Uncovering America's First War

Matthew F. Schmader has been conducting archaeological research in central New Mexico for more than forty years. He has conducted research on sites of every major cultural time period in New Mexico and served as the Albuquerque City Archaeologist for ten years. He is currently an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico.

"A masterpiece of archaeological research. . . . Uncovering America's First War is the definitive study of one of the most important places in the US Southwest: the ancestral Tiwa village of Piedras Marcadas Pueblo. Chronicling Schmader's decades of exhaustive research, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in New Mexican history, the Coronado expedition, and Pueblo negotiations of early colonialism." - Matthew Liebmann, author of Revolt: An Archaeological History of Pueblo Resistance and Revitalization in 17th Century New Mexico "Schmader's work represents a quantum advance in understanding of the Coronado expedition and the Native peoples it impacted." - Richard Flint and Shirley Flint, authors of The Coronado Expedition: From the Distance of 460 Years "Schmader's command of archaeological, ethnohistorical, geographical, and oral history literature takes what once was the ephemeral evidence of Coronado's entrada and makes it into a clearly marked trail in the heart of the American Southwest. With the approach of the quincentennial observations of this event, it will be Schmader's work that will illuminate the worlds of Coronado and his army and that of the Puebloan Peoples he encountered." - Russell K. Skowronek, coeditor of The Civil War on the Rio Grande, 1846-1876