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Maurice M. Cotterell
The Lost Tomb of Viracocha: Unlocking the Secrets of the Peruvian Pyramids
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very minor creasing to upper rear cover, faint indenting to rear and traces of storage. 214pp. A study of the treasure-filled tombs of two sun kings, buried over 1,500 years ago in the long-lost pyramids of Peru.
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Carver, Martin
Underneath English Towns: Interpreting Urban Archaeology
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with light creasing and general traces of storage. 160pp. A survey of 1500 years of urban development and an introduction to the world of urban archaeology.
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Cunliffe, Barry
The Ancient Celts
No marks or inscriptions to contents. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, small rub inside front dust flap and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 324pp. A detailed study of the archaeological reality of the Iron Age inhabitants of barbarian Europe, tracing the emergence of chiefdoms, patterns of expansion and migration and the development of a mature 'urbanised' society, thus assessing the disparity between the traditional vision of the Celts and the archaeological evidence.
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Moran, Sarah V.
Alien Art: Extraterrestrial Expressions on Earth
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with tiny scratch to lower front edge. 125pp. A fascinating account of enigmatic artistic and architectural mysteries throughout the world. These include the Nazca Lines, Costa Rica Balls, Sacsayhuaman's impossible stone construction, Machu Picchu. the Sphinx, Crop Circles, Mayan Crystal Skulls and many more. Very well illustrated.
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Horsler, Val
Living the Past
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Pearce, Terry; Mellor, Jean E.
Excavations at North Manor Farm, South Croxton, Leicestershire
No marks or inscriptions. Slight creasing to front cover. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 48pp. Archaeological Report No 11 from South Croxton in the Charnwood district of Leicestershire. Photographs, maps, tables, plans, charts, descriptions and drawings of the archaeological finds.
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Wheeler, Sir Mortimer
Still Digging
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Nevell, Michael (editor)
Warburton: Glimpses of Rural Life: the Archaoelogy and History of a Cheshire Village
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 184pp. The archaeology and history of the Cheshire village of Warburton between Altrincham and Warrington. Tucked in are two postcards of St Werburgh's Old Church in Warburton.
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Barker, Graeme & Fowkes, D.V.
The Derbyshire Archaeological Journal Volume CII 1983
No marks or inscriptions. Very faint creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 157pp. Features prehistoric rock art, Royston Grange, Minning Low and Little Chester excavations, Fieldwalking, Roman roads, early Saxon broach, Bradbourne Mill timbers, Calke Priory, population and tax assessments in King Charles II's time, Long Eaton education, Samuel Slater and title and benefice incomes.
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Jacquetta Hawkes
A Guide to the Prehistoric and Roman Monuments in England and Wales
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, single crease to arched spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, lightly tanned pages and no bumping to corners. 319pp. The classic guide to the principal surviving monuments of the prehistoric and Roman inhabitants of England and Wales. Illustrated in colour and black & white. Maps including a tucked-in double sided map showing the sites of monuments for both the North area and the South area.
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Colin Tudge
The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor
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Dukszto, Aneta & Arguedas, Jose (editors)
Secrets and Mysteries ; Nasca Lines
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 31pp. Very well illustrated account of the Nasca Lines in Peru plus Paracas and the Inca Ruins of Tambo Colorado.
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Stringer, Chris
Homo Britannicus: The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain
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Vince, Gaia
Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet we Made
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 436pp. The author explores our planet which is said to be crossing a geological boundary from the Holocene into the Anthropocene or Age of Man. This book is what she found ordinary people across the planet doing - solving severe crises in ingenious effective ways.
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Pryor, Francis
Britain AD : A Quest for Arthur, England and the Anglo-Saxons
Book in mint unread condition. 268pp. The author traces the story of Arthur back to its origins and overturns some common misconceptions. With an extra 21 pages of interview and more with the author at the end.
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Switek, Brian
Written in Stone
Appears to be in as new unread condition. 320pp. The hunt for evolution's 'missing links' and what paleontologists' findings mean for our place on Earth.
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Huxley, Thomas Henry
Man's Place in Nature and Other Essays
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 372pp. A study which covers evolution, fossils, organic nature, animals, science and Darwin. An almost 100 years old book in amazing condition.
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Ellis, Peter Berresford
The Druids
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with minor traces of storage. 304pp. A complete re-assessment of who the Druids were. The author concludes they were the intellectual caste of ancient Celtic society - doctors, lawyers, ambassadors, advisors to kings pand they had a religious function.
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Simkiss, Wendy (editor)
The North West Geologist : No 13 : 2006
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 56pp. With features on Glacial Erratic in Manchester University Quadrangle, Musings on a Cycad, Heanry Charles Beasley, Digital Cameras and Polarised light, Nant Ffranco/Ogwen Valley, Jurassic Rocks - Whitby, The Causeway Coast and Norman Catlow.
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Simkiss, Wendy (editor)
The North West Geologist : No 14 : 2007
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 56pp. With features on Lockeia and Pelecypodichnu fossils, Chirotherium and the Quarrymen, Liverpool Spa, Fuerteventura and a Mafic Pluton, 3D pictures with a digital camera, the Ogwen Valley, the Jurassic of Rutland..
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Simkiss, Wendy (editor)
The North West Geologist : No 15 : 2008
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 56pp. With features on George Highland Morton, Styal Country Park, Geology of Horsetails, the Pedwardine Inlier Herefordshire, the Nant Francon-Ogwen Valley, the Parallel Roads of Glen Roy, Trip to the Shap area.
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Tomas, Andrew
We are Not the First
No marks or inscriptions. Creasing to covers and to spine. A clean very tight copy with rubbed unmarked boards, tanned pages and no bumping to corners. 224pp. How atomic theory, penicillin, electric batteries, space travel and many other ideas were first discovered thousands of years ago.
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O'Connell, J. W. & Korff, A. (editors)
The Book of the Burren
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 228pp. History, archaeology and travel on the Burren region in County Clare, Ireland.
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Sylvester-Bradley, P. C. & Ford, T. D. (editors)
The Geology of the East Midlands
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor foxing to top of page edges and top edge of boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with a little sunning and small repair to lower spine corner. Jacket now protected in fully-removable transparent sleeve. 400pp. With nineteen chapters by seventeen authors, experts in their field, this study provides a chronological account of the geological history of the East Midlands of Britain over the last 1000 million years. Includes an extensive bibliography.
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Ziegler, Christiane
The Louvre : Egyptian Antiquities
No marks or inscriptions. Small crease/small tear to upper front spine corner, no other creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor rubbing to some corners and no bumping to corners. 96pp. A well illustrated account of ancient Egyptians antiquities from before the pyramids right up to the Coptic period. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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Cunliffe, Barry
The Ancient Celts
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with minor creasing to upper and lower edges and traces of storage. 324pp. A fascinating new picture of the identity of the Celts from the Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford.
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Bedale, C. L.
Sumerian Tablets from Umma in the John Rylands Library Manchester
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny bump to lower front edge and minor rubbing but no bumping to corners. Some of page-pair top edges unopened. Ten plates with fifty-eight tablet depictions plus 30pp. Transcription, transliteration and translation of the depicted Sumerian tablets by the author. First edition scarce in the UK.
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Buchanan, R.A.
Industrial Archaeology in Britain (Pelican)
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, creasing to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 446pp. A study of Britain's 200 years of insustrialization and the evidence left for us. Illustrated with 44 photographic plates.
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Wilkens, Iman
Where Troy Once Stood
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and very minor bumping to upper corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight creasing to edges and traces of storage. 365pp. The author, who spent most of his spare time over about forty years studying Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey in order to identify the true site where the ancient city fo Troy stood, presents some surprising results.
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Hawkes, Jacquetta
Man on Earth
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly tanned foxed top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with some sunning. 256pp. An archeological and anthropological study of mankind. Illustrated.
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Coe, William R.
Tikal : A Handbook of the Ancient Maya Ruins : with a guide map
No marks or inscriptions to contents. Faint crease to front cover, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with label removal mark to front and no bumping to corners. Large fold-out guide map in very good condition tucked inside. 125pp. Very well illustrated guide to tthe ruined Mayan temple in Guatemala which dates back to the the 4th century BC but reached its peak from 200 to 900 AD.
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Sharkey, John
Celtic Mysteries : The Ancient Religion
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 96pp. A history of the last tribal culture in Europe whose Mysteries begin in the frenzy of battle, where the hero is transfigured and the god appears, or in a circle of stones or in the centre of a Celtic cross or in the stone heads.
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ARNÁIZ-VILLENA, Antonio y ALONSO GARCÍA, Jorge.
Caucásicos, turcos, mesopotámicos y vascos.
Madrid, 2001 4to. mayor; XI pp., 370 pp. Ilustraciones. Cubiertas originales.
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ARRIBAS, Antonio.
Los Iberos. Prólogo de J. Maluquer de Motes.
Barcelona, Ayma, 1965. 4to.; 243 pp., 2 hs., con 63 ilustraciones entre el texto y 85 reproducciones fotográficas en láminas aparte. Encuadernación original en tela.
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ARROYO - BISHOP, Daniel y LANTADA ZARZOSA, María Teresa.
Bibliografía sobre la aplicación de la informática en Arqueología.
Teruel, 1993. Folio; 105 pp., 1 h. Cubiertas originales.
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BATLLE HUGUET, Pedro.
Doble ánfora con inscripción ibérica.
Tarragona, Extracto del Boletín Arqueológico, Julio-Septiembre 1943. 4to. mayor; 4 pp. con dos fotografías. Cubiertas originales.
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BARANDIARAN, Ignacio, MARTÍ OLIVER, Bernat y RINCÓN MARTÍNEZ, María Angeles.
Prehistoria de la Península Ibérica. Prólogo de Josep M. Fullola Pericot y Mª Àngels Petit Mendizábal. Nueva edición, actualizada.
Barcelona, 2007. 4to. alargado; 493 pp., 1 h. Ilustraciones. Cubiertas originales.
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BELTRÁN, Antonio.
Estado actual de la Numismática Antigua Española.
Zaragoza, 1955 (Separata de 'Cesaraugusta'). 4to. alargado; 7 pp. Cubiertas originales.
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BELTRAN, Antonio.
Información numismática.
Zaragoza, 1955 (Separata de "Caesaraugusta"). 4to. mayor; 6 pp. Cubiertas originales.
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BELTRAN, Antonio.
Moneda romana de Zaragoza, hallada en Panticosa.
Zaragoza, 1954 (Separata de Publicaciones del Seminario de Arqueología y Numismática Aragonesa). 4to. alargado; 2 pp. Cubiertas originales.
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BELTRAN, Antonio.
Nota sobre hallazgo de denarios de la República Romana en Andalucia.
Zaragoza, 1955 (Separata de "Caesaraugusta"). 4to. mayor; 4 pp. Cubiertas originales.
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BELTRÁN, Antonio (et alii.).
Jornadas sobre Parques con Arte Rupestre. Zaragoza, Abril de l989.
Zaragoza, 1990. 4to. alargado; 214 pp. Ils. Cubiertas originales.
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BELTRAN LLORIS, Francisco (Ed.).
Roma y el nacimiento de la cultura epigráfica en Occidente. Coloquio "Roma y las primeras culturas epigráficas del Occidente mediterráneo (Siglos II a.E.-I d.E.)". Zaragoza, Noviembre 1992.
Zaragoza, 1995. Folio; 359 pp., 1 h. Ilustraciones y mapas. Cubiertas originales.
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BELTRAN LLORIS, Miguel.
Los orígenes de Zaragoza y la época de Augusto. Estado actual de los conocimientos.
Zaragoza, Institución Fernando el Católico, 1983. Folio; 51 pp. Figuras e ilustraciones fotográficas entre el texto y un gran plano plegado. Cubiertas originales.
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BELTRAN LLORIS, Miguel.
Museo de Zaragoza: secciones de Arqueología y Bellas Artes.
Madrid, Ministerio de Cultura, 1976. 4to.; 333 pp. Con 53 ilustraciones fotográficas y 8 láminas. Cubiertas originales.
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BELTRÁN LLORIS, Miguel y PAZ PERALTA, Juan Ángel (Coords.).
Las aguas sagradas del Municipium Turiaso. Excavaciones en el patio del Colegio Joaquín Costa (antiguo Allué Salvador), Tarazona (Zaragoza).
Zaragoza, 2005 ("Caesaraugusta"). 4to. alargado; 465 pp. Numerosas ilustraciones. Cubiertas originales.
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BELTRÁN MARTÍNEZ, Antonio.
El Arte Rupestre en la Provincia de Teruel.
Teruel, 1989. 4to.; 59 pp., Ilustraciones y 6 diapositivas encartadas. Cubiertas originales.
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BELTRÁN MARTÍNEZ, Antonio.
Revisión de la arqueología de la zona de Villanueva de Sijena.
Villanueva de Sijena, Instituto de Estudios Sijenenses, 1978. 4to.; 22 pp., con 18 ilustraciones entre el texto. Cubiertas originales.
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DANÉS I TORRAS, Joaquim.
L'Epigrafia domèstica i rural.
Barcelona, 1938 (Extret del Butlleti del Centre Excursionista de Catalunya). 4to. mayor; 15 pp., con ilustraciones entre el texto y dos fotografías en láminas. Cubiertas originales.
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Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma.
Cuadernos de Trabajos de la Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma. X: Martín Almagro: Excavaciones españolas en Gabii; Alberto Balil: Topografía de Gabii y del agro gabino; A. Blanco: Las esculturas de Gabii; A. Marcos: Fragmento de cancel o celosía de mármol; Miguel Angel García Guinea: Las marcas de los ladrillos y tejas hallados en Gabii; Ana María Muñoz: Prospecciones y excavaciones arqueológicas en la región de Toirano: la Grotta dell'Olivo (Savona, Italia).
Madrid, CSIC, 1958. 4to. mayor; 200 pp., ilustraciones entre el texto y 4 planos plegados aparte. Cubiertas originales.
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