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The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
by Brian Fagan  Publisher Comments How the earth’s previous global warming phase, from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries, reshaped human societies from the Arctic to the Sahara—a wide-ranging history with sobering lessons for our own time. From the tenth to the fifteenth...
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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
by David W. Anthony Publisher Comments Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now...
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House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest (08 Edition)
by Craig Childs 
Powells.com Staff Pick Craig Childs has written a cracking good history disguised as an adventure! The book is filled with physical adventure on an Indiana Jones scale and scholarly detection worthy of Sherlock Holmes. The mystery of the Anasazi has intrigued historians for...
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Chronicle of the Maya Kings & Queens 2ND Edition
by Simon Martin Publisher Comments "The ideal reference on Maya archaeology." —Science News Behind the ancient cities of the Maya and their abandoned artworks lie the turbulent stories of their ruling dynasties. One of the world's greatest and most powerful civilizations, the Maya...
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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 Complete Valley of the Kings: Tombs and Treasures of Egypt's Greatest Pharaohs
by Nicholas Reeves Publisher Comments "For all those interested in the burial practices in New Kingdom Egypt, this should be the first book to consult. " —Journal of the American Oriental Society This account of the Valley of the Kings brings together the art, archaeology, and history...
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Trincheras Sites in Time, Space, and Society (Amerind Studies in Archaeology)
by Suzanne K Fish Publisher Comments The intriguing hilltop archaeological sites known as "cerros de trincheras" span almost three millennia, from 1250 BC to AD 1450. Archaeologists have long viewed them as a unitary phenomenon because they all have masonry architecture and occur mostly on...
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A Social Archaeology of Households in Neolithic Greece
by Stella G. Souvatzi Publisher Comments The study of households and everyday life is increasingly recognized as fundamental in social archeological analysis. This volume is the first to address the household as a process and as a conceptual and analytical means through which we can interpret...
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The First Writing: Script Invention as History and Process
by Stephen D. (edt) Houston Publisher Comments Although ancient writing offers our first glimpse of history, people and institutions, its origins remain mysterious. This book presents the most up-to-date analysis of the origins of ancient writing. Studying often neglected writing systems, such as...
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Lascaux: Movement, Space, and Time
by Norbert Aujoulat Publisher Comments Discovered by chance by two boys in France in 1940, the cave of Lascaux-with its radiant wall paintings of bison, aurochs, horses, and deer-offers us the most astonishing view we have of the shadowy, powerful animal world of the Old Stone Age some 18,000...
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Archaeology Matters: Action Archaeology in the Modern World
by Jeremy Sabloff Publisher Comments Senior archaeologist Jeremy Sabloff points students to ways in which archaeology is can be relevant to the understanding and amelioration of modern problems....
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Quantitative Paleozoology
by R. Lee Lyman Publisher Comments Quantitative Paleozoology describes and illustrates how the remains of long-dead animals recovered from archaeological and paleontological excavations can be studied and analyzed. The methods range from determining how many animals of each species are...
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In Search of Chaco
by David Grant (edt) Noble Publisher Comments Startling discoveries and impassioned debates have emerged from the Chaco Phenomenon since the publication of New Light on Chaco Canyon twenty years ago. This completely updated edition features seventeen original essays, scores of photographs, maps, and...
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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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Quantitative Paleozoology (Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology)
by R. Lee Lyman Publisher Comments Quantitative Paleozoology describes and illustrates how the remains of long-dead animals recovered from archaeological and paleontological excavations can be studied and analyzed. The methods range from determining how many animals of each species are...
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A Record in Stone
by Book News Annotation Holdaway (U. of Auckland, New Zealand) and Stern (La Trobe U., Australia) offer students a reference on how to identify, describe, analyze, and interpret the most ubiquitous component of the Australian archaeological record. It is intended to update...
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Archaeology Matters: Action Archaeology in the Modern World
by Jeremy A. Sabloff Publisher Comments Senior archaeologist Jeremy Sabloff points students to ways in which archaeology is can be relevant to the understanding and amelioration of modern problems....
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Molas Monograph #32: Development on Roman London's Western Hill: Excavations at Paternoster Square, City of London
by Sadie Watson Synopsis The earliest Roman activity was associated with the Cad 50 establishment of the main road. Contemporary quarries and boundary ditches. Activity declined in the later Roman period and five 4th-century burials cut into a disused secondary road....
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Ancestral Landscapes of the Pueblo World
by James Elliott Snead Publisher Comments The eastern Pueblo heartland, located in the northern Rio Grande country of New Mexico, has fascinated archaeologists since the 1870s. In Ancestral Landscapes of the Pueblo World, James Snead uses an exciting new approach— landscape archaeology...
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Canyon Gardens: The Ancient Pueblo Landscapes of the American Southwest
by V B Price Publisher Comments Canyon Gardens is the long-awaited sequel to Anasazi Architecture and American Design (UNM Press). It takes a new look at ancient and modern Puebloan gardening and landscape design approaches. Part One examines early Puebloan landscapes in detail...
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