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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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Digging Through Darkness: Chronicles of an Archaeologist
by Carmel Schrire Synopsis In Digging through Darkness, Carmel Schrire interweaves art and fact to recreate a distant world. She combines autobiography, historical archaeology, and fictional reconstructions to explore the roots and consequences of colonial conquest in Africa...
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Great Adventures in Archaeology
by Robert Silverberg Publisher Comments Egypt, Troy, Babylon, Nineveh, Ur, Nippur, Copán—who is not lured by the fabled civilizations of the ancient world? And who has not wanted to accompany those remarkable archaeologists whose skill, imagination, and perseverance unearthed ruined...
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Digging for the Truth: One Man's Epic Adventure Exploring the World's Greatest Archaeological Mysteries
by Josh Bernstein Publisher Comments Josh Bernstein, host of The History Channel's hit series Digging for The Truth, takesreaders beyond the cameras for an even closer look at his adventures through some of the most intriguing, remote, and physically challenging locations on the planet as...
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Archaeology (Annual Editions: Archaeology)
by Linda L Hasten Publisher Comments This eighth edition of ANNUAL EDITIONS: ARCHAEOLOGY provides convenient, inexpensive access to current articles selected from the best of the public press. Organizational features include: an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites; an...
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Complete Idiot's Guide to Lost Civilizations (Complete Idiot's Guides)
by Donald Ryan Publisher Comments You're no idiot, of course. You studied classical Greece and Rome in school, stood in line for the King Tut exhibit, and can name at least three of the seven wonders of the ancient world. But when it comes to knowing the basics of archaeology, you feel...
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A Passion for Egypt: Arthur Weigall, Tutankhamun and the 'Curse of the Pharaohs'
by Julie Hankey Publisher Comments This compelling biography of Arthur Weigall, the British Egyptologist and Chief Inspector of Antiquities, chronicles his involvement with the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb under Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon. Weigall came into conflict with Carter...
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Forbidden Archeology's Impact
by Michael A Cremo Publisher Comments Forbidden Archeology's Impact offers readers an inside look at how mainstream science reacts with ridicule, threats and intimidation to any challenge to its deeply held beliefs....
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Digging for the Truth: One Man's Epic Adventure Exploring the World's Greatest Archaeological Mysteries
by Josh Bernstein Publisher Comments Now in paperback: Josh Bernstein, host of The History Channelas hit series Digging for the Truth, takes readers beyond the cameras for an even closer look at his adventures through some of the most intriguing places on the planet. No location is too...
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The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology
by Dan Hicks Publisher Comments Introduction to the ways in which archaeologists study the recent past (AD 1500 to the present)....
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Uncovering the Past: A History of Archaeology
by William H Stiebing Publisher Comments When one hears the words "archaeology" or "archaeologist," often what comes to mind is an image of a romantic figure: Indiana Jones exploring exotic places in search of treasure and adventure. Indeed, novels, movies, and many popular accounts of...
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Pot Luck: Adventures in Archaeology
by Florence C Lister Publisher Comments A lighthearted account of fifty years of archaeological fieldwork, and a serious look at the worldwide role of ceramics in cultural understanding....
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The History of Archaeology: Great Excavations of the World
by John Romer Synopsis Fun-to-make inventions and gadgets that reflect scientific principles -- pulleys, siphons, periscopes, and more....
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Uncovering the Past: A History of Archaeology
by William H. Stiebing Book News Annotation Steibing (history, U. of New Orleans) combines chronological and thematic approaches in this well-written history of the discipline. Intended as a college level text, but engaging enough for the general reader. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland,...
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Appropriated Pasts: Indigenous Peoples and the Colonial Culture of Archaeology (Archaeology in Society)
by Ian J Mcniven Synopsis Archaeology has been complicit in the appropriation of indigenous peoples' pasts worldwide. While tales of blatant archaeological colonialism abound from the era of empire, the process also took more subtle and insidious forms. Ian McNiven and Lynette...
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Gods, Graves & Scholars: The Story of Archaeology
by C W Ceram Publisher Comments C.W. Ceram visualized archeology as a wonderful combination of high adventure, romance, history and scholarship, and this book, a chronicle of man's search for his past, reads like a dramatic narrative. We travel with Heinrich Schliemann as, defying the...
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Eyewitness to Discovery: First-Person Accounts of More Than Fifty of the World's Greatest Archaeological Discoveries
by Brian M Fagan Publisher Comments Archaeology has an aura of romance and a long history of startling discoveries wrested from clinging soil. Indeed, patience and persistence can lead to spectacular finds, as they did for Howard Carter in November 1922. After seven years searching the...
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Eyewitness to Discovery: First-Person Accounts of More Than Fifty of the World's Greatest Archaeological Discoveries
by Brian M Fagan Publisher Comments Archaeology has an aura of romance and a long history of startling discoveries wrested from clinging soil. Indeed, patience and persistence can lead to spectacular finds, as they did for Howard Carter in November 1922. After seven years searching the...
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Sir Gardner Wilkinson and His Circle
by Jaon Thompson Publisher Comments Following in the footsteps of Napoleon's army, Europeans invaded Egypt in the early nineteenth century to gaze in wonder at the massive, inscrutable remains of its ancient civilizations. One of these travelers was a twenty-four-year-old Englishman, John...
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The Pastmasters: Eleven Modern Pioneers of Archaeology
by Glyn Daniel Book News Annotation Collects the personal stories of eleven major scholars whose careers have spanned a period of extraordinary growth in archaeology: V. Gordon Childe, Stuart Piggott, Charles Phillips, Christopher Hawkes, Seton Lloyd, Robert J. Braidwood, Gordon R...
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