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Search for Ancient China (Discoveries)
by C Debaine Francfort  Synopsis Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed...
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of Archaeology
by Paul G. Bahn Publisher Comments This is the fullest and most authoritative single-volume account of archaeology from the earliest discoveries to the great excavations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lavishly illustrated throughout and global in scope, it tells the story of...
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Environmental Archaeology: Principles and Practice
by Dena Ferran Dincauze Publisher Comments Authoritative and essential guide to methods interpreting the ecology of archaeological sites, and their applications....
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The Message of the Sphinx: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind
by Graham Hancock Publisher Comments In this riveting account of historical and archaeological investigation, the authors present hard evidence that the Sphinx, the Pyramids, and the other monuments at Giza are of far more ancient origin than previously believed. Complete with evidence of a...
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Pottery and Practice: The Expression of Identity at Pottery Mound and Hummingbird Pueblo
by Suzanne L. Eckert Synopsis Pottery and Practice examines decorated pottery and its production in prehispanic New Mexico's Lower Rio Puerco area through the lens of practice theory. Arguing that social relations can be interpreted from the mundane practice of everyday life, Eckert...
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The Code of Kings: The Language of Seven Sacred Maya Temples and Tombs
by Linda Schele and Peter Mathews Publisher Comments This unique and extraordinary guide to seven major sites of Maya civilization highlights the pioneering work of two great scholars of ancient America. For readers at every level -- from the casual tourist to the serious student -- The Code of Kings...
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Dragon Sea: A True Tale of Treasure, Archeology, and Greed Off the Coast of Vietnam
by Frank Pope Publisher Comments In THE DRAGON SEA, Frank Pope recounts the story of a highly successful yet also ill-fated underwater archeological expedition off the coast of Vietnam. For years, fisherman in one particular stretch of water that not just been pulling fish up in their...
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Cultural Resources Archaeology
by Thomas W. Neumann Publisher Comments Cultural resources (CRM) archaeology is where graduating archaeology students get their jobs and where most field work and funding is now found. Yet, to date, there has not been a basic textbook introducing students to the proper practices of cultural...
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Chaco Canyon: Archeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society
by Brian M. Fagan Publisher Comments Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, has been called the Stonehenge of North America. Its spectacular pueblos, or great houses, are world famous and have attracted the attention of archaeologists for more than a century. Beautifully illustrated with color and black-...
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The Discovery of Egypt: Vivant Denon's Travels with Napoleon's Army
by Terence M. Russell Publisher Comments Dominique-Vivant Denon was a lover of the Empress Josephine, a compulsive collector, the first director of the Louvre museum and Bonaparte's adviser on artistic matters. Indeed, Denon was known as 'Napoleon's eye'. But the man who impressed the emperor...
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Spatial Technology and Archaeology
by David Wheatley Synopsis Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and related spatial technologies have a new and powerful role to play in archaeological interpretation. Beginning with a conceptual approach to the representation of space adopted by GIS, this book examines spatial...
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The World of the Vikings
by Richard Hall Publisher Comments A vivid picture of the Vikings that draws on the latest discoveries and augments written evidence with fine archaeological detail. <BR>Here is the complete story of the Vikings from their origins in Scandinavia during the early first millennium AD,...
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Time Detectives: How Archaeologist Use Technology to Recapture the Past
by Brian M Fagan Publisher Comments University of California Professor of Anthropology Brian Fagan offers a fascinating look at how the key archaeological discoveries of the past 50 years were made--and how new techniques and devices have led to new insights into ancient civilizations. of...
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Fossil Legends of the First Americans
by Adrienne Mayor Publisher Comments The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills were, much later, also home to the Sioux, the Crows, and the Blackfeet, the first people to encounter the...
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Archaeology in Washington
by Ruth Kirk Publisher Comments Archaeology-along with Native American traditions and memories-holds a key to understanding early chapters of the human story in Washington. This all-new book draws together and brings up to date much of what has been learned about the state's prehistory...
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Preliminary Report on the City of David Excavations 2005 at the Visitors Center Area
by Eilat Mazar Synopsis Summarizes the finds from the Chalcolithic Period through the Early Islamic Period and draws preliminary conclusions about the impact of these finds on our understanding of the history of Jerusalem....
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Mystery Cities of the Maya: Exploration and Adventure in Lubaantun and Belize
by Thomas Gann Publisher Comments Reprinted from London publisher Thomas Duckworth's 1925 classic on the Atlantis myth, this is a rollicking archeological adventure in the Central American jungle by one of the last gung-ho English explorers in the tradition of Livingston. Gann battles...
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History Begins At Sumer : Thirty-nine Firsts in Recorded History (3RD 81 Edition)
by Samuel Noah Kramer Publisher Comments "Kramer ranked among the world's foremost Sumerologists. . . . The book will interest both the scholar and the general educated reader."--"Religious Studies Bulletin"...
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Ghosts of Vesuvius: A New Look at the Last Days of Pompeii, How Towers Fell, and Other Strange Connections
by Charles Pellegrino Publisher Comments A fascinating look at Pompeii, Herculaneum and the Vesuvius eruption in comparison with other historically significant volcanic eruptions, including the World Trade Center disaster. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, which obliterated the Roman...
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History of Archaeological Thought (2ND 07 Edition)
by Bruce G. Trigger Publisher Comments Examining the history of archaeology from medieval times to the present, this book places the development of archaeological thought and theory within a broad social and intellectual framework. The successive but interacting trends apparent in...
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