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The definitive introduction to the understanding and practice of archaeology, now in its second edition.

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Cats can be seen in ancient Egyptian homes, temples and adorning the heads of their gods. Cats in Egypt were probably domesticated by around 4,000 BC from wild ancestors. Over the following centuries, they became popular household pets. In this book, Dr Malek draws on a vast range of artistic and written sources to show how cats became one of the most widely esteemed and revered animals in Egypt.

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The drama of Pompeii's end has been handed down by Roman writers, its paintings and mosaics have astonished visitors since their discovery and its houses and public buildings still present a vivid picture of life, disaster and death in a Roman town. This book includes a comprehensive account of its rise, splendour and fall.

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A new, radically updated edition of the immensely successful introductory textbook on world prehistory.

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A lifetime's study brings revealing expertise to an oft-misunderstood topic in human history--the origin and language of the Indo-Europeans.

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An award-winning history of the Mediterranean from prehistory to the Classical world reissued with an extended new preface by the author.

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In 1942, while ploughing a field near Mildenhall in Suffolk, eastern England, Gordon Butcher stumbled upon a hoard of 34 silver objects that he turned over to his boss and owner of the land, Sydney Ford. Dating back to Roman Britain, fourth century AD, and of outstanding artistic and technical quality, the hoard was declared a Treasure Trove in 1946.

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The award-winning guide to everything we know about the Neanderthals, from their emergence to their extinction, now updated and expanded to feature the latest discoveries in the field of Neanderthal DNA.

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The first book in nearly a century to explore and satisfactorily explain how and when the Irish people came into being, now available in B-format paperback.

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The inside story, told by excavators of the extraordinary discovery of the world's oldest papyri, revealing how Egyptian King Khufu's men built the Great Pyramid at Giza.

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This book tells the fascinating story of one of archaeology's icons, from its creation in the second century BC, to its discovery in 1799 during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign, to the subsequent race to decipher its hieroglyphic text.

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[This book] expands on the traditional "Seven Wonders" to examine an impressive number of ancient marvels from around the globe."--

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An ambitious yet accessible account of Britains Neolithic Revolution that examines how the early agricultural settlers on our island shaped their landscape and thus our own.

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The ultimate book on King Tut and his tomb--the most exciting archaeological find the world has ever known--now in a compact edition

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1400 years, 206 bones, 1 extraordinary story...The never-before-told story of a nameless Anglo-Saxon warrior and the bloody life he led.

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A vivid account of the men and women who revealed the treasures of Ancient Egypt to the world, from the first decipherment of hieroglyphics to the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun.

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Like Donald Johanson's Lucy, this first-person narrative about anarchaeological discovery is rewriting the story of human evolution. A story ofdefiance and determination by a controversial scientist, this is Lee Berger'sown take on finding Homo naledi, an all-new species on the human familytree.

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This text bridges freshman introductory texts on archaeology and junior/senior archaeology courses by building students comfort with some of the tools of archaeological research and how archaeologists make plausible inferences about the past.

This indispensable resource provides an illustrated introduction to and overview of the archaeological study of food and foodways today.

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What can archaeology teach us about the past