsome men, psychotic collectors, etc.] Lawrence, D.H. _The Plumed Serpent, Quetzalcoatl_. New York: Knopf, 1972, c.1951. [Archaeologists as main characters.] Lee, Elsie. _Barrow Sinister_. New York: Dell, 1974. [Archaeological expedition to Sweden complete with lovely young thing.] Leonard, Phyllis G. _Prey of the Eagle_. New York: McKay, 1974. [Archaeology in Mexico in the 1880's.] Lessing, Doris. _Briefing for a Descent Into Hell_. New York: Knopf, 1971. [Mentally unbalanced archaeologist as main character.] Levi, Peter. _Grave Witness_. New York: St. Martin's, 1985. [Site salting.] Lewis, Roy. _The Evolution Man, or How I Ate My Father_. New York: Pantheon, 1993. Original title: _What We Did to Father_. London: Hutchinson, 1960. [Humor.] Lyall, Gavin. _Judas Country_. New York: Viking, 1975. [Searching for Richard the Lionhearted's sword in Israel.] MacGregor, Rob. _The Crystal Skull_. New York: Ballentine, 1991. [Mayan artifacts.] MacLeod, Charlotte. _Wrack and Rune_. Garden City, NY: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday. 1982. [Ancient Nordic runestone and its curse.] Madsen, Axel. _Borderlines_. New York: Macmillan, 1975. [Stela smuggling.] Maier, Paul L. _A Skeleton in God's Closet_. Nashville: T. Nelson, 1994. [Excavations in Israel.] Mann, Jessica. _Troublecross_. New York: D. McKay, 1973. [Skulduggery-on-the- dig mystery. Author has some archaeological training.] -------------. _Grave Goods_. Garden City, NY: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday, 1985, c.1984. [Crown jewels of Charlemagne and murder.] Masters, John. _The Venus of Konpara_. New York: Harper, 1960. [Searching for ancient monuments in India in 1890.] Mather, Anne. _Lord of Zaracus_. Toronto: Harlequin, 1972. [Archaeology in Mexico with lovely young thing.] Matthews, Patricia. _Love's Magic Moment_. Los Angeles: Pinnacle, 1979. [1874 archaeological expedition to the lost city of Tonatiuhican in Mexico. Has usual cast including lovely young thing.] McCrumb, Sharyn. _Paying the Piper_. New York: Ballentine, 1988. [Elizabeth MacPherson studying megalithic monuments in Scotland.] ---------------. _Lovely in Her Bones_. New York: Ballentine, 1990. [Set in a dig in Appalachia.] ---------------. _Missing Susan; An Elizabeth MacPherson Mystery_. New York: Ballentine, 1991. [Elizabeth MacPherson, a forensic anthropologist, and murder.] ---------------. _MacPherson's Lament; An Elizabeth MacPherson Mystery_. New York: Ballentine, 1992. [Murder with a Civil War twist.] McFather, Nelle. _The Red Jaguar_. New York: Ace, 1974. [Beautiful granddaughter of famous Mayanist searching for lost statue.] Meredith, D.R. _The Sheriff and the Folsom Man Murders_. New York: Ballentine, 1987. [Indian artifacts.] Michaels, Barbara (pseud. Elizabeth Peters). _Be Buried in the Rain_. New York: Atheneum, 1985. [Exhumed skeletons at Flowerdew Hundred.] -----------------. _Search the Shadows_. New York: Atheneum, 1987. [Egyptology.] -----------------. _The Sea King's Daughter_. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1975. [Thera/Minoan culture.] Michener, James A. _The Source; A Novel_. New York: Random House, 1965. [Israeli archaeology.] Moody, Susan. _Penny Royal_. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1987. [Both the gold artifacts and the archaeologist are missing.] Morrah, Dermot. _The Mummy Case Mystery_. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1933. [Archaeologist detective.] Niswander, Adam. _The Charm: A Southwestern Supernatural Thriller_. Phoenix, AZ: Integra Press, 1993. [Southwestern U.S. archaeology.] Norsen, Nathaniel N. _The Copper Scrolls_. New York: Putnam Press, 1958. [Artifacts lead to hidden treasure.] Osborne, Helen. _The Yellow Gold of Tiryns_. New York: Coward-McCann, 1969. [Priceless Greek treasure buried and lost by a German archaeologist.] Page, Jake. _The Stolen Gods: A Mystery Novel_. New York: Ballantine, 1993. [Hopi artifacts.] Paine, Michael. _Cities of the Dead_. New York: Berkley, 1988. [Egyptology and mummies.] Peters, Elizabeth. _The Jackal's Head_. Des Moines, IA: Meredith Press, 1968. [Searching for Nefertiti's tomb.] -----------------. _The Camelot Caper_. De Moines, IA: Meredith Press, 1969. [Plot is based on "latest" archaeological findings in England.] -----------------. _The Dead Sea Cipher_ (original title: _Scroll of Wadi Qumran_). New York: Dodd, Mead, 1970. [A murdered archaeologist's notes lead to ancient scrolls.] -----------------. _The Night of Four Hundred Rabbits_. NY: Dodd, Mead, 1971. [Heroine's father is a strange archaeologist.] -----------------. _The Seventh Sinner_. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1972. [Archaeology in Rome, murder mystery.] -----------------. _Borrower of the Night_. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1973. [Romantic adventure with the characters searching for an altar carving.] -----------------. _Crocodile on the Sandbank_. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1975. [The first Amelia Peabody mystery.] -----------------. _Legend in Green Velvet_. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1976. [Archaeology in Scotland, murder mystery.] -----------------. _Summer of the Dragon_. New York: Dodd, Mead 1979. [Romantic suspense novel; archaeology in Arizona with a touch of Atlantis.] -----------------. _The Curse of the Pharaohs_. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1981. [Egyptian archaeology whodunit with main character Amelia Peabody.] -----------------. _Silhouette in Scarlet_. New York: Congdon & Weed, 1983. [Archaeological artifact.] -----------------. _The Mummy Case_. New York: Congdon & Weed, 1985. [More adventures of Amelia Peabody in Egyptian archaeology, and a mystery.] -----------------. _Lion in the Valley; an Amelia Peabody Mystery_. New York: Atheneum, 1986. [Murder and mayhem in Egypt, with archaeology as a backdrop.] -----------------. _Trojan Gold; a Vicky Bliss Mystery_. New York: Atheneum, 1987. [The stolen gold of Troy appears.] -----------------. _The Deeds of the Disturber; an Amelia Peabody Mystery_. New York: Atheneum, 1988. [Murder mystery at the British Museum.] -----------------. _The Last Camel Died at Noon_. New York: Warner, 1991. [Amelia Peabody in the Sudan, searching for a lost archaeologist.] -----------------. _The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog_. New York: Warner, 1992. [Amelia Peabody excavating in Egypt.] Peters, Ellis. _Death Mask_. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1960. [Archaeologists in England looking for Mycenean artifacts (?).] -------------. _City of Gold and Shadows_. New York: Morrow, 1974. [Romantic mystery with archaeological background.] Price, Anthony. _Gunner Kelly_. London: Victor Gollancz, 1983. [Roman villa excavation.] --------------. _The Labyrinth Makers_. New York: Mysterious Press, 1986. [Downed bomber from 1945 found in a lake in England.] --------------. _For the Good of the State_. New York: Mysterious Press, 1986. [Surveying of a mott-and-bailey castle.] --------------. _Our Man in Camelot_. New York: Mysterious Press, 1988, c.1985. Read, Piers Paul. _On the Third Day_. New York: Random House, 1991, c.1990. [Discovery under the Temple Mount in Jerusalem of the body of Jesus.] Rigdon, Charles._ Diosa_. New York: Pocket, 1978. [Archaeological excavation in Mexico. Site appears to be a composite of Tikal, Uxmal, Palenque, Bonampak, and Tutankhamun's tomb (complete with mummy).] Roberts, James Hall (Robert Lipscomb Duncan). _The Burning Sky_. New York: William Morrow, 1966. [Reputedly written by a disgruntled University of Arizona graduate student about a southwestern dig.] Roberts, Janet Louise. _Isle of the Dolphins_. New York: Avon, 1973. [Treasure and spirit possession (or should it be repossession?) by a 2000-year-old priestess of Apollo.] Roberts, Nora. _Hot Ice_. New York: Bantam, 1987. [Jewels of Marie Antoinette in Africa (huh?).] Rowan, Deirdre. _Shadow of the Volcano_. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1975. [Geographically confused archaeology in Mexico with looters added as a touch of seasoning.] Sapir, Richard Ben. _The Body: A Novel_. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1983. [The grave and remains of Jesus is discovered.] Satterthwait, Walter. _Wall of Glass_. New York: St. Martin's, 1989. [Trafficking of Hopi artifacts.] --------------------. _At Ease With the Dead_. New York: St. Martin's, 1990. [1866 Navajo skeleton stolen from archaeological field school.] Sela, Owen. _The Portuguese Fragment_. New York: Pantheon, 1973. ["Statuesque" female archaeologist as character.] Shagan, Steve. _The Discovery_. New York: Morrow, 1984. [Archaeological artifacts from Syria.] Shuman, M.K. _The Maya Stone Murders_. New York: St. Martin's, 1989. [Smuggling fake artifacts.] Shute, Nevil (Nevil Shute Norway). _An Old Captivity_. New York: Literary Guild, 1940. [Archaeological expedition to Greenland.] Slaughter, Frank G. _Plague Ship_. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1976. [Peruvian burial cave complete with deadly micro-organism.] Smith, Wilbur. _The Sunbird_. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1973, c.1972. [African archaeology; lost Carthaginian outpost.] Stein, Aaron Marc. _The Sun is A Witness_. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1940. [First in a series of murder mysteries which feature two archaeologists as the main characters.] ------------------. _Up To No Good_. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1941. ------------------. _Only the Guilty_. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1942. [Action takes place in Colombia.] ------------------. _The Case of the Absent-Minded Professor_. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1943. ------------------. _... And High Water_. New York: Doubleday, 1943. [Floods and murder along the Mississippi.] ------------------. _We Saw Him Die_. New York: Doubleday, 1947a. ------------------. _Death Takes A Paying Guest_. New York: Doubleday, 1947b. ------------------. _The Cradle and the Grave_. New York: Doubleday, 1948. ------------------. _The Second Burial_. New York: Doubleday, 1949a. ------------------. _Days of Misfortune_. New York: Doubleday, 1949b. ------------------. _Frightened Amazon_. New York: Doubleday, 1950. [Isthmus of Tehuantepec.] ------------------. _Pistols for Two_. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1951a. [At the Cloisters in New York. Odd description of carbon-14 dating.] ------------------. _Shoot Me Dacent_. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1951b. ["Search for the origins of the zoomorphic interlace" in Ireland.] ------------------. _The Dead Thing in the Pool_. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1952a. [Contract archaeology in Mexico.] ------------------. _Mask for Murder_. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1952b. [An early Spanish-period Maya mask.] ------------------. _Death Meets 400 Rabbits_. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1953. [Mexico.] ------------------. _Moonmilk and Murder_. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1955. [Cave art in France along with a corpse. Last of the series.] Stephens, Jennifer. _Vengeance of the Cat Goddess_. New York: Avon, 1973. [House-sitting for an aged archaeologist.] Stern, Richard Martin. _Murder in the Walls_. New York: Scribners, 1971a. [Murder mystery in Santa Fe with a female archaeologist as one of the main characters.] ---------------------. _You Don't Need An Enemy_. New York: Scribners, 1971b. [Main character is an archaeologist.] ---------------------. _Death in the Snow_. New York: Scribners, 1973. [Main character is an archaeologist.] Stewart, Mary. _The Gabriel Hounds_. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1967. [Archaeologist as main character. Based on the life of Lady Hester Stanhope.] Tapply, William G. _The Spotted Cats_. New York: Delacorte, 1991. [Gold Mayan artifacts stolen.] Taschdjian, Claire. _The Peking Man is Missing_. New York: Harper & Row, 1977. [A few archaeologists appear.] Templeton, Charles. _Act of God_. Boston: Little, Brown, 1978. [Archaeologist discovers a cave near Qumran with a crucified body and documents identifying the deceased as Yeshua ben Yosef.] Thorne, Jim. _The White Hand of Athene_. New York: Pinnacle, 1974. [Underwater archaeology in Greece.] Trench, John. _Docken Dead_. New York: Macmillan, 1954. [Archaeologist/detective hero. First in a series (see below).] ------------. _Dishonoured Bones_. New York: Macmillan, 1955. ------------. _What Rough Beast?_ New York: Macmillan, 1957. Trillin, Calvin. _Runestruck_. Boston: Little, Brown, 1977. [Viking runestone in Maine.] Van Dine, S.S. _The Scarab Murder Case: A Philo Vance Story_. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. [Egyptologist found dead in locked room.] Van Greenway, Peter. _The Judas Gospel_. New York: Atheneum, 1972. [A new Dead Sea scroll pops up and "proves" that Peter, not Judas, betrayed Christ.] Vecors (Jean Bruller). _You Shall Know Them_. Boston: Little, Brown, 1953. [A group of unknown hominids/hominoids are found in New Guinea. Philosophical discussion of what makes man.] Wagner, Sharon. _Maridu_. New York: Lancer, 1970. [Lovely young thing, demented female archaeologist, and a high priestess of Sumer.] --------------. _Echoes of an Ancient Love_. New York: Ballentine, 1976. [Lovely young thing on archaeological expedition to Greece turns out to be the reincarnation of a priestess of Hera.] Waldrop, Howard. _Them Bones_. New York: Berkeley, 1984. [Excavation in 1920's. A horse skull complete with bullet hole is found in the center of a midwestern mound.] Wallis, Ruth Sawtell. _Blood From A Stone_. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1945. [2 bodies, one is 20,000 years old, the other a bit more recent, in a cave in France.] Webster, Noah (Bill Knox). _A Burial in Portugal_. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974. [Famous archaeologist found buried in ruined Moorish castle.] Westheimer, David. _The Avila Gold_. New York: Putnam, 1974. [Cache of gold coins under a historic landmark in Los Angeles. Geared for treasure hunters/pot hunters.] -----------------. _The Olmec Head_. Boston: Little, Brown, 1974. [Ex-Marine hired to smuggle an Olmec head (one of the big ones) out of Mexico.] Wetherell, June. _The Mahogany House_. New York: Manor, 1977, c.1967. [Lovely young thing goes to Mexico searching for handsome archaeologist.] ---------------. _Legacy of the Lost_. New York: Lancer, 1970. [Young wife looking for archaeologist husband missing in Mexico.] Wibberley, Mary. _Daughter of the Sun_. Toronto: Harlequin, 1978. [Lovely young thing goes to Peru to look for her father (the usual lost archaeologist) and a lost Incan city.] Wilson, Angus. _Anglo-Saxon Attitudes; A Novel_. New York: Viking, 1956. [Archeological fraud.] Winston, Daoma. _The Mayeroni Myth_. New York: Pocket, 1979, c.1972. [Lovely young thing as secretary to a family of archaeologists recently returned from Yucatan. Includes evil statue, cursed treasure, etc.] Wylie, Philip. _Corpses at Indian Stones_. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1943. [Archaeologist Agamemnon Telemachus Plum solving murder and lost treasure mysteries.] Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn. _Out of the House of Life_. Volume 1. New York: St. Martin's, 1990. [Excavation in Egypt.] SCIENCE FICTION Anderson, Poul. _The Corridors of Time_. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965. [Main character is an archaeologist.] Asimov, Isaac, and Robert Silverberg. _Nightfall_. New York: Doubleday, 1990. [Archaeology on Kalgash shows that civilizations only last for 2,049 years, and then are burned to the ground. This was originally a short story by Asimov] ------------------------------------. _The Ugly Little Boy_. New York: Doubleday, 1992. [Neanderthal boy kidnapped and sent to the 21st century. This was originally a short story by Asimov.] Beresford, Leslie. _The Venus Girl_. London: John Long, 1925. [Bracelet found on a dig next to a meteorite contains a girl from Venus.] Bishop, Michael. _No Enemy But Time: A Novel_. New York: Timescape, 1982. [Time travel to prehistoric Africa.] Brackett, Leigh. _The Sword of Rhiannon_. New York: Ace, 1953. [Defrocked archaeologist on Mars looking for tombs to loot.] Bradbury, Ray. _The Martian Chronicles_. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1950. [Archaeologists on Mars in early chapters. This is the book that first sparked my interest in archaeology.] Bradley, Marion Zimmer. _The Ruins of Isis_. New York: Pocket, 1979. [Archaeology of the future.] Brunner, John. _Total Eclipse_. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974. [Archaeologists on Sigma Draconis III.] Carter, Lin. _The Man Who Loved Mars_. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1973. [Archaeological expedition on Mars to the "fabled Treasure City".] Crichton, Michael. _Sphere_. New York: Knopf, 1987. [Underwater archaeology of a spaceship from the future that had returned to the past.] De Camp, L. Sprague. _Lest Darkness Fall_. New York: Ballentine, 1974, c.1949. [Time traveling archaeologist.] De Camp, L. Sprague, and P. Schuyler Miller. _Genus Homo_. Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1950. [Archaeologist as a main character.] Harrison, Harry. _Captive Universe_. New York: Putnam, c.1969. Lisle, Holly. _Bones of the Past_. Baen, 1993. [Search for a lost city.] Long, Frank Belknap. _The Night of the Wolf_. New York: Popular Library, 1972. [Archaeologist eaten by artifact.] McCaffrey, Anne. _The White Dragon_. New York: Ballentine, 1978. ---------------. _All the Weyrs of Pern_. New York: Ballentine, 1991. [Excavations into the origins of Pern.] McCaffrey, Anne, and Mercedes Lackey. _The Ship Who Searched_. Baen, 1992. [A young girl becomes ill on her parents' dig on another world.] McKillip, Patricia. _The Riddle-Master of Hed_. New York: Ballentine, 1985. [Archaeological exploration of ancient city.] Merritt, A. _The Moon Pool_. New York: Avon, 1956, c.1919. [Archaeologists in Polynesia find "Nameless Horror."] Rasmussen, Alia A. _The Labyrinth Gate_. Baen, 1988. [Time travel to an excavation in the 19th century.] Richmond, Walt, and Leigh Richmond. _The Lost Milennium_. New York: Ace, 1967. [Archaeologist as main character.] Silverberg, Robert. _Valentine Pontifex_. New York: Arbor House, 1983. [Discussion of dig and reconstruction of the ancient city of the Shapeshifters.] Simak, Clifford. _Mastodonia_. New York: Ballentine, 1978. [Archaeologist as main character.] Simmons, Dan. _Hyperion,_. New York: Doubleday, 1989. ------------. _Fall of Hyperion_, New York: Doubleday 1990. [Father searching for cure for archaeologist daughter who caught a disease from her dig.] Stevens, Francis. _The Citadel of Fear_. New York: Paperback Library, 1970. [Archaeologists find ancient Mexican idol which tries to take over everyone.] Tucker, Wilson. _Ice and Iron_. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974. [Archaeologist in the future has problems with artifacts and bodies popping up out of nowhere.] Wilson, Colin. _The Mind Parasites_. Sauk City, WI: Arkham, 1967. [Archaeologist discovers huge city under Turkey, however, focus of the plot is on fighting the mind parasites.] -------------. _The Philosopher's Stone_. New York: Crown, 1971. [The secret of human prehistory is revealed with the help of a few archaeologists and a scientist who can reconstruct the past accurately.] LOST WORLDS/LOST RACES This section concerns itself with a subgenre of the science fiction literature that was popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A key part of the story was that the lost world or race was rediscovered by outside Europeans. I have included many of these titles, including several on Atlantis. For more novels on this theme, see Everett F. Bleiler's _Science-Fiction: The Early Years_ (Kent State University Press, 1990). Aubrey, Frank. _A Queen of Atlantis. A Romance of the Caribbean Sea_. London: Hutchinson, 1899. [Atlantis sank in the Sargasso Sea, but its mountain peaks remained above the water and the survivors dwell there.] Bennet, R.A. (Robert Ames) _Thyra. A Romance of the Polar Pit_. New York: Henry Holt, 1901. [Lost races at the North Pole, a paleolithic group, and a more advanced people.] Benoit, (Ferdinand Marie) Pierre. _Atlantida_ (L'Atlantide). New York: Duffield and Co., 1920. Translated from the French by Mary C. Tongue and Mary Ross. Published in London by Hutchinson, 1920 under the title: _The Queen of Atlantis_. [Atlantis is actually in the Sahara.] Burroughs, Edgar Rice. _The Return of Tarzan_. Chicago: McClurg, 1915. [Ruined city of Opar, a vacation spot for the residents of Atlantis.] ---------------------. _The Land That Time Forgot_. Chicago: McClurg, 1924. [Actually three short novels: _The Land that Time Forgot_; _The People that Time Forgot_; and _Out of Time's Abyss_. All are set on the island of Caspak in the South Pacific.] ---------------------. _Tarzan and the Ant Men_. Chicago: McClurg, 1924. [Lost races of tiny men and huge Amazons.] ---------------------. _Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle_. Chicago: McClurg, 1928. [Valley of the Sepulcher with descendants of the Crusaders living there much the way their ancestors had.] ---------------------. _Tarzan and the Lost Empire_. New York: Metropolitan, 1929. [Area inhabited by descendants of Roman legionaries who settled there around 100 A.D.] Clock, Herbert, and Eric Boetzel. _The Light in the Sky_. New York: Coward- McCann, 1929. [Lost city of immortal Aztecs in Mexico. Very imaginative.] Converse, Frank. _Van; Or In Search of an Unknown Race_. New York: United States Book Co., 1981. [Searching for the lost Incan city of Itambez.] d'Esme, Jean (pseud. of Vicomte Jean d'Esmenard). _The Red Gods_. New York: Dutton, 1924. Translated from the French by Moreby Acklom (_Les Dieux Rogues_, 1923.) [Lost race of Cro-Magnon hunters in Indochina. Archaeology a bit on the sensational side.] De Mille, James. _A Strange Manuscript Found in A Copper Cylinder_. New York: Harper, 1888. [Lost race at the South Pole called the Kosekin who speak evolved Hebrew. Novel has some social satire.] De Morgan, John. _King Solomon's Treasures_. New York: Norman L. Munro, 1887. [Looking for treasure and a lost race. Modelled on H. Rider Haggard's novel, _King Solomon's Mines_.] Doke, Joseph J. _The Secret City. A Romance of the Karroo_. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. [Ancient Egyptian city of Nefert in the Kalahari Desert.] Doyle, Arthur Conan. _The Lost World_. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1912. [The classic tale of a prehistoric area on a plateau in Venezuela.] Dunn, J. Allan (Joseph Allan Ephinstone Dunn 1872-1941). _The Treasure of Atlantis_. New York: Centaur Press, 1970, c.1916. [Archaeologist searching for a lost Atlantean city in the Amazon jungle.] Haggard, H. Rider. _Allan Quartermain_. London: Longmans, 1887. [The lost race novel that began it all (all the cliches, that is). Allan and his companions seek a lost race of white men in Africa.] -----------------. _She: A History of Adventure_. London: Longmans, Green, 1887. [Ruins of a huge city and a lost race called the Amahaggar, who are ruled by She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed.] Hume, Fergus. _The Mother of Emeralds_. London: Hurst and Balckett, 1901. [Lost group of Incans living in caves in Peru.] Hyne, C. J. Cutcliffe (Charles John). _Beneath Your Very Boots, Being a Few Striking Episodes From the Life of Anthony Merlwood Haltoun, Esq. Transcribed by C.J. Hyne_. London: Digby, Long and Co., 1889. [Lost race of Celtic peoples in caverns under England.] -------------------------------------. _The Lost Continent_. New York: Harper, 1900. [The story of Atlantis. Suggests that the Yucatan was an Atlantean colony.] Jackson, James W. _A Queen of Amazonia_. London: Henry Walker, 1928. [Lost race of Vikings in the Amazon who rule a group of Aztecs (who for some reason speak Quechua).] Jane, Fred Thomas. _The Incubated Girl_. London: Tower Publishing Co., 1896. [An Egyptologist discovers a bronze casket with instructions inside on how to make a human baby with chemicals. Need I say more?] Janvier, Thomas Allibone. _The Aztec Treasure-House, a Romance of Contemporaneous Antiquity_. Illustrated by Frederic Remington. New York: Harper, 1890. [Narrator is an archaeologist searching for a lost Aztec city.] Mastin, John. _The Immortal Light_. London: Cassell, 1907. [Lost race of Latin speakers in Anarctica. The author neglects to explain how they got there.] Mathews, Cornelius. _Behemoth. A Legend of the Mound-Builders_. New York: J. and H.G. Langley, 1839. [The behemoth in question is a raging mammoth who is destroying the towns of the mound-builders, and whatever armies they send out to stop it.] Moulder, Victor. _Ophiris, or the Ophir of Solomon. A Story of Adventure and Love in the Land of the Incas_. Smith's Grove, KY: Times Publishing Co., 1902. [Lost race of Incas in the Amazon. The Ophir of Solomon is equated with Peru.] Mundy, Talbot (pseud. of William Lancaster Gribbon). _The Mystery of Khufu's Tomb_. London: Hutchinson, 1933. [Looking for Cheops' tomb, which is actually not in the Great Pyramid.] -------------. _JimGrim_. New York: Century, 1931. [Buried cities in the Gobi desert, where the scientific secrets of Atlantis are recorded on golden tablets. A mystic translates them and tries to take over the world. Reads like an Indiana Jones movie.] McDougall, Walter H. _The Hidden City_. New York: Cassell, 1891. [Lost city of Aztlan, peopled by refugees of Atlantis and the local Indian groups, apparently located in northwestern Colorado.] Norton, Roy. _The Toll of the Sea_. New York: Appleton, 1909. [After a series of earthquakes in modern times, the descendants of Atlantis settle on a newly formed continent, Azoria.] Parry, David M. _The Scarlet Empire_. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1906. [Atlantis is a social democracy, under the sea in a large crystal dome. Criminals are executed by being eaten by the kraken, a huge sea monster. There is a lot of preaching against socialism in this one.] Payne, A.R. Middletoun. _The Geral-Milco; Or the Narrative of A Residence in a Brazilian Valley in the Sierra-Paricis_. New York: Charles B. Norton, 1852. [Written as a travel book, and including appendices, this novel features a city-state populated by Incas and Aztecs.] Rosny aine, J.H. (Pseud. of Joseph-Henri Boex). _The Xipehuz and the Death of Earth_. Translated by George Edgar Slusser. 1887, reprinted by Arno, 1978. [Prehistoric men fight a war of extinction with aliens. Also wrote _Quest for Fire_, see under PAST PEOPLES.] Savile, Frank. _Beyond the Great South Wall. The Secret of the Antarctic_. London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1899. [Searching for Mayans in the Antarctic. Truly a lost race.] Smyth, Clifford. _The Gilded Man. A Romance of the Andes_. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1918. [Lost race of Chibcha Indians living in caves in Colombia.] Sullivan, (Edward) Alan. _In the Beginning_. New York: Dutton, 1927. [A lost world surrounded by a cactus barrier, in Argentina. Has a tribe of Neanderthals as well as animals such as sabertooth cats and giant ground sloths.] Velasquez, Pedro (probably a pseud.). _A Memoir of An Eventful Expedition in Central America; Resulting in the Discovery of the Idolatrous City of Iximaya, In an Unexplored Region, And the Possession of Two Remarkable Aztec Children, Descendants and Specimans of the Sacerdotal Caste (Now Nearly Extinct) of the Ancient Aztec Founders of the Ruined Temples of that Country. Described by John L. Stephens, Esq., and other Travellers. Translated From the Spanish of Pedro Velazquez, of San Salvador_. New York: J.W. Bell, 1850. [Hoax account claiming to have found the lost pre-Conquest city of Iximaya (SW corner of Chipas, Mexico). The architecture is characterized by domes, and the author feels that the Aztecs are descendants of the Assyrians.] Vivian, E. Charles. _City of Wonder_. London: Hutchinson, 1922. [Lost race on an island in the East Indies.] Westall, William. _The Phantom City: A Volcanic Romance_. London: Cassell, 1886. [Lost race of Mayans before the Conquest.] ----------------. _A Queer Race: The Story of a Strange People_. London: Cassell, 1887. [Lost race of Elizabethan Englishmen.] PAST PEOPLES This section contains novels about specific groups of people, about whose history we know little or nothing. I have included a few works on ancient Rome, and many on Egypt. Anet, Claude (pseud. Jean Schopfer). _Fin d'Un Monde_ [_The End of the World_]. Paris: B. Grasset, 1925. [A group of reindeer men (Cro-Magnon). Has an interesting epilogue.] Anthony, Piers. _Tatham Mound_. New York: Morrow, 1991. [Prehistoric Indians in Florida.] --------------. _Isle of Woman_. New York: TOR, 1993. [A fantasy about prehistoric man.] Auel, Jean M. _The Clan of the Cave Bear; A Novel_. New York: Crown, 1980. Volume 1 of Earth's Children. [Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals.] ------------. _The Valley of the Horses_. New York: Crown, 1982. Volume 2 of Earth's Children. ------------. _The Mammoth Hunters_. New York: Crown, 1985. [Earth's Children, sequel to the _Valley of the Horses_.] ------------. _The Plains of Passage_. New York: Crown, 1990. [Earth's Children, sequel to _The Mammoth Hunters_.] Bandelier, Adolf Francis Alphonse [1840-1914]. _The Delight Makers_. Introduction by Charles F. Lummis. 2nd edition. New York: Dodd, Mead, c.1918. [Pueblo Indians.] Barnett, Franklin. _Crooked Arrow: A Novel of Southwestern Prehistoric Indians of the 13th Century_. Tempe, AZ: Beaumaris, 1977. Bruchac, Joseph. _Dawn Land: A Novel_. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Pub., c.1993. [Prehistoric Abnaki Indians.] Davis, Lindsey. _The Silver Pigs: A Novel_. New York: Crown, 1989. [Ancient Rome.] --------------. _Shadows in Bronze: A Marcus Didius Falco Novel_. New York; Crown, 1990. --------------. _Venus in Copper: A Marcus Didius Falco Novel_. New York: Crown, 1991. [Falco as the equivalent of a private detective in ancient Rome.] --------------. _The Iron Hand of Mars: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery_. New York: Crown, 1993, c.1992. [Falco looking for a missing legate in Germany.] Dickinson, Peter. _The Dancing Bear_. Boston: Little, Brown, 1973, c.1972. [Slaves in ancient Byzantium.] Drury, Allen. _A God Against the Gods_. Doubleday, 1976. [Story of Nefertiti and Akhenaten.] ------------. _Return to Thebes_. Doubleday, 1977. [Sequel to _A God Against the Gods_.] Gann, Ernest K. _The Antagonists_. New York: Simon & Schuster 1971, c.1970. [Masada 73 AD] Gear, W. Michael, and Kathleen O'Neal Gear. _People of the River_. New York: TOR, 1992. [Warring clans around present-day Cahokia, IL, in A.D. 1300.] -----------------. _People of the Wolf_. New York: TOR, 1992. -----------------. _People of the Sea_. New York: Forge, 1993. [Prehistoric man in western U.S.] -----------------. _People of the Lakes_. New York: Forge, 1994. [Mound builders.] Gedge, Pauline. _Child of the Morning_. Dial Press, 1977. [Ancient Egypt during the reign of Hatshepsut, the only female Pharaoh.] --------------. _The Twelfth Transforming_. Harper, 1984. [Ancient Egypt during Akhenaten's reign (18th dynasty).] Golding, William. _The Inheritors_. Harcourt, 1962, c.1955. [Neanderthals vs. Homo sapiens.] ----------------. _The Scorpion God: Three Short Novels_. Harcourt, 1972, c.1971. [Ancient Egypt; also in the same collection is _Envoy Extraordinary_ about ancient Rome.] Harrison, Harry and Leon Stover. _Stonehenge_. New York: Scribner, 1972. [Fictional interpretation, not for the fainthearted.] Holland, Cecelia. _Pillar of the Sky; A Novel_. New York: Knopf, 1985. [Prehistoric England.] Jennings, Gary. _Aztec_. Atheneum, 1980. [The life of an Aztec.] Jones, Paul A. _Blue Feather: A Story of Prehistoric Indian Life Based on a Navajo Legend_. Lyons,KS: Praire Publishers, c.1953. Kertegen, Eileen. _Journey to Apriloth_. New York: Ace, 1980. [Journey of a young man from Britian to the mouth of the Euphrates at the time of the building of Stonehenge.] Kurten, Bjorn. _Dance of the Tiger; A Novel of the Ice Age_. New York: Pantheon, 1980 (Swedish edition c.1978). [Story set in Scandinavia 35,000 BP.] -------------. _Singletusk_. New York: Pantheon, 1986. Llywelyn, Morgan. _The Horse Goddess_. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. [Celts of 700 B.C.] London, Jack. _Before Adam_. Macmillan, 1906. [Life as a caveman. See also Waterloo, Stanley.] Mailer, Norman. _Ancient Evenings_. Boston: Little, Brown, 1983. [Set between reigns of Ramses II and Ramses IX, the narrators are spirits.] Mitchinson, Naomi. _Early in Orcadia_. Glasgow: Richard Drew, 1987. [Ancient dwellers of the Orkney Islands.] Norwood, Warren. _True Jaguar_. Toronto: Bantam, c.1988. [Mayans.] Peters, Daniel. _Tikal; A Novel About the Maya_. New York: Random House, 1983. --------------. _The Luck of Huemac; A Novel About the Aztecs_. New York: Random House, 1981. [A very detailed novel, covers 1428-1521 AD] Rosny, J.H. (Pseud. of Joseph-Henri Boex) _La Guerre de Feu: Roam des Ages Farouches_. Paris: Bibliotheque-Charpentier, 1928, c.1911. [The original _Quest for Fire_ that the movie was made from.] Rutherfurd, Edward. _Sarum; the Novel of England_. New York: Crown, 1987. [Traces the history of England from the Ice Age to the present through five fictional families. First part is recommended.] Trimble, Stephen. _The Village of the Blue Stone_. MacMillan, 1990. [Chaco culture Anasazi Pueblo, 1100 AD. Juvenile literature.] Waltari, Mika. _The Egyptian: A Novel_. Translated by Naomi Walford. New York: Putnam, 1949. Original Finnish edition, 1945. [I think this was made into a movie of the same name.] Waterloo, Stanley. _The Story of Ab: A Tale of the Time of the Caveman_. Way & Williams, 1897. [A pseudo-historical novel of prehistory. Waterloo accused Jack London of plagiarism in _Before Adam_. See London, Jack.] Williams, Raymond. _People of the Black Mountains_. 2 volumes. London: Chatto & Windus, 1989. [Fictional account of South Wales from the Paleolithic to the present. Current archaeological work done in the area shows that the author's (who was not an archaeologist at all) chapter on Vikings had a lot of true elements to it.] Wolf, Joan. _The Horsemasters_. New York: Dutton, 1993. [Prehistoric man.]