Archaeology
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Wakan Tanka: On Human Origins, Spirituality and the Meaning of Life
$23.99 Add to cartWhere did we come from? Why are we here? Is there a god? In our modern world, many people yearn for answers to these most fundamental of life’s questions, having become disillusioned with trite explan… [more below]
- Author: Bennett, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: February 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1525576941
- Language: English
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Noah’s Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event That Changed History
$19.99 Add to cartOver the millennia, the legend of a great deluge has endured in the biblical story of Noah and in such Middle Eastern myths as the epic of Gilgamesh. Now two distinguished geophysicists have discovere… [more below]
- Author: Ryan, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 25 2000
- ISBN10: 0684859203
- Language: English
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The Voice of the Dawn: An Autohistory of the Abenaki Nation
$29.95 Add to cart“[My] story is a sash woven of many strands of language. The first strand is the remembered wisdom of the Abenaki community. The second strand is our history and that of our relatives, written down by
- Author: Wiseman, Frederick Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 01, 2001
- ISBN10: 1584650591
- Language: English
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Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
$28.00 Read more“Kindred is important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity.”–The New York Times Book Review
“[A] bold and magnificent at- Author: Sykes, Rebecca Wragg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 147293749X
- Language: English
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The History and Archeology of the Iroquois Du Nord
$61.78 Add to cartIn the mid-to late 1660s and early 1670s, the Haudenosaunee established a series of settlements at strategic locations along the trade routes inland at short distances from the north shore of Lake Ont
- Series: Mercury
- Author: Von Bitter, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 0776639803
- Language: English
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The City of Babylon
$30.00 Add to cartThe 2000-year story of Babylon sees it moving from a city-state to the centre of a great empire of the ancient world. It remained a centre of kingship under the empires of Assyria, Nebuchadnezzar, Dar… [more below]
- Author: Dalley, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: July 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1316501779
- Language: English
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Jefferson’s Poplar Forest: Unearthing a Virginia Plantation
$21.95 Add to cartThomas Jefferson once called his plantation Poplar Forest, “the most valuable of my possessions.” For Jefferson, Poplar Forest was a private retreat for him to escape the hordes of visitors and everyd
- Author: Heath, Barbara J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0813062993
- Language: English
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Ten Discoveries That Rewrote History
$24.00 Add to cartThe world’s greatest archaeological finds and what they tell us about lost civilizations
Renowned archaeologist Patrick Hunt brings his top ten list of ancient archaeological discoveries to life in t- Author: Hunt, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0452288770
- Language: English
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Storied Stone: Indian Rock Art in the Black Hills Country
$24.95 Add to cartAncient petroglyphs and paintings on rocky cliffs and cave walls preserve the symbols and ideas of American Indian cultures. From scenes of human-to-animal transformations found in petroglyphs dating
- Author: Sundstrom, Linea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: November 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0806135964
- Language: English
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The Etruscans: Lost Civilizations
$18.00 Add to cartNow in paperback, a brief introduction to the mysteries of the enigmatic, ancient civilization in the area of modern Italy.
The Etruscans were a powerful people, marked by an influential civilization- Series: Lost Civilizations
- Author: Shipley, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1789148324
- Language: English
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Tutankhamun and the Tomb That Changed the World
$29.99 Add to cartIt is often thought that the story of Tutankhamun ended when the thousands of dazzling items discovered by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon were transported to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and put on … [more below]
- Author: Brier, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0197635059
- Language: English
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The Complete Tutankhamun: 100 Years of Discovery
$50.00 Read moreOn November 4, 1922, Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter’s long search in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings drew to a triumphant close: Tutankhamun’s tomb had been found. As news of the discovery spread, and a
- Author: Reeves, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 0500052166
- Language: English
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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
$15.99 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 Add to cartThis 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
