If you had traveled from one community to another inthe prehistoric Southwest, you would have observedtremendous diversity in how people looked and spoke.This volume is the first to look at how prehistoricpeople’s appearance and speech conveyed their identities.Southwest archaeologists have previously studied identityusing architecture, ceramics, textiles, and jewelry. Thiscolorful book uses a holistic, comparative approach toconsider all aspects of appearance. Advocating a peoplecenteredperspective for studying the past, Neitzel andher colleagues show how these characteristics conveyedinformation about an individual’s social status, culturalaffiliation, inter-group connections, religious beliefs, andceremonial roles.