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  • Ancient Queens

    Archaeological Explorations

    by Elisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh, Karen Bell, Jeannine Davis-Kimball, Katheryn Linduff, Geoffrey G, Sharrise D. McCafferty, Peggy Reeves Sanday, Lana Troy, Melissa A. Vogel ...
    Series series Gender and Archaeology
    Exploding the traditional myth that view queens as simply an appendage to the king, these essays explore the social and cultural constructions of female power. This volume does more than merely identify and describe queens, but rather, offers its readers an understanding of the roles of these 'dominant women', situated within archaeological discourse that change our assumptions about female-ruled ... Read more

    $51.09 USD

  • Are All Warriors Male?

    Gender Roles on the Ancient Eurasian Steppe

    by Natalia Berseneva, Bryan Hanks, Deborah Harding, Karlene Jones-Bley, Sophie Legrand, Katheryn Linduff, Sarah Milledge Nelson, Sandra L. Olsen, Karen Rubinson, Gideon Shelach, Rita Wright ...
    Series series Gender and Archaeology
    Are All Warriors Male? is a lively inquiry into questions of gender on the ancient Eurasian steppes. The book's contributors are archaeologists who work in eastern Europe, Central Asia, and eastern Asia, and this volume is the result of their field research in this vast. As little has been written about the evidence of gender roles in ancient-or modern-pastoralist societies, this book helps to ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by James A. Millward ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The phrase "silk road" evokes vivid scenes of merchants leading camel caravans across vast stretches to trade exotic goods in glittering Oriental bazaars, of pilgrims braving bandits and frozen mountain passes to spread their faith across Asia. Looking at the reality behind these images, this Very Short Introduction illuminates the historical background against which the silk road flourished, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Ancient Complex Societies

    by Jennifer C. Ross, Sharon R. Steadman ...
    Ancient Complex Societies examines the archaeological evidence for the rise and functioning of politically and socially “complex” cultures in antiquity. Particular focus is given to civilizations exhibiting positions of leadership, social and administrative hierarchies, emerging and already developed complex religious systems, and economic differentiation. Case studies are drawn from around the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The History of Archaeology

    An Introduction

    Edited by Paul Bahn ...
    The History of Archaeology: An Introduction provides global coverage with chapters devoted to particular regions of the world. The regional approach allows readers to understand the similarities and differences in the history of and approach to archaeology in various parts of the world. Each chapter is written by a specialist scholar with experience of the region concerned. Thus the book focuses ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World

    'Death Shall Have No Dominion'

    Edited by Colin Renfrew, Iain Morley, Michael J. Boyd ...
    Modern archaeology has amassed considerable evidence for the disposal of the dead through burials, cemeteries and other monuments. Drawing on this body of evidence, this book offers fresh insight into how early human societies conceived of death and the afterlife. The twenty-seven essays in this volume consider the rituals and responses to death in prehistoric societies across the world, from ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Place, Memory, and Healing

    An Archaeology of Anatolian Rock Monuments

    by Ömür Harmanşah ...
    Place, Memory, and Healing: An Archaeology of Anatolian Rock Monuments investigates the complex and deep histories of places, how they served as sites of memory and belonging for local communities over the centuries, and how they were appropriated and monumentalized in the hands of the political elites. Focusing on Anatolian rock monuments carved into the living rock at watery landscapes during ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Dawn of Everything

    A New History of Humanity

    by David Graeber, David Wengrow ...
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

    by Jack Weatherford ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The startling true history of how one extraordinary man from a remote corner of the world created an empire that led the world into the modern age—by the author featured in Echoes of the Empire: Beyond Genghis Khan.The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Lost Civilization Enigma

    A New Inquiry Into the Existence of Ancient Cities, Cultures, and Peoples Who Pre-Date Recorded History

    by Philip Coppens ...
    An examination of archaeological controversies, with arguments showing evidence of prehistoric civilizations not recorded as part of human history.Are history books giving us the whole story? Or is civilization far more complex and older than we have been taught?Our school textbooks barely mention the 6,000-year-old Sumerian civilization, yet the latest archaeological findings at sites such as ... Read more

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  • Empires of the Silk Road

    A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present

    by Christopher I. Beckwith ...
    The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a fundamental rethinking of the origins, history, and significance of this major world region. Christopher Beckwith describes the rise and fall of the great Central Eurasian empires, including those of the Scythians, Attila the Hun, the Turks and Tibetans, and Genghis Khan and ... Read more

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  • Empires of the Word

    A Language History of the World

    by Nicholas Ostler ...
    A "monumental" account of the rise and fall of languages, with "many fresh insights, useful historical anecdotes, and charming linguistic oddities" ( Chicago Tribune).Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word is the first history of the world's great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that bind communities together and make possible both the living of a common history and the telling ... Read more

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