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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann Staff Pick Charles C. Mann has pulled off an impressive feat — a scholarly, thorough work of history that's almost compulsively readable. In 1491, he summarizes and examines the last thirty years of research into the pre-Columbian Americas, and comes to some... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Runes (Reading the Past) by R I Page Publisher Comments In Orkney, Shetland and the Scottish Islands, in Ireland, the Isle of Man and above all in Scandinavia, travelers still come upon great memorial stones, inscribed with the curious angular alphabet called runes. This is the story of these inscriptions... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Archaeological Insights Into the Custer Battle: An Assessment of the 1984 Field Season by Douglas D Scott Publisher Comments In August, 1983, a grassfire raged up Deep Ravine and across the dry, grasscovered battlefield where, in 1876, men of the Seventh U.S. Cavalry under George Armstrong Custer had fought and died at the hands of a Sioux and Cheyenne force led by Sitting... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Finders Keepers: A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession by Craig Childs Synopsis Childs is a naturalist, adventurer, and desert ecologist. Written in his trademark lyrical style, "Finders Keepers" carries readers directly into his adventures and discoveries, lifting the curtain on the ethical dilemmas and dark side of archaeology.... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
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In Search of the Old Ones (96 Edition) by David D. Roberts Publisher Comments The Anasazi, ancestors of the Pueblo people, inhabited the Southwest for at least 5,000 years. David Roberts' extensive interviews and back country travels create a richly detailed portrait of an enigmatic people.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Incas (Peoples of America) by Terence N Daltroy Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-376) and index.... (read more) List Price $36.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. 2 by John L. Stephens Publisher Comments Volume 2 of two-volume set. Classic (1843) exploration of jungles of Yucatan, looking for evidences of Maya civilization. Extensive accounts of 44 Maya sites as well as of Yucatan folkways, manners, dress, ceremonies, amusements all of which makes... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ancient Kingdoms of Peru by Nigel Davies Publisher Comments Archaeologist and Incan expert Nigel Davies offers astonishing revelations about the remarkable empire of the Incas and the civilizations that preceded them. From the desert at Nazca to the great coastal civilization of Chimor, this compelling overview... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life by James Deetz Publisher Comments History is recorded in many ways. According to author James Deetz, the past can be seen most fully by studying the small things so often forgotten. Objects such as doorways, gravestones, musical instruments... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities--From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums by Peter Watson Publisher Comments The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. are discovered in the swimming pool of a German-based art smuggler. More valuable than the recovery of the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. 1 by John Stephens Publisher Comments Volume 1 of 2-volume set. Classic (1843) exploration of jungles of Yucatan, looking for evidences of Maya civilization. Extensive accounts of 44 Maya sites as well as of Yucatan folkways, manners, dress, ceremonies, amusements all of which makes... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oxford Companion to Archaeology by Brian M Fagan Publisher Comments When we think of archaeology, most of us think first of its many spectacular finds: the legendary city of Troy, Tutankhamun's golden tomb, the three-million-year-old footprints at Laetoli, the mile-high city at Machu Picchu, the cave paintings at Lascaux.... (read more) List Price $98.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs by Sylvanus Griswold Morley Publisher Comments Best introduction to the topic easily accessible to beginners. Extremely full in interpretation; very thorough in exposition of variants and unusual features, with reproductions of many inscriptions unavailable elsewhere. Material from Old and New... (read more) Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus by Charles C Mann Publisher Comments A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos, and the Realm of the Gods by Davi Lewis Williams Publisher Comments What do the headless figures found in the famous paintings at Catalhoyuk in Turkey have in common with the monumental tombs at Newgrange and Knowth in Ireland? How can the concepts of "birth," "death," and "wild" cast light on the archaeological enigma... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Aztec Calendar Handbook by Randall C Jiminez Publisher Comments Involves thousands of man-hours of effort to create, takes a blueprint style approach to a Historical Reference primer. Illustrated with over 150 technical drawings showing enlargement detail, cut-away views, and computer-generated art, this new... (read more) Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Nefertiti: Egypt's Sun Queen by Joyce Tyldesley Publisher Comments The classic account of Egypt's most famous queennow fully revised For over a decade, Nefertiti, wife of the heretic king Akhenaten, was the most influential woman in the Bronze Age world: a beautiful queen blessed by the sun god, adored by her family... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Temples, Tombs, & Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt by Barbara Mertz Publisher Comments An eye-opening, edifying, and endlessly entertaining tour through an astonishing bygone world—the acclaimed classic history of ancient Egypt, now newly revised and updated Writing as Elizabeth Peters, world-renowned Egyptologist Barbara Mertz is... (read more) Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World by David Sacks Synopsis From science to religion, politics to mathematics, and art to medicine, there are very few areas of our modern lives that are not in some way affected by classical Greece. Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World provides interdisciplinary coverage of... (read more) List Price $49.50 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Pharaohs by Christiane Ziegler Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 498-508) and index.... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $30.00 Used - Hardcover
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