Archaeology
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They Were Here Before Us: Stories from the First Million YearsAn epic and highly readable investigation into our very earliest ancestors, focusing on the land corridor thorough which humans passed from Africa to Europe and the evidence left behind of their lives and deaths, struggles and beliefs. This is not a book about archaeological...
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The Paiján People: Burials and Paleoindian human remains from coastal PeruFrom 1972 to 1997, archaeological research was undertaken on open air early sites on the north coast of Peru (Cupisnique region: about 7 30 south latitude). These sites contained lithic tools and faunal remains belonging to the Paiján tradition, dating from around 13000 to...
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The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words EvolvedA top scholar reveals the most complete picture to date of how early human speech led to the languages we use today The emergence of language began with the apelike calls of our earliest ancestors. Today, the world is home to thousands of complex...
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The Archaeology of Burning Man: The Rise and Fall of Black Rock CityEach August staff and volunteers begin to construct Black Rock City, a temporary city located in the hostile and haunting Black Rock Desert of northwestern Nevada. Every September nearly seventy thousand people occupy the city for Burning Man, an event that creates the sixth-largest...
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State and Local Society in Third Century South China: Administrative Documents Excavated at Zoumalou, HunanIn 1996 archaeologists excavated over 70,000 inscribed pieces of wood from a well in Changsha, the largest such discovery ever made in China. They are local administrative records of the state of Wu in the 230s and provide remarkable detail on the society, governance,...
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Sanxingdui and Chengdu: The Birth of a MythCompiling and interpreting the relevant myths and legends and combining them with relevant historical facts, this book provides a unique perspective on a more bizarre and magnificent side of Chengdu's urban history. As one of the oldest cities in China, Chengdu has a long...
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FossilsDeep under our feet, our planet is full of history. Fossils can teach us a lot about Earth. Look inside to find out what fossils are, how they are formed, and where you can find real-life fossils! Fossils is part of Decodables by Jump!,...
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Elamite and Achaemenid Settlement on the Deh Luran Plain: Towns and Villages of the Early Empires in Southwestern Iran Volume 47The Deh Luran Plain, nestled in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains close to the modern border between Iraq and Iran, had a long and rich prehistory, beginning with the local development of villages dependent upon rainfall farming and herding in the 8th millennium...
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Dig It!: Archaeology for KidsDig It! Archaeology for Kids takes readers on a tour through the fascinating world of archaeology, pausing along the way for glimpses into the past lives of people in ancient civilizations across the globe throughout time. This archaeological journey itinerary includes steps in archaeology--finding...
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Birds and Beasts of Ancient Mesoamerica: Animal Symbolism in the Postclassic PeriodBirds and Beasts of Ancient Mesoamerica links Precolumbian animal imagery with scientific data related to animal morphology and behavior, providing in-depth studies of the symbolic importance of animals and birds in Postclassic period Mesoamerica. Representations of animal deities in Mesoamerica can be traced back...
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Belitung: The Afterlives of a ShipwreckIn 1998, the Belitung, a ninth-century western Indian Ocean-style vessel, was discovered in Indonesian waters. Onboard was a full cargo load, likely intended for the Middle Eastern market, of over 60,000 Chinese Tang-dynasty ceramics, gold, and other precious objects. It is one of the...
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Ancient Riddles Solved: Science Unveils Histories"Old Enigmas Settled: Science Discloses Chronicles" is a captivating investigation into the confounding embroidered artwork of our past, winding around together the strings of history and science to unwind the secrets that have astounded mankind for quite a long time. This enthralling excursion takes...
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A Hillfort Through Time: Excavations at Rathgall, Co WicklowThis publication presents the excavations at Rathgall, Rath East, Co. Wicklow, conducted by Barry Raftery, retired Professor of Celtic Archaeology at University College Dublin. Raftery published aspects of the site, primarily in the 1970s (Raftery 1970a; 1970b; 1971; 1972; 1973; 1975; 1976; 2004; Raftery...
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Women's Work: The First 20,000 YearsTwenty thousand years ago, women were making and wearing clothing created from spun fibers. In Women's Work, archaeologist-linguist Elizabeth Wayland Barber "weaves the strands of mythology and literature, ethnology and documented history into a rich tapestry" (John Noble Wilford, New York Times Book Review),...
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What Is, and What Is in Itself: A Systematic OntologyThis work is ''a systematic ontology.'' Ontology is the study of being as such, and a systematic ontology is an account of the most fundamental ways of being something or other - of what they are and of how they are related to each...
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The Wolf and Furton Sites: Macomb County, Michigan Volume 8In this report, Emerson F. Greenman describes the 1936 archaeological excavations at the Wolf and Furton sites, both in Macomb County, Michigan, on the shore of Lake St. Clair. Greenman and his team found refuse pits with associated animal bones; human burials; and artifacts,...
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The Shadow King: The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's MummyMore than 3,000 years ago, King Tutankhamun's desiccated body was lovingly wrapped and sent into the future as an immortal god. After resting undisturbed for more than three millennia, King Tut's mummy was suddenly awakened in 1922. Archaeologist Howard Carter had discovered the boy-king's...
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The Last Pescadores of Chimalhuacán, Mexico: An Archaeological Ethnography Volume 96Based on his study of the nearly vanished aquatic economy of Chimalhuacán in the Valley of Mexico, Parsons describes the surviving vestiges of aquatic insect collection and fishing and considers their developmental and archaeological implications within a broad context of historical, ethnographic, biological, ecological,...
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The Exploitation of Fishing Resources and the Maritime Skills of Early Modern Humans in Island Southeast AsiaIsland Southeast Asia is one of the world's marine biodiversity hotspots. Marine environments with dense concentrations of fauna rich in fatty acid nutrients are thought to have been important to Homo sapiens' subsistence, leading to coastal highway hypotheses for dispersals in the Wallacean and...
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The Archaeology of Ancient ArizonaCarved 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 archaeologists from...
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