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Archaeology & Paleontology

Anthropology

What Is Paleolithic Art? Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity

Clottes Jean

ISBN: PB: 9780226266633, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 2 line drawings

Was it a trick of the light that drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the heads of lions, likenesses of bison, horses, and aurochs in the reliefs of the walls, as they flickered by firelight? Or was...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Working in the Killing Fields Forensic Science in Bosnia

Ball Howard

ISBN: HB: 9781612347189, Casemate, Potomac Books, April 2015
232 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 1 illus.

While the specificities of individual wars vary, they share a ubiquitous aftermath: the task of finding and identifying the "disappeared". The Bosnian war of the early 1990s that destroyed the sovereign state of Yugoslavia is no exception. In Working...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

World Antiquarianism Comparative Perspectives

Schnapp Alain

ISBN: PB: 9781606061480, Getty Publications, December 2013
464 pp., 25.5x17.9 cm, 23 colour illus., 81 black&white illus.

This book explores the concept of antiquarianism and recasts its role for a new generation. The term antiquarianism refers to engagement with the material heritage of the past – an engagement that preceded the modern academic discipline of archaeolog...

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Contemporary Art

Way of the Shovel On the Archaeological Imaginary in Art

Roelstraete Dieter

ISBN: HB: 9780226094120, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
328 pp., 22.8x16.5 cm, 80 colour plates, 40 halftones

Contemporary art is often obsessed with the new, but it has recently begun to turn to projects centering on research and delving into archives, all in the name of seeking and questioning historical truth. From filmmakers to sculptors to conceptualist...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Wondrous Curiosities Ancient Egypt at the British Museum

Moser Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9780226542102, ISBN: HB: 9780226542096, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
368 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 99 halftones, 13 colour illus.

When the British Museum opened its doors more than two centuries ago, scores of visitors waited eagerly outside for a first glimpse of ancient relics from Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Even today, in this age of satellite television and high-speed Interne...

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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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