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Exploring Prehistory: How Archaeology Reveals Our Past by Pam J Crabtree Publisher Comments This new introduction to archaeology integrates world prehistory with discussion of archeological methods and techniques. It introduces archaeological methods gradually and in context through the use of Archaeology in Practice boxes which give students a... (read more) List Price $160.95 Your price: $35.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Ten Discoveries That Rewrote History by Patrick Hunt Publisher Comments Renowned archaeologist Hunt brings his top ten list of ancient archaeological discoveries to life, in this concise and captivating book that captures the awe and excitement of finding a lost window into ancient civilization.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC by Steven Mithen Publisher Comments 20,000 B.C., the peak of the last ice age--the atmosphere is heavy with dust, deserts, and glaciers span vast regions, and people, if they survive at all, exist in small, mobile groups, facing the threat of extinction. But these people live on the brink... (read more) List Price $23.50 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations (08 Edition) by Brian Fagan Staff Pick In this troubling but well-told tale, Fagan walks us through the history of world climate change — and how it has affected the rise and fall of civilizations. Perfect for fans of history and the environment alike.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization by Brian Fagan Publisher Comments Humanity evolved in an Ice Age in which glaciers covered much of the world. But starting about 15,000 years ago, temperatures began to climb. Civilization and all of recorded history occurred in this warm period, the era known as the Holocene-the long... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations (08 Edition) by Brian Fagan Staff Pick In this troubling but well-told tale, Fagan walks us through the history of world climate change — and how it has affected the rise and fall of civilizations. Perfect for fans of history and the environment alike.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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From Egypt to Babylon: The International Age 1550-500 BC by Paul Collins Publisher Comments For those who believe that globalization is a purely modern phenomenon, this book holds a startling and absorbing lesson. From Egypt to Babylon immerses readers in a world of exotic empires and states as they waxed and waned and interacted in a period... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $23.95 Sale - Hardcover
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In Quest of Lost Worlds by Byron Khu De Prorok Publisher Comments This book covers five different archeological expeditions: the discovery of Tin Hinan's tomb in the Hoggar Mountains of the Sahara (1925-26); the excavation of Jupiter Ammon in Libya (1926-28); a short trip into Tripolitania, Libya (1931); an encounter... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Landmarks :an exploration of great rocks by David Craig Publisher Comments This is an account of the author's travels around the world—in Africa, America, Australia, and Europe—to discover the significance of great cliffs and outcrops, to see at first hand how people have lived in their shadows or on their faces and... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price: $2.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age by Richard Rudgley Publisher Comments An authoritative, eye-opening look at Stone Age civilizations that explodes traditional portrayals of prehistory The rise of historical civilization 5,000 years ago is often depicted as if those societies were somehow created out of nothing. However... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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From Black Land To Fifth Sun (98 Edition) by Brian M. Fagan Publisher Comments Until recently, archaeology was concerned mainly with piecing together the material lives of our ancestors. In this groundbreaking book, master storyteller and respected archaeologist Brian Fagan explains how cutting-edge science can now take us beyond... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Archaeology of War: Human Conflict Since the Dawn of Civilization by Archaeology Magazine Publisher Comments From the flint weapons of prehistory to the sophisticated nuclear missiles of today, archaeologists are unearthing and documenting the dramatic story of warfare--"in so many ways, the story of human history itself. New discoveries have revealed what... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Early Man and the Cosmos by Evan Hadingham Publisher Comments To a degree incomprehensible to the modern mind, skywatchers of the ancient past found the night sky a source of wonder and mystery. As Evan Hadingham so brilliantly demonstrates in his latest book, they found the skies an enormous challenge as well... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Future of the Past: Archaeology in the 21st Century by Eberhard Zangger Publisher Comments Most scientific disciplines experienced fundamental revolutions during the twentieth century. But not archaeology. Its time has now come, however. More and more highly specialised scientists are taking over the investigation of the past. Using satellites,... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Life: The Seven Wonders of the World: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow by Life Magazine Publisher Comments DESCRIPTION: About two centuries B.C., in the Palestinian city of Sidon, there was a man named Antipater. He was the Baedeker of antiquity, as he compiled a list of must-sees for the travelers of old. He settled on the sacred number of seven as a good... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Prehistory of Ordinary People by Monica L Smith Publisher Comments This book examines how the archaeological record of ordinary objects--used by ordinary people--constitutes a manifestation of humankind's cognitive and social development. A Prehistory of Ordinary People offers an impressive synthesis and accessible... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $25.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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Astronomy of the Ancients by Kenneth Brecher Publisher Comments The eight articles and dozens of photographs and drawings in this book introduce the reader to the ancient astronomers--their observatories, their instruments, and their explorations of the awesome regularities (and shocking irregularities) that appear... (read more) List Price $30.75 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Timewalkers: The Prehistory of Global Colonization by Clive Gamble Publisher Comments Gamble reconsiders the remarkable record of geographical expansion that began with the early hominids of sub-Saharan Africa. Through this astonishing dispersal of humans, which exceeds that of all other mammals, he traces calculated responses to... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Penguin Encyclopedia of Ancient Civilizations by Arthur Cotterell Publisher Comments A wide-ranging, alphabetically arranged overview of the prehistoric world, spanning East and West to study and compare ancient civilizations.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Atlas of Lost Cities: Legendary Cities Rediscovered by Brenda Rosen Publisher Comments Some of the most extraordinary ancient cities that have been abandoned, forgotten, or hidden by time are now revealed in their full splendor. Examining the role of natural and man-made disasters, rulers and their hostile neighbors, and the fate of cities... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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