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by George Milner Publisher Comments First published in 1998 by Smithsonian Institution Press, The Cahokia Chiefdom surveys one of North America’s great archaeological sites that includes more than one hundred earthen mounds constructed between the 11th and 14th centuries. Milner... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Christophe Hardaker Publisher Comments The First American is the story of the great Valsequillo discoveries, the greatest story of American early man discoveries never told. This time, science will fight back.... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Adolf Erman Publisher Comments The most thoroughly detailed account -- including material not found in more recent books -- of domestic life, religion, magic, medicine, commerce, and more in ancient Egypt. Illustrations include tomb paintings, carvings, more.... (read more) Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ronald Wright Publisher Comments Powerful and passionate, Stolen Continents is a history of the Americas unlike any other. This incisive single-volume report tells the stories of the conquest and survival of five great American cultures -- Aztec, Maya, Inca, Cherokee, and... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John Romer Publisher Comments One of the best-known historians working today, and a world-renowned expert on the ancient world, presents a brilliant account of the lives of the stonemasons, scribes, and painters who created some of Egypt's finest treasures. Illustrated with both... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by James Jefferso Reid Publisher Comments Carved from cliffs and canyons, buried in desert rock and sand are pieces of the ancient past that beckon thousands of visitors every year to the American Southwest. Whether Montezuma Castle or a chunk of pottery, these traces of prehistory also bring... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky Publisher Comments Tepe Yahya provides a stratigraphic sequence that stretches some 6,000 years, from the Neolithic period to the early centuries AD. As a result, the site is critical for understanding cultural processes in southeastern Iran. In this fifth volume of... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $28.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John Malcol Russell Publisher Comments The story of Sir Austen Henry Layard's rediscovery of ancient Assyria and its fabled capital, Nineveh, is one of the great tales of nineteenth-century archeological imperialism, genius, and romance. In this social history of the reception of ancient... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Michael A Cremo Publisher Comments Over the past two centuries researchers have found bones and artifacts showing that people like ourselves existed on earth millions of years ago. But the scientific establishment has suppressed, ignored, or forgotten these remarkable facts. Why? Because... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Peter N Peregrine Publisher Comments This concise yet thorough book introduces readers to the basic methods of data collection, analysis, and interpretation of archaeological research. Focusing on the process itself, it explores why archaeologists choose and use particular methods over... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Amy Docker Marcus Synopsis This compelling blend of science, history, politics, and biblical scholarship explains how modern archeology is challenging our understanding of the Bible and its accounts of ancient history.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Charles Pellegrino Publisher Comments A fascinating look at Pompeii, Herculaneum and the Vesuvius eruption in comparison with other historically significant volcanic eruptions, including the World Trade Center disaster. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, which obliterated the Roman... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Barry Cunliffe Publisher Comments Fierce warriors and skilled craftsmen, the Celts were famous throughout the ancient Mediterranean world, the archetypal barbarians from the north, feared by both Greeks and Romans. And though this ancient thousand-year-old civilization was crushed by the... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $13.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Nick James Publisher Comments This overview of the whole of Middle America from earliest times to today begins by tracing the first development of villages and chiefdoms and the role of the Olmecs in unifying the region. The core of the book is devoted to the gigantic monuments of... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Robert Etienne Synopsis Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Val Brinkerhoff Publisher Comments For more than a hundred years, archaeologists have worked in the Southwest attempting to learn more about the Anasazi, now called Ancient Ones, who once lived in the massive stone buildings at such places as Chaco, Canyon de Chelly, and Navajo National... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by H.W.F. Saggs Publisher Comments "Saggs has a knack for drawing together the most telling details from the jumble of cultural data and presenting them in such a way that we truly see each culture as it was at its zenith, and its heritage to the world. An especially informative look at... (read more) Your price $3.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Douglas Palmer Publisher Comments Fascinating finds allow us to travel back in... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John H Taylor Publisher Comments The 3,000-year-old mummy of the ancient Egyptian priest Nesperennub has never been removed from its beautifully painted case. Like a freshly discovered archaeological site, it contains a wealth of data about the remote past, yet until recently, this... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by David Grant Noble Publisher Comments This indispensable guide to archaeological ruins of the American Southwest includes thirteen newly opened archaeological sites. Noble provides directions to each site, nearby towns, and campgrounds.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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