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Archaeology & Paleontology

Cultural Encounters in Near Eastern History

Troile Larsen Mogens, Hertel Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9788763543873, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, March 2019
224 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 2 colour plates, 22 halftones, 3 line drawings, 4 maps

Globalization and cheaper travel have led to a rapid increase in cross-cultural encounters worldwide – which makes understanding problems of conflict, prejudice, interaction, and adaptation ever more important. Fortunately, we have a powerful histori...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Ancient World

Studies of Homeric Greece

Bouzek Jan

ISBN: PB: 9788024635613, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2018
320 pp., 23.5x16.5 cm, 8 colour plates, 16 halftones, 109 line drawings, 30 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Studies of Homeric Greece" is a comprehensive companion to the archaeology and history of Late Mycenaean to Geometric Greece and the koine of Early Iron Age Geometric styles in Europe and...

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Europe

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

Palmyra An Irreplaceable Treasure

Veyne Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226600055, ISBN: HB: 9780226427829, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
128 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 13 colour plates

Located northeast of Damascus, in an oasis surrounded by palms and two mountain ranges, the ancient city of Palmyra has the aura of myth. According to the Bible, the city was built by Solomon. Regardless of its actual origins, it was an influential c...

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Evolution

Archaeology & Paleontology

Across the Bridge Understanding the Origin of the Vertebrates

Gee Henry

ISBN: PB: 9780226403052, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 12 line drawings

Our understanding of vertebrate origins and the backbone of human history evolves with each new fossil find and DNA map. Many species have now had their genomes sequenced, and molecular techniques allow genetic inspection of even non-model organisms....

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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

Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity

Boudalis Georgios

ISBN: PB: 9781941792124, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, March 2018
200 pp., 22x17.7 cm, 32 colour plates, 80 halftones, 45 line drawings

The transition from roll to codex as the standard format of the book is one of the most culturally significant innovations of Late Antiquity".The Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity" examines surviving evidence in order to better understand how this t...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Conservation Paleobiology Science and Practice

Dietl Gregory P., Flessa Karl W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226506722, ISBN: HB: 9780226506692, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
336 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 60 halftones

In conservation, perhaps no better example exists of the past informing the present than the return of the California condor to the Vermilion Cliffs of Arizona. Extinct in the region for nearly one hundred years, condors were successfully reintroduce...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Pistiros VI The Pistiros Hoard

Bouzek Jan, Militky Jiri, Taneva Valentina, Domaradzka Ewa

ISBN: PB: 9788024633015, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, April 2017
246 pp., 29.8x20.9 cm, 57 colour plates, 12 maps, 46 line drawings

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This sixth and final installment in the Pistiros series devoted to excavations in that former Greek emporium in inland Thrace (today Bulgaria) closes an extraordinary, three-decade-long co...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Problems of Canonicity and Identity Formation in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia

Ryholt Kim, Barjamovic Gojko

ISBN: HB: 9788763543729, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, October 2016
357 pp., 23.5x14 cm, 1 colour plate, 11 halftones, 20 tables

The term "canonicity" implies the recognition that the domain of literature and of the library is also a cultural and political one, related to various forms of identity formation, maintenance, and change. From the very earliest days of writing, text...

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