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Archaeology & Paleontology

Species and Speciation in the Fossil Record

Allmon Warren D., Yacobucci Margaret M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226377445, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 56 halftones, 26 line drawings, 12 tables

Although the species is one of the fundamental units of biological classification, there is remarkably little consensus among biologists about what defines a species, even within distinct sub-disciplines. The literature of paleobiology, in particular...

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Literary Criticism

Archaeology & Paleontology

Catalogue of Egyptian Funerary Papyri in Danish Collections

Christiansen Thomas, Ryholt Kim

ISBN: HB: 9788763543743, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, October 2016
156 pp., 37.5x29.2 cm, 106 colour plates

Published here for the first time, the "Catalogue of Egyptian Funerary Papyri in Danish Collections" presents an exhaustive assemblage of Egyptian funerary manuscripts in Danish collections. The volume features sixteen papyrus manuscripts, two of whi...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

History

History Within The Science, Culture, and Politics of Bones, Organisms, and Molecules

Sommer Marianne

ISBN: HB: 9780226347325, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
496 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones, 6 line drawings

Personal genomics services such as 23andMe and Ancestry. com now offer what once was science fiction: the ability to sequence and analyze an individual's entire genetic code – promising, in some cases, facts about that individual's ancestry that may...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Show Me the Bone Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America

Dawson Gowan

ISBN: HB: 9780226332734, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 42 halftones

Nineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even reconstruct the extinct creature it came from with infallible certainty – "Show me the bone, and I will describe the animal!" Paleontologists such as Ge...

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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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Cornerstone The Birth of the City in Mesopotamia

Azara Pedro, Swartz Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9788493923174, University of Chicago Press, Editorial Tenov, October 2015
106 pp., 21x15.8 cm

Taking us back to the earliest days of cities – and the earliest days of human civilization – in Mesopotamia, Pedro Azara in "Cornerstone" offers a contemporary view on the rise and growth of early cities and urban culture. Investigating ruins and ex...

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Anthropology

Pottery Analysis A Sourcebook (Second Edition)

Rice Prudence M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226923215, ISBN: HB: 9780226923208, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
592 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 90 halftones, 124 line drawings, 49 tables

Just as a single pot starts with a lump of clay, the study of a piece's history must start with an understanding of its raw materials. This principle is the foundation of "Pottery Analysis", the acclaimed sourcebook that has become the indispensable...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Kal'unek-from Karluk Kodiak Alutiiq History and the Archaeology of the Karluk One Village Site

Steffian Amy, Leist Marnie, Haakanson Sven Jr., Saltonstall Patrick

ISBN: HB: 9781602232440, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2015
350 pp., 29.3x24.1 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

Karluk One is a remarkable archaeological site. For six hundred years, the Alutiiq built houses upon houses, preserving layer after layer of their ways of life. When fresh water from a nearby pond seeped through the deposit, the massive mound of cult...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Gerulata Lamps A Survey of Roman Lamps in Pannonia

Frecer Robert

ISBN: PB: 9788024626789, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2015
400 pp., 24.1x17 cm, 200 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! For the ancient Romans, lamps were more than just a way to be able to see in the dark – they were mythical muses, witnesses to secrets, and instruments of the supernatural. Far more famili...

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Evolution

Archaeology & Paleontology

Rereading the Fossil Record The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline

Sepkoski David

ISBN: PB: 9780226272948, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
440 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 42 halftones

Although fossils have provided some of the most important evidence for evolution, the discipline of paleontology has not always had a central place in evolutionary biology. Beginning in Darwin's day, and for much of the twentieth century, paleontolog...

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