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1491: New Revelations Of The Americas Before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann

ISBN 1400032059 (1-4000-3205-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.

Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus's landing had crossed the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago; existed mainly in small, nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas was, for all practical purposes, still a vast wilderness. But as Charles C. Mann now makes clear, archaeologists and anthropologists have spent the last thirty years proving these and many other long-held assumptions wrong.

In a book that startles and persuades, Mann reveals how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques came to previously unheard-of conclusions. Among them:

? In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe.
? Certain cities-such as Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital-were far greater in population than any contemporary European city. Furthermore, Tenochtitlán, unlike any capital in Europe at that time, had running water, beautiful botanical gardens, and immaculately clean streets.
? The earliest cities in the Western Hemisphere were thriving before the Egyptians built the great pyramids.
? Pre-Columbian Indians in Mexico developed corn by a breeding process so sophisticated that the journal Science recently described it as "man's first, and perhaps the greatest, feat of genetic engineering."
? Amazonian Indians learned how to farm the rain forest without destroying it-a process scientists are studying today in the hope of regaining this lost knowledge.
? Native Americans transformed their land so completely that Europeans arrived in a hemisphere already massively "landscaped" by human beings. [via]
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The Archaeology of Greece: An Introduction
by William R. Biers

ISBN 0801482801 (0-8014-8280-1)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr

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William R. Biers wrote The Archaeology of Greece to introduce students, teachers, and lay readers to the delights of exploring the world of ancient Greece. The great popularity of the first edition testifies to his success. In his preface to the second edition, Biers points out that, while the field of Greek archaeology may seem conservative and slow-moving, it has undergone major changes, especially in regard to work on the Bronze Age.
The second edition brings information on all areas up to date, reflecting the most recent research, and it includes cross references to Perseus II, the interactive electronic data base on Archaic and Classical Greece. This edition includes new illustrations, some of recent finds, some of improved plans, and others added to enhance an explanation or to illustrate a point.
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Arthur's Britain:History and Archaeology, AD367-634: History and Archaeology, AD367-634
by Leslie Alcock

ISBN 0713902450 (0-7139-0245-0)
Hardcover, Allen Lane

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The Bible As History
by Werner Keller

ISBN 0553279432 (0-553-27943-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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The Bible As History, now thoroughly updated with the latest scientific and archaeological breakthroughs in biblical investigation.

Including:

Revolutionary new evidence that confirms some of the most monumental and controversial events in the Bible-including the destruction of Sodom and Gomorra
Recently deciphered texts from the ancient world that offer an intriguing look back at the origin of the Ten Commandments
An entirely new chapter revealing the extraordinary techniques that may soon prove the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin

The Bible As History will take you on a breathtaking journey to the heart of Holy Scripture as it pieces together one of the most stunning spiritual puzzles in the history of mankind. [via]
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The Bible as History: Archaeology Confirms the Book of Books
by Werner Keller

ISBN 0340190450 (0-340-19045-0)
Hardcover, Hodder and Stoughton

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The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts
by Israel Finkelstein, Neil Asher Silberman

ISBN 0684869136 (0-684-86913-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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The Bible Unearthed is a balanced, thoughtful, bold reconsideration of the historical period that produced the Hebrew Bible. The headline news in this book is easy to pick out: there is no evidence for the existence of Abraham, or any of the Patriarchs; ditto for Moses and the Exodus; and the same goes for the whole period of Judges and the united monarchy of David and Solomon. In fact, the authors argue that it is impossible to say much of anything about ancient Israel until the seventh century B.C., around the time of the reign of King Josiah. In that period, "the narrative of the Bible was uniquely suited to further the religious reform and territorial ambitions of Judah." Yet the authors deny that their arguments should be construed as compromising the Bible's power. Only in the 18th century--"when the Hebrew Bible began to be dissected and studied in isolation from its powerful function in community life"--did readers begin to view the Bible as a source of empirically verifiable history. For most of its life, the Bible has been what Finkelstein and Silberman reveal it once more to be: an eloquent expression of "the deeply rooted sense of shared origins, experiences, and destiny that every human community needs in order to survive," written in such a way as to encompass "the men, women, and children, the rich, the poor, and the destitute of an entire community." --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of Archaeology
by Paul G. Bahn

ISBN 0521669464 (0-521-66946-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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This is the fullest and most authoritative single-volume account of archaeology from the earliest discoveries to the great excavations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lavishly illustrated throughout and global in scope, it tells the story of those explorations which have helped shape our knowledge of the past. From early digging in Greece and the Near East, through the part played by archaeology in the 'discovery' of the Americas, to the unearthing of sites in Africa, Scandinavia, the former Soviet Union, and Australasia, the book describes individual events as part of a connected narrative amounting to a thorough history of the subject for general readers. It is the first general history of archaeology written by a team of specialists and the first history to cover every part of the world. The book is complete with time-period charts, lists of archaeological events, and a full index. [via]
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- The Cambridge Illustrated History of Archaeology: ISBN 0521454980 (0-521-45498-0)
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The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
by Riane Eisler

ISBN 0062502891 (0-06-250289-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Some books are like revelations, they open the spirit to unimaginable possibilities. The Chalice and the Blade is one of those magnificent key books that can transform us and...initiate fundamental changes in the world. With the most passionate eloquence, Riane Eisler proves that the dream of peace is not an impossible utopia. -- Isabelle Allende, author of The House of the Spirits [via]
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Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed
by Jared Diamond

ISBN 0143036556 (0-14-303655-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns, Germs, and Steel explained the geographic and environmental reasons why some human populations have flourished, Collapse uses the same factors to examine why ancient societies, including the Anasazi of the American Southwest and the Viking colonies of Greenland, as well as modern ones such as Rwanda, have fallen apart. Not every collapse has an environmental origin, but an eco-meltdown is often the main catalyst, he argues, particularly when combined with society's response to (or disregard for) the coming disaster. Still, right from the outset of Collapse, the author makes clear that this is not a mere environmentalist's diatribe. He begins by setting the book's main question in the small communities of present-day Montana as they face a decline in living standards and a depletion of natural resources. Once-vital mines now leak toxins into the soil, while prion diseases infect some deer and elk and older hydroelectric dams have become decrepit. On all these issues, and particularly with the hot-button topic of logging and wildfires, Diamond writes with equanimity.
Because he's addressing such significant issues within a vast span of time, Diamond can occasionally speak too briefly and assume too much, and at times his shorthand remarks may cause careful readers to raise an eyebrow. But in general, Diamond provides fine and well-reasoned historical examples, making the case that many times, economic and environmental concerns are one and the same. With Collapse, Diamond hopes to jog our collective memory to keep us from falling for false analogies or forgetting prior experiences, and thereby save us from potential devastations to come. While it might seem a stretch to use medieval Greenland and the Maya to convince a skeptic about the seriousness of global warming, it's exactly this type of cross-referencing that makes Collapse so compelling. --Jennifer Buckendorff [via]
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Crocodile on the Sandbank
by Elizabeth Peters

ISBN 0445406518 (0-445-40651-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub

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Elizabeth Peters's unforgettable heroine Amelia Peabody makes her first appearance in this clever mystery. Amelia receives a rather large inheritance and decides to use it for travel. On her way through Rome to Egypt, she meets Evelyn Barton-Forbes, a young woman abandoned by her lover and left with no means of support. Amelia promptly takes Evelyn under her wing, insisting that the young lady accompany her to Egypt, where Amelia plans to indulge her passion for Egyptology. When Evelyn becomes the target of an aborted kidnapping and the focus of a series of suspicious accidents and mysterious visitations, Amelia becomes convinced of a plot to harm her young friend. Like any self-respecting sleuth, Amelia sets out to discover who is behind it all. [via]
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Cross Bones
by Kathy Reichs

ISBN 1594131392 (1-59413-139-2)
Softcover, Large Print Pr

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In a gripping and explosive new thriller from Kathy Reichs, a murder victim becomes the first link in a trail that leads Temperance Brennan and Detective Andrew Ryan to an archaeological discovery that could upend 2,000 years of history. [via]
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The Curse of the Pharaohs
by Elizabeth Peters

ISBN 0445406488 (0-445-40648-8)
Softcover, Mysterious Pr

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Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody Emerson and her archaeologist husband are busy raising their young son; yet Amelia dreams only of the dust and detritus of ancient civilizations. Happily, circumstances are about to demand their immediate presence in Egypt. Sir Henry Baskerville had just discovered a tomb in Luxor when he promptly died under bizarre circumstances. The tabloids scream of The Curse of the Pharaohs! Amelia and her husband arrive to find the camp in disarray and the workers terrified. A ghost even appears. It is not at all what Amelia considers an atmosphere conducive to scientific discovery. Thus the indomitable Victorian sets about bringing order to chaos and herself close to danger. How Amelia triumphs over evil and those who would stand between her and her beloved antiquities makes for a delightfully spirited adventure. [via]
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The Curse of the Pharaohs/Collectors
by Elizabeth Peters

ISBN 0922890404 (0-922890-40-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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Digging Up the Past
by Charles Leonard Woolley

ISBN 0510035043 (0-510-03504-3)
Hardcover, E. Benn

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Dioses Tumbas Y Sabios
by C.W. Ceram

ISBN 8423308677 (84-233-0867-7)
Hardcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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The Engines of God
by Jack McDevitt

ISBN 0441002846 (0-441-00284-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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Fingerprints of the Gods
by Graham Hancock

ISBN 0517887290 (0-517-88729-0)
Softcover, Crown Pub

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The bestselling author of The Sign and the Seal reveals the true origins of civilization. Connecting puzzling clues scattered throughout the world, Hancock discovers compelling evidence of a technologically and culturally advanced civilization that was destroyed and obliterated from human memory. Four 8-page photo inserts. [via]
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Fingerprints of the Gods : The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization
by Graham Hancock

ISBN 0517593483 (0-517-59348-3)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group

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The author of the best-selling The Sign and the Seal takes readers along on a quest for proof of the existence of an ancient advanced civilization--not Atlantis--that predates Egyptian, Hittite, and Chinese cultures. An irresistible mixture of historical detective work, hard science, and recent discoveries in ancient places.Black-and-white photographs. [via]
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Gods, Graves and Scholars
by C.W. Ceram

ISBN 0394743199 (0-394-74319-9)
Softcover, Vintage Books

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C.W. Ceram visualized archeology as a wonderful combination of high adventure, romance, history and scholarship, and this book, a chronicle of man's search for his past, reads like a dramatic narrative. We travel with Heinrich Schliemann as, defying the ridicule of the learned world, he actually unearths the remains of the ancient city of Troy. We share the excitement of Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter as they first glimpse the riches of Tutankhamen's tomb, of George Smith when he found the ancient clay tablets that contained the records of the Biblical Flood. We rediscover the ruined splendors of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the wonders of the ancient wold; of Chichen Itza, the abandoned pyramids of the Maya: and the legendary Labyrinth of tile Minotaur in Crete. Here is much of the history of civilization and the stories of the men who rediscovered it. [via]
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Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond

ISBN 0393317552 (0-393-31755-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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With a new chapter. The phenomenal bestseller; over 1.5 million copies sold; is now a major PBS special.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations drawn from the television series. Until around 11,000 BC, all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the rates that human societies evolved. In Eurasia, parts of the Americas, and Africa, farming became the prevailing mode of existence when indigenous wild plants and animals were domesticated by prehistoric planters and herders. As Jared Diamond vividly reveals, the very people who gained a head start in producing food would collide with preliterate cultures, shaping the modern world through conquest, displacement, and genocide.The paths that lead from scattered centers of food to broad bands of settlement had a great deal to do with climate and geography. But how did differences in societies arise? Why weren't native Australians, Americans, or Africans the ones to colonize Europe? Diamond dismantles pernicious racial theories tracing societal differences to biological differences. He assembles convincing evidence linking germs to domestication of animals, germs that Eurasians then spread in epidemic proportions in their voyages of discovery. In its sweep, Guns, Germs and Steel encompasses the rise of agriculture, technology, writing, government, and religion, providing a unifying theory of human history as intriguing as the histories of dinosaurs and glaciers. 32 illustrations [via]
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Guns, Germs, and Steel Reader's Companion
by Jared Diamond

ISBN 1586638637 (1-58663-863-7)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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Scholar and professor Jared Diamond made a huge splash with this fascinating but controversial book, which argues that geography and environment have almost singlehandedly determined the course of human history. Dig deeper into his contentions with the information inside this invaluable reader's handbook:
- Why did Europe colonize Africa and Asia rather than the other way around?
- Why is geography the most important factor in human history?
- How has the rest of the scientific community received Diamond's theory?
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Herculaneum: Italy's Buried Treasure
by Joseph J. Deiss

ISBN 0892361646 (0-89236-164-6)
Softcover, J Paul Getty Museum Pubns

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In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology, and Myth
by J. P. Mallory

ISBN 0500276161 (0-500-27616-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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In Search of the Old Ones: Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest
by David Roberts

ISBN 0684832127 (0-684-83212-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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The Language of the Goddess
by Marija Gimbutas, Joseph Campbell

ISBN 0500282498 (0-500-28249-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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"The first authoritative work on the ancient goddess culture."Boston Globe

The Goddess is the most potent and persistent feature in the archaeological records of the ancient world, a symbol of the unity of life in nature and the personification of all that was sacred and mysterious on earth.

In this pioneering and provocative volume, Marija Gimbutas resurrects the world of the Goddess-worshipping, earth-centered cultures, bringing ancient matriarchal society vividly to life. She interweaves comparative mythology, early historical sources, linguistics, ethnography, and folklore to demonstrate conclusively that Goddess-worship is at the root of Western civilization. Illustrated with nearly 2,000 symbolic artifacts, Gimbutas' magnum opus is at once a "pictorial script" of the prehistoric Goddess religion and an authoritative work that takes these ancient cultures from the realm of speculation into that of documented fact. Over 500 illustrations. [via]
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Lost Cities of North & Central America
by David Hatcher Childress

ISBN 0932813097 (0-932813-09-7)
Softcover, Adventures Unlimited Pr

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Lucy, the Beginnings of Humankind
by Donald Johanson

ISBN 0671724991 (0-671-72499-1)
Softcover, Touchstone Books

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The story of one of the most important fossil finds in man's search for his ancestors - the 60per cent complete female hominid skeleton nicknamed "Lucy". Confirming beyond doubt the early bipedal nature of human ancestors, she was discovered in 1973 in Ethiopia by a team of scientists led by Johanson. [via]
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Motel of the Mysteries
by David Macaulay

ISBN 0395284252 (0-395-28425-2)
Softcover, Walter Lorraine

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It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in crossing the perimeter of an abandoned excavation site he felt the ground give way beneath him and found himself at the bottom of a shaft, which, judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob, was clearly the entrance to a still-sealed burial chamber. Carson's incredible discoveries, including the remains of two bodies, one of then on a ceremonial bed facing an altar that appeared to be a means of communicating with the Gods and the other lying in a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber, permitted him to piece together the whole fabric of that extraordinary civilization.
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Mummies of Urumchi
by E. J. W. Barber

ISBN 0393320197 (0-393-32019-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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The 2000-year-old mummies of Ürümchi, found in central Asia along the famed Silk Road trading route, are so well preserved as to show clearly that they seem to be of Caucasoid origin. Where did these people come from? Where did they go? You can find their pale-skinned, light-haired descendents among the people of the region, but the story of their presence in this forbidding land leaves more mysteries than it answers. Mass migrations during the Bronze Age scattered many peoples across Europe and Asia, and these startlingly lively-looking mummies may help answer some questions about this period of human history. Their intact, fantastically colored and patterned clothing captures much of author Elizabeth Wayland Barber's attention--she is an expert on prehistoric textiles. Her enthusiastic descriptions of the sewing skills of these migrant people, while focusing on details, lend an immediacy to this fascinating tale. Black-and-white as well as color photos, maps, and diagrams illustrate Barber's colorful tale of anthropology. --Therese Littleton [via]
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The Mummy Case
by Elizabeth Peters

ISBN 0446601934 (0-446-60193-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub

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Disgusted when he is denied access to the pyramids of Dahshoor and assigned to a "rubble heap," Emerson finds his curiosity piqued when an antiquities dealer is murdered and a mummy case disappears. Reissue. [via]
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Origin of Conciousness
by Jaynes

ISBN 0802023061 (0-8020-2306-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Toronto Pr

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At the heart of this book is the revolutionary idea that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution. Rather, Jaynes presents consciousness as a learned process that evolved from an earlier hallucinatory mentality only three thousand years ago. The implications extend into every aspect if human life. [via]
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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
by Julian Jaynes

ISBN 0618057072 (0-618-05707-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin

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The Picasso Flop
by Robert J. Randisi, Vince Van Patten

ISBN 0892960701 (0-89296-070-1)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub

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Van Patten, host of Travel Channel's "World Poker Tour," and mystery writer Randisi team up to deliver this first novel in a new fast-paced, high-stakes poker mystery series. [via]
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Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages With Special Reference to the Aegean
by E. J. W. Barber

ISBN 069100224X (0-691-00224-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr

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This pioneering work revises our notions of the origins and early development of textiles in Europe and the Near East. Using innovative linguistic techniques, along with methods from palaeobiology and other fields, it shows that spinning and pattern weaving began far earlier than has been supposed.
Prehistoric Textiles made an unsurpassed leap in the social and cultural understanding of textiles in humankind's early history. Cloth making was an industry that consumed more time and effort, and was more culturally significant to prehistoric cultures, than anyone assumed before the book's publication. The textile industry is in fact older than pottery--and perhaps even older than agriculture and stockbreeding. It probably consumed far more hours of labor per year, in temperate climates, than did pottery and food production put together. And this work was done primarily by women. Up until the Industrial Revolution, and into this century in many peasant societies, women spent every available moment spinning, weaving, and sewing.
The author, Elizabeth Wayland Barber, demonstrates command of an almost unbelievably disparate array of disciplines--from historical linguistics to archaeology and paleobiology, from art history to the practical art of weaving. Her passionate interest in the subject matter leaps out on every page. Barber, a professor of linguistics and archaeology, developed expert sewing and weaving skills as a small girl under her mother's tutelage. One could say she had been born and raised to write this book.
Because modern textiles are almost entirely made by machines, we have difficulty appreciating how time-consuming and important the premodern textile industry was. This book opens our eyes to this crucial area of prehistoric human culture.
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Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage
by Cullen Murphy, William Rathje

ISBN 0816521433 (0-8165-2143-3)
Softcover, Univ of Arizona Pr

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The Sea Hunters : True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks
by Clive Cussler, Craig Dirgo

ISBN 0743480694 (0-7434-8069-4)
Softcover, Pocket Books

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A steamboat goes up in flames...and down to the bottom of the sea. A locomotive plunges into a creek...and vanished into mystery. A German U-boat sends an American troop transport, and eight hundred on board, to a watery grave, on Christmas eve.
Clive Cussler and his crack team of NUMA (National Underwater Marine Agency, a nonprofit organization that searches for historic shipwrecks) volunteers have found the remains of these and other tragic wrecks. Here for the first time are the dramatic, true accounts of the twelve most remarkable underwater discoveries made by Cussler and his team. As suspenseful and satisfying as the best of his Dirk Pitt novels, The Sea Hunters is a unique story of true commitment and courage. [via]
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The Second Mouse
by Archer Mayor

ISBN 0892960728 (0-89296-072-8)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub

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Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
by Gary Kinder

ISBN 0783803788 (0-7838-0378-8)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr

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The facts speak for themselves. In 1857, the Central America, a sidewheel steamer ferrying passengers fresh from the gold rush of California to New York and laden with 21 tons of California gold, encountered a severe storm off the Carolina coast and sank, carrying more than 400 passengers and all her cargo down with her. She then sat for 132 years, 200 miles offshore and almost two miles below the ocean's surface--a depth at which she was assumed to be unrecoverable--until 1989, when a deep-water research vessel sailed into the harbor at Norfolk, Virginia, fat with salvaged gold coins and bullion estimated to be worth one billion dollars.
Author Gary Kinder wisely lets the story of the Columbus-America Discovery Group, led by maverick scientist and entrepreneur Tommy Thompson, unfold without hyperbole. Kinder interweaves the tale of the Central America and her passengers and crew with Thompson's own story of growing up landlocked in Ohio, an irrepressible tinkerer and explorer even in his childhood days, and his progress to adulthood as a young man who always had "7 to 14" projects on the table or spinning in his head at any given moment. One of those projects would become the preposterous recovery of the stricken steamer, and the resourcefulness and later urgency with which the project would proceed is contrasted poignantly with the Central America's doomed battle in 1857 to stay afloat.
Thompson, who spent nearly a decade planning and organizing his recovery effort, emerges as one of the great unsung adventurers of these times (the technical innovations alone required for such a task produced a windfall for the scientific community and defined a new state of the art for deep-sea explorers and treasure hunters), and the story of the steamer's sinking is compelling enough to make any reader wonder why the Central America sinking isn't synonymous with shipwreck in this Titanic-happy age. --Tjames Madison [via]
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The Sign and the Seal
by Graham Hancock

ISBN 0385254148 (0-385-25414-8)
Softcover, Doubleday Canada, Limited

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Sign and the Seal
by Hancock

ISBN 0671865412 (0-671-86541-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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The fact of the Lost Ark of the Covenant is one of the grant historical mysteries of all time. To believers, the Ark is the legendary vesel holding the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments. The Bible contains hundreds of references to the Ark's power to level mountains, destroy armies, and lay waste to cities. The Ark itself, however, mysteriously disappears from recorded history sometime after the building of the Temple of Solomon.
After ten years of searching through the dusty archives of Europe and the Middle East, as well as braving the real-life dangers of a bloody civil war in Ethiopia, Graham Hancock has succeeded where scores of others have failed. This intrepid journalist has tracked down the true story behind the myths and legends -- revealing where the Ark is today, how it got there, and why it remains hidden.
Part fascinating scholarship and part entertaining adventure yarn, tying together some of the most intriguing tales of all time -- from the Knights Templar and Prester John to Parsival and the Holy Grail -- this book will appeal to anyone fascinated by the revelation of hidden truths, the discovery of secret mysteries. [via]
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The Sign and the Seal : Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant
by Graham Hancock

ISBN 0385252900 (0-385-25290-0)
Hardcover, Doubleday Canada, Limited

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A compelling brew of mystery, crime, and science revealing the details of high-tech murder investigation.

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Stonehenge Decoded
by Gerald S. Hawkins

ISBN 038528974X (0-385-28974-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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This book was digitized and reprinted from the collections of the University of California Libraries. Together, the more than one hundred UC Libraries comprise the largest university research library in the world, with over thirty-five million volumes in their holdings. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found online in the HathiTrust Digital Library.HP's patented BookPrep technology was used to clean artifacts resulting from use and digitization, improving your reading experience. [via]
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Stonehenge Decoded
by John B. White, Gerald S. Hawkins

ISBN 0880291478 (0-88029-147-8)
Hardcover, Hippocrene Books

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Textiles and Clothing, C. 1150-1450 : Finds from Medieval Excavations in London
by Elisabeth Crowfoot, Frances Pritchard, Kay Staniland

ISBN 1843832399 (1-84383-239-9)
Softcover, Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated

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Among the most evocative items to be discovered by archaeologists are the scraps of silk and wool and other fabrics that signal so eloquently their owner's status and concerns. Such clothing and textile finds have figured prominently in excavations of medieval sites in London in the past two decades; they have included knitting, tapestries, silk hair-nets and elaborately patterned oriental, Islamic and Italian fabrics, which reveal for the first time the wide range of cloths available to medieval Londoners; there are beautifully made buttons, and buttonholes and edgings which display superb craftsmanship and a high level of needlework skills; the way that clothes were cut and sewn can be studied in detail. This highly readable account will be of wide general interest; dress historians and archaeologists will also find a wealth of new insights into the fashions, clothing and textile industries of medieval England and Europe. Contents include: The Excavations, Techniques used in Textile Production, Wool Textiles, Goathair Textiles, Linen Textiles, Silk Textiles, Mixed Cloths, Narrow Wares, Sewing Techniques and Tailoring, Dyes. [via]
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The Town of Hercules
by Joseph Jay Deiss

ISBN 0892362227 (0-89236-222-7)
Hardcover, J Paul Getty Museum Pubns

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Treasures of Tutankhamun:[catalogue of an Exhibition] Held at the British Museum, 1972;: [catalogue of an Exhibition] Held at the British Museum, 1972;
by British Museum

ISBN 0723000700 (0-7230-0070-0)
Hardcover, British Museum

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Treasures of Tutankhamun: National Gallery of Art
by Edwards Ies

ISBN 0870991566 (0-87099-156-6)
Softcover, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Underworld: Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age
by Graham Hancock

ISBN 0718144007 (0-7181-4400-7)
Hardcover, Michael Joseph

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Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
by Graham Hancock, Santha Faiia

ISBN 1400049512 (1-4000-4951-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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From Graham Hancock, bestselling author of Fingerprints of the Gods, comes a mesmerizing book that takes us on a captivating underwater voyage to find the ruins of a lost civilization thats been hidden for thousands of years beneath the worlds oceans.

While Graham Hancock is no stranger to stirring up heated controversy among scientific experts, his books and television documentaries have intrigued millions of people around the world and influenced many to rethink their views about the origins of human civilization. Now he returns with an explosive new work of archaeological detection. In Underworld, Hancock continues his remarkable quest underwater, where, according to almost a thousand ancient myths from every part of the globe, the ruins of a lost civilization, obliterated in a universal flood, are to be found.

Guided by cutting-edge science and the latest archaeological scholarship, Hancock begins his mission to discover the truth about these myths and examines the mystery at the end of the last Ice Age. As the glaciers melted between 17,000 and 7,000 years ago, sea levels rose and more than 15 million square miles of habitable land were submerged underwater, resulting in a radical change to the Earths shape and the conditions in which people could live. Using the latest computer techniques to map the worlds changing coastlines, Hancock finds astonishing correspondences with the ancient flood myths.

Filled with thrilling accounts of his own participation in dives off the coast of Japan, as well as in the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and the Arabian Sea, we watch as Hancock discovers underwater ruins exactly where the myths say they should besunken kingdoms that archaeologists never thought existed. Fans of Hancocks previous adventures will find themselves immersed in Underworld, a provocative book that provides both compelling hard evidence for a fascinating, forgotten episode in human history and a completely new explanation for the origins of civilization as we know it. [via]
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Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
by Elizabeth Wayland Barber

ISBN 0393313484 (0-393-31348-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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2500 years ago, the women of Athens slaved at home, virtual prisoners of their husbands, expected to provide the cloth and clothing for their family. 4000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, there was a very different picture: respectable women were in business, weaving textiles at home to be sold abroad for gold and silver. Going back even further, 20,000 years ago women began making and wearing the first clothing created from spun fibres. Indeed, for over 20,000 years, until the Industrial Revolution, the arts of weaving belonged primarily to women and were the principal vehicle for demonstrating their various roles as mother, provider, worker, entrepreneur and artist. [via]
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The World's Last Mysteries
by Reader's Digest

ISBN 089577044X (0-89577-044-X)
Hardcover, Readers Digest

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La Mesopotamie: Essai D'histoire Politique, economique Et Culturelle
by Georges Roux

ISBN 2020086328 (2-02-008632-8)
Hardcover, Editions Du Seuil

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473pages. 23,8x16,4x4cm. Relié jaquette. [via]
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Armas, germenes y acero/ Guns, Germs and Steel
by Jared Diamond

ISBN 848306667X (84-8306-667-X)
Hardcover, Debate Editorial

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