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London, England: Weidenfeld & Nicholson. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1999. 1st British Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0297842951 . B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "In 1947 Mowat was hired as field technician for American naturalist Francis Harper's study of the barren-ground caribou in the Nueltin Lake areanow Nunavut's Kivalliq Region, resulting in the publication of Harper's book entitled Caribou of Keewatin. Two young Inuit were with them, including fifteen-year-old Inuk Luke Anoteelik (Luke Anowtalik) and his sister Rita, who were the sole survivors of starvation in an Inuit village. Luke Anowtalik went on to become well known for his distinctive carvings of antler and bone that are now in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada. Due to a…
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Alban Quest the Search for the Lost Tribe
by Mowat, Farley
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The Archaeology of Weapons Arms and Armour from Prehistory to the Age of Chivalry
by Oakeshott, Ewart
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Woodbridge, England: Boydell & Brewer Inc. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1994. Reprint. Hardcover. 0851155596 . B&W Illustrations & Photographs; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Ewart Oakeshott's love of swords began early in his life. In fact, one of his earliest memories was holding a smallsword when he was four years old. The sword was in the collection of his uncle, the British adventure novelist Jeffery Farnol, a noted collector of edged weapons. This sword, still a cherished part of the Oakeshott Collection, is a practice smallsword dating about 1690 with an ormolu (literally, "ground gold") hilt and a square-sectioned rebated blade marked "Tomas Ayala." Under his uncle's guidance, a young Ewart would help clean and maintain the collection. In this setting, his…
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The Delight Makers
by Bandelier, Adolf F. (with A Introduction by Charles F. Lummis)
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New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Co. Very Good+. 1947. Reprint. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown page. This book is discusses the history of the Puebloan peoples in this particular area of New Mexico, and the interactions of the author with a specific group of Puebloan people. "Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (August 6, 1840 March 18, 1914) was a Swiss-born American archaeologist who particularly explored the indigenous cultures of the American Southwest, Mexico, and South America. He immigrated to the United States with his family as a youth and made his life there, abandoning the family business to study in the new fields of archeology and ethnology. Bandelier National…
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Landmarks Of New Mexico (Handbooks of Archaeological History Series)
by Hewett, Edgar L. and Wayne L. Mauzy
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Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press / School of American Research. Very Good+. 1947. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's bookplate (LeRoy V. Brandt) on the front pastedown page. "Hewett's interest in Frijoles Canyon was timely, for ethnologist Adolph Bandelier had just started to describe, through both scientific papers and his novel The Delight Makers (1890) , prehistoric life on the Pajarito Plateau. Hewett came to know Bandelier and consider him his mentor in his own studies. By 1896 Hewett himself was conducting field work on the Plateau, although he continued to defer to Bandelier's expertise on the region for many years. Hewett rapidly came to believe that the Plateau's archaeological sites constituted a national resource that should be preserved,…
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Machines Buildings Weaponry Of Biblical Times A Fascinating Reference of Biblical Times
by Schwartz, Max
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Grand Rapids, MI: Fleming H. Revell. Near Fine. 1997. Trade Edition. Paperback. 0800753208 . B&W Illustrations; This is a trade paperback book. The book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. "Since serving in the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Max Schwartz has worked as a consulting civil engineer and mechanical engineer. Licensed in several states, he's worked jobs from small residential developments to major industrial facilities - from the California suburbs to the Central American rainforest. A recognized authority with extensive experience. Mr. Schwarts has lectured and taught civil engineering at UCLA Extension, and has written several books on concrete construction, including Builder's Guide to Swimming Pool Construction." .
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Martin's Hundred
by Hume, Ivor Noel
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New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1982. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0394507282 . B&W and Color Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends of the book covers have some very beginning bumping. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a long previous owner's gift notation on the reverse of the front endpaper. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has a couple of small nicks and semi-closed tears. "Noël Hume's work is noted for the effort to put the social life and economic overtones of history into the discoveries unearthed through archaeological examination thus: historical archaeology. When he began his career, "historical archaeology did not exist as an academic discipline. It fell to Noël Hume's books, lectures, and television presentations to help bring it to the…
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Roman Life Under The Caesars
by Thomas, Emile
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London, England: T. Fisher Unwin. Very Good. 1899. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good to Near Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping , rubbing and wear. The spine has some light fading. The text pages are clean and bright. The endpapers have noticeable foxing and toning. The front endpaper has a previous owner's pencilled notation, overlayed by a bookplate (Jean Wilder). .
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The Steppe & The Sown (The Corridors of Time Series, Volume V)
by Peake, Harold and Herbert John Fleure
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Harrisburg, PA: Yale University Press. Very Good+. 1928. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates. "Harold John Edward Peake or Harold Peake F. S. A (18671946) was a British archaeologist and curator for the West Berkshire Museum. With Herbert John Fleure he wrote ten books in the Corridors of Time series covering aspects of archaeology and anthropology as well as several works on his own "Prospector Theory" and other archaeological themes. Peake is most remembered for his "Prospector Theory" of the diffusionism school within anthropology which argues that a group of sea-voyagers from the Eastern Mediterranean sea colonised Europe from c.…
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The Way Of The Sea
by Peake, Harold and Herbert John Fleure
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New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Very Good+. 1929. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends, spine joints and corners of the book covers have some rubbing, bumping and wear. The text pages are clean and bright. "Peake is most remembered for his "Prospector Theory" of the diffusionism school within anthropology which argues that a group of sea-voyagers from the Eastern Mediterranean sea colonised Europe from c. 2800 BC, introducing the Dolmen. Unlike Grafton Elliot Smith, who believed these maritime colonists were Egyptian, Peake argued that they were descendants of the Sumerians. Peake named this group of sea-voyagers the "Prospectors" based on the fact they were believed to be merchants or traders seeking for ores and metals. This identification was strengthened in Peake's opinion by the…
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