Special Offers see all
More at Powell'sNew Arrivals
|
New Arrivals
|
|||||||||||||||||
|
Becoming Brothertown: Native American Ethnogenesis and Endurance in the Modern World (Archaeology of Colonialism in Native North America) by Craig N. Cipolla Publisher Comments Histories of New England typically frame the regions Indigenous populations in terms of effects felt from European colonialism: the ravages of epidemics and warfare, the restrictions of reservation life, and the influences of European-introduced ideas... (read more) Your price: $58.95 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Outsiders and Strangers: An Archaeology of Liminality in West Africa by Anne Haour Publisher Comments Studies of liminality have a long history in anthropology. In archaeology, identifying past people - rather than faceless entities - through material culture is still a work in progress, but a project that has seen increased attention in recent years... (read more) Your price: $113.95 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
The First Rocky Mountaineers: Coloradans Before Colorado by Marcel Kornfeld Publisher Comments Based on archaeological research in Colorado’s Middle Park—a high mountain basin initially encountered by Europeans in the early 1800s and occupied for centuries by the Ute people—The First Rocky Mountaineers is a prehistory of the... (read more) Your price: $65.00 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Lubbock Lake: Late Quaternary Studies on the Southern High Plains by Eileen (edt) Johnson Review "The most comprehensive work available on the 12,000 years of life at Lubbock Lake."--SciTech Book News... (read more) Your price: $42.50 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The End of the Pagan City: Religion, Economy, and Urbanism in Late Antique North Africa by Anna Leone Publisher Comments This book focuses primarily on the end of the pagan religious tradition and the dismantling of its material in North Africa (modern Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya) from the 4th to the 6th centuries AD. Leone considers how urban communities changed, why some... (read more) Your price: $169.75 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age (Oxford Handbooks) by Harry (edt) Fokkens Publisher Comments The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age is a wide-ranging survey of a crucial period in prehistory during which many social, economic, and technological changes took place. Written by expert specialists in the field, the book provides coverage... (read more) Your price: $195.75 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Treasure Hunter: Diving for Gold on North America's Death Coast by Robert Mackinnon Publisher Comments For more than four decades, world-renowned diver and treasure hunter Captain Robert MacKinnon has reclaimed sunken caches from the dangerous shallow waters along the Atlantic coast of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Known as the Death Coast for its... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
USS Monitor: A Historic Ship Completes Its Final Voyage (Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology) by John D. Broadwater Synopsis Lavish illustrations (photographs, site drawings, and artifact sketches) complement this informative and highly readable account. Naval warfare buffs, amateurs and professionals involved in maritime archaeology, and Civil War aficionados will be... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Humans and the Environment: New Archaeological Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century by Matthew I. J. (edt) Davies Publisher Comments The environment has always been a central concept for archaeologists and, although it has been conceived in many ways, its role in archaeological explanation has fluctuated from a mere backdrop to human action, to a primary factor in the understanding of... (read more) Your price: $169.75 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
History of Ancient Egypt #1: A History of Ancient Egypt: From the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid by John Romer Publisher Comments The ancient world comes to life in the first volume in a two book series on the history of Egypt, spanning the first farmers to the construction of the pyramids. Famed archaeologist John Romer draws on a lifetime of research to tell one... (read more) Your price: $29.99 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Mission Cemeteries, Mission Peoples: Historical and Evolutionary Dimensions of Intracemetary Bioarchaeolgy in Spanish Florida (Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local,) by Christopher M. Stojanowski Publisher Comments “Stojanowski takes you on an amazing trip to different historic Spanish missions in the southeastern United States. These missions are filled with skeletons that are a chorus of Native American voices speaking of church services they attended both... (read more) Your price: $93.50 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilizations (World History) by Max Weber Publisher Comments Max Weber, widely recognized as the greatest of the founders of classical sociology, is often associated with the development of capitalism in Western Europe and the analysis of modernity. But he also had a profound scholarly interest in... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Univ Col London Inst Arch Pub #58: Buddhist Landscapes in Central India: Sanchi Hill and Archaeologies of Religious and Social Change, C. Third Century BC to Fifth Century Ad by Julia Shaw Publisher Comments The “monumental bias” of Buddhist archaeology has hampered our understanding of the socio-religious mechanisms that enabled early Buddhist monks to establish themselves in new areas. To articulate these relationships, Shaw presents here the... (read more) Your price: $113.95 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Images and Monuments of Near Eastern Dynasts, 100 BC - Ad 100 (Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture & Representation) by Andreas J. M. Kropp Publisher Comments This book is an archaeological and art-historical study of the images and monuments of Roman "client" kings in the Near East from the Taurus to Edom (modern South East Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, and Jordan) in the important transitional... (read more) Your price: $206.25 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Ely: The Hidden History by David Barrowclough Publisher Comments The Norman Cathedral is a masterpiece of medieval architecture sitting proudly on the Isle of Ely, but there is more to this city, once home to Oliver Cromwell. The authors trace the origins of life in Ely and the surrounding villages. Using vivid... (read more) Your price: $33.95 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Archaeology of Citizenship (American Experience in Archaeological Perspectives) by Stacey Lynn Camp Publisher Comments “Elegantly and thoughtfully written and expands the notion of citizenship and its implications for archaeological inquiry to include types of scholarship and topics that are not traditionally considered under such an analytical rubric.”—... (read more) Your price: $81.50 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Archaologische Berichte Aus Dem Yemen #13: Figurale Bronzen Agyptischer Und Griechisch-Romischer Art Vom Jabal Al-'Awd, Jemen (Von Robert Fleischer Und Regine Schulz) - Die Felsmalereien Von Dj by Robert Fleischer Your price: $103.25 New - Hardcover
add to wish list |