| Description |
256 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 28 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-251) and index. |
| Contents |
Archaeology now: new finds and fresh perspectives / Brian M. Fagan -- DISCOVERIES FROM THE ICE AGE: New evidence from Africa : rewriting the story of human origins / Peter Andrews -- The mystery of the skulls from Dmanisi, Georgia / Chris Stringer -- The first Europeans and the pit of the bones at Atapuerca, Spain / Chris Stringer -- Boxgrove : the oldest human fossils in Britain / Chris Stringer -- The 'Hobbit' : an unknown human relative? / Chris Stringer -- TOMBS, GRAVES AND MUMMIES: The Iceman : a 5,000-year-old murder victim? / Chris Scarre -- The Amesbury Archer and the Boscombe Bowmen : men of Stonehenge / Andrew P. Fitzpatrick -- New revelations from the pyramids of Giza / Zahi Hawass -- The tomb of Tutankhamun's mother? : an 18th dynasty chamber in the Valley of the Kings / Zahi Hawass -- Pharaoh's children : the tomb of the sons of Ramesses II in the Valley of the Kings / Kent R. Weeks -- New Kingdom tombs at Saqqara / Alain Zivie -- Where the living feasted with the dead : the royal tombs of Qatna, Syria / Peter Pfalzner -- The royal tombs of Nimrud, Iraq : the treasures of Assyrian queens / Joan Oates -- The great Ryzhanovka Barrow : an intact burial of a Scythian nobleman / Sergey Skory, Jan Chochorowski -- The Valley of the Golden Mummies, Egypt / Zahi Hawass -- Bodies from the bog : new insights into life and death in pagan Celtic Ireland / Eamonn P. Kelly -- Warriors, musicians and acrobats at the tomb of the first Emperor of China / Zhang Yinglan -- The Spitalfields Lady : the finest Roman grave ever found in London / Christopher Thomas -- Moche tombs at Dos Cabezas, Peru / Christopher B. Donnan -- Power and prestige : middle Sican elite tombs of North coastal Peru / Izumi Shimada -- The Red Queen and other new Maya tombs / George Stuart -- Chachapoya : mummies in the Cloud Forest of Peru / Adriana von Hagen -- Inca mummies : child sacrifice on Andean peaks / Johan Reinhard -- The Prittlewell Prince : an Anglo-Saxon royal burial / Ian Blair -- TREASURES OF ANCIENT ART: At the origins of art : new discoveries of decorated caves / Jean Clottes -- Black pharaohs : a cachette of statues from Kerma, Sudan / Charles Bonnet, Dominique Valbelle -- A celtic warrior prince from Glauberg, Germany / Holger Baitinger, Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann -- Artistic splendours from the Greek and Roman World / Mark Merrony -- Turkey's Pompeii : the magnificent mosaics of Zeugma / Robert Early -- The maize god and the mythology of kings : Maya paintings at San Bartolo, Guatemala / William A. Saturno -- Torcs, coins and gold cups : ancient hoards from Britain / Jeremy D. Hill -- The Hoxne treasure : a late Roman hoard / Catherine Johns -- Spillings : the world's biggest Viking silver hoard / Dan Carlsson -- Portaits in pottery : ceramic vessels from Lake Titicaca / Antti Korpisaari, Martti Parssinen -- Statues of the Buddha from Qingzhou, China / Jan Stuart -- LOST CITIES: Caral : the oldest civilization in Peru and the Americas / Ruth Shady -- Pyramid City, Giza / Mark Lehner -- Jinsha : changing the map of ancient China / Jay Xu -- Towards a new Jerusalem / Roberta L. Harris -- Saxon London, concealed beneath the city streets / Robert Cowie -- Jamestown : the fort that was the birthplace of the United States of America / William M. Kelso -- ENIGMAS OF RITUAL AND RELIGION: Carved creatures from the dawn of agriculture : Gobekli Tepe, Turkey / Klaus Schmidt -- Secrets revealed at Britain's Henges / Mike Pitts -- The Nebra sky disc : the oldest representation of the heavens / Harald Meller -- Helmets and war-trumpets : a ritual hoard from Tintignac, France / Christophe Maniquet -- Symbols of religion and power : the Pyramid of the Moon, Teotihuacan / Saburo Sugiyama -- Moche ritual sacrifice at Huaca de la Luna, Peru / Steve Bourget -- DISCOVERIES FROM THE DEEP: The world's oldest boats, from Abydos, Egypt / Matthew Douglas Adams, David O'Connor -- Alexandria underwater : Greek cities beneath the sea in Egypt / Franck Goddio -- The ancient port and ships of Pisa / Stefano Bruni -- HMS Pandora : the ship sent to find the Bounty mutineers / Peter Gesner -- Submarine and ironclad : American Civil War wrecks / Robert S. Neyland -- SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES: DNA and archaeology / Brian M. Fagan -- Ice ages, floods and droughts : the impact of climate change in the past / Brian M. Fagan -- Ancient wine and beer / Patrick E. McGovern -- Medical science and archaeology / Charlotte Roberts -- Ancient writings : early hieroglyphs from Abydos, Egypt / Roby Wilkinson -- Ancient writing : biblical inscriptions / Roberta L. Harris -- Ancient writing : China's 'Dead Sea scrolls' / Wang Tao -- Ancient writing : new advances in Maya decipherment / David Stuart -- Ancient writing : deciphering the knotted strings of the Incas / Gary Urton -- The Cascajal Block : the New World's oldest writing / Michael D. Coe. |
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Case studies.
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Archaeology -- History -- 20th century.
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Archaeology -- History -- 21st century.
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Archaeology -- Pictorial works.
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Archaeology -- Methodology.
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Antiquities.
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Archaeology and history.
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| Added Author |
Fagan, Brian M.
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| Added Title |
Unearthing the new treasures of archaeology |
| ISBN |
0500051496 |
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9780500051498 |
| Standard No. |
NZ1 11540725 |
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AU@ 000042364501 |
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AU@ 000042783196 |
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