Resultados de búsqueda: Archaeology from 100 POCKETS

New York, NY: Greystone Press, 1966. Revised Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW. Gilt embossed wine linen boards/Fine. DJ/Good; strong & sound w/edge wear & lifting laminate to upper left corner & lower back edge. First published in German. Issued w/o ISBN; ISBN subsequently assigned. Treatise on ancient art of South and Central America within the context of prevailing historical, sociological, and cultural settings. Fine copy in lesser condition dust jacket.

London, UK: Elek Books, 1964. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Poor. Edwin Smith (Photographer). Text/BRAND NEW. Natural linen boards w/blue lettering/Fine. DJ/Poor; closed tears w/small losses to edges, & vertical creasing to mid spine, front & back; and, inexplicably, with an inch cut off from top edge. A historical, cultural history of Athens from earliest times to the decline of the classical period following its fall to the Goths in 267 A.D. Fine copy with poor dust jacket.

Sydney, Australia: Australian Museum, 1962. 6th Edition . Soft Cover/Stapled. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Soft cover/VG; light edge rubs w/small losses to lower back edge, and tape reinforcement to lower spine. PO name to fEP. First published 1938; this is the 6th Edition of 1962. Analysis of design motifs in Australian Aboriginal arts and crafts by Frederick McCarthy, Curator of Anthropology with the Australian Museum in Sydney. Designs used in weaponry, clothings, tree carvings and ground drawings are presented in terms of geographical region.

Albuquerque, NM: COAS/Archeological Society of New Mexico, 1974. Volume 2, No 3, September 1, 1974 . Soft Cover/Journal. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Stapled softcover/VG; strong & sound w/light foxing (acidic paper reaction), and, PO name to upper front corner. Quarterly journal. This Vol 2, No 3 issue of September 1974 features: Archeological Excavations at Three Sites on the Western Coal Company Fruitland Lease, San Juan County, New Mexico (Frank J. Broilo)

Albuquerque, NM: COAS/Archeological Society of New Mexico, 1975. Volume 3, No 2, June 1, 1975 . Soft Cover/Journal. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Stapled softcover/VG; strong & sound w/light foxing (acidic paper reaction) & soiling, and trace edge wear. PO name to upper front corner. Quarterly journal. This Vol 3, No 2 issue of June 1975 features: 1, Archaeological Investigations at San Miguel de Carnue (Albert E. Ward); and 2, Life in the Tesuque Valley & Elsewhere in the Santa Fe Area During the Pueblo II Stage of Development (Florence Hawley Ellis).

Washington, D.C.: National Park Service/US Dept of the Interior, 1962. First Edition, 5th Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated stapled soft cover/NF, showing trace discoloration. Monograph. History and field guide to the 320 acre Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico, established in 1923. Early American settlers erroneously assumed the people who built these villages were Aztecs, hence the name of the ruins and of the modern town of Aztec; we now know the builders of the archeological site were the Anasazi ancestors of the Puebloan peoples. Text in 6 parts: 1, Man in the San Juan Valley; 2, Explorations & Excavations; 3, The Aztec Ruins Today; 4, The Natural Scene; 5, Establishment & Administration; and, 6, Related Areas.

Alburquerque, NM: Univ of New Mexico Press, 1987. First Edition, 2nd Printing . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY. Softcover/Fine. Documentation of excavation of Aztec Ruins in the San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico, undertaken from 1916 through 1921. 120 pgs, augmented w/photos & diagrams, in 5 chapters: 1, The Ruins Discovered; 2, The Ruins Uncovered; 3, The Pueblos as Part of the Chaco Phenomenon; 4, The Pueblos as Home to Mesa Indians; and 5, The Ruins Preserved.

Mexico D. F.: Universida Nacional Autonoma De Mexico, 1993. 1.a Edicion . Illustrated Coated Cardstock. Very Good/No Jacket. 8 1/4" Tall. The book "reune los trabajos presentados en el Colloquio Latinoamericano de Antropologia, celebrado en 1990 en la Universidad Nactional Autonoma de Mexico." [Presentacion] The publication was issued to coincide with the XIII Congreso Internacional de Ciencias Antropologicas (August 1993). It's a well organized survey of recent work in the following areas: Arqueologia (4 papers); Antropologia Fisica (8); Linguistica (7); Antropologia Social y Etnologia (6); and Derechos Indigenas (5). 589 pages, with prefatory matter, with tables, and - at the end of most papers - Obras consultadas. Covers show color loss and partial creases; stamped name of prior owner on front endpaper and title page; text is clean and strong.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor, 1956. First Edition, First Thus . Paperback. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Soft cover/NF; w/light wear & discoloration. PO stamp on fEP & handfashioned loan pocket to front cover verso. Ancient history of Mesopotamia and Egypt. Volume based lectures Holland-born archaeologist Henri Frankfort (1897 - 1954) delivered at Indiana Univ, Bloomington, in 1948 - 1949.

San Marcos, CA: Avant Books/Slawson Communications, 1989. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/Near Fine. Herbert L. Minshall (Author-Illustrator). Text/BRAND NEW. Gilt embossed blue boards/Fine. Illustrated DJ/NF w/closed tear to upper front edge. Map to endpapers. An overview of significant gains in the study of early man that point to the premise that humans populated the Americas much earlier than generally supposed.

Las Vegas, NV: KC Publications, 1971. First Edition, 4th Printing of 1977 . Soft Cover/Stapled. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/Bright, clean, As New. Softcover/VG; strong w/light edge & surface wear. PO name strike-out to title page. COVER ART: "Spider Rock", photo. The geological, achaeological story of the sculptured sandstone passages that make up Canyon de Chelly in the heart of Navajoland, and its proud inhabitants. Authors Supplee served with the Nat'l Park Service at Canyon de Chelley, Douglas Anderson, a trader, has lived on the Navajo Reservation since 1935, and his wife Barbara teaches in Navajoland. Unless otherwise noted, the photography is by the three authors.

New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1996. First American Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. New/Near Fine. BRAND NEW COPY w/trace edge wear & small scrape to back of dustjacket. Story of the discovery of the submerged Cosquer Cave near Marseille and complete photographic documentary diving missions of archaelogists Jean Clottes and Jean Courtin of 1991 and 1992. 191 illustrations w/108 being full color plates recording the cave paintings and engravings, maps, and Glossary to rear. An exciting moment in archaeology.

New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 1963. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Collectible - Fine/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW. Green linen boards/NF. DJ/NF w/ light edge wear & showing faint discoloration. Volume 3 of the Movements in World Art Series; original text in German. Survey of the development of paintings on rock faces commencing with the caves in the Franci-Cantabrian ares. Color plates include examples from the Altamira and Lascaux caves.

London, UK: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. New/New. BRAND NEW COPY. Early history of Britain. Volume 2 in a series of 5. Studies of the Celts and Celtic culture from first arrival in 7th century BC to the development of the medieval kingdoms in Scotland and Wales. Illustrated with some 109 plates. 190 pgs in 5 chapters: 1, Introduction - The Celts in Europe; 2, Iron Age Britain; 3, The Roman Interlude; 4, The Dark Ages; and 5, Epilogue - Celtic Twilight.

Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1975. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Softcover/NF w/light edge rubs. Museum catalog to travelling exhibition of Chinese archaeological finds. Chinese title: Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo Chu-tu Wen-wu Zhan-lan (calligraphy, Kuo Mo-jo). COVER ART: Bronze galloping horse, 2nd century Easter Han tomb excavation. Rich repository of historical recors. 1975 exhibitions shown at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO, and San Francisco's Asian Art Museum. Ca. 250 pages with photos (some color) to some 385 display items. Besides pre-history artifacts, there is a 7th century loan contract (or i.o.u.) we can relate to.

New York, NY: Dial Press, 1972. First American Edition, 1st Printing . Hard Cover/Stitched. Near Fine/Fine. EX-LIB. Text/Bright, clean, As New. Orange linen boards/Fine. DJ/Fine. Loan pocket removal shadow to fEP. First published in England; this is a stated first printing of the American edition. Travel narrative. An excursion in to the ancient worlds of the Mediterranean with contemporary guide, Aubrey Menen (1912 - 1989). Text, lucid and coherent, supported by numerous photos. Fine copy though EX-LIB.

Mesa Verde Nat'l Park, CO: Mesa Verde Museum Assoc., 1961. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Blue stapled softcover/Good; strong & sound w/faint creasing to lower back corner, light surface scrapes/rubs, and showing soiling & discoloration. 1961 publication date to lower back of softcover. Superb historical, archaeological and architectural presentation of the Cliff Dwellings of Mesa Verde National Park. Site of the Ancestral Pueblo people who lived there for over 700 years, from A.D. 600 to 1300. Volume presented with text to left hand pages and b/w full-page photos to the right. Fine copy despite flaws to softcover.

London, UK: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979. First Edition . Hardcover. New/New. BRAND NEW COPY. Studies of early Roman Britain. Volume 3 in a series of 5. Illustrated with some 100 photos & drawings plus maps. 193 pgs in 8 chapters: 1, Caesar & Britain; 2, Power Politics -; 3, - and the People; 4, Roman Sucesses - and Failures; 5, 'Pax Romana" - the Benefits for Britain; 6, The People of Roman Britain - the Army & the Administration; 7, The People of Roman Britain -Migrant & Native; and 8, The Benefit for Rome - a Conclusion.

Athens, Greece: C. Cacoulides. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Dimitrios Harissiadis (Photographer). Text/Bright, clean As New. Off-white linen boards/NF w/trace wrinkling to lower front. DJ/NF w/light edge wear. No publication date --- c. 1950s vintage tour guide to the Acropolis, ancient citadel of Athens, dating from the 5th century B.C. Map precedes text. Text in 48 pgs w/55 entries keyed to afore mentioned map, and followed by un-numbered pages of b/w photos, also keyed to entries.

New York, NY: Harvest Books/Harcourt Brace, 1971. First Edition, "I" (9th) Printing . Soft cover. LIKE NEW/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright w/trace margin discoloration. Softcover w/light edge & surface wear. Historical novel of Pueblo Indians by Swiss-born, pioneer archaeologist Adolf Francis Bandelier (1840 - 1914). First published 1890. Fictional plot supported by scholarly descriptions of country, natural settings, architectual ruins, cultural values & patterns of behavior. 490 pgs. 3 essays: 1, Adolf Bandelier: An Introduction (Stefan Jovanovich); Preface to the 1st Edition (Adolf F. Bandelier); and 3, In Memory (Charles F. Lummis) precede this novel of prehistoric Indian culture of the Southwest.