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Back to the Future in the Caves of Kaua'i A Scientist's Adventures in the Dark

Burney David A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300172096, ISBN: HB: 9780300150940, Yale University Press, May 2011
216 pp., 22.6x14.8 cm, 39 black&white illus., 8 colour illus.

For two decades, paleoecologist David Burney and his wife, Lida Pigott Burney, have led an excavation of Makauwahi Cave on the island of Kaua'i, uncovering the fascinating variety of plants and animals that have inhabited Hawaii throughout its histor...

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Europe Between the Oceans 9000 BC - AD 1000

Cunliffe Barry

ISBN: PB: 9780300170863, Yale University Press, March 2011
480 pp., 24.6x18.6 cm, 120 black&white illus., 80 colour illus.

Europe is, in world terms, a relatively minor peninsula attached to the Eurasian land mass, yet it became one of the most innovative regions on the planet, bearing restless adventurers who traversed the globe to trade and often to settle. By the fift...

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Architecture

Archaeology & Paleontology

Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt 300 BC - AD 700

McKenzie Judith

ISBN: PB: 9780300170948, Yale University Press, January 2011
416 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 350 black&white illus., 150 colour illus.

This masterful history of the monumental architecture of Alexandria, as well as of the rest of Egypt, encompasses an entire millennium – from the city's founding by Alexander the Great in 331 B. C. to the years just after the Islamic conquest of A. D...

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Anthropology

1912 Yale Peruvian Scientific Expedition Collections from Machu Picchu Human and Animal Remains

Burger Richard L., Salazar Lucy C.

ISBN: PB: 9780913516218, Yale University Press, November 2010
198 pp., 24.5x17.2 cm, 12 charts, 60 black&white illus.

This second book in the Yale University Publications in Anthropology series dedicated to the Machu Picchu collections recovered early in the twentieth century from Machu Picchu by Hiram Bingham and the Yale Peruvian Scientific Expeditions analyzes th...

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Olmec Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico

Berrin Kathleen, Fields Virginia M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300166767, Yale University Press, September 2010
256 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 20 black&white illus., 180 colour illus.

Considered the "mother culture" of Mesoamerica, the Olmec developed an iconic and sophisticated artistic style as early as the second millennium B. C. This pre-Columbian civilization, which flourished in the Mexican states of Veracruz and Tabasco bet...

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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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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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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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Christianity

Archaeology & Paleontology

Archaeology of the Land of the Bible Volume 2: Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian Periods (732-332 B.C.E.)

Stern Ephraim

ISBN: HB: 9780300140576, Yale University Press, December 2007
704 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, illus.

Every year thousands of enthusiasts, both amateur and professional, spend the summer months digging in the sands of Israel hoping to find items that relate in some way to the places or events depicted in the Bible. Thousands more view artifacts in mu...

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