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The Life and Times of the Steamboat Red Cloud: How Merchants, Mounties, and the Missouri Transformed the West (Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology)
by Annalies Corbin  Publisher Comments In July 1882, the steamboat Red Cloud hit a snag near Fort Peck, Montana, and settled into the bed of Missouri River with a full cargo. The flagship of I.G. Baker & Company, it had served as an agent of change in the West through which it traveled...
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Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona #72: Ancestral Zuni Glaze-Decorated Pottery: Viewing Pueblo IV Regional Organization Through Ceramic Production and Exchange
by Deborah Huntley Publisher Comments The Pueblo IV period (AD 1275 & 1600) witnessed dramatic changes in regional settlement patterns and social configurations across the ancestral Pueblo Southwest. Early in this interval, Pueblo potters began making distinctive polychrome vessels...
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The Complete Pompeii
by Joanne Berry Publisher Comments With its lavish illustrations, covering monumental architecture and inscriptions, shops, graffiti, wall-paintings, and mosaics, this work is the ultimate resource and inspirational guide to an iconic ancient town. 360 illustrations....
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The Return of the Serpents of Wisdom
by Mark Amaru Pinkham Publisher Comments Recounts the history of these 'Serpents' - where they came from, why they came, the secret wisdom they disseminated, and why they are returning now....
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Reading the Maya Glyphs 2ND Edition
by Michael D Coe Publisher Comments A noted Mayanist and an accomplished calligrapher decipher real Maya texts, taking the latest research and breakthroughs into account, adding glyphs, updating captions, and reinterpreting or expanding upon earlier decipherments....
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Stairways To the Stars : Skywatching in Three Great Ancient Cultures (97 Edition)
by Anthony Aveni Publisher Comments "Tony Aveni has written a marvelous book about how the celestial rhythms influenced the cultures of the past. . . . It makes fascinating reading for any layperson."--Science Books and Films "Clearly, if we can know more about these people, their...
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From Stonehenge to Samarkand: An Anthology of Archaeological Travel Writing
by Brian Fagan Publisher Comments This anthology, selected and edited by Brain Fagan, encompasses tales that fall into a little known literary genre, wherein authors seek to capture the romance and sense of wonder they experienced while gazing upon the monumental architecture of ancient...
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Controversies in Archaeology
by Alice Beck Kehoe Publisher Comments Alice Beck Kehoe offers introductory students a method of evaluating and assessing claims about the past in this reader-friendly, concise text, using examples from Native American origins to ancient astronauts....
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Puebloan Ruins of the Southwest
by Arthur H. Rohn Publisher Comments "Puebloan Ruins of the Southwest" offers over 325 color photos showing Puebloan culture from its prehistoric beginnings through twenty-five hundred years of growth and change, ending with the modern-day Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Arizona....
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Forbidden Archeology
by Michael A Cremo Publisher Comments Meet the Book that Sparked a Major Controversy Over the centuries, researchers have found bones and artifacts proving that modern humans have existed for millions of years. Mainstream science, however has suppressed these facts. Prejudices based on...
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Runes and Their Secrets - Studies in Runology
by Book News Annotation Scholars of the early Germanic script, and of texts written in it, examine the runic artefacts with the older runes, runic writing confronted with Latin literacy and Christianization, chronology and typology versus regional variation, methodology, and...
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Quseir: An Ottoman and Napoleonic Fortress on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt
by Charles Le Quesne Publisher Comments This volume presents the results of recent archaeological and historical studies of the Ottoman fort of Quseir, which was Upper Egypt's only direct outlet to the Red Sea at that time. Illustrated with over 100 maps, drawings, and photos, this...
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Prehistory of the North : Human Settlement of the Higher Latitudes (05 Edition)
by John F. Hoffecker Publisher Comments Early humans did not simply drift northward from their African origins as their abilities to cope with cooler climates evolved. The initial settlement of places like Europe and northern Asia, as well as the later movement into the Arctic and the Americas,...
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Eat Thy Neighbor: A History of Cannibalism
by Mark P Donnelly Publisher Comments They include cases of ritual cannibalism in early and primitive societies such the inhabitants of Papua New Guinea; cases where famine, poverty, disease or war has left no alternative; cases in mythology, legend, literature, and fairytales like "Hansel...
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Molas Monograph #30: Roman and Later Development East of the Forum and Cornhill: Excavations at Lloyd's Register, 71 Fenchurch Street, City of London
by Richard Bluer Publisher Comments Excavations in 1996-7 uncovered important new evidence for the development of the eastern part of the Roman Londinium, as well as medieval and later activity. Early Roman activity took place on sloping ground near a minor tributary of a small stream...
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The Archaeology of Shamanism
by Neil S. (edt) Price Publisher Comments In this timely collection, Neil Price brings together recent archaeological thought on shamanism. Issues addressed include shamanic material culture, responses to dying and the dead, shamanism in the context of other belief systems such as totemism...
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Arrowheads & Stone Artifacts: A Practical Guide for the Amateur Archaeologist
by C. G. Yeager Publisher Comments The first edition of this book sold more than 50,000 copies. This all new second edition is even better with updated information and more than 50 new photographs and illustrations of common and rare...
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The Nubian Past
by David N. Edwards Publisher Comments This volume presents a new synthesis of the archaeology of Nubia and Sudan, a region which for millennia has been where the Eurasian and sub-Saharan worlds met, and which has produced the earliest states and some of the most spectacular archaeology in...
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Finding the Walls of Troy Frank Calvert
by Susan Allen Publisher Comments The relentlessly self-promoting amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann took full credit for discovering Homer's Troy over one hundred years ago, and since then generations have thrilled to the tale of his ambitions and achievements. But Schliemann...
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Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya (92 Edition)
by Mary Miller Publisher Comments Until now, no single-volume introduction has existed to act as a guide to the labyrinthine symbolic world of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. The authors draw on their research in the fast-changing field of Maya studies and the latest anthropological...
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