Oxford University Press, 2008. — 128 p. — (Uncovering the Past). — ISBN: 978-0-19-911881-6. Archaeology Detectives links archaeological techniques with the incredible stories of how pioneers decoded ancient voices and discovered lost worlds, and describes the thrilling process of analysis, frustrations, breakthroughs - and luck. What is Archaeology? Altamira. Ice Age Paintings....
Routledge, 2013. — 125 p. Tired of the airbrushed images of archaeologists in TV documentaries? Want the dirt on what REALLY happens on a dig? Paul Bahn has collected dozens of fun tales from the trenches to illuminate what actually occurs when archaeologists go into the field. He reveals startling episodes with dangerous situations, other dangerous archaeologists (sometimes...
Routledge, 2013. — 125 p. Tired of the airbrushed images of archaeologists in TV documentaries? Want the dirt on what REALLY happens on a dig? Paul Bahn has collected dozens of fun tales from the trenches to illuminate what actually occurs when archaeologists go into the field. He reveals startling episodes with dangerous situations, other dangerous archaeologists (sometimes...
National Museums Scotland, 2010, 2011. – 80 p., ill. A popular reworking of a scholarly article from Medieval Archaeology, providing an overview of the chessmen found on the Scottish island of Lewis in the early 19th century, with some hypotheses about their provenance and origins, supplemented with colour illustrations. History of finding is illustrated. Description of the...
New York: American Heritage Publishing, 1977. — 319 p. — ISBN: 0-8218-0206-6. The human record is filled with real mysteries that challenge the best minds of archaeologists, anthropologists, linguists, climatologists, and historians. This book deals with those real and significant mysteries. Who First Crossed the Oceans? (Lionel Casson). Are These “Landing Strips of the Gods”?...
Einaudi, 2002. - 550 P. Italian DETTAGLI SULL'OPERA. Chi sono i detective cui si devono i più celebri ritrovamenti del mondo dei faraoni, dei re di Micene, degli Ittiti e degli Aztechi? Chi sono realmente Schliemann, Winckelmann, Evans, Carter (per fare solo i nomi più celebri)? In questo volume Ceram presenta i più famosi archeologi affidando a loro stessi il racconto delle...
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1964. — xvi+294 p. The work is a guide to a dozen of the more famous ruins from civilizations of ancient times throughout the world, the speculations surrounding their fates, and modern fantasy literature inspired by them. The surveyed sites include Tartessos, the Pyramids of Giza, Stonehenge, Troy, Ma'rib, Zimbabwe, Tintagel, Angkor,...
Thames and Hudson, 2001. — 304 p. — ISBN: 0-500-51050-4. King Arthur and the Holy Grail, the lost tomb of Alexander the Great, the story of Atlantis: the human past is full of unsolved mysteries. The Seventy Great Mysteries of the Ancient World draws on modern science and the latest research to explore some of archaeology's most baffling controversies and enigmas, from our...
Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1989. — 368 p. The book tells about the development of the history of archeology. It contains stories of treasure hunters and tourists and the development of archeology to a scientific field.
8th Edition. — McGraw-Hill Education, 2013. — 416 p. — ISBN: 978-0-07-803507-4. Committed to the scientific investigation of human antiquity, Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology uses interesting archaeological hoaxes, myths, and mysteries to show how we can use science to learn things about the past. By placing wildly inaccurate claims within...
Han Material Culture is an analysis of Han dynasty (206 BC–AD 220) Chinese archaeology based on a comparison of the forms of vessels found in positively dated tombs. The resultant chronological framework allows for the cross dating of tombs across China, of which approximately one thousand are documented here. In the context of this body of data, the development of not only...
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Running Press, 1991. — 64 p. — ISBN: 1-56138-031-8. Describes archaeological methods and reveals how the secrets of ancient civilizations are uncovered through their relics. The Puzzle of the Past. What is archaeology? Discovery. Finding and exploring clues to the past. What the Puzzle Means. Learning from clues. Build Your Own Pyramid. Read about...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. — 64 p. — (Eyewitness books). — ISBN: 0-679-86572-1. Without the help of archeologists throughout time, very little would be known about some of the world’s greatest civilizations. Archeology, with its carefully developed preservation techniques, is responsible for uncovering artifacts like the Greek sculptures and Native American weaponry we...
New York: Atheneum, 1970. — 304 p. "This book, I fear, may exasperate any reader with an inordinately tidy mind. It fits no precise category, it is at times discursively subjective, it follows only the most vagrant of patterns — each chapter, generally speaking, begins with an essay about the past of the country described, then discusses how the spade has recovered history, and...
Penguin Books, 1977. — 96 p. — ISBN: 0-14-00-4491-4. Have we at last uncovered the meaning of Stonehenge and other enigmatic structures built before the dawn of history? By careful surveys of megalithic sites from Brittany to the Orkney Islands, a Scottish engineer named Alexander Thom has recently shown that these ancient earthworks are amazingly accurate stations for...
Oxford University Press, 1995. — 160 p. — ISBN: 0-19-910067-5. From the origins of humankind in Africa almost 4 million years ago humans have spread throughout the entire world. At first they lived in simple shelters eating wild plants and scavenging the remains of dead animals. Gradually they began to gain control over their environment and became expert hunters and farmers....
7th edition. — McGraw-Hill, 2013. — 640 p. — ISBN: 978-0078034978. This well illustrated, full-color, site-by-site survey of prehistory captures the popular interest, excitement, and visual splendor of archaeology as it provides insight into the research, interpretations, and theoretical themes in the field. The new edition maintains the authors' innovative solutions to two...
6th Edition. — New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009. — 640 p. — ISBN: 978-0-07-353105-2. This well illustrated, full-color, site-by-site survey of prehistory captures the popular interest, excitement, and visual splendor of archaeology as it provides insight into the research, interpretations, and theoretical themes in the field. The new edition maintains the authors' innovative...
Scholastic, 2008. — 64 p. — (24/7: science behind the scenes). — ISBN: 978-0-531-12079-8. There's a legend about a great empire that was swallowed up by the sea. Another tale tells of a beautiful city that was buried under ash and falling rock. Did these civilizations ever really exist? And if so, can traces of them be found? That's where archeologists come in. From the...
New York: Warwick Press, 1982. — 45 p. — ISBN: 0-531-09207-0. More and more of astonishing variety of life in the past is uncovered almost daily by the world's archaeologists. The Illustrated Atlas of Archaeology brings together a wealth of information on archaeological sites of all ages and types to make an overall survey of world arcnaeology. Each section covers a different...
Bantam Books, 1962. — 152 p. "Man's exploration of outer space began just a few years ago. But the exploration of inner space, below the surface of the Earth, has been going on for hundreds of years. As far back as the time of Plato's Greece, men have dug for the treasures of the past buried in the ground. Today, and for the last 200 years, systematic digging has been and is...
National Geographic Society, 1979. — 104 p. — (Books for World Explorers). — ISBN: 0-87044-316-X. Describes the work of archaeologists and discusses some significant archaeological finds in the old and new worlds and what they have revealed about man's progress and civilization through the ages. Can the Past Speak to Us? Who Uncovers Ancient Secrets? How Did We Get Here Today?...
English edition of Le Grand Atlas de l'archeologie created by Encyclopaedia Universalis. Foreword by Michael Wood. — New York: Portland House, 1988. — 423 p. — ISBN 0-517-66876-9. Archaeology today has the power to reconstruct, from traces left behind by human beings over the last two million years, a sometimes extraordinarily complete picture of how these vanished people lived...
Budapest: Kozmosz; Uzhgorod: Karpaty; Bratislava: Madách, 1988. - 175 ol. — ISBN: 963-211-806-5 Translation into Hungarian based on the book: Varshavsky A.S. In the beginning there were legends. - M.: Knowledge, 1982. A világ legcsodálatosabb régészeti emlékeinek pusztulásáról (az athéni Akropolisz, Velence) írott könyve valóságos segélykiáltásnak számított néhány évvel...
New York: The Lyons Press, 1999. — 242 p. — ISBN: 1-55821-893-9. "The articles in this book first appeared in the Science Times section of the New York Times, many of them by our chief archaeology reporter, John Noble Wilford." Before History Begins. Humans' Earliest Footprints Discovered (John Noble Wilford). Prehistoric Art Treasure Is Found in French Cave (Marlise Simons)....
Gallery Books, 1985. — 284 p. This beautifully illustrated book introduces the reader to the most valuable artifacts of Chinese archaeology, from the Neolithic period to the Ming Dynasty of the 17th century. A Journey Through Ancient China takes the reader on a voyage of discovery from the Neolithic Age to the Ming Dynasty of the seventeenth century. It is the most lavishly...
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