Archaeological textile research in the Americas / Laurie D. Webster, with Penelope Ballard Drooker -- Handling archaeological textile remains in the field and laboratory / Jenna Tedrick Kuttruff and Mary Strickland-Olsen -- Microanalytical methods for studying prehistoric textile fibers / Kathryn A. Jakes -- Prehistoric textiles : production, function, semiotics / Annette G. Ericksen, Kathryn A. Jakes, and Virginia S. Wimberley -- Spinning and plying : anthropological directions / C. Jill Minar -- Spin and twist as cultural markers : a New England perspective on native fiber industries / James B. Petersen and Jack A. Wolford -- Ancient matting from spirit cave, Nevada : technical implications / Catherine S. Fowler, Eugene M. Hattori, and Amy J. Dansie -- The Mexican connection : a study of sociotechnical change in perishable manufacture and food production in prehistoric New Mexico / D. C. Hyland and J. M. Adovasio -- Revealing clothes : textiles of the Upper Ruin, Tonto National Monument / Lynn S. Teague -- The economics of Pueblo textile production and exchange in colonial New Mexico / Laurie D. Webster -- Textile research from the Mesoamerican perspective / Patricia R. Anawalt -- Andean textiles from village and cemetery : Caserones in the Tarapac Valley, North Chile / Amy Oakland Rodman -- Prehistoric Andean ethnicity and status : the textile evidence -- Vicki Cassman.