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Crawley: Plant Ecology. Paperback 
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  • Plant Ecology. Paperback. Edited by M. Crawley
  • 736 pages. 2nd, revised, edition 1996


9780632036394 0632036397
Abdel-Magid: Plant Domestication in the Middle Nile Basin: An Archaeoethnobotanical Case Study. Paperback 
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  • Plant Domestication in the Middle Nile Basin: An Archaeoethnobotanical Case Study. Paperback. A4/ca. 29,5 x 21 cm
  • Anwar Abdel-Magid
  • 356 pages. 1989. B.A.R. Series S.523. Reduced price


0860546640
Agrawal: Dating the Human Past. Cloth ip 
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  • Dating the Human Past.
  • by D.P. Agrawal and M.G. Yadava
  • 134 pages, with 28 illustrations
  • 1995
  • Indian Society for Prehistoric and Quaternary Studies


Agrawal
Agusti: Hominoid Evolution and Climatic Change in Europe: Volume 1: The Evolution of Neogene Terrestrial Ecosystems in Europe. Hardback 
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  • Hominoid Evolution and Climatic Change in Europe: Volume 1: The Evolution of Neogene Terrestrial Ecosystems in Europe. Hardback
  • Edited by Jorge Agustí, Lorenzo Rook, Peter Andrews
  • 528 pages. 1999


9780521640978

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Allchin: A Source-book of Indian Archaeology: Volume 3: Human Remains, Prehistoric Roots of Religious Beliefs, First Steps in Historical Archaeology: Sculpture, Architecture, Coins and Inscriptions. Hardcover 
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  • Source-book of Indian Archaeology. Volume 3: Human Remains, Prehistoric Roots of Religious Beliefs, First Steps in Historical Archaeology: Sculpture, Architecture, Coins and Inscriptions. Hardcover
  • edited by F.R. Allchin & Dilip K. Chakrabarti
  • vii, 291 pages


Allchin
Aufderheide: The Scientific Study of Mummies. Hardback 
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  • Scientific Study of Mummies. Hardback
  • Arthur C. Aufderheide
  • 626 pages, 17 line diagrams 328 half-tones 6 colour plates. 2002. The fact that bodies decay after death has concerned humans throughout the ages. Many cultures have attempted to arrest this decay, so that bodies are preserved (or mummified) in a state as near to life as possible, but spontaneously mummified bodies are also found.


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Beck Kehoe: Humans: An Introduction to Four-Field Anthropology. Paperback 
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  • Humans: An Introduction to Four-Field Anthropology. Paperback
  • Alice Beck Kehoe
  • 244 pages, illustrated. 1998. A concise, introductory textbook for use on four-field, cultural or social anthropology courses. Encompassing anthropology and its major subfields, the author covers the basic concepts of linguistics, archaeology, physical and cultural anthropology, with a minimal use of technical terms


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Boivin, Owoc: Soils Stones and Symbols. Cultural Perceptions of the Mineral World. Paperback 
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  • Soils Stones and Symbols. Cultural Perceptions of the Mineral World. Paperback
  • edited by Dr Nicole Boivin, Mary Ann Owoc
  • 208 pages. 2004. The importance of the mineral world to human societies extends back deep into the evolutionary origins of our species, stone being the material used for the earliest hominoid technology. Soils Stones and Symbols brings together a number of ethnographic, philosophical and archaeological studies to adopt a new holistic approach to minerals.


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Bokenkamp: Ancestors and Anxiety: Daoism and the Birth of Rebirth in China. Hardcover 
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  • Ancestors and Anxiety: Daoism and the Birth of Rebirth in China. Hardcover
    by Stephen R. Bokenkamp
    xi, 220 pages. 2007
  • Ancestors and Anxiety focuses on one of the most important periods in the history of Chinese religion, the third through sixth centuries C.E., when social and political changes were matched by innovation and an outpouring of textual production in Daoism and Buddhism


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Bonis, de Bonis: Hominoid Evolution and Climatic Change in Europe. Phylogeny of the Neogene Hominoid Primates of Eurasia. Hardback 
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  • Hominoid Evolution and Climatic Change in Europe. Phylogeny of the Neogene Hominoid Primates of Eurasia. Hardback
  • Louis de Bonis
  • 384 pages. 2001. Special price


9780521660754, 0521660750 196175
Cartwright: Disease and History. Paperback 
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  • Disease and History. Paperback
  • by Frederick F. Cartwright and Michael D. Biddiss
  • 280 pages, with 16 illustrations. 2004
  • This fully updated edition of 'Disease & History' examines diseases such as the plagues which brought down ancient Greece and Rome, the Black Death which devastated 13th century Europe and, more recently, AIDS and the SARS epidemic


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Chia Lan-Po: Cave Home of Peking Man. Paperback 
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  • Cave Home of Peking Man. Paperback
  • by Chia Lan-Po
  • 52 pages with text, many black-white and colour illustrations
  • first edition 1975


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Coyle: Forensic Botany. Hardback 
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  • Forensic Botany. Principles and Applications to Criminal Casework. Hardback
  • Author Heather Miller Coyle
  • 336 pages, with illustrations, (some colour) 2004. Plant evidence is increasingly being used in the reconstruction of crimes; this book brings together information on forensic botany into a single resource and introduces the basic science underlying this emerging field.


9780849315299, 0849315298 75
Cremo: Forbidden Archeology's Impact. Cloth 
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  • Forbidden Archeology's Impact. How a Controversial New Book Shocked the Scientific Community and Became an Underground Classic
  • by Michael A. Cremo
  • 570 pages
  • 1998


9780892132836, 0892132833-35
Cremo: Forbidden Archeology. The Hidden History of the Human Race. Cloth 
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  • Forbidden Archeology. The Hidden History of the Human Race. Cloth
  • by Michael A. Cremo & Richard L. Thompson
  • 914 pages, illustrated
  • 1993


9780892132942, 0892132949-45
Cremo: Human Devolution: A Vedic Alternative to Darwin's Theory. Hardcover 
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  • Human Devolution: A Vedic Alternative to Darwin's Theory. Hardcover.
  • by Michael A. Cremo
  • xxx, 554 pages. 2003


9780892133345, 0892133341-35
Dash, Kashyap: Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases in Ayurveda. In 5 Volumes. Cloth. i/p 
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  • Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases in Ayurveda. Based on Ayurveda Saukhyam of Todarananda. In 5 Volumes (Series 3-7). Cloth. Indian publications and therefore seem to be old books. But: No better editions available
  • by Bhagwan Dash & Lalitesh Kashyap
  • * part 1: 626 pages
  • * part 2: 524 pages
  • * part 3: 564 pages
  • * part 4: 648 pages
  • * part 5: 607 pages
  • The books contains the original Sanskrit text and its English translation. With an index with the names of authors and books quoted in the text, an index of names of recipes described in the text, an index of drugs as described in the text, glossary of technical terms


Dash
Davis: Archaeology of Animals. Paperback 
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  • Archaeology of Animals. Paperback
  • by Simon J.M. Davis
  • 224 pages, glossary, maps, index, 115 line figures, 45 photos. 1987. From Stone Age mammoth-hunters to Roman black rats, this book explains how fossils found on archaeological sites help to unravel some of the mysteries which surround our ancestors


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Dupras: Forensic Recovery of Human Remains: Archaeological Approaches. Hardcover 
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  • Forensic Recovery of Human Remains: Archaeological Approaches. Hardcover.
  • by Tosha L. Dupras, John J. Schultz, Sandra M. Wheeler,  Lana J. Williams
  • 256 pages. 2005. This comprehensive reference focuses on the practical aspects of  recovery and excavation of human remains. Chapters highlight various techniques used to survey, map, recover, document, collect, and transport human remains from crime scenes


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Ellen: Ethnobiology and the Science of Humankind. Paperback 
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  • Ethnobiology and the Science of Humankind. Paperback
    By Prof Dr Roy Ellen
  • 176 pages. 2006
  • Comprising a series of articles written by international scholars, this book considers the ways in which the subject matter and methodologies of ethnobiological research address core anthropological questions about the character of culture, language, cognition, knowledge, subsistence practice and co-evolution.


9781405145893, 1405145897-20
Fairgrieve: Forensic Cremation. Recovery and Analysis. Hardback 
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  • Forensic Cremation. Recovery and Analysis. Hardback
  • By Scott I. Fairgrieve
  • 224 pages, 63 black & white illustrations, 35 black & white tables. 2008. The determination of identity and the evaluation of trauma require special consideration when a body suffers extreme levels of damage sustained in a fire...


9780849391897

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Fforde: Collecting the Dead: Archaeology and the Reburial Issue. Paperback 
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  • Collecting the Dead: Archaeology and the Reburial Issue. Paperback
  • by Cressida Fforde
  • ix, 198 pages, with 9 plates. 2004


9780715632840

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Fowler: The Archaeology of Personhood. An Anthropological Approach. Paperback 
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  • Archaeology of Personhood. An Anthropological Approach. Paperback
  • by Chris Fowler, Lecturer, Archaeology, University of Manchester
  • 160 pages. 2004, 2006. The Archaeology of Personhood discusses what it means to be human and, by drawing on examples from European prehistory, discusses the implications that contemporary understandings of personhood have on archaeological interpretation


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Haglund: Advances in Forensic Taphonomy: Method, Theory, and Archaeological Perspectives. Hardback 
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  • Advances in Forensic Taphonomy: Method, Theory, and Archaeological Perspectives. Hardback. 29x259 mm
  • Edited by William D. Haglund, Marcella H. Sorg 
  • 544 pages, with 300 photographs, maps, and other images. 2001. It offers the latest techniques in obtaining clues from postmortem evidence.


0849311896
Higham: The Archaeology of Mainland Southeast Asia: From 10,000 B.C. to the Fall of Angkor 
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  • Archaeology of Mainland Southeast Asia: From 10,000 B.C. to the Fall of Angkor. Paperback
  • by Charles Higham
  • 404 pages. This important new synthesis focuses on the social world of early mainland Southeast Asia.


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Hillson: Teeth. 2nd Edition. Paperback 
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  • Teeth. 2nd Edition. Paperback
  • Simon Hillson
  • 388 pages, 112 line diagrams, 18 half-tones, 16 tables. Fully revised and updated edition 2005. Archaeological discoveries of teeth provide remarkable information on humans, animals and the health, hygiene and diet of ancient communities. Simon Hillson draws together a mass of material from archaeology, anthropology and related disciplines to provide a comprehensive manual on the study of teeth. It is part of the Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology series.


97805215454953050
Hodder: Archaeological Theory Today. Paperback 
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  • Archaeological Theory Today. Paperback
  • edited by Ian Hodder
  • 328 pages. 2005. It provides an authoritative account of the current status of archaeological theory, as presented by some of its major exponents and innovators over the last decade.


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Hoppa: Paleodemography. Age Distributions from Skeletal Samples. Hardback 
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  • Paleodemography. Age Distributions from Skeletal Samples. Hardback
  • Edited by Robert D. Hoppa, James W. Vaupel
  • 274 pages, with 28 line diagrams, 4 half-tones, 25 tables. 2002


9780521800631, 05218006331752138
Jones: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution. Paperback 
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  • Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution. Paperback
  • Edited by Steve Jones, Robert Martin and David Pilbeam. Executive editor: Sarah Bunney. Foreword by Richard Dawkins
  • 520 pages, with numerous maps, illustrations, appendices, glossary, index. 1994


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Kaplan: Sensuous Seas: Tales of a Marine Biologist. Hardcover 
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  • Sensuous Seas: Tales of a Marine Biologist. Hardcover
  • by Eugene H. Kaplan. Illustrated by Sandy Chichester Rivkin and Susan L. Kaplan
  • x, 271 pages, 150 line illustartions. 2006. Learning marine biology from a textbook is one thing. But take readers to the bottom of the sea in a submarine to discover living fossils or to coral reefs to observe a day in the life of an octopus, and the sea and its splendors come into focus, in brilliant colors and with immediacy.


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Kneifel: Hatschepsut, Die Pharaonin. Historischer Roman. Kartoniert 
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  • Hatschepsut, Die Pharaonin. Historischer Roman. Kartoniert
  • Hanns Kneifel
  • 2008. 765 Seiten


9783596177080
Larsen: Skeletons in Our Closet: Revealing Our Past through Bioarchaeology 
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  • Skeletons in Our Closet: Revealing Our Past through Bioarchaeology
  • Clark Spencer Larsen
  • 248 pages, with some illustrations, map, index. 2002
  • The dead tell no tales. Or do they? In this text, Clark Spencer Larsen shows that the dead can speak to us - about their lives and ours - through the insights of bioarchaeology, which reconstructs the lives and lifestyles of past peoples based on the study of skeletal remains


0691092842
Leakey: Origins Reconsidered. In Search of What Makes Us Human. Paperback 
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  • Origins Reconsidered. In Search of What Makes Us Human. New edition. Paperback
  • by Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin
  • 464 pages, 16 illustrations. 2004. An account of Richard Leakey's search for not only human origins, but also the origin of humanity. Since writing "Origins" in 1978, he has shifted his studies from the eastern to the western shore of Lake Turkana in Kenya


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Lee Lyman: Vertebrate Taphonomy. Paperback 
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  • Vertebrate Taphonomy. Paperback
  • by R. Lee Lyman
  • 550 pages, with 20 line diagrams 26 half-tones. 1994. Taphonomy studies the transition of organic matter from the biosphere into the geological record.....


9780521458405, 0521458404-35sd60

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Mayor: The First Fossil Hunters. Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times. Cloth