The Americas
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Extracting Stone: The Archaeology of Quarry Landscapes [Paperback]
Anne S. Dowd(Author); Mary Beth D. Trubbitt(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785706240
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: American Landscapes
Volume: 7
This exciting new addition to the the American Landscapes series provides an in-depth account of how flintknappers obtained and used stone based on archaeological, geological, landscape, and anthropological data. Featuring case studies from three... .... Learn More -
Cahokia: City of the Cosmos [Paperback]
John E. Kelly(Author); James A. Brown(Author)
Regular Price: $34.95
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ISBN: 9781785708855
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: American Landscapes
Volume: 6
The large American Indian city of Cahokia sits amidst a diverse natural landscape within the larger central Mississippi river valley. Well positioned on the rich agricultural soils of the Mississippi river bottomlands of the Amercan Bottom it is ... .... Learn More -
Lucayan Legacies: Indigenous lifeways in The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands [Paperback]
Dr Joanna Ostapkowicz(Author)
Regular Price: $85.00
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ISBN: 9789464261011
Published by : Sidestone Press
This book is about Lucayan legacies – the heritage of the people who made the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands (the Lucayan archipelago) their home from the 8th to the 16th centuries. This legacy is not simply the surviving physical reco... .... Learn More -
Lucayan Legacies: Indigenous lifeways in The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands [Hardback]
Dr Joanna Ostapkowicz(Author)
Regular Price: $185.00
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ISBN: 9789464261028
Published by : Sidestone Press
This book is about Lucayan legacies – the heritage of the people who made the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands (the Lucayan archipelago) their home from the 8th to the 16th centuries. This legacy is not simply the surviving physical reco... .... Learn More -
Faith in Democracy: The Political Power of Religion during the Military Dictatorship in Brazil [Paperback]
Massimo Sciarretta(Author)
$34.99ISBN: 9788869773754
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: History
The current work historically reconstructs the role played by the Brazilian Catholic Church during the military dictatorship that governed the country from 1964 to 1985. If in Latin America the denial of identity and rights has for centuries gone ... .... Learn More -
Peru: a journey through time [Paperback]
Cecilia Pardo(Author); Jago Cooper(Author)
$45.00ISBN: 9780714124919
Published by : British Museum
The environments of the Central Andean region in Peru, South America, are some of the most geographically rich and diverse in the world. This publication highlights the history, beliefs, and cultural achievements of the different peoples who lived... .... Learn More -
The New Perlustration of Greenland [Paperback]
Hans Egede(Author)
$25.00ISBN: 9781736690208
Published by : International Polar Institute
In the beginning of the 18th century there still was hope of finding Norse descendants among the Eskimo in Greenland. A Norwegian clergyman, Hans Egede, having managed to persuade the authorities that such people should be converted to the Luthera... .... Learn More -
"And So the Tomb Remained": Exploring Archaeology and Forensic Science within Connecticut's Historical Family Mausolea [Paperback]
Nick Bellantoni(Author)
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ISBN: 9781789255027
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Studies in Funerary Archaeology
Volume: 16
Stone and brick tombs were repositories for the physical remains of many of Connecticut’s wealthiest and influential families. The desire was to be interred within burial vaults rather than have their wooden coffins laid into the earth in di... .... Learn More -
Caribbean Figure Pendants: Style and Subject Matter: Anthropomorphic figure pendants of the late Ceramic Age in the Greater Antilles [Paperback]
Prof. Dr. Vernon James Knight(Author)
$50.00ISBN: 9789088908705
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Taboui
Volume: 7
This work synthesizes art-historical and anthropological methods in the analysis of a large corpus of indigenous figure pendants, commonly called “amulets,” from the Greater Antilles and Bahamas. Figure pendants, ubiquitous in Caribbea... .... Learn More -
Caribbean Figure Pendants: Style and Subject Matter: Anthropomorphic figure pendants of the late Ceramic Age in the Greater Antilles [Hardback]
Prof. Dr. Vernon James Knight(Author)
$150.00ISBN: 9789088908712
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Taboui
Volume: 7
This work synthesizes art-historical and anthropological methods in the analysis of a large corpus of indigenous figure pendants, commonly called “amulets,” from the Greater Antilles and Bahamas. Figure pendants, ubiquitous in Caribbea... .... Learn More
