Tag search:archaeology

Four Lost Cities: A secret history of the urban age

by Annalee Newitz
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
history, anthropology, archaeology, cities, çatalhöyük, pompeii, angkor, cahokia, hb
Call number
930.1

Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in ice age America

by Craig Childs
Paperback, 2018
Tags
nonfiction, ice age, travel, archaeology, tpb
Call number
551.7/92

Cahokia Mounds: America's first city

by William R. Iseminger
Paperback, 2010
Tags
archaeology, cahokia, tpb, unread
Call number
977.3/86

Loot: The battle over the stolen treasures of the ancient world

by Sharon Waxman
Paperback, 2009
Tags
art history, museums, antiquities, archaeology, repatriation, tpb
Call number
709.01

The Elgin Affair: The abduction of antiquity's greatest treasures and the passions it aroused

by Theodore Vrettos
Hardcover, 1997
Tags
history, archaeology, sculpture, antiquities, elgin marbles, hb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
733.309385

Cahokia: Ancient America's great city on the Mississippi

by Timothy R. Pauketat
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
history, archaeology, cahokia, native american history, mississippian culture, hb
Series
Penguin Library of American Indian History
Call number
977.3/86

1177 BC: The year civilization collapsed

by Eric H. Cline
Paperback, 2015
Tags
history, bronze age, ancient history, archaeology, tpb
Call number
930.1/56

The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the mystery of Easter Island

by Terry Hunt
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
nonfiction, history, easter island, archaeology, hb
Call number
996.18

The Cave Painters: Probing the mysteries of the world's first artists

by Gregory Curtis
Hardcover, 2006
Tags
nonfiction, archaeology, cave painting, biography, hb
Call number
759.01/20944

Seahenge: A quest for life and death in Bronze Age Britain

by Francis Pryor
Paperback, 2008
Tags
nonfiction, archaeology, britain, england, tpb
Call number
936.101

Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-year-old computer--and the century-long search to discover its secrets

by Jo Marchant
Paperback, 2009
Tags
nonfiction, archaeology, history, history of technology, antikythera mechanism, gears!, history of computing, tpb
Call number
681.1110938

Soul of Nowhere: Traversing grace in a rugged land

by Craig Childs
Paperback, 2003
Tags
southwest, travel, archaeology, tpb
Collection
Recently Read
Call number
979

The Road to Ubar: Finding the Atlantis of the sands

by Nicholas Clapp
Paperback, 1998
Tags
nonfiction, archaeology, satellite archaeology, arabia, oman, ubar, tpb
Call number
939.49

The Keys of Egypt: The obsession to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs

by Lesley Adkins
Paperback, 2001
Tags
nonfiction, history, biography, archaeology, language, decipherment, egypt, hieroglyphs, champollion, tpb
Call number
493.111

House of Rain: Tracking a vanished civilization across the American Southwest

by Craig Childs
Paperback, 2008
Tags
nonfiction, history, archaeology, southwest, anasazi, tpb
Call number
978.98201

Time Detectives: How archeologists use technology to recapture the past

by Brian M. Fagan
Paperback, 1995
Tags
nonfiction, archaeology, tpb, coverguess mismatch
Call number
930.1

The Settlement of the Americas: A New Prehistory

by Tom D. Dillehay
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
history, archaeology, native american history, ftppl, couldn't finish, nonfiction, hb, culled
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
970.01/1 21

Motel of the Mysteries

by David Macaulay
Paperback, 1979
Tags
humor, parody, fiction, archaeology, illustrated, tpb
Call number
818.5407
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