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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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Handbook to Life in Ancient Greece by Lesley Adkins Book News Annotation Combining both archaeological and historical sources, the handbook covers three millennia of ancient Greek civilization, from the advent of the Minoan civilization in Crete to the Roman conquest in 30 BC. Chapters are ordered thematically and explore... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Very Short Introductions #10: Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction by Paul G Bahn Publisher Comments Oxford's Very Short Introductions series offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects -- from Islam to Sociology, Literary Theory to History, and Archaeology to the Bible. Not simply a textbook of definitions, each volume... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mystery of Easter Island by Katherine Routledge Publisher Comments This reprint of adventuress Katherine Routledges classic archeology book on Easter Island was first published in London in 1919. Heavily illustrated with a wealth of old photos, this is a treasure trove of information on Rapa Nui, known in the West as... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Field Guide To Rock Art Symbols of the Greater Sout by Alex Patterson Publisher Comments This is the only specifically designed key to the interpretation of American rock art. The Field Guide brings together 600 commentaries on specific symbols by over 100 archaeologists, researchers, and Native American informants. Covers the northern... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mummies of Urumchi by Elizabeth Barber Publisher Comments Some of Ürümchi's mummies date back as far as 4,000 years--contemporary with the famous Egyptian mummies but even more beautifully preserved. Surprisingly, these prehistoric people are not Asian but Caucasoid--tall, large-nosed and blond with thick... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Age of Stonehenge by Colin Burgess Publisher Comments Illustrated with drawings, plans, maps and photographs, this is the first book to deal with all aspects of this crucial period of pre-history.... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Ancient City: Life in Classical Athens and Rome by Peter Connolly Publisher Comments In this superbly illustrated volume, Athens and Rome, the two greatest cities of antiquity, spring to life through the masterful pen of Peter Connolly. For the first time ever, all the evidence has been painstakingly pieced together to reconstruct the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dawn of Belief: Religion in the Upper Paleolithic of Southwestern Europe by D Bruce Dickson Publisher Comments Hunter-gatherers of the Upper Paleolithic period of the late Pleistocene epoch in western Europe left a legacy of cave paintings and material remains that have long fascinated modern man. This book draws on theories derived from cultural anthropology and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Ancient Egypt by Jon E Lewis Publisher Comments In this new Mammoth volume's variety of firsthand accounts--from papyri, chiseled tablets, court records, temple texts, graffiti, classical Greek and Roman histories--the ancient Egyptian way of life is unfolded in colorful detail with dramatic immediacy.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Temples of Ancient Egypt by Byron E Shafer Publisher Comments Five distinguished scholars summarize the state of current knowledge about ancient Egyptian temples and the rituals associated with their use. This first volume in English to survey the major types of Egyptian temples from the Old Kingdom to the Roman... (read more) List Price $75.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Vikings (10 Edition) by Robert Ferguson Publisher Comments A comprehensive and thrilling history, based on the latest scholarship, offers the definitive portrait of the Vikings Raiders and traders, settlers and craftsmen, the medieval Scandinavians who have become familiar to history as Vikings never lose their... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Exploring Prehistory: How Archaeology Reveals Our Past by Pam J Crabtree Publisher Comments This new introduction to archaeology integrates world prehistory with discussion of archeological methods and techniques. It introduces archaeological methods gradually and in context through the use of Archaeology in Practice boxes which give students a... (read more) List Price $160.95 Your price: $35.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Peoples of the Northwest Coast: Their Archaeology and Prehistory by Kenneth M Ames Publisher Comments Extending some 1,400 miles from Alaska to northern California, America's Northwest Coast is one of the richest and most distinct cultural areas on earth. The region is famous for its magnificent art -- masks, totem poles, woven blankets -- produced by... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture by William H Stiebing Publisher Comments This general introduction to the history and culture of the Ancient Near East, including Egypt, offers the right amount of detail for the course without being encyclopedic. Organized by the periods, kingdoms, and empires generally used in Near... (read more) List Price $57.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt by Barbara Mertz Publisher Comments Internationally renowned Egyptologist Barbara Mertz transports us back thousands of years and immerses us in the sights and sounds of day-to-day life in a vanished desert culture. Their civilization has inspired myriad films, books, pieces of art, myths,... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Egyptians by Cyril Aldred Publisher Comments Ancient Egypt may have been, to paraphrase Herodotus, "the gift of the Nile", but Egypt's civilization was no less the product of her god incarnate, the pharaoh. These twin themes -- the overwhelming importance of the annual inundation of the Nile and... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $6.50 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) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Hengeworld by Mike Pitts Publisher Comments By the author of the highly acclaimed Fairweather Eden, and Joint winner of the British Archaeology Press Award. As famous as it is mysterious, Stonehenge lies at the heart of a lost civilization that spanned five centuries, a civilization that now lies... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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