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Archaeology & Paleontology

Tutankhamun's Funeral

Winlock Herbert E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300167351, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010
72 pp., 30.2x24.6 cm, 100 colour illus.

In 1907, more than a decade before the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, archaeologists unearthed remains from the mummification and funeral of the pharaoh, who ruled ancient Egypt in the 14th century B. C. Now in the collection of The Metropolitan Mu...

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History of Art

Archaeology & Paleontology

Empire Without End Antiquities Collections in Renaissance Rome c.1350-1527

Christian Kathleen Wren

ISBN: HB: 9780300154214, Yale University Press, June 2010
288 pp., 27.5x21 cm, 220 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.

In the early fifteenth century, when Romans discovered ancient marble sculptures and inscriptions in the ruins, they often melted them into mortar. A hundred years later, however, antique marbles had assumed their familiar role as works of art displa...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Aztec Calendar Stone

Villela Khristaan D., Miller Mary

ISBN: HB: 9781606060049, Getty Publications, May 2010
384 pp., 27.5x22 cm, 22 colour illus., 144 black&white illus.

This is a superbly illustrated survey of one of the most recognizable monuments of Aztec civilisation – the Calendar Stone. Analyzed by scholars, deployed by Mexican nationalists, beloved by the public, and reproduced in every medium and scale since...

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Children's Books

Archaeology & Paleontology

Aztec Pantheon and Art of Empire

Pohl John, Lyons Claire

ISBN: HB: 9781606060070, Getty Publications, May 2010
104 pp., 26.2x21.1 cm, 38 colour illus., 9 black&white illus.

This is a groundbreaking exploration of the function and significance of Aztec monumental art and religious spectacles. When the Aztec Empire emerged to dominate central Mexico from 1460 to 1519, vast amounts of tribute wealth flowed into the capital...

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Evolution

Earth Sciences

Worlds Before Adam The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform

Rudwick Martin J. S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226731292, ISBN: HB: 9780226731285, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
648 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 40 line drawings, 125 halftones

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, scientists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth – and the relatively recent arrival of human life. The geologists of the period, many of whom were devout believers, agreed about...

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History of Art

Archaeology & Paleontology

Fiery Pool The Maya and the Mythic Sea

Finamore Daniel, Houston Stephen D.

ISBN: HB: 9780300161373, Yale University Press, April 2010
328 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 174 black&white illus., 192 colour illus.

Maya art and hieroglyphs constitute one of the world's most fascinating, visually striking, and complex systems of expression. Most scholarly interpretations of Maya art and culture have emphasized that this ancient civilization was oriented toward i...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Society of Dilettanti Archaeology and Identity in the British Enlightenment

Kelly Jason M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300152197, Yale University Press, January 2010
320 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 100 black&white illus., 20 colour illus.

In 1732, a group of elite young men, calling themselves the Society of Dilettanti, held their first meeting in London. The qualification for membership was travel to Italy where the original members had met each other on the grand tour. These nobleme...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Culture Studies

Palaeoperformance The Emergence of Theatricality as Social Practice

Montelle Yann-Pierre

ISBN: PB: 9781905422821, Seagull Books, March 2009
212 pp., 23.6x16 cm

"Palaeoperformance" is a pioneering work which examines the emergence of theatricality at the birth of human societies. In the Upper Paleolithic period, over 30,000 years ago, archaeological and art historical evidence reveals the very beginnings of...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Great Moments in Greek Archaeology

Petrakos Vasileios

ISBN: HB: 9780892369102, Getty Publications, February 2008
384 pp., 29.2x24.4 cm, 650 colour illus.

This beautifully illustrated book offers a wide-ranging, yet detailed overview of the greatest archaeological sites and discoveries from ancient Greece – with contributions from both those who have excavated the sites and scholars who have spent a li...

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History of Art

Archaeology & Paleontology

Herculaneum Women And the Origins of Archaeology

Daehner Jens, Knoll Kordelia, Vorster Christiane, Woelk Moritz

ISBN: HB: 9780892368822, Getty Publications, February 2008
160 pp., 25.4x19 cm, colour illus.

At the beginning of the eighteenth century, three life-sized marble statues of women were found near Portici on the Bay of Naples. This momentous discovery led to further exploration of the site, which was soon identified as the ancient city of Hercu...

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