 | - Book Title: The story Of Archaeology
- Author: Paul Bahn
- ISBN: 0297834452
- Publisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Year Published: 1996
- Our Normal Price: £15.59 GBP ($0.00 USD)
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- Description: : Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1996 first edition: hardcover in dust jacket approximately 9.25 x 11.25 inches tall: 254 pages including index: black and white maps and photographic illustrations: colour photographic illustrations including some page plates. Synopsis an account of 100 of the world's notable archaeological discoveries compiled by 14 contributors, and including histories of the sites and details of the archaeological activity involved. The contributors are: -- Dr Paul Bahn. Dr Gina Barnes. Dr Caroline Bird. Dr Peter Bogucki . Dr Philip Duke. Dr Christopher Edens. Dr David Gill. Dr John Hoffecker. Dr Christopher Mee. Dr Katharina Schreiber. Dr Stephen Snape. Dr Andreas Stone. Dr Sarah Tarlow. Dr Ann Thackeray. Discoveries in Africa include the relics of Australopithecines, rock art, the pyramids, Tutankhamen, Deir El - Medina, the Rosetta Stone, Roman life in North Africa, Nigerian art; discoveries in Europe include ice age settlements, mammoth bone houses, Paleolithic portable art, lake dwellings, neolithic longhouses and flint mines, megalithic art, Bronze Age barrows, the Minoan civilisation, Iron Age mining and settlements, bog bodies, Mediterranean shipwrecks, Novgorod: a mediaeval city in Russia; discoveries in Western and central Asia include Mount Carmal and the Palaeolithic age, Jericho, Ur, Babylon, M. Ebla and Cuneiform writing, Nineveh and Assyrian palaces, Mohenjo -Darooh Daro and the Indus civilisation : discoveries in the Far East include Peking and Java man, rock art of China and India, statuary of the far east, East Asian bronzes, the terracotta army, murals and tombs of the Orient, the Sinan shipwreck; discoveries of Australia include Lake Mungo, Australia's rock art, ice age hunters of Tasmania, colonising the Pacific, Easter Island; discoveries of the New World include Mont Verde and the first Americans, big game hunting on the North American plains, rock art in the New World, the discovery of the Olmec, Nasca Lines, Chavin, El Seren, Maya cave art, the tomb of Pacal the Great, Maya hieroglyphics, the mound builders, ancient farmers of the desert, settlements of North America,-and many others. Condition: very clean and good overall.
- Condition: See Above
- Dustcover: Yes
- Binding: Hardback
- Type: Used Books
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