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Sahel Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara

LaGamma Alisa

ISBN: HB: 9781588396877, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2020
288 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 300 colour illus.

This groundbreaking volume examines the extraordinary artistic and cultural traditions of the African region known as the Sahel ("shore" in Arabic), a vast area on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert that includes present-day Senegal, Mauritania,...

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Foundations of Paleoecology Classic Papers with Commentaries

Lyons S. Kathleen, Behrensmeyer Anna K., Wagner Peter J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226618203, ISBN: HB: 9780226618173, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
800 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 100 halftones, 125 tables

Approximately 99% of all life that has ever existed is extinct. Fortunately, these long dead species have left traces of their lives and interactions with other species in the rock record that paleoecologists use to understand how species and ecosyst...

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After Vesuvius Treasures from the Villa dei Papiri

Lapatin Kenneth

ISBN: HB: 9781606065921, Getty Publications, July 2019
296 pp., 25x15 cm, colour illus.

The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum, the model for the Getty Villa in Malibu, is one of the world's earliest systematically investigated archaeological sites. Buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, the Villa dei Papiri was discovered in 1...

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Ancient Mesopotamia Speaks Highlights of the Yale Babylonian Collection

Lassen Agnete W., Frahm Eckart, Wagensonner Klaus

ISBN: PB: 9781933789378, Yale University Press, June 2019
296 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 200 colour illus.

The Yale Babylonian Collection houses virtually every genre, type, and period of ancient Mesopotamian writing, ranging from about 3000 B.C.E. to the early Christian Era. Among its treasures are tablets of the "Epic of Gilgamesh" and other narratives,...

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Finding Forgotten Cities How the Indus Civilization was Discovered

Lahiri Nayanjot

ISBN: PB: 9780857421128, Seagull Books, May 2013
410 pp., 21.6x14.2 cm, 50 halftones

In the autumn of 1924 the scholar-archaeologist John Marshall made an announcement that rewrote the history books: he proclaimed the discovery of the civilization of the Indus valley. Within weeks, Marshall's discovery was recognized as on the same s...

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Earth Sciences

Protogaea

Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm

ISBN: PB: 9780226113012, ISBN: HB: 9780226112961, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
204 pp., 23x15 cm, 15 halftones

"Protogaea", an ambitious account of terrestrial history, was central to the development of the earth sciences in the eighteenth century and provides key philosophical insights into the unity of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's thought and writings. In th...

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Archaeology of Ancient Judea and Palestine An Archaeological and Historic Guide

Lewin Ariel, Mendrea Dinu, Mendrea Sandu, Mendrea Radu

ISBN: HB: 9780892368006, Getty Publications, March 2006
204 pp., 26.7x22.2 cm, 240 colour illus., 16 maps, 14 building plans

The regions that compose the current state of Israel and the emerging state of Palestine have yielded a wealth of fascinating archaeological evidence, from the Dead Sea Scrolls found in a cave in 1947 by a Bedouin searching for a lost sheep, to the r...

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Archaeology of Colonialism

Lloyns Clair L., Papadopoulos John K., Lyons Claire L.

ISBN: PB: 9780892366354, Getty Publications, March 2006
296 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 90 black&white illus.

Few human communities have remained untouched by outsiders, in antiquity as in the present. Whether by intent or outcome, colonialist mentalities have significantly shaped the practices of archaeology, anthropology, and history. This book examines th...

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Recarving China's Past Art, Architecture, and Archaeology of the "Wu Family Shrines"

Liu Cary Y., Nylan Michael, Barbieri-Low Anthony J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300107975, Yale University Press, March 2005
512 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 60 colour image, 200 black&white illus.

The "Wu Family Shrines", one of the most important cultural monuments of early China, comprise approximately fifty stone slabs from the so-called Wu cemetery in Shandong province. Depicting emperors and kings, heroic women, filial sons, and mythologi...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Time Line of Culture in the Nile Valley and Its Relationship to Other World Cultures

Liebling Roslyn

ISBN: HB: 9780300085600, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2000
70 pp., 33.5x10.5 cm

A pictorial survey of Egyptian art and history from Paleolithic times to the present, with cross-cultural references.

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