The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Flinders Petrie has been called the "Father of Modern Egyptology"--and inde ed he is one of the pioneers of modern archaeological methods. This fascina ting biography of Petrie was first published to high acclaim in England in 1985. Margaret S. Drower, a student of Petrie's in the early 1930s, traces his life from his boyhood, when he was already a budding scholar, through h is stunning career in the deserts of Egypt to his death in Jerusalem at the age of eighty-n... View More...
A tight clean first edition/printing, protected in a new brodart wrapper, n ot price clipped/ex library or a book of the month edition. A revolution is underway in archaeology. Working at the cutting edge of genetic and molecular technologies, researchers have been probing the building blocks of ancient life-DNA, proteins, fats-to rewrite our understanding of the past. Their discoveries (including a Mitochondrial Eve, the woman from whom all modern humans descend) and analyses have helped revise the human genealogical tree and answer such questions as: How different are we from the Neanderthal... View More...
Average wear, reasonable shape, may have limited notes and/or highlighting. The application of Darwinian theory to archaeological phenomena has always been a difficult concept. In its most modern form, this approach has only g ained currency since the 1980s. Perhaps the greatest hurdle to incorporatin g scientific evolutionism into archaeology is the necessary development of more than a rudimentary understanding of Darwinian evolution itself. Failur e to recognize the conflict of anthropological terms such as "adaptation" a nd "fitness" with standard biological usage is fatal to any attempt to... View More...
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...east an d west, is the door to a red granite chamber, containing the sarcophagus. T his second chamber is roofed exactly like that of Menkaura's pyramid at Giz eh, with slanting blocks cut out in a curve below. The sarcophagus is one o f the finest products of mechanical skill that is known from ancient times. It is of red granite, of a form not before met with, having a wide rec... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. More than 400 rock paintings adorn the Canadian Shield from Quebec, across Ontario and as far west as Saskatchewan. The pictographs are the legacy of the Algonkian-speaking Cree and Ojibway, whose roots may extend to the begi nnings of human occupancy in the region almost 10,000 years ago. Archaeologist Grace Rajnovich spent fourteen years of field research uncove ring a multitude of clues as to the meanings of the paintings. She has writ ten a text w... View More...
