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x, 430 pages ; 24 cm
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In the silent caves beneath France, young archaeologist Julia Kerrigan unearths an ancient skull-with a hole bored through the forehead. After she reveals her discovery, her mentor is brutally murdered. Deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia, photographer Jake Thurby is offered a mysterious assignment by a beautiful Cambodian lawyer who is investigating finds at the two-thousand-year-old Plain of Jars -- finds that shadowy forces want kept secret.
2) National Geographic investigates ancient Greece: archaeology unlocks the secrets of Greece's past
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64 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm.
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English
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"The thrilling history of archaeological adventure, with tales of danger, debate, audacious explorers, and astonishing discoveries around the globe. What is archaeology? The word may bring to mind images of golden pharaohs and lost civilizations, or Neanderthal skulls and Ice Age cave art. Archaeology is all of these, but also far more: the only science to encompass the entire span of human history -- more than three million years! This Little History...
4) The iceman
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32 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cm
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English
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Papers in anthropology volume no. 3
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67 pages : illustrations, tables ; 28 cm.
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English
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xxxiii, 426 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
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English
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"A sweeping history of Jerusalem and the pivotal role that archaeology has played--both in its invention as a modern holy city and as the match that lit a geopolitical fire beneath it. In 1863, a French politician and adventurer heard a rumor of biblical treasures beneath Jerusalem. At the time, Jerusalem was a venerable backwater, not the thriving religious center we think of today. Archaeology itself was in its infancy--more a pastime for treasure-hunting...
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Monographs of the School of American Research volume no. 26
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xv, 55 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
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English
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"Rachel Morgan's frank and incisive history begins with Richard Wetherill's "discovery" of Mesa Verde in Colorado in 1888. Subsequent expeditions by amateurs, looters, and budding professional archaeologists abetted the devastation of Indigenous sites throughout the Southwest. These expeditions became the proving grounds for different conceptions of what archaeology should be and how it should be practiced. Ultimately, revulsion at the work of nineteenth-century...
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Cultural resources volume no. 15
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xii, 452 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
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English
16) National Geographic investigates ancient Inca: archaeology unlocks the secrets of the Inca's past
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64 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm.
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English
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"Shows how ancient treasures help scientists today to piece together the puzzle of the Inca's past. Includes Inca pottery, textiles, and the mummy called the Ice Maiden."--From source other than the Library of Congress.
20) The Exodus quest
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"Fact collides with fiction in Will Adams's second adventure featuring archaeologist Daniel Knox"--Provided by publisher.
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