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Archaeological obsidian studies in the American Southwest and beyond have significantly matured in the last two decades. Like ceramic analysis, obsidian artifact analysis has become a key factor in many archaeological projects because obsidian used to produce chipped stone tools is common across time periods in the Southwest—from Paleoindian through colonial periods. Even today, making stone tools from obsidian is used in teaching. 

In the last twenty years, not only have the ways archaeologists use obsidian provenance to address twenty-first-century issues changed, but we now also see geologists and paleontologists using obsidian in ways never before imagined.

In the second edition of Obsidian, author M. Steven Shackley examines the newly discovered sources of archaeological obsidian and other volcanic rocks on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. This work has aided in building new inferences concerning exchange, group interaction, and social networks: subjects that were only emerging twenty years ago in obsidian studies. 

The field of obsidian provenance studies is truly international, linking archaeologists and geologists in the United States like never before. While the obsidian sources covered in this volume are regionally specific, the applications and methods used in the understanding of source recording, composition issues, and provenance are relevant worldwide.

An updated stand-alone edition of Sophocles’s Oedipus the King taken from Chicago’s renowned translations of the Greek tragedies.
 
Over the years, David Grene and Richmond Lattimore’s Complete Greek Tragedies have been the preferred translations of millions of readers—for personal libraries, individual study, and classroom use. Drawn from the authoritative third edition of the University of Chicago Press’s classic series, this updated stand-alone edition of Grene’s Oedipus the King renders the original Greek in clear, vivid, and poetic English for a new generation to savor.
 
Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most’s introduction to Sophocles’s searing tale of jealousy, rage, and revenge provides essential information about the play’s first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond.
 

This revised and expanded edition of Oregon Fossils includes a record of all known fossils in Oregon going back 400 million years, along with collecting localities by county, age, rock formation, and published source. The book also provides a geologic overview of the state, from ocean beaches to the high desert, from the Blue Mountains to the Siskiyous.

Unique among fossil field guides, Oregon Fossils includes both specimen identification and interesting notes about their discovery, naming, and conservation. The narrative is sprinkled with biographical sketches of paleontologists who have contributed to the state’s fossil record, and the text is richly illustrated with photographs, line drawings, charts, and maps. A complete bibliography lists full citations to fossil material. The only single volume that provides Oregon’s fossil record and history, Oregon Fossils is a well-written, well-organized guide. It is an excellent reference for classroom and library use, for researchers, and for private collectors and hobbyists.