Wyniki tych badań zostały opublikowane w trzech tomach zatytułowanych „Współczesna zmiana w tradycyjnych społeczeństwach”.
Steward zmarł w 1972 r.
Publikacje The clown in native North America, 1929 Petroglyphs of California and Adjoining States, 1929 Archaeology of the Dallas-Deschutes Region, 1930 Ethnography of the Owens valley Paiute, 1933 Two Paiute autobiographies, 1934 Indian Tribes of Sequoia National Park Region, 1935 Petroglyphs of the United States, 1937 Ancient caves of the Great Salt lake region, 1937 Culture element distribution, no. xiii: nevada shoshone/facsimile, 1938 Panatubiji' an Owens Valley Paiute, 1938 Culture Element Distributions: Northern & Gosiute Shoshone, 1938 Basin-plateau aboriginal sociopolitical groups, 1938 Handbook of South American Indians, 1946 Volume 3: The Tropical Forest Tribes, 1948 Area research, theory and practice, 1950 Theory of Culture Change, 1955 The people of Puerto Rico, 1956 Native peoples of South America, 1959 Physical Anthropology, Linguistics and Cultural Geography of South American Indians, 1963 The Concept and Method of Cultural Ecology, 1969 Teoria del mutamento culturale Evolution and ecology Irrigation Civilizations: A Comparative Study Some Western Shoshoni Myths Alfred Kroeber The Northern Paiute Indians Smithsonian Institution Bureau of