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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Return to Babylon	Brian M. Fagan	In the barren landscape between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, adventurers of the nineteenth century suspected that the remains of fabled kingdoms lay beneath the sands. As they dug into the mounds…	OL103269W
Central Himalayas	D. P. Agrawal	Study refers to the megalithic period.	OL1069765W
Excavations at Carnac (Brittany)	James Miln	Detailed outline and illustrations of the main Carnac excavation.	OL10709695W
Artifact	Gregory Benford	The discovery of a mysterious artifact in an ancient Greek tomb--an object concealing both the secret of Atlantis and an unimaginable power--leads Americans John and Claire into confrontation with Gr…	OL108299W
The ancient earthworks and temples of the American Indians	Lindesay Brine	xvi, 429 pages, 27 unnumbered leaves of plates : 22 cm	OL1089822W
The story of the American Indian	Radin, Paul	An account of Indian culture from the rise of the Mayan civilization, and of the great tribal movements that have taken place on this continent.	OL1118664W
Cosa, the coins	Theodore V. Buttrey	174 p. : 20 cm	OL11713655W
Les pipes de la quarantaine	Philippe Gosse	The collection of almost 1,000 clay pipes from the quarantine port of Pomègues provides a unique insight into pipe production and use throughout the Mediterranean and further afield. The author's ex…	OL11741085W
Materia prima, cerámica y sociedad	Xavier Clop García	"This study focuses on the management of raw materials used in early ceramics production (late Neolithic to early Bronze Age) in the north-eastern part of the Iberian Peninsular (Catalonia). The main…	OL11803866W
Sovrani egizi predinastici	Natale Barca	L’Egitto delle origini è un campo d’indagine molto interessante e avvincente, perchè ricco di novità e sorprendente sotto molti aspetti. Inoltre è un settore di studi e ricerche in via di sviluppo, g…	OL11939392W
Ancient visions	Julie E Francis	"The Bighorn and Wind River basins of north-central Wyoming and southern Montana have been home to Native American tribes for at least 11,000 years and contain some of the most diverse assemblages of…	OL12019524W
Catawba Valley Mississippian	David G. Moore	"By the 18th century, the modern Catawba Indians were living along the river and throughout the valley that bears their name near the present North Carolina/South Carolina border, but little was know…	OL12032151W
Rumi maki fighting arts	Juan Ramon Flores,Alex Bushman Vega,Juan Ramon Rodríguez Flores	"Flores and Vega present the history, legends, and a clear explanation of the techniques of Rumi Maki, one of the rare remnants of the Inca civilization in Peru."--Provided by the publisher.	OL12072360W
Egypt and its monuments	Robert Smythe Hichens,Robert Hichens ,Jules Vallée Guérin	Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.	OL1252602W
Development of social complexity in the Liaoxi area, northeast China	Xinwei Li	"This work is a case study focusing on the long-term unique evolutionary trajectory of the prehistoric Liaoxi area, Northeast China. The emergence and dramatic decline of the Hongshan complex societi…	OL13297832W
Archaeology of the Bible	Gaalyah Cornfeld	Includes general index and index of Biblical reference.	OL13299256W
Lake Superior copper and the Indians: miscellaneous studies of Great Lakes prehistory	James Bennett Griffin	ix, 189 pages : 23 cm	OL1398284W
Peruvian mummies and what they teach	Charles W. Mead	Acts as a very short introduction to historical explorations of Peru, with sample photographs, and works listed. In general, deals with late 1800s.	OL142576W
The lost Americans	Frank C. Hibben	The story of the discovery of Stone Age man in America, beginning with the 1925 find of bones and odd shaped spearheads near Folsom, New Mexico.	OL1483094W
The American Indian experience	Spangenburg, Ray	Describes historic places in the United States associated with Native American history and culture, including Little Big Horn Battlefield, Alcatraz Island, and Nez Perce National Historic Park.	OL14855242W