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FROM BLACK LAND TO FIFTH SUN : The Science of Sacred Sites
by Fagan, Brian
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0201959917
- ISBN 13
- 9780201959918
- Seller
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About This Item
Reading, MA: Helix Books/Addison-Wesley, 1998. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Stated First Printing, May 1998. Text/BRAND NEW. Bi-color boards/Fine. Illustrated DJ/NF w/closed tear to leading edge of spine. Description of how archaeologist used modern science to study ancient cosmologies and religious beliefs. Title taken from the last chapter which examiness the world of the Aztecs who believed they could ensure continuity of life itself by nourishing the sun with the magic elixir of human hearts. 14 chapters: 1, The Archaeology of the Intangible; 2, Dark Caves, Obscure Visions; 3, San Artists in Southern Africa; 4, Fertility & Death; 5, Power & the Ancestors; 6, Avebury: Landscapes of the Ancestors; 7, Stonehenge & the Idea of Time; 8, Two Livings: Agriculture & Religion; 9, The Moundbuilders of Eastern North America; 10, The Bull Beneath the Earth; 11, A Shrine at Phylakopi; 12, Divine Kings Along the Nile; 13, Xunantunich: "The Maiden of the Rock"; and, 14, The World of the Fifth Sun, followed by Epilogue/
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009012
- Title
- FROM BLACK LAND TO FIFTH SUN : The Science of Sacred Sites
- Author
- Fagan, Brian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0201959917
- ISBN 13
- 9780201959918
- Publisher
- Helix Books/Addison-Wesley
- Place of Publication
- Reading, MA
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Archaeology/MethodologyAnthropology/Religion/Spiritual/Ancient History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Archaeology; Anthropology/Ethnology;
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