Prehistory
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An Ethiopian Book of the Dead: The Bandlet of Righteousness [Hardback]
E. A. Wallis Budge (Author)
£85.00ISBN: 9780710307064
Published by : Kegan Paul International Ltd.
The Ethiopian Book of the Dead was created as a response to the need for immortality. This composition is preserved in two manuscripts found in the British Museum, the older of which probably dates to the late 17th or early 18th century. Budge ... .... Learn More -
The Archaeology of Southern Africa [Hardback]
P. J. Mitchell (Author)
£99.00ISBN: 9780521633079
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This textbook, aimed at students and those at the start of their research into South Africa, provides a 'thoroughgoing overview of 3 million years of southern African history'. South Africa has remained a key centre for the study of the origins... .... Learn More -
The Archaeology of Southern Africa [Paperback]
P. J. Mitchell (Author)
£42.00ISBN: 9780521633895
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This textbook, aimed at students and those at the start of their research into South Africa, provides a 'thoroughgoing overview of 3 million years of southern African history'. South Africa has remained a key centre for the study of the origins... .... Learn More -
The Year of the Ghost: An Olduvai Diary [Hardback]
Derek A. Roe (Author)
Regular Price: £14.95
Special Price: £2.95
ISBN: 9780953541850
Published by : Western Academic & Specialist Press
The 'ghost' of this book is Derek Roe himself. In January 1983 he embarked on his first journey to Tanzania as a ghost writer for an autobiography for Mary Leakey, a name linked for ever in the minds of archaeologists with the famous palaeolit... .... Learn More -
Human Roots: Africa and Asia in the Middle Pleistocene [Hardback]
Larry Barham (Author); Kate Robson-Brown (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9780953541843
Published by : Western Academic & Specialist Press
Sixteen papers taken from a `Human Roots' meeting held in Bristol in 2000 that focused on the question of `how different were humans and human behaviour in Africa and the Far east during the Middle Pleistocene'? The contributors draw on evidenc... .... Learn More -
Kalambo Falls Prehistoric Site Volume III [Hardback]
J. D. Clark (Author)
£250.00ISBN: 9780521200714
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Major excavations undertaken in the 1950s and 1960s in the Kalambo River basin on the border between Zambia and Tanzania revealed one of the richest and most complete records of human settlement in Africa. This, the third and final volume of th... .... Learn More -
African Rock Art [Hardback]
A. Campbell (Author); David Coulson (Author)
£38.00ISBN: 9780810943636
Published by : Harry N Abrams B.V.
The African landscape is littered with information about its prehistoric inhabitants, no more so than in its broad range of rock art. This large book forms one of the best and most comprehensive illustrated guides to the art containing almost 4... .... Learn More -
Encyclopedia of Prehistory Volume I: Africa [Hardback]
Peter N. Peregrine (Author);Melvin Ember (Author)
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The Zimbabwe Culture: Origins and Decline of Southern Zambezian States [Hardback]
Innocent Pikirayi (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9780759100909
Published by : AltaMira Press
Westerners discovered the monumental architecture of the Zimbabwe plateau and adjacent lowlands during the 16th century and began centuries of innovative speculation surrounding the origins of the culture responsible. Pikirayi uses archaeologic... .... Learn More -
The Zimbabwe Culture: Origins and Decline of Southern Zambezian States [Paperback]
Innocent Pikirayi (Author)
£20.95ISBN: 9780759100916
Published by : AltaMira Press
Westerners discovered the monumental architecture of the Zimbabwe plateau and adjacent lowlands during the 16th century and began centuries of innovative speculation surrounding the origins of the culture responsible. Pikirayi uses archaeologic... .... Learn More