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The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
Mary Beard
Belknap Press
Belknap Press
Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million people each year. Yet it is also one of the most puzzling, with an intriguing and sometimes violent history, from the sixth century BCE to the present...
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The Dawn of Human Culture
Richard G. Klein
Wiley
Wiley
A bold new theory on what sparked the "big bang" of human culture The abrupt emergence of human culture over a stunningly short period continues to be one of the great enigmas of human evolution. This compelling book introduces a bold new...
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The Orion Mystery: Unlocking the Secrets of the Pyramids
Robert Bauval, Adrian Gilbert
Three Rivers Press
Three Rivers Press
A revolutionary book that explains the most enigmatic and fascinating wonder of the ancient world: the Pyramids of Egypt. "[An] absorbing and fascinating work of archaeological detection...clearly and rivetingly told...the book is highly and...
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Who Owns Antiquity?: Museums and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage
James Cuno
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
Whether antiquities should be returned to the countries where they were found is one of the most urgent and controversial issues in the art world today, and it has pitted museums, private collectors, and dealers against source countries,...
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The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology)
Joseph Tainter
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press
Political disintegration is a persistent feature of world history. The Collapse of Complex Societies, though written by an archaeologist, will therefore strike a chord throughout the social sciences. Any explanation of societal collapse carries...
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Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex
Judith P. Butler
Routledge
Routledge
In Bodies That Matter, Judith Butler further develops her distinctive theory of gender by examining the workings of power at the most ``material'' dimensions of sex and sexuality. Deepening the inquiries she began in Gender Trouble, Butler offers an...
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The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body
Steven Mithen
Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press
The propensity to make music is the most mysterious, wonderful, and neglected feature of humankind: this is where Steven Mithen began, drawing together strands from archaeology, anthropology, psychology, neuroscience--and, of course,...
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Primitive Technology II
Gibbs Smith, Publisher
Gibbs Smith, Publisher
The Stone Age is the common denominator of mankind, and through experimental archeology-the relearning and replication of ancient skills-we take a step of discovery and understanding into this rich past. In this collection, drawn from the pages of...
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The Maya, Seventh Edition (Ancient Peoples and Places)
Michael D. Coe
Thames & Hudson
Thames & Hudson
"A clear and intelligent description of the development and organization of Maya civilization." — Natural History The Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to the New World's greatest ancient...
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