Time Detectives How Archaeologists Use Technology to Recapture the Pa Tapa dura - 1995

Simon & Schuster Ltd, 1995-04-03. Hardcover. Very Good. **1st Edition** **HARDBACK** In unclipped dustjacket No stamps or inscriptions; clean condition

Simon & Schuster, 1995. Book. Very Good. No Binding. 288pp. Jacket not price clipped..

Simon & Schuster Ltd, 1995-04-03. Hardcover. Very Good. 2.8173 in x 23.1726 in x 16.6751 in.

Simon & Schuster, 1995. Paperback (No Dust Wrapper.). Near Fine. . Paperback. Physically Trade Paperback (9¼” x 6”) (0.7 kg); 288pp; Index; First in this, paperback, edition. Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Black & White Drawings; Maps; ISBN: 0671712470 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #175557|| Condition:

London: Simon & Schuster, 1995. Hard Back. Very Good/Very Good. 6 1/4" X 9 1/2. 288 Pages Indexed. Red boards with green quarter-spine and gold spine lettering. Advances in technology have moved archeology into a new age. Yesterday's solitary romantic adventurers are today's teams of sophisticated, multidisciplinary scientists capable of studying ancient diets from bone collagen and reconstructing millennia-old landscapes from fossilized seeds and grains. Excavations today move less earth in two years than those of a couple of generations ago moved in a month - and they learn vastly more about how our ancestors lived. This book reports on some of the breathtaking finds of recent years: the earliest Bronze Age shipwreck ever discovered, the site of a Native American bison hunt, ancient farming systems used in the Andean highlands by Inca farmers before the Spanish conquest, when reintroduced today, produce higher crop yields than current methods, a newly discovered Mayan city,… Leer más

Simon & Schuster Ltd, 1995. Hardcover. Good. Damaged dust jacket. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.