Archaeology
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Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of SolomonA vivid portrait of the early years of biblical archaeology from the acclaimed author of 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed In 1925, James Henry Breasted, famed Egyptologist and director of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, sent a team of archaeologists...
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Kv5: A Preliminary Report on the Excavation of the Tomb of the Sons of Ramesses II in the Valley of the Kings. Revised EditThe discovery in 1995 that a long-ignored doorway in the Valley of the Kings was actually the entrance to the largest tomb ever found in Egypt made headlines around the world. Called KV5, it contains over 150 corridors and chambers, and was used as...
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Handbook of Plant PalaeoecologyPlant palaeoecologists use data from plant fossils and plant subfossils to reconstruct ecosystems of the past. This book deals with the study of subfossil plant material retrieved from archaeological excavations and cores dated to the Late Glacial and Holocene. One of the main objectives...
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Identite, Filiation Et Parente Dans Les Romans Du Graal En ProseAuthor: Claire SerpPublisher: Brepols PublishersPublished: 06/15/2015Pages: 464Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsISBN: 9782503554945Language: FrenchThis title is not returnableThis title is only available via back order
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Pompeii, a Different Perspective: Via Dell'abbondanza, a Long Road, Well TraveledPompeii, a Different Perspective tells the story of a two thousand year-old street. It takes the reader on a unique journey down Via dell'Abbondanza, the longest street in the ancient city. In the first century AD a wide range of elite houses, apartments, businesses...
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Mimbres Lives and LandscapesPeople have called the mountains, rolling hills, wide valleys, and broad desert plains of southwestern New Mexico home for at least ten thousand years. When they began to farm a little more than two thousand years ago, they settled near the rich soils in...
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In the Shadow of Bennachie: A Field Archaeology of Donside, AberdeenshireLying in the north-east of Scotland, beyond the mountain barrier of the Mounth, the River Don drains a tract of country in excess of 1600 sq km, including both the richest farmland and many of the area's most spectacular monuments. This is a guide...
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Anatolian Interfaces: Hittites, Greeks and Their NeighboursThe papers in this collection are the product of the conference "Hittites, Greeks and Their Neighbors in Ancient Anatolia: An International Conference on Cross-Cultural Interaction," hosted by Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. They cover an impressive range of issues relating to the complex cultural...
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Slow Tech: The Perfect Antidote to Today's Digital World: Forge * Carve* Weave * Mould * IgniteThe illustrated Slow Tech manual will interest historians and re-enactors, parents managing their children's screen time, and young adults looking for mindful and practical escapes from the digital age. Featuring topics such as building bread ovens, making clay pots in a bonfire, felling and...
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Bluffer's Guide to Archaeology: Instant Wit and WisdomThe Bluffer's Guide to Archaeology, by celebrated wit and relentless digger Dr Paul Bahn, will instantly equip readers with all the knowledge they need to pass as experts in the world of ancient peoples and their cultures. Know everything it is necessary to know...
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Dubuque's Forgotten Cemetery: Excavating a Nineteenth-Century Burial Ground in a Twenty-First Century CityAtop a scenic bluff overlooking the Mississippi River and downtown Dubuque there once lay a graveyard dating to the 1830s, the earliest days of American settlement in Iowa. Though many local residents knew the property had once been a Catholic burial ground, they believed...
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Wisdomkeepers of Stonehenge: The Living Libraries and Healers of Megalithic CultureReveals how Stonehenge was an extraordinary astronomical calendar used in the cultivation of ingredients for long-forgotten botanical cures - Explores how Stonehenge and other stone circles were ancient healing sanctuaries and celestial calculators for the preparation of natural medicines - Explains how the megalithic...
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Ugarit and the Old TestamentIn 1929, a remarkable discovery was made by archaeologists at Ras Shamra in syria; beneath the soils of a small hill, they discovered the remains and libraries of the ancient city of Ugarit, which had been destroyed by barbarian invaders shortly after 1200BC. This...
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Excavating Nauvoo: The Mormons and the Rise of Historical Archaeology in AmericaThis detailed study of the excavation and restoration of the city of Nauvoo, Illinois, takes readers back to the roots of historical archaeology. Beginning in the 1960s, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sponsored an archaeology program to authentically restore the city...
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The Old Testament in Archaeology and HistoryOne hundred and fifty years of sustained archaeological investigation has yielded a more complete picture of the ancient Near East. The Old Testament in Archaeology and History combines the most significant of these archaeological findings with those of modern historical and literary analysis of...
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Bioarchaeology of Injuries and Violence in Early Medieval EuropeBioarchaeology of Injuries and Violence in Early Medieval Europe presents evidence and documents forms of violence and injuries in skeletal remains. Its contributions address this topic for the first time in a chronologically specific arc (Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages) and a wide...
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The Marginalized in Death: A Forensic Anthropology of Intersectional Identity in the Modern EraThis volume bridges the gap between forensic and cultural anthropology in how both disciplines describe and theorize the dead, highlighting the potential for interdisciplinary scholarship. As applied disciplines dealing with some of the most marginalized people in our society, forensic anthropologists have the potential...
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Polarized Pasts: Heritage and Belonging in Times of Political PolarizationWhen questions of belonging enter the forefront of political debates, so too does heritage. This volume draws critical voices from archaeology, anthropology and the classics into a conversation about political uses of the past in times of radical right populism. The authors show how...
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Making a Medieval Stained Glass Window: An archaeometric study of technology and productionMedieval stained glass windows are relatively untapped sources of information about medieval technology and production because their architectural context usually prohibits sampling for chemical analysis. This volume presents a comprehensive study of York Minster's Great East Window (1405-1408), investigating glass-making technology and provenance, and...
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Classical Controversies: Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity in the Twenty-First CenturyModern receptions of Graeco-Roman Antiquity are important ideological markers of the ways we envisage our own twenty-first-century societies. An urgent topic of study is: what kinds of narratives - sometimes controversial - about Antiquity do people create for themselves at this moment in time,...
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