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Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind (Modern Library Chronicles)
by Colin Renfrew  Publisher Comments In Prehistory, the award-winning archaeologist and renowned scholar Colin Renfrew covers human existence before the advent of written records-which is to say, the overwhelming majority of our time here on earth. But Renfrew also opens up to discussion...
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day: The Complete Papyrus of Ani
by Eva Von Dassow Publisher Comments This reissue of The Egyptian Book of the Dead, a perennial favorite, features a newly designed cover. Inside, the legendary 3,500-year-old Papyrus of Ani--the most beautiful of the ornately illustrated Egyptian funerary scrolls ever discovered--is...
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Discovery at Rosetta: The Ancient Stone That Unlocked the Mysteries of Ancient Egypt
by Jonathan Downs Publisher Comments The gripping tale of the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, the artifact that opened up ancient Egypt and triggered a struggle for cultural supremacy. One fateful day in 1799, a unit of French army engineers made a discovery that opened the floodgates of...
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Social Violence in the Prehispanic American Southwest
by Deborah Nichols Publisher Comments Spontaneous acts of violence born of human emotions like anger or greed are probably universal, but social violence—violence resulting from social relationships within and between groups of people—is a much more complex issue with...
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The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Ancient Egypt (World of Art)
by Toby Wilkinson Publisher Comments "Distinguishes itself...with clear, concise entries on a range of subjects."—Archaeology From Abgig to Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham, this book will appeal to tourists, museum visitors, armchair travelers, and scholars. All the major archaeological sites of...
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Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God: Tezcatlipoca, "Lord of the Smoking Mirror" (Mesoamerican Worlds)
by Guilhelm Olivier Publisher Comments Guilhem Olivier's Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God is a masterful study of Tezcatlipoca, one of the greatest but least understood deities in the Mesoamerican pantheon. An enigmatic and melodramatic figure, the Lord of the Smoking Mirror was...
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Darwin's Legacy: Scenarios in Human Evolution
by Sue Taylor Parker Synopsis Darwin's Legacy provides a fascinating history of ideas about the origins of uniquely human characteristics from bipedalism to language, male and female secondary sex characteristics to culture, and evaluates them in light of recent knowledge about...
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Subartu #21: Beydar Studies 1
by Marc (edt) Lebeau Synopsis Beydar Studies 1 Constitutes the first volume of a new series dedicated to the excavations at Tell Beydar (NE Syria) and its neighborhood. The contributions included in this first volume present progress reports on categories of objects discovered at...
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Darwin's Legacy: Scenarios in Human Evolution
by Sue Taylor Parker Synopsis Darwin's Legacy provides a fascinating history of ideas about the origins of uniquely human characteristics from bipedalism to language, male and female secondary sex characteristics to culture, and evaluates them in light of recent knowledge about...
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The First Africans: African Archaeology from the Earliest Tool Makers to Most Recent Foragers (Cambridge World Archaeology)
by Lawrence Barham Publisher Comments Africa has the longest record - some 2.5 million years - of human occupation of any continent. For nearly all of this time, its inhabitants have made tools from stone and have acquired their food from its rich wild plant and animal resources...
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Rituals of War: The Body and Violence in Mesopotamia
by Zainab Bahrani Publisher Comments Rituals of War is an investigation into the earliest historical records of violence and biopolitics. In Mesopotamia, ancient (ca. 3000-500 BCE) Iraqi rituals of war and images of violence constituted part of the magical technologies of warfare that...
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Creating Prehistory: Druids, Ley Hunters and Archaeologists in Pre-War Britain
by Adam Stout Publisher Comments Creating Prehistory deals even-handedly and sympathetically with the creation of several different sorts of prehistory during the volatile period between the two World Wars. Investigates the origins of professional archaeology in Britain during the inter-...
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House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest
by Craig Childs Publisher Comments In this landmark work on the Anasazi tribes of the Southwest, naturalist Craig Childs dives head on into the mysteries of this vanished people. The various tribes that made up the Anasazi people converged on Chaco Canyon (New Mexico) during the 11th...
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Solving Stonehenge: The Key to an Ancient Enigma
by Anthony Johnson Publisher Comments A completely new and convincing solution to the key puzzles of Stonehenge. As Anthony Johnson reveals in this astonishing book, patient detective work and detailed computer analysis of clues hidden within this famous monument can be made to yield...
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Creating Prehistory: Druids, Ley Hunters and Archaeologists in Pre-War Britain
by Adam Stout Synopsis "Creating Prehistory" deals even-handedly and sympathetically with the creation of several different sorts of prehistory during the volatile period between the two World Wars. Investigates the origins of professional archaeology in Britain during the...
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Classic-Period Cultural Currents in Southern and Central Veracruz (Dumbarton Oaks Other Titles in Pre-Columbian Studies)
by Philip J., Iii (edt) Arnold Publisher Comments "Classic-Period Cultural Currents in Southern and Central Veracruz" explores the diverse traditions and dynamic interactions along the Mexican Gulf lowlands at the height of their cultural florescence. Best known for their elaborate ballgame rituals and...
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Classical Olbia and the Scythian World
by David (edt) Braund Publisher Comments The study of Olbia has always been set apart through the outstanding results of its excavations and the splendor of individual finds there. This volume focuses on the interaction of the city of Olbia and the population around it, embracing both the...
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The First Africans
by Lawrence Barham Publisher Comments Africa has the longest record - some 2.5 million years - of human occupation of any continent. For nearly all of this time, its inhabitants have made tools from stone and have acquired their food from its rich wild plant and animal resources...
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Wearmouth and Jarrow, Vol 2
by Rosemary Cramp Synopsis Founded by Benedict Biscop in the late 7th century, the twin monastery of Wearmouth and Jarrow achieved an international reputation through the writings of Bede. Destroyed in the mid-9th century, the house was refounded in the 11th and survives to this...
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White Roads of the Yucat?n: Changing Social Landscapes of the Yucatec Maya
by Justine Shaw Publisher Comments Maya sacbeob, or raised "white roads," are often considered a single class of features, with a sole purpose. In this first systematic examination of their functions, meanings, arrangements, and construction styles, Justine Shaw reveals that these...
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