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(Johannesburg: 30 Degrees South, 2006). A volume in the series 'Southbound Pocket Guides to South Africa's World Heritage Sites'. 178 x 100 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 160; full-colour photographs; some maps. As new. "Let Southbound take you back over 1,000 years - through the mists of time to a long-forgotten era of southern African splendour and prosperity - and uncover the myths and legends of a noble culture ... the kingdom of Mapungubwe on the Limpopo River." .

(London: Frank Cass, 1971) 0714618853. Cass Library of African Studies, African Prehistory No. 3. The first edition was published in 1906. This new edition has a new introductory note by Professor Brian Fagan. 4to; original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; dustwrapper; pp. 106, incl. index; plates. Dustwrapper somewhat rubbed and edgeworn; earlier owner's name signed on front pastedown; occasional fox spot. Very good condition, in a good dustwrapper. "In the early years of this century, a young English archaeologist, Dr. David Randall-MacIver, was commissioned to carry out excavations at Zimbabwe and report on the significance of this remarkable monument. The first professional archaeologist to examine the ruins, MacIver used vastly different methods from those of earlier investigators in that he used as evidence all the objects discovered, and not just a selection. His careful comparisons led him to believe that the original inhabitants of Zimbabwe were related to the early… Leer más

(Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2015) 9781868426782. Foreword by Pippa Skotnes. 4to; laminated pictorial boards; pp. (viii) + 117 + (i); profusely illustrated with contemporary photographs. Fine condition. "Human archaeology in southern Africa has since its beginnings been implicated in the projects of evolutionism and biological racism. Nick Shepherd's delvings into the underground of the discipline are part of an honourable effort to save archaeology from its past, an effort that starts with recognising dig sites for what they have always been: the sacred ground of the dispossessed. The Mirror in the Ground offers us a fresh way of looking at the photographic archive, with a commentary as moving and compassionate as it is unsettling." - JM Coetzee .

(Causeway, Southern Rhodesia, Volume 3, Number 23A, issued 29 December 1961). Original wraps, slightly discoloured, pp. (157 -) 332, figures in the text, folding charts. Edges lightly foxed. Several learned articles relating to the Zimbabwe excavations; 1958. .

(Cape Town: Double Storey, 2006) 1770130403. 234 x 180 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 168, incl. index; maps; lavishly illustrated in full colour. Wrappers very slightly rubbed and sunned, with trace of curl to edges; light foxing to inner wrappers. Very good condition. "Africa occupies a very special position in the origin and development of humankind. ... Like the new Origins Centre situated on the campus of Wits University, whose official publication it is, this book celebrates humanity's origins in Africa and the rich archaeological heritage of the continent. It has been written by some of the world's foremost authorities on Africa's past under the editorship of Geoffrey Blundell, the Origins Centre's Curator." .

(London: Constable, 2003) 1841196975. 8vo; original red boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper maps; pp. xxi + (i) + 440, incl. index; plates; maps; diagrams; graphs. Trace of curl to edges of dustwrapper; light bump to bottom fore-corner of upper board. Very good condition. "In a brilliant synthesis of new genetic, archaeological and climatic evidence, Stephen Oppenheimer challenges the orthodoxy by arguing that all modern non-Africans can be shown to have sprung from a single successful exodus. One migrant band of no more than a few hundred souls was forced out of its homeland by increasing salinity in the Red Sea, some 80,000 years ago, and all non-Africans today can trace their mitochondrial DNA to one woman from the group - the Out-of-Africa Eve. This is the story of that remarkable group and its great global trek." .

(Cape Town: David Philip, 1978) 0949968692. 4to; laminated pictorial boards; pp. 160, incl. index; profusely illustrated with maps, diagrams, charts, photographs, incl. full-colour. Boards rubbed; tape repair to upper joint; earlier owner's name signed on front pastedown; a little foxing. Good condition. "Despite the advances made in recent years by archaeologists, not many people other than specialists are aware of the present state of knowledge of Southern Africa's prehistory. This book provides an up-to-date and authoritative account specially designed for the general public, first-year university students and high-school libraries. The text traces the threads of man's evolution in Africa, and his arrival and dispersal in the southern part of the continent from the earliest beginnings up to the Later Iron Age, which preceded the modern periods of immigration and colonisation of Southern Africa. The book also provides a useful introduction for the layman to the scope and… Leer más

(London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1956). 8vo; original pale brown cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; no dustwrapper; pp. vii + (i) + 176, incl. index; map; a few line drawings. Trace of fishmothing to cloth; gift inscription to front free endpaper; earlier owner's book label and ink stamp to front endpaper; some spotting. Good condition. "Since 1946 I have been accustomed every alternate year to devote a course of lectures to the principles of archaeological classification, the current terminology and the implicit interpretative concepts. The present book is based upon these lectures. Its aim is to explain the words to which professional archaeologists, like myself, do give technical meanings, the methodological hypotheses we invoke and the postulates underlying our procedures." .

(Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1959, South African Archaeological Society Issue). 173 x 112mm; card wraps a little soiled; peeling at tail of spine; past owner's name inside front cover and on first page; discreet hand-stamp on title page; tape stains to inside of covers and adjacent pages; splitting internally; regular browning throughout; pp. xxvi + 341, incl. index; profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates, line drawings, maps and tables. Fair condition. "The story that this book has to tell . . . is not one of the flowering and decay of early civilizations, of princes and kings, or of intrinsically beautiful objects of personal jewellery, statuary, or public buildings. Rather is it concerned with the beginnings of things, with the very emergence of man himself, his gradual conquering of his environment and the slow growth of social and economic units." .

(London: Bergström + Boyle Books, 1980) 0903767309. 4to; original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine; price-clipped laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 96, incl. index; map; photographs; floor-plans; line drawings; diagrams. Dustwrapper partially sunned; spine slightly cocked; some foxing to top edge. Very good condition. "During the four centuries of the Roman occupation of Britain the structure and needs of the army changed constantly. Since there was no standard fort design this book begins by describing an imaginary fort, and then traces the development of fort-building techniques and methods of construction. The many different designs that were employed for each type of building within the forts are illustrated with plans, diagrams and photographs." .

(London: G. Bell & Sons, 1971) 0713516925. 8vo; original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (xii) + 275, incl. index; photographs; maps. Dustwrapper slightly rubbed and curled; some spotting. Very good condition. "Gaul was one of Rome's richest provinces for almost five hundred years, and the Roman emperors lavished on it some of their most splendid monuments and buildings. The traveller in France today will find many unexpected and dramatic remains, and this book aims to provide the lover of archaeology with a guide to the impact of Roman civilisation in France. ... Roman France is a book for everyone with an interest in archaeology, history or architecture, and is a valuable companion for all intelligent travellers." .

(Cape Town: David Philip, 1986). 210 x 150 mm; pictorial wraps; line drawings and black-and-white photographs. Wraps very slightly sunned; previous owner's hand-stamp on half-title. Very good condition. "The South African Archaeological Society has long felt the need for a series of introductory booklets on southern African archaeology that will provide clear and authoritative guides for students as well as for general readers. In the first volume, Searching for the Past, Dr A. J. B. Humphreys describes the methods and techniques used by archaeologists to locate, excavate and interpret the often ephemeral remains of both prehistoric and historic inhabitants of southern Africa. Just as a detective must reconstruct the events surrounding a crime, so the archaeologist has to piece together the clues left inadvertently by people hundreds and thousands of years ago. The challenge lies not only in finding the scattered pieces of this jigsaw puzzle, but in putting them together so that a… Leer más

(London: Michael Joseph, 1976) 0718115570. 4to; original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. 128; profusely illustrated, in colour and monochrome. Short tear to top edge of dustwrapper's lower panel; a little light spotting; gift inscription to front endpaper. Very good condition. "The turn of fate which revealed the lost cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum began in 1710 when a peasant, digging a well, struck marble from the theatre of Herculaneum. The discoveries in the two centuries that followed produced a revolution in artistic taste, affecting furniture, decoration and art in the whole civilized world. Raleigh Trevelyan's vivid narrative gives a striking personal impression of this ghostly city. He gives, too, an entertaining history of the slow unfinished striptease of time which gradually, tantalizingly, is revealing one of the greatest storehouses of treasures the world has seen, the source of much of our knowledge… Leer más

(Perranporth: the author, 1965). Signed by the author on the title page. 8vo; original pale blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. viii + 184, incl. index; profusely illustrated with detailed line drawings. Dustwrapper slightly rubbed and partially tanned; light bump to fore-edges of boards; endpapers and edges a bit foxed. Good condition. "The Slate Figures of Cornwall is a careful study of an ancient craft, peculiar to the County of Cornwall, that of carving family portraits in slate. These fine specimens have been recorded and illustrated by Alice Bizley in this book." .

(Bloemfontein: National Museum, 1970). National Museum Memoir No. 5. Edition limited to 500 copies. 4to; original green cloth, lettered in black on upper cover; pp. vii + (i) + 172; numerous line drawings, tables, photographs, maps, including folding. Cloth slightly stippled; a little foxing to endpapers and edges, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Good to very good condition. "This volume completes the series of monographs describing excavation in Later Stone Age deposits of the Orange River Scheme area." The excavations mentioned in the text include Ventershoek, Lemoenfontein, Holmsgrove, Goodlands, Glen Elliot, Damplaas, Blydefontein and Merino Walk. .

(New York: Academic Press, 1974) 0127857591. Studies in Archeology Series. 4to; grey pictorial cloth; no dustwrapper; pp. xiv + 518 (including index); figures and tables. Slightest wear to extremities of boards; occasional fox spot. Very good condition. "I have attempted to take the best of the literature, extract from it what seems to me to be the most useful facts and to present them in the most complete format which space will allow. So, the book is in part a compendium of information about stratigraphy, artifacts, fauna, skeletons, and sediments which should be of use to professionals, students, and amateur archaeologists alike. ... The references in it have been selected for their factual basis and the text deals mainly with the critical evaluation, organization and interpretation of the facts, such as they are." .

(Bloemfontein: National Museum, 1972). National Museum Memoir No. 6. Edition limited to 1000 copies. 4to; original green cloth, lettered in black on upper cover; pp. vii + (i) + 288; numerous line drawings, tables, maps. Fore-corners of boards a bit bumped; a little foxing to endpapers and edges, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Good to very good condition. 'The primary aim of this work is to integrate the sequence of "industries" (groups of similar samples) from the O.R. Scheme area with the sequence of industries established for Southern Africa as a whole. The groups with which the work is concerned are: the Acheulian, the "Fauresmith", the "Middle Stone Age" sequence, and the "Later Stone Age" sequence, each of which forms the subject of a separate chapter. The task of the individual chapters falls into four sections: an appraisal of the state of knowledge of the industry and particularly the validity of present terminology of the industry and its… Leer más

(London: G. Bell & Sons, 1939). 8vo; original blue cloth; spine gilt; no dustwrapper; pp. xvi + 236, incl. index; plates; text figures. Spine very slightly sunned; bookplate of Francis Hemming on front pastedown; regular light browning throughout. Very good condition. "In the present volume an attempt is made to convey accurately and concisely some idea of what is known concerning man's development in the Stone Age, and the conditions under which it took place. For a proper appreciation of the picture, some knowledge of glacial geology and paleontology is necessary. The bare essentials of these are sketched in two short chapters, calculated to give the minimum information necessary to the understanding of what follows. … The leading idea of the book is the application and illustration of Breuil's classification based on the Somme. A fairly exhaustive examination of the latter in its relations to glacial correlation has convinced the writer that it is correct in its main… Leer más

(Düsseldorf: Econ Verlag for Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, 1978). 8vo; original red cloth; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 464, incl. index; several glossy plates and folding maps, incl. full-colour; line drawings and maps in text. Dustwrapper very slightly edgeworn; some spotting to edges and endpapers; earlier owner's name on front free endpaper. Very good condition. German text. Revised edition of the popular work on the archaeology of the Bible. .

(London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1935 New Edition). 12mo; original black cloth; no dustwrapper; previous owner's signature on ffep; scattered foxing and browning throughout; pp. 210 including index; frontispiece map, 16 black-and-white plates. Fair condition. "In this book I have attempted to describe in a popular form the work which during the last seven years has been done at Ur by the Joint Expedition of the British Museum and the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. The results of the excavations have aroused very general interest, and it is in answer to requests from many quarters that I have undertaken this account." .