Book by it Cover: An Archaeology of the Red River of the North

We’re getting close to the next New Book Day at The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota and it feels like a good day to show off our next book cover. 

Next month will see the release of Michael Michlovic’s newest book: An Archaeology of the Red River Valley of the North. 

Here’s the back cover blurb:

An Archaeology of the Red River of the North

An Archaeology of the Red River of the North offers an expansive survey of the indigenous cultures and peoples in the region of the Red River from the recession of Lake Agassiz around 9000 years ago to the intrusion of the Europeans. Beginning with an overview of the practice of regional archaeology and a justification for its pursuit, Michael Michlovic uses a traditional culture-historical sequence as a framework to incorporate archaeological studies from the late nineteenth century to the present time. Relevant research in fields such as ethnohistory, ethnography, radiometric dating, paleoecology, and geomorphology are used throughout the presentation. Dozens of individual sites and survey projects are summarized and take their place in an overview of the characteristic features of past times, from the earliest hunting and gathering cultures to later farming societies.

The book cover is meant to evoke the cover of Michlovic’s first book with the press which he published with George Holley titled Archaeological Cultures of the Sheyenne Bend and I use the same font and basic design. I’m pretty pleased with the cover and even more pleased with the book.