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Chaco Canyon: Archaeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society
HardcoverOriginal price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, has been called the Stonehenge of North America. Its spectacular pueblos, or great houses, are world famous and have at...
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The Mound Builders
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In Illinois, the one-hundred-foot Cahokia Mound spreads impressively across sixteen acres, and as many as ten thousand more mounds dot the Ohio R...
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Stone Artifacts of Texas Indians
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Useful for academic and recreational archaeologists alike, this book identifies and describes over 200 projectile points and stone tools used by ...
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Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Ever since the Custer massacres on June 25, 1876, the question has been asked: What happened - what REALLY happened - at the Battle of the Little...
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In Search of the Old Ones
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /An exuberant, hands-on fly-on-the-wall account that combines the thrill of canyoneering and rock climbing with the intellectual sleuthing of arch...
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Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /World-renowned Egyptologist Barbara Mertz explores the reality behind the bestselling fiction she writes (as Elizabeth Peters) and casts a dazzli...
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Indian Mounds of Wisconsin
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /More mounds were built by ancient Native Americans in Wisconsin than in any other region of North America--between 15,000 and 20,000, at least 4,...
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The Teotihuacan Trinity: The Sociopolitical Structure of an Ancient Mesoamerican City
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /Northeast of modern-day Mexico City stand the remnants of one of the world's largest preindustrial cities, Teotihuacan. Monumental in scale, Teot...
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Ancient Maya Politics: A Political Anthropology of the Classic Period 150-900 CE
PaperbackOriginal price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /The Classic Maya have long presented scholars with vexing problems. One of the longest running and most contested of these, and the source of dee...
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Breaking Ground: The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and the Unearthing of Tse-whit-zen Village
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /In 2003, a backhoe operator hired by the state of Washington to work on the Port Angeles waterfront discovered what a larger world would soon lea...
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Understanding Collapse: Ancient History and Modern Myths
PaperbackOriginal price $45.99 - Original price $45.99Original price $45.99$54.99$54.99 - $54.99Current price $54.99| /Understanding Collapse explores the collapse of ancient civilisations, such as the Roman Empire, the Maya, and Easter Island. In this lively surv...
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The Chaco Meridian: One Thousand Years of Political and Religious Power in the Ancient Southwest / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Revisiting his ground-breaking synthesis of Southwestern prehistory, Lekson expands our understanding of the political and economic integration o...
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The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs
HardcoverOriginal price $53.00 - Original price $53.00Original price $53.00$70.99$70.99 - $70.99Current price $70.99| /A major new history of the race between two geniuses to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Eur...
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Art in the Pre-Hispanic Southwest: An Archaeology of Native American Cultures
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /This book examines the development of pre-Hispanic Native American cultures in the American Southwest and Mexican Northwest from the Paleoindian ...
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The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East: Volume I: From the Beginnings to Old Kingdom Egypt and the Dynasty of Akkad
HardcoverOriginal price $165.00 - Original price $165.00Original price $165.00$189.99$189.99 - $189.99Current price $189.99| /This groundbreaking, five-volume series offers a comprehensive, fully illustrated history of Egypt and Western Asia (the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopo...
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Landscapes, Rock-Art and the Dreaming: An Archaeology of Preunderstanding
PaperbackOriginal price $40.95 - Original price $40.95Original price $40.95$56.99$56.99 - $56.99Current price $56.99| /The apparent timelessness of the Dreaming of Aboriginal Australia has long mystified European observers, conjuring images of an ancient people in h...
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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: accl...
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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: accl...
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Birds and Beasts of Ancient Mesoamerica: Animal Symbolism in the Postclassic Period
HardcoverOriginal price $113.00 - Original price $113.00Original price $113.00$139.99$139.99 - $139.99Current price $139.99| /Birds and Beasts of Ancient Mesoamerica links Precolumbian animal imagery with scientific data related to animal morphology and behavior, providing...
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Nubia: Lost Civilizations
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Drawing on the latest archaeological and textual discoveries, a revealing look at the rich and dynamic civilization of Nubia. Nubia, the often-ove...
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The Persians: Lost Civilizations
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Now 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...
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Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780593311769 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Anchor Books Publication Date: 09-26-2023 Pages: 480 Product Dimensions: 7.8...
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Documenting Ancient Sagalassos
PaperbackOriginal price $56.00 - Original price $56.00Original price $56.00$73.99$73.99 - $73.99Current price $73.99| /Research Project Sagalassos speaks to the imagination in more ways than one. The authentic and natural beauty of the site no doubt plays a role in ...
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Searching for Ashoka: Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$117.99$117.99 - $117.99Current price $117.99| /Reveals how the persona of India's most famous emperor was constantly reinvented in ancient times to suit a variety of social visions, political ag...
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