Translation of technical terms and dialectical variations make even the best glossary effort potentially problematic. Here are a few references gathered to date:

A Descriptive Dictionary for 500 Years of Spanish-Tradition Ceramics.
By Florence C. Lister and Robert H. Lister. Society for Historical Archaeology, 1976.

Archaeological Research in the El Cajon Region.
Edited by Kenneth Hirth, Gloria Lara Pinto and George Hasemann. University of Pittsburgh Memoirs in Latin American Archaeology, No. 1. Special feature: an extensive Spanish/English table of equivalents of the technical terms used in the volume.

Dictionary of Archaeology (English-Spanish//Spanish-English),
Kenneth Allen Hornak. In Press - due out in early 2005

Trash Treasures: An Introduction to Archaeology/Tesoros de Basura: Una introduction a la arquelogia. This resource includes a bilingual glossary of forty typical words.

Content courtesy of Maureen Malloy, SAA Public Education Manager.

Posted by P.L. Jeppson (02/18/05)