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Germany's Ancient Pasts Archaeology and Historical Interpretation since 1700

Maner Brent

ISBN: PB: 9780226593074, ISBN: HB: 9780226592916, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

In Germany, Nazi ideology casts a long shadow over the history of archaeological interpretation. Propaganda, school curricula, and academic publications under the regime drew spurious conclusions from archaeological evidence to glorify the Germanic p...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Future Remains A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene

Mitman Gregg, Armiero Marco, Emmett Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226508795, ISBN: HB: 9780226508658, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
224 pp., 22.8x17.8 cm, 16 colour plates, 9 halftones

What can a pesticide pump, a jar full of sand, or an old calico print tell us about the Anthropocene – the age of humans? Just as paleontologists look to fossil remains to infer past conditions of life on earth, so might past and present-day objects...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Search for Takrur Archaeological Excavations and Reconnaissance Along the Middle Senegal Valley

McIntosh Roderick J., McIntosh Susan Keech, Bocoum Hamady

ISBN: PB: 9780913516294, Yale University Press, January 2017
600 pp., 24.8x17.1 cm, 348 black&white illus

An authoritative summary of the results of the archaeological excavations in the middle Senegal River valley, site of the ancient African Empire of Takrur. A summary of archaeological discoveries in the middle Senegal River valley, this authoritativ...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context

Marthari Marisa, Renfrew Colin, Boyd Michael

ISBN: HB: 9781785701955, Casemate, Oxbow Books, March 2016
576 pp., 28x21.6 cm

The sculpture of the Early Bronze Age Cyclades has been systematically studied since the time of Christos Tsountas at the end of the 19th century. But that study has been hampered by the circumstance that so many of the subsequent finds come from una...

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Christianity

Archaeology & Paleontology

Alexander to Constantine Archaeology of the Land of the Bible

Meyers Eric M., Chancey Mark A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205831, ISBN: HB: 9780300141795, Yale University Press, March 2014
392 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 colour images, 203 black&white illus.

This comprehensive and richly illustrated book explores the archaeological record of the land of the Bible from its conquest by Alexander the Great in the fourth century B. C. E. until the reign of the Roman Emperor Constantine in the fourth century...

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Rediscovering the Ancient World on the Bay of Naples, 1710-1890

Mattusch Carol C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300189216, Yale University Press, April 2013
292 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 97 colour, 78 black&white illus.

The ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., drew international attention when excavations commenced in the 1730s. As a result, the nearby city of Naples became a nexus of scholarship, cult...

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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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Anthropology

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Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries

Moss Madonna L., Cannon Aubrey

ISBN: PB: 9781602231467, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2012
312 pp., 25.5x18 cm

For thousands of years, fisheries were crucial to the sustenance of the First Peoples of the Pacific Coast. Yet human impact has left us with a woefully incomplete understanding of their histories prior to the industrial era. Covering Alaska, British...

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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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Archaeology & Paleontology

Star-Crossed Stone The Secret Life, Myths, and History of a Fascinating Fossil

McNamara Kenneth J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226514697, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 26 halftones

Throughout the four hundred thousand years that humanity has been collecting fossils, sea urchin fossils, or echinoids, have continually been among the most prized, from the Paleolithic era, when they decorated flint axes, to today, when paleobiologi...

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