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The Quest for WansdykeWansdyke is one of the great linear, bank-and-ditch earthworks of England. From end to end it stretches 35 miles across Somerset and Wiltshire. Only the Devil's Dyke, near Newmarket, is higher. Archaeologists Sir Cyril and Lady Aileen Fox described it as 'a formidable barrier'....
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Cerámica común en la Gallaecia romana: Estudio y sistematización crono-tipológica basada en tres yacimientos del área de LugoEste libro se centra en la caracterización de las producciones de cerámica común presentes en contextos de época romana de yacimientos del entorno de la antigua ciudad de Lucus Augusti (Lugo, España). A través de un enfoque que apuesta por el análisis de una...
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Megasites in Prehistoric Europe: Where Strangers and Kinsfolk MetAuthor: Bisserka Gaydarska, John ChapmanPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 10/27/2022Pages: 124Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26dISBN: 9781009096607
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The Historical and Cultural Context of Liangzhu: Redefining a Relationship of Equals Between Human Beings and NatureAuthor: Ningyuan WangPublisher: SpringerPublished: 01/26/2023Pages: 112Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.27dISBN: 9789811651366
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Like Mayflies in a StreamIn the great city of Uruk, there is no peace when Gilgamesh is restless, and he is never at rest. Shamhat, a priestess of Inanna, goes into the wilderness to find and civilize a match for Uruk's violently active God-King. Like Mayflies in a...
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A Thousand Miles up the Nile: Fully Illustrated Second EditionAs enthralling as any work of fiction, A Thousand Miles up the Nile is the quintessential Victorian travel book.In 1873, Amelia B. Edwards, a Victorian gentlewoman, spent the winter visiting the then largely unspoiled splendors of ancient Egypt. An accurate and sympathetic observer, she...
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The Snyders Mounds and Five Other Mound Groups in Calhoun County, Illinois: Volume 13In the 1940s, Paul F. Titterington, a doctor and avocational archaeologist, excavated several prehistoric burial mounds in Calhoun County, Illinois. He did not publish the results of his research, but he did donate his notebooks, photographs, and artifact collection to the University of Michigan...
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Southwestern Minnesota ArchaelogyDrawing together a century of widely scattered scientific and technical reports, as well as 25 years of first-hand experience in the field, Scott Anfinson provides the first comprehensive overview of the peoples who inhabited the Prairie Lake Region of the northeastern Plains before the...
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The Archaeology of the North American Fur Trade"Nassaney draws together an amazing amount of information about the fur trades that once existed in North America and includes illuminating and imaginative interpretations of archaeological data by researchers from across the continent."-Gregory A. Waselkov, author of A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the...
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Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Big HornEver since the Custer massacres on June 25, 1876, the question has been asked: What happened - what REALLY happened - at the Battle of the Little Bighorn? We know some of the answers, because half of George Armstrong Custer's Seventh Cavalry - the...
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Forensic Investigations of the AztecsHow can modern forensic tools help solve the mystery of ancient Aztec skull masks? What can we learn about Aztec life from the forensic analysis of their art? Can chemical analysis teach us about how Aztecs treated disease - and why millions were killed...
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Ancient IncaThis book offers a detailed account of Inca history, society, and culture through the lens of archaeology, written documents, and ethnographic accounts of native Andeans. Throughout the Andes, public works ordained by the emperors of the Incas dominate and transform the natural landscape. Cities,...
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Reading the Past: Current Approaches to Interpretation in ArchaeologyThe third edition of this classic introduction to archaeological theory and method has been fully updated to address the rapid development of theoretical debate throughout the discipline. Ian Hodder and Scott Hutson argue that archaeologists must consider a variety of perspectives in the complex...
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Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives: Sex, Gender, and ArchaeologyThe ancient Greeks saw men and women as expressing varying degrees of a single sexual potential; many Native American societies considered sexual identity as something that changed and developed during a lifetime, and recognized three or four categories of sexual identity. Ranging from the...
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The Sea Hunters IIThe second thrilling account of #1 New York Times bestselling author Clive Cusslers's real-life search for lost ships, planes, and other marvels that changed history. For decades, Clive Cussler's real-life NUMA(R), the National Underwater and Marine Agency, has scoured rivers and seas in search...
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The Pharaohs of Ancient EgyptFor more than 3,000 years, Egypt was a great civilization that thrived along the banks of the Nile River. But when its cities crumbled to dust, Egypt's culture and the secrets of its hieroglyphic writings were also lost. The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt explains...
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Exploring Coast Salish Prehistory: The Archaeology of San Juan IslandEvery year thousands of people visit the San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington State. With a copy of Exploring Coast Salish Prehistory in hand, they will enjoy an introduction both to archaeology in general and to sites within San Juan Island National...
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How Writing Came aboutTop 100 Books on Science, American Scientist, 2001 In 1992, the University of Texas Press published Before Writing, Volume I: From Counting to Cuneiform and Before Writing, Volume II: A Catalog of Near Eastern Tokens. In these two volumes, Denise Schmandt-Besserat set forth her...
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Picture Cave: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Mississippian CosmosThis extensively illustrated volume provides the first complete visual documentation and a pioneering iconographic analysis of Picture Cave, an eastern Missouri cavern filled with Native American pictographs that is one of the most important prehistoric sites in North America.A millennia ago, Native Americans entered...
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Architectural Vessels of the Moche: Ceramic Diagrams of Sacred Space in Ancient PeruElaborately decorated monumental architecture, royal tombs, and ritual human sacrifice have established the Moche of ancient Peru (AD 200-800) as a culturally rich and ideologically complex civilization. Because the Moche did not have a text-based writing system, their sophisticated works of art, which communicated...
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