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Beyond the Nile Egypt and the Classical World
ISBN: HB: 9781606065518, Getty Publications, April 2018
360 pp., 29.9x24.7 cm, 322 colour illus., 16 black&white illus., 1 table
From about 2000 BCE onward, Egypt served as an important nexus for cultural exchange in the eastern Mediterranean, importing and exporting not just wares but also new artistic techniques and styles. Egyptian, Greek, and Roman craftsmen imitated one a...
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Baule Monkeys
ISBN: HB: 9780300222449, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, August 2016
192 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 113 colour illus., 27 black&white illus.
The Baule people of the Ivory Coast are renowned for their refined sculptural work of masks and figures. This book is the first to focus exclusively on an antithetic aspect of Baule culture-rough zoomorphic sculptures representing monkeys. These awe-...
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Before Siam Essays in Art and Archaeology
ISBN: HB: 9786167339412, Prestel Publishing, River Books, March 2014
432 pp., 24.7x18.1 cm
The birth of Siam has been traditionally marked by the founding of the great city-states of Sukhothai and Ayutthaya respectively. These civilisations, however, grew out of a rich milieu of cultures and traditions in the region present from as far bac...
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Birth of the State Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China
ISBN: PB: 9788024622149, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, December 2013
358 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 52 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "The Birth of the State" provides an overview of four of the most significant cultural centers in the ancient world, now in Egypt, the Persian Gulf region, India, and China. Petr Charvat a...
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Bones, Clones, and Biomes The History and Geography of Recent Neotropical Mammals
ISBN: HB: 9780226649191, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 17 tables, 26 halftones, 13 line illus.
As explorers and scientists have known for decades, the Neotropics harbor a fantastic array of our planet's mammalian diversity, from capybaras and capuchins to maned wolves and mouse opossums to sloths and sakis. This biological bounty can be attrib...
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Bodies in the Bog and the Archaeological Imagination
ISBN: PB: 9780226734057, ISBN: HB: 9780226734040, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 63 halftones
Over the past few centuries, northern Europe's bogs have yielded mummified men, women, and children who were deposited there as sacrifices in the early Iron Age and kept startlingly intact by the chemical properties of peat. In this remarkable accoun...
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Back to the Future in the Caves of Kaua'i A Scientist's Adventures in the Dark
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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