Archaeology
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The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention
$19.99 Add to cart*A New York Times Editors’ Choice Pick*
An “ambitious work” (Washington Post) tracing the links between autism and ingenuityIs the ability to invent things unique to humans? In T
- Author: Baron-Cohen, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1541647157
- Language: English
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Atlantis: The Find of a Lifetime
$22.95 Add to cartNever before has there been a real discovery where all the physical characteristics of a proposed location matched Plato’s description of Atlantis. Not even the original Santorini hypothesis could suf
- Author: Djonis, Christos a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1662442599
- Language: English
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Angkor and the Khmer Civilization
$29.95 Add to cartA great deal is now known about the brilliant Khmer civilization that flourished among the monsoon forests and rice paddies of mainland Southeast Asia, thanks to the pioneering work of French scholars… [more below]
- Series: Ancient Peoples and Places #0
- Author: Coe, Michael D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 30 2016
- ISBN10: 0500284423
- Language: English
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A History of Ancient Rome in 100 Lives
$16.95 Read moreA vibrant portrait of a lost world, A History of Ancient Rome in 100 Lives reveals the mightiest civilization of antiquity through the eyes of one hundred of its citizens. The book gives a voice not j… [more below]
- Author: Matyszak, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0500297053
- Language: English
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Native Americans of the Cuyahoga Valley: From Early Peoples to Contemporary Issues
$32.00 Add to cartNative Americans of the Cuyahoga Valley presents an accessible distillation of the complex history of Native peoples of the region, from precontact times to today. Essential to anyone seeking a fuller… [more below]
- Series: Ohio History and Culture
- Author: Bobel, Peg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 211
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1629222887
- Language: English
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The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World: The Great Monuments and How They Were Built
$16.95 Read moreHow were the ancient wonders of the world built? How many people did it take to build the Great Wall of China or the Sphinx at Giza? The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World answers these and many mor
- Author: Scarre, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 050029707X
- Language: English
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Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years
$19.99 Add to cartTwenty thousand years ago, women were making and wearing clothing created from spun fibers. In Women’s Work, archaeologist-linguist Elizabeth Wayland Barber “weaves the strands of mythology and litera
- Author: Barber, Elizabeth Wayland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 132407602X
- Language: English
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Secrets of the Dead: Mummies and Other Human Remains from Around the World
$19.99 Add to cartTravel back in time to discover the secrets that lay among mummies and other human remains from around the world.
From ancient Egyptian mummies and European bog bodies to the plaster citizens of Pompe
- Series: British Museum #3
- Author: Ralphs, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Prisse d’Avennes. Egyptian Art
$29.17 Add to cartA lifelong devotee of ancient Egyptian and Oriental culture, the French author, artist, and scholar Achille-Constant-Th?dore-?mile Prisse d’Avennes (1807-1879) is famed as one of the most influential
- Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
- Author: Ikram, Salima
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 3836565005
- Language: English
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The Inca: Lost Civilizations
$29.00 Read moreFrom their mythical origins to astonishing feats of engineering, an expertly informed reassessment of one of the great empires of the Americas: the Inca.
In their heyday, the Inca ruled over the lar- Series: Lost Civilizations
- Author: Lane, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1789145465
- Language: English
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Mountain Spirit: The Sheep Eater Indians of Yellowstone
$19.95 Read moreThere is still a pervasive notion that Indians did not inhabit the Yellowstone area. Drawing on the results of ongoing archaeological excavations and extensive ethnographic work among descendant nativ… [more below]
- Author: Loendorf, Lawrence L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: April 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0874808677
- Language: English
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Every Bone Tells a Story: Hominin Discoveries, Deductions, and Debates
$18.95 Read moreDig in to the oldest record-keeping system on earth: the human body.
Jill Rubalcaba and Peter Robertshaw recount the unearthing of four hominins–Turkana Boy, Lapedo Child, Kennewick Man, and Iceman.- Author: Rubalcaba, Jill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1580891640
- Language: English
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The Orion Mystery: Unlocking the Secrets of the Pyramids
$20.00 Add to cartA revolutionary book that explains the most enigmatic and fascinating wonder of the ancient world: the Pyramids of Egypt.
In 1993, German robotics engineer Rudolf Gatenbrink discovered a sealed door w- Author: Bauval, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 22 1995
- ISBN10: 0517884542
- Language: English
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Who Owns These Bones?
$21.99 Read moreWelcome to the secret world of skeletons From the largest elephant to the smallest mouse, each animal is different, and that goes for their bones, too
Meet a whole host of amazing skeletons and lear- Author: Cap, Henri
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: July 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1786273306
- Language: English
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Nubia: Lost Civilizations
$28.95 Read moreDrawing on the latest archaeological and textual discoveries, a revealing look at the rich and dynamic civilization of Nubia.
Nubia, the often-overlooked southern neighbor of Egypt, has been home to- Series: Lost Civilizations
- Author: Schellinger, Sarah M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1789146593
- Language: English
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The Persians: Lost Civilizations
$29.00 Read moreNow in paperback, this is a history of an incomparable culture whose influence can still be seen, millennia later, in modern-day Iran and the wider Middle East.
During the first and second millennia- Series: Lost Civilizations
- Author: Parker, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1789146895
- Language: English
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Broken Pots, Mending Lives: The Archaeology of Operation Nightingale
$45.00 Read moreThe first publication to feature the innovative Operation Nightingale project, which helps wounded soldiers through involvement in archaeology.
For those that survive, the traumas of military conflict … [more below]
- Author: Osgood, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1636242464
- Language: English
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Ancient Egyptians: Hide and Seek History: With More Than 80 Flaps!
$19.99 Read moreWith more than 80 lift-the-flaps readers can discover incredible stories, supersititions, and astonishing aspects of ancient Egypt.
With more than 80 lift-the-flaps and with flaps under flaps, readers- Author: Marx, Jonny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 16
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1944530312
- Language: English
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The Petroglyphs of Mu: Pohnpei, Nan Madol, and the Legacy of Lemuria
$25.00 Read more– Shows how the archetypal symbols of the Pohnpaid petroglyphs have exact counterparts in other ancient cultures throughout the world
– Provides evidence that Pohnpaid is closely related to–yet preda- Author: Nervig, Carole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1591434475
- Language: English
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Digging in the City of Brotherly Love: Stories from Philadelphia Archaeology
$35.00 Read moreHistoric Philadelphia has long yielded archaeological treasures from its past. Excavations required by the National Historic Preservation Act have recovered pottery shards, pots, plates, coins, bones,… [more below]
- Author: Yamin, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1439922101
- Language: English
