Archaeology
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Caring for American Indian Objects: A Practical and Cultural Guide
$39.95 Read moreAmerican Indian cultural objects, like most objects, deteriorate over time. Precious and irreplaceable pieces of a people’s heritage can turn to dust, either slowly or rapidly, depending upon their co… [more below]
- Author: Ogden, Sherelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: August 16 2004
- ISBN10: 0873515056
- Language: English
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People of Chaco: A Canyon and Its Culture (Revised)
$30.99 Add to cartIn northwestern New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon lies a spectacular array of ruins. Like Stonehenge, they are both a monument to our pre-history and a cryptic puzzle. We know that in Chaco Canyon, one thousa
- Author: Frazier, Kendrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393318257
- Language: English
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The Spartans
$16.98 Add to cartThe image of Sparta, and the Spartans, is one dyed indelibly into the public consciousness: musclebound soldiers with long hair and red cloaks, bearing shiny bronze shields emblazoned with the Greek l… [more below]
- Author: Bayliss, Andrew J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0198853084
- Language: English
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Indian Rock Art of the Southwest
$49.95 Read moreThis comprehensive view of carvings and paintings on stone by Native Americans from 200 B.C. through the nineteenth century surveys the rock art of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, northern Mexico, and west
- Series: School of American Research Southwest Indian Arts
- Author: Schaafsma, Polly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 393
- Publish Date: July 01 1986
- ISBN10: 0826309135
- Language: English
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Grave Matters: The Controversy Over Excavating California’s Buried Indigenous Past
$24.00 Add to cartHow do we reconcile the sanctity of Indigenous burial grounds with the desire to study them?
Whether by curious Boy Scouts and “backyard archaeologists” or competitive collectors and knowledge-hungry- Author: Platt, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1597145599
- Language: English
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Mudlark: In Search of London’s Past Along the River Thames
$17.95 Read moreThe international bestseller that mesmerizingly charts quixotic journeys through London’s past, Mudlark thrills Anglophiles and history lovers alike. Long heralded as a city treasure herself, beloved
- Author: Maiklem, Lara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1324090723
- Language: English
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Blackbeard’s Sunken Prize: The 300-Year Voyage of Queen Anne’s Revenge
$31.95 Add to cartIn 1717, the notorious pirate Blackbeard captured a French slaving vessel off the coast of Martinique and made it his flagship, renaming it Queen Anne’s Revenge. Over the next six months, the heavily … [more below]
- Author: Wilde-Ramsing, Mark U.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 11 2018
- ISBN10: 146964052X
- Language: English
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A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology
$18.95 Read moreFrom the decipherment of hieroglyphics in 1822 to the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon a hundred years later, the uncovering of Egypt’s ancient past took place in an
- Author: Wilkinson, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0393882403
- Language: English
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Porch Talk: A Conversation about Archaeology in the Texas Panhandle
$19.95 Add to cartWhen John Erickson, author of the Hank the Cowdog book series, saved up and purchased a tract of Panhandle property near Perryton, it set off a chain of discovery. Who lived in Texas over a thousand y… [more below]
- Author: Erickson, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1682831221
- Language: English
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Rome Is Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty
$18.95 Add to cartDrawing on new archaeological evidence, an authoritative history of Rome’s Great Fire–and how it inflicted lasting harm on the Roman Empire
According to legend, the Roman emperor Nero set fire to his- Series: Turning Points in Ancient History #9
- Author: Barrett, Anthony a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0691233942
- Language: English
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The Mound Builders
$21.95 Add to cartIn Illinois, the one-hundred-foot Cahokia Mound spreads impressively across sixteen acres, and as many as ten thousand more mounds dot the Ohio River Valley alone. The Mound Builders traces the specul
- Author: Silverberg, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: May 01 1986
- ISBN10: 0821408399
- Language: English
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History Archaeological Thought 2ed
$79.33 Add to cartIn its original edition, Bruce Trigger’s book was the first ever to examine the history of archaeological thought from medieval times to the present in world-wide perspective. Now, in this new edition… [more below]
- Author: Trigger, Bruce G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 726
- Publish Date: September 11 2006
- ISBN10: 0521600499
- Language: English
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Petroglyphs of the Kansas Smoky Hills
$74.98 Add to cartLong before the coming of Euro-Americans, native inhabitants of what is now Kansas left their mark on the land: carvings in the soft orange and red sandstone of the state&fsquo;s Smoky Hills. Though n… [more below]
- Author: Buchanan, Rex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 0700628428
- Language: English
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Cræft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts
$18.99 Read moreFaced with an endless supply of mass-manufactured products, we find ourselves nostalgic for goods bearing the mark of authenticity–hand-made tools, local brews, and other objects produced by human ha
- Author: Langlands, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0393356574
- Language: English
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In Search of the Old Ones
$18.99 Add to cartAn exuberant, hands-on fly-on-the-wall account that combines the thrill of canyoneering and rock climbing with the intellectual sleuthing of archaeology to explore the Anasazi.
David Roberts describes- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 09 1997
- ISBN10: 0684832127
- Language: English
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The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts
$20.00 Add to cartIn this groundbreaking work that sets apart fact and legend, authors Finkelstein and Silberman use significant archeological discoveries to provide historical information about biblical Israel and its… [more below]
- Author: Finkelstein, Israel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 11 2002
- ISBN10: 0684869136
- Language: English
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Archaeology of the Bible: The Greatest Discoveries from Genesis to the Roman Era
$40.00 Read moreFrom ancient holy sites, to buried relics and treasures, National Geographic uncovers the history and the archaeological discoveries from Scripture and the biblical world. Richly illustrated and writt… [more below]
- Author: Isbouts, Jean-Pierre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 1426217048
- Language: English
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The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time
$22.95 Add to cart- Author: Raffles, Hugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1891241737
- Language: English
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Blurred Boundaries: Perspectives on Rock Art of the Greater Southwest
$50.00 Add to cartGold Medal Recipient in Books for the Budapest International Foto Awards 2023
Gold Medal Recipient in Books for the Tokyo International Foto Awards 2023
Independent Press Award “Distinguished Favorit… [more below]- Author: Frej, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0890136793
- Language: English
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Girl Archaeologist: Sisterhood in a Sexist Profession
$24.95 Add to cart2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Girl Archaeologist recounts Alice Kehoe’s life, begun in an era very different from the twenty-first century in which she retired as an honored elder archaeolog- Author: Kehoe, Alice Beck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496229363
- Language: English
