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Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi (Penguin's Library of American Indian History) by Timothy R Pauketat Publisher Comments The fascinating story of a lost city and an unprecedented civilization Almost a thousand years ago, a Native American city flourished along the Mississippi River near what is now St. Louis. Cahokia was a thriving metropolis at its height with a... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover 
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University of Utah Anthropological Papers #125: Camels Back Cave by Dave N. (edt) Schmitt Publisher Comments Camels Back Cave is in an isolated limestone ridge on the southern edge of the Great Salt Lake Desert. Recent archaeological investigations there have exposed a series of stratified deposits spanning the entire Holocene era (10,000 BP-present), deposits... (read more) List Price $45.75 Your price: $40.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Archaeology of Town Creek (Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication) by Edmond Boudreaux Publisher Comments The sequence of change for public architecture during the Mississippian period may reflect a centralization of political power through time. In the research presented here, some of the community-level assumptions attributed to the appearance of... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Chaco Handbook: An Encyclopedic Guide (Chaco Canyon) by R Gwinn Vivian Publisher Comments Chaco Canyon in Northwestern New Mexico contains a remarkable set of ancient puebloan ruins. Occupied between AD 850 and 1150, Chaco appears to have been the cultural and political center of a network that extended throughout the Four-Corners region. The... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Villa of the Birds: The Excavation and Preservation of the Kom Al-Dikka Mosaics (American Research Center in Egypt Conservation) by Wojciech Kolataj Publisher Comments Stunning new discoveries beneath Egypt??'s second... (read more) List Price $29.50 Your price: $19.95 New - Hardcover
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The Allen Site the Allen Site: A Paleoindian Camp in Southwestern Nebraska a Paleoindian Camp in Southwestern Nebraska by Douglas Bamforth Publisher Comments The Allen Site in southwestern Nebraska has nurtured the interest of archaeologists and paleontologists with abundant signs of a long history of human, animal, and environmental activity. Douglas Bamforth focuses primarily on Paleoindian land use... (read more) List Price $68.50 Your price: $55.00 New - Ephemera
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The lost tomb by Kent R Weeks Book News Annotation American Egyptologist Weeks recounts how in 1995 he discovered an elaborate tomb deep beneath the surface of Egypt's legendary Valley of the Kings, and identified it as the burial site for the sons of Ramses II. He draws material from his own diary... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Arizona State Museum #199: Pre-Ceramic Subsistence in Two Rock Shelters in Fresnal Canyon, South Central New Mexico by Vorsila L Bohrer Publisher Comments In this monograph, the preeminent ethnobotanist Vorsila Bohrer meticulously describes the evolution of diet during two periods of lengthy occupation of these shelters. Using optimal foraging theory as her framework, she puts the plant remains recovered... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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A Holocene Prehistoric Sequence in the Egyptian Red Sea Area: The Tree Shelter (Egyptian Prehistory Monographs) by Pierre M. Vermeersch Book News Annotation The Tree Shelter, a stone formation, is not under trees neither does it shelter trees, but an acacia tree is visible from it, down past where the short wadi it overlooks drains into the Wadi Sodmein. The excavations were carried out during the second... (read more) List Price $53.50 Your price: $30.15 New - Trade Paper
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Village of Outcasts Historical Archaeolo by Kenneth L Feder Publisher Comments A fascinating story of Native Americans, freed African-American slaves, and assorted European outcasts who came together and established a settlement that thrived from 1740 to 1860, this case study integrates the history and archaeology of a... (read more) List Price $33.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Excavations at Tawilan in Southern Jordan by Crystal M Bennett Publisher Comments This is the first report to be published on the Biblical kingdom of Eden, the Iron Age site of Tawilan. Particular attention is paid to the cuneiform tablet and gold jewellery hoard, the first to be discovered in Jordan. The stratigraphy, ceramics and... (read more) List Price $145.00 Your price: $37.50 Used - Hardcover
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Excavations At Tel Michal Israel by Ze Ev Rapp Herzog Book News Annotation Results of a 1977-80 international project on the coastal plain of Isreal show that the site was a military and trading outpost from 1600 BCE until about 30 C.E. Wine, pottery, and perhaps ironwork were also produced there at times. More than 40... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Animas?la Plata Project, Volume III: Blue Mesa Excavations by Jason P Chuipka Publisher Comments This volume of the Animas & La Plata series describes the results of excavations on Blue Mesa, a borrow area just south of Durango, Colorado, as part of the Animas & La Plata (ALP) Project. In 2002 and 2003, SWCA excavated seven sites, all of... (read more) List Price $42.50 Your price: $25.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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Prehistoric Households At Turkey Creek by Julie C Lowell Book News Annotation Lowell's detailed analysis of Turkey Creek Pueblo also develops a theoretical and methodological foundation for other archaeological research on the household and its place in communities that no longer exist. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland,... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Houses Beneath the Rock: The Anasazi of Canyon de Chelly and Navajo National Monument by David Grant Noble Synopsis Essays by noted archaeologists and historians that help give some insight into the Anasazi inhabitants and their way of life, along with useful information on the recurring patterns and motifs in the rock art, and photographs and descriptions of basketry,... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $3.75 Used - Trade Paper
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Archaeological Surveys of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico by Alden C Hayes Book News Annotation National Park Service archeologists refine and elaborate on the sequence and chronology of cultures in Chaco Canyon from preceramic times to the modern Navajo. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)... (read more) Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Grand Canyon Association: An Introduction to Grand Canyon Prehistory by Christopher M Coder Publisher Comments This overview of Grand Canyon prehistory is a comprehensive look at the people who have inhabited the Grand Canyon region for the past twelve thousand years. Complete with photos, charts, illustrations, handy index, and engaging narratives by... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Occasional Paper / Crow Canyon Archaeological Center #0002: The Sand Canyon Archaeological Project: A Progress Report by William D. Lipe Synopsis The Sand Canyon Project is a continuing interdisciplinary study of the Pueblo Indian occupation of southwestern Colorado, focusing on the period A.D. 1150-1300. Working in a field area approximately fifteen miles northwest of Mesa Verde National Park... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Chaco Canyon: A Center and Its World by Mary Peck Publisher Comments Many mysteries of Chaco Canyon and the Anasazi will remain just so, but, here, in this book the grand splendor of Chaco Canyon is explored with penetrating essays by leading Chaco Canyon scholars and fabulous photography that attempts to understand this... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ceramics, Chronology, and Community Patterns: An Archaeological Study at Moundville by Vincas Steponaitis List Price $43.95 Your price: $37.50 New - Trade Paper
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