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Prescott is the author of the award-winning book Pioneer Mother Monuments: Constructing Cultural Memory and co-editor of Backstories: The Kitchen Table Talk Cookbook.

This book is the first survey of contemporary archaeology, a field that focuses on the study of the past 50 years, in the United States. William Caraher demonstrates the plurality of theoretical and methodological approaches that make this discipline in the US unique, including the application of anthropological methods such as ethnography and oral history and the contributions of collaborative and community-based research.