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Nemea: A Guide to the Site & Museum
by Stephen G Miller  Publisher Comments In classical antiquity, beginning in 573 B.C., Nemea hosted international athletic competitions like those at Olympia, Delphi, and Isthmia; the games at the four sites constituted the Panhellenic cycle, and the victors were the most famous athletes of...
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Salinas :archaeology, history, and prehistory
by David Grant Noble Publisher Comments Describes how early cultures settles in what is now an arid, lifeless basin. Once a fertile area of lakes and ponds, the flats attracted game animals and prehistoric hunters. Historians and archaeologists detail the native cultures and the rock art of...
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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,...
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Archaeology Detectives
by Paul G Bahn Synopsis Gripping and enlightening, this picture-packed book presents an insider's view of the scrupulous delving and deducing behind today's detailed picture of the human past. A sweeping global tour illuminates spectacular discoveries, like King Tut's tomb and...
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Inventing Ancient Culture: Historicism, Periodization and the Ancient World
by Mark Golden Synopsis "Inventing Ancient Culture" is an exciting introduction to new approaches to the classics. There is a tendency for those interested in the broader field of cultural studies to claim that modern perceptions of self, modern affectivities, and modern...
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Stylistic boundaries among mobile hunter-foragers
by C Garth Sampson Publisher Comments In this study of the valley-wide distributions of South African decorative motifs, Sampson pioneers a methodology for etching band-territories out of the archaeological surface trace left by mobile hunter-forager societies....
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Aztecs an Interpretation
by Inga Clendinnen Publisher Comments In considering the extraordinary culture of the Aztecs of Mexico it is impossible to ignore the extravagance of their practice of the ritual killing of humans. Inga Clendinnen renders those killings intelligible through investigation of a wide field of...
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Architecture and Meaning on the Athenian Acropolis
by Robin Franci Rhodes Publisher Comments Architecture and Meaning on the Athenian Acropolis focuses on the architectural complex that is generally considered to be one of the outstanding achievements of Western civilization. Though the buildings and sculpture of the Acropolis, erected over the...
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Roman Pottery
by Kevin Greene Publisher Comments The sheer abundance of pottery found on Roman sites throughout Europe and Asia makes it essential to our understanding of the ancient societies that created it. This book explains how traditional methods of classification have been supplemented by modern...
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The Star Lake archaeological project :anthropology of a headwaters area of Chaco Wash, New Mexico
by Walter K Wait Publisher Comments These fifteen essays inventory and evaluate the cultural resources discovered at the Star Lake Archaeological Research Project in northwestern New Mexico. Commissioned by the Peabody Coal Company to evaluate resources in a strip-mining area, the project...
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Delphi
by Manolis Andronicos Synopsis Delphi is part of the volume entitled treasures of the Greek Museums which introduces the reader to the priceless works of art housed in the museums of Greece. The texts, written by experts, furnish details of the historical and cultural context of these...
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America's Ancient Treasures: A Guide to Archeological Sites & Museums in the United States & Canada
by Franklin Folsom Publisher Comments This book is a revised and expanded edition of a highly praised travel guide to U.S. and Canadian archeological sites and museums or prehistoric Indian life. Included and described are all of the archeological sites that have been prepared for public...
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The archaeology of La Calsada :a rockshelter in the Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico
by C Roger Nance Publisher Comments On a remote mountainside 2,000 meters above sea level in the northern Sierra Madre Oriental, the rockshelter at La Calsada has yielded basic archaeological data for one of the least understood regions of prehistoric North America, the state of Nuevo Leon...
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Bog Man & the Archaeology of People
by Don Brothwell Review "[A] mesmerizing study of bog bodies...Brothwell's detective story centers on the respectful investigation of Lindow Man, the 2,000-year-old corpse reclaimed in 1984 from a Cheshire peat bog...Frankly, I couldn't put [this book] down."--Peter Gorner...
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Pecos Ruins: Geology, Archaeology, History, and Prehistory
by David Grant Noble Publisher Comments Ruins contains articles by noted historians and archaeologists describing the development of Pecos Pueblo from prehistoric times to the Anglo period of the nineteenth century....
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Glimpses of the Ancient Southwest
by David E Stuart Publisher Comments A dazzling overview with intriguing descriptions of prehistoric life on the New Mexico plain of Folsom Man, Chaco Canyon, Mesa Verde, Bandelier, Mimbres, and other less well-known Paleo-Indian sites. Vivid first-person accounts of doing field archaeology....
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Exploring Native North America (Places in Time)
by David Hurst Thomas Publisher Comments From Blackwater Draw in New Mexico to the Little Bighorn Battlefield in Wyoming, the archaeological evidence left by Native Americans forms a fascinating legacy. In the third volume in Oxford's acclaimed Places in Time series, David Hurst Thomas guides...
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Egyptian Mummies
by Carol Andrews Publisher Comments THIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITION.. Thirty centuries ago most of the mummified bodies now lying linen-wrapped in the British Museum were alive in ancient Egypt. Why did the Egyptians try to preserve their dead for eternity? How did they...
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The Way to Eternity: Egyptian Myth
by Fergus Fleming Publisher Comments A dramatic series that captures, culture by culture, the information that never makes it into the history books: strange stories, mystic rites, angry gods, vision quests....
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The atlas of legendary places
by James Harpur Book News Annotation Not an atlas, but a collection of fine photos of three dozen places "created by nature and man, where beauty and mystique combine to produce a magical atmosphere"--introduction. This seems a thin argument by which to justify a glorious picture book...
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