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The Ice Maiden: Inca Mummies, Mountain Gods, and Sacred Sites in the Andes by Johan Reinhard Publisher Comments This book takes armchair adventurers and archaeological enthusiasts not only to the excavation, but back through Peruvian history as it revisits the 1995 discovery of the mummy of a 14-year-old who died or was sacrificed some 530 years ago.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hengeworld Revised Edition by Mike Pitts Publisher Comments This is a story of the discovery of a lost civilization that spanned five centuries-- a civilization that now lies mostly beneath the fields of Southern England. Mike Pitts, an archaeologist, asks what sort of people designed and built these... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Beloved Beasts: Animal Mummies from Ancient Egypt by Salima Ikram Publisher Comments The Animal Mummy Room in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo throws an interesting light on the role of animals in ancient Egyptian, both as sacred totems of religious cults and as beloved household pets. This catalog of the animal mummies in the Museum - from... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Tomb of the Eagles by John W. Hedges Publisher Comments In Tomb of the Eagles John Hedges describes vividly the activities of a tribe in Isbister in the Orkneys which had as its totem the magnificent white-tailed sea eagle.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $6.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ancient Egyptian Construction and Architecture (Dover Books on Architecture) by Somers Clarke Publisher Comments Profusely illustrated description and analysis of actual building practices: quarrying methods, dressing and laying blocks of stone, brickwork, pyramid construction, Egyptian mathematics, tools, much else. Nearly 270 photographs and illustrations of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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 $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Cambridge Illustrated History of Archaeology by Paul G. Bahn Publisher Comments This is the fullest and most authoritative single-volume account of archaeology from the earliest discoveries to the great excavations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lavishly illustrated throughout and global in scope, it tells the story of... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Pottery Analysis: A Sourcebook by Prudence M Rice Publisher Comments Pottery Analysis is a rich and comprehensive sourcebook that draws together diverse approaches to the study of pottery—archaeological, ethnographic, stylistic, functional, and physicochemical. Using pottery as a starting point for insights into... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $30.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Penguin Dictionary of Archaeology 2ND Edition by Warwick Bray Synopsis From the Abbevillean handaxe and the god Baal of the Canaanites to the Wisconsin and Wurm glaciations of America and Europe, the Yang Shao culture of neolithic China and Zinjanthropus, this dictionary describes the sites, cultures, periods, techniques... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $3.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, #154: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, Sanctuaries and Cults in Crete from the Late Minoan IIIC to the: Continuity and Change by Mieke Prent Publisher Comments This volume documents the development of Cretan sanctuaries and associated cults from the end of the Late Bronze Age into the Archaic Period (c.1200600 BC). <BR>The book supplies up-to-date site catalogues and discusses recurring types of... (read more) List Price $229.00 Your price $175.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Archaeology on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   Discoveries: Celts (Discoveries) by Christiane Eluere Publisher Comments The story of the Celtic people begins with their expansion throughout Europe in the 4th century B.C. Because they left no written record, their culture has been reconstructed entirely from archaeological finds and accounts left by Roman historians... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Search for El Dorado by Time Life Publisher Comments Readers assume the role of archaeologists, uncovering secrets of ancient civilizations. Stunning photographs and illustrations, plus detailed cutaways, maps and diagrams.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event That Changed History by William Ryan Publisher Comments For thousands of years, the legend of a great flood has endured in the biblical story of Noah and in such Middle Eastern myths as the epic of Gilgamesh. Few believed that such a catastrophic deluge had actually occurred. But now two distinguished... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $8.21 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bioarchaeological Studies of Life in the Age of Agriculture: A View from the Southeast by Patricia M Lambert Publisher Comments The shift from foraging to farming had important health consequences for prehistoric peoples, but variations in health existed within communities that had made this transition. This new collection draws on the rich bioarchaeological record of the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Last Rites for the Tipu Maya: Genetic Structuring in a Colonial Cemetery by Keith P Jacobi Publisher Comments Two cultures collided at Tipu, Belize, in the 1600s: that of the native Maya and that of the Spanish missionaries, who arrived with an agenda of religious subjugation and, ultimately, political control. Combining historical documentation with the results... (read more) List Price $36.50 Your price $8.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Children of the yellow earth;studies in prehistoric China. by J Gunnar Andersson Publisher Comments Originally published in 1934 and written by the Curator of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm, this is an informative and highly entertaining account of the author's several expeditions to Northern China. Andersson began his Chinese... (read more) Your price $3.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Archaeology of Seafaring in Ancient South Asia by Himanshu Prabha Ray Publisher Comments This is an archaeological study of the Indian subcontinent's ancient maritime history, before European expansion.... (read more) Your price $40.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs: Official Companion Book to the Exhibition Sponsored by National Geographic by Zahi Hawass Publisher Comments This is the official companion book to the first U.S. exhibition of Tutankhamun artifacts in 30 years, featuring fabulous treasures of gold, silver, and semi-precious jewels, as well as a full-body forensic recreation built from the first-ever CT scan of... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Code of Kings: The Language of Seven Sacred Maya Temples and Tombs by Linda Schele and Peter Mathews Publisher Comments This unique and extraordinary guide to seven major sites of Maya civilization highlights the pioneering work of two great scholars of ancient America. For readers at every level -- from the casual tourist to the serious student -- The Code of Kings... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Find of a Lifetime: Sir Arthur Evans and the Discovery of Knossos by Sylvia Horowitz Publisher Comments The obsessions of a dapper Victorian gentleman led to one of the most breathtaking discoveries in archeology: the Palace of Minos at Knossos. As the brilliant curator of the famed Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Sir Evans was already well known when, at 50... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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