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New Arrivals $36.75 Trade Paper add to wishlist Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, and the Antiquities Trade (Cultural Heritage Studies) Neil (edt) Brodie $76.25 Hardcover add to wishlist The Tira de Tepechpan: Negotiating Place Under Aztec and Spanish Rule Lori Boornazian Diel $76.25 Hardcover add to wishlist Thunder and Herds: Rock Art of the High Plains Lawrence L. Loendorf $31.96 Trade Paper add to wishlist Proceedings of the Danish Institute at Athens #5: Proceedings of the Danish Institute at Athens, 5 Erik Hallager And Jesper Tae Jensen $24.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist The Archaeology of Alcohol and Drinking (American Experience in Archaeological Perspective) Frederick H Smith $35.00 Hardcover add to wishlist Digging in the City of Brotherly Love: Stories from Philadelphia Archaeology Rebecca Yamin $35.00 Hardcover add to wishlist Philip II of Macedonia Ian Worthington $107.25 Hardcover add to wishlist The Megaliths of Northern Europe Magdalena S. Midgley $50.00 Hardcover add to wishlist The Royal Mummies: Immortality in Ancient Egypt Zahi (int) Hawass $21.99 Trade Paper add to wishlist Archaeology for Dummies (For Dummies) Nancy Marie White $34.95 Hardcover add to wishlist Palenque: Eternal City of the Maya David Stuart $29.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Thunder and Herds: Rock Art of the High Plains Lawrence Loendorf New World 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann Powells.com Staff Pick Charles C. Mann has pulled off an impressive feat — a scholarly, thorough work of history that's almost compulsively readable. In 1491, he summarizes and examines the last thirty years of research into the pre-Columbian Americas, and comes to... (read more) Your Price $15.95 New - Trade Paper check for used and sale copies Sale Books Hieroglyphs and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt by Werner Forman Publisher Comments With the help of Werner Forman's beautiful full-color photographs, Egyptologist Stephen Quirke explains the Pyramid Texts, created for kings and queens ca. 2400 to 2100 B.C.; the Coffin Texts, used by the affluent as well as royalty during the Middle... (read more) Your Price $10.98 (Sale - Hardcover) Browse more featured Sale titles Used Books Dover Pictorial Archives #2: Egyptian Magic by E A Wallis Budge Publisher Comments Sums up all that is known about magic in Ancient Egypt: the role of magic in controlling the gods, powerful amulets that warded off evil spirits, scarabs of immortality, use of wax images, formulas and spells, the secret name, much more.... (read more) Your Price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) Browse more featured Used titles Sign up to get our most recent used additions in Archaeology to your inbox Central and South America Incas People of the Sun by Carmen Bernard Synopsis Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed... (read more) Your Price $5.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Mayas Popol Vuh : The Definitive Edition Of The Mayan Book Of The Dawn Of Life And The Glories Of Gods and Kings by Dennis Tedlock Publisher Comments Popol Vuh, the Quiché Mayan book of creation, is not only the most important text in the native languages of the Americas, it is also an extraordinary document of the human imagination. It begins with the deeds of Mayan gods in the darkness of a... (read more) Your Price $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper check for used copies North America House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest by Craig Childs Publisher Comments In this landmark work on the Anasazi tribes of the Southwest, naturalist Craig Childs dives head on into the mysteries of this vanished people. The various tribes that made up the Anasazi people converged on Chaco Canyon (New Mexico) during the 11th... (read more) Your Price $14.99 New - Trade Paper check for used and sale copies World Prehistory Fingerprints of the Gods (95 Edition) by Graham Hancock Publisher Comments The bestselling author of The Sign and the Seal reveals the true origins of civilization. Connecting puzzling clues scattered throughout the world, Hancock discovers compelling evidence of a technologically and culturally advanced civilization that was... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your Price $11.00 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Asia Minor Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant by Graham Hancock Publisher Comments The fact of the Lost Ark of the Covenant is one of the grant historical mysteries of all time. To believers, the Ark is the legendary vesel holding the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments. The Bible contains hundreds of references to the Ark's power to... (read more) Your Price $6.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies General The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850 by Brian M Fagan Publisher Comments This Pulitzer Prize-winning treatise explores patterns and symbols in the disciplines of mathematics, art, and musical... (read more) Your Price $10.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Egypt Hatchepsut: The Female Pharoah by Joyce Tyldesley Publisher Comments The forgotten pharaoh -- brilliant, defiant, statesmanlike, and a woman<P>Egypt's Queen -- or, as she would prefer to be remembered, King -- Hatchepsut ruled over an age of peace, prosperity, and remarkable architectural achievement (c. 1490 B.C.).... (read more) Your Price $9.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Asia General Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China's First Emperor by Jane Portal Publisher Comments Often described as the eighth Wonder of the World, the massive, underground army made from fired clay evokes both awe and curiosity. Who was this powerful Emperor of the Qin Dynasty who needed these warriors to guard him in the afterlife? How were nearly... (read more) Your Price $14.95 New - Hardcover check for used and sale copies Europe Cave of Altamira by Pedro A Saura Ramos Synopsis This volume offers a fresh look at one the finest surviving works of Palaeoithic art: the paintings in the cave of Altamira in Northern Spain. Charts, maps and descriptions guide the readers through the cave chamber by chamber, and theories on the... (read more) Your Price $24.98 Sale - Hardcover check for used copies

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