Cuzco
Incas, Spaniards, and the Making of a Colonial City
ISBN: HB: 9780300218114,
Yale University Press,
June 2020
200 pp., 26,7x21,6 cm, 94 illus.
200 pp., 26,7x21,6 cm, 94 illus.
Through objects, buildings, and colonial texts, this book tells the story of how Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire, was transformed into a Spanish colonial city. When Spaniards invaded and conquered Peru in the 16th century, they installed in Cuz...
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47.50 GBP
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Perspectives on Early Andean Civilization in Peru
Interaction, Authority, and Socioeconomic Organization during the First and Second Millennia B.C.
ISBN: PB: 9780913516300,
Yale University Press,
February 2020
192 pp., 24,7x17,1 cm, 121 black&white illus.
192 pp., 24,7x17,1 cm, 121 black&white illus.
This Yale University Publications in Anthropology volume presents investigations of Peruvian archaeological sites, focusing on early developments in coastal, highland, and cloud forest environments. The contributors provide new perspectives on early...
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25.00 GBP
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Sahel
Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara
ISBN: HB: 9781588396877,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
January 2020
288 pp., 27,9x22,8 cm, 300 colour illus.
288 pp., 27,9x22,8 cm, 300 colour illus.
This groundbreaking volume examines the extraordinary artistic and cultural traditions of the African region known as the Sahel ("shore" in Arabic), a vast area on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert that includes present-day Senegal, Mauritania,...
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Osteology of Deinonychus antirrhopus, an Unusual Theropod from the Lower Cretaceous of Montana
50th Anniversary Edition
ISBN: PB: 9781933789392,
Yale University Press,
November 2019
196 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 96 black&white illus.
196 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 96 black&white illus.
John H. Ostrom's expeditions to the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming and Montana in the 1960s resulted in discoveries and research that would change long-held concepts in paleontology. This fiftieth-anniversary edition of his now well-known description of th...
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25.00 GBP
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Little History of Archaeology
ISBN: PB: 9780300243215,
Yale University Press,
April 2019
288 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm, 40 black&white illus.
288 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm, 40 black&white illus.
What is archaeology? The word may bring to mind images of golden pharaohs and lost civilizations, or Neanderthal skulls and Ice Age cave art. Archaeology is all of these, but also far more: the only science to encompass the entire span of human histo...
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10.99 GBP
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Palmyra
Mirage in the Desert
ISBN: PB: 9781588396310,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
October 2018
160 pp., 25,4x20,0 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.
160 pp., 25,4x20,0 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.
In this important and timely publication, top international scholars present current research and developments about the art, archaeology, and history of the ancient city of Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage site located in Syria. Palmyra became tragi...
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25.00 GBP
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Sumerian Literary and Historical Inscriptions
ISBN: HB: 9780300230765,
Yale University Press,
July 2018
128 pp., 28,7x21,3 cm, 102 black&white illus.
128 pp., 28,7x21,3 cm, 102 black&white illus.
The long-awaited twenty-second volume in the Yale Oriental Series provides reproductions of over one-hundred plates drawn from the Yale Babylonian Collection, one of the world's largest repositories of cuneiform inscriptions. An essential resource fo...
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110.00 GBP
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One Thousand and One Fossils
Discoveries in the Desert at Al Gharbia, United Arab Emirates
ISBN: HB: 9781933789071,
Yale University Press,
June 2017
120 pp., 22,9x30,5 cm, 128 colour illus., 6 black&white illus.
120 pp., 22,9x30,5 cm, 128 colour illus., 6 black&white illus.
A lavish volume in celebration of the astonishing fossils uncovered in Abu Dhabi's deserts, a region once lush, green, and teeming with now-extinct animals.
This lavish volume celebrates the astonishing wealth of fossils uncovered in recent decades...
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40.00 GBP
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Search for Takrur
Archaeological Excavations and Reconnaissance Along the Middle Senegal Valley
ISBN: PB: 9780913516294,
Yale University Press,
January 2017
600 pp., 24,8x17,1 cm, 348 black&white illus
600 pp., 24,8x17,1 cm, 348 black&white illus
An authoritative summary of the results of the archaeological excavations in the middle Senegal River valley, site of the ancient African Empire of Takrur.
A summary of archaeological discoveries in the middle Senegal River valley, this authoritativ...
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30.00 GBP
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Baule Monkeys
ISBN: HB: 9780300222449,
Yale University Press,
Mercatorfonds,
August 2016
192 pp., 30,5x22,9 cm, 113 colour illus., 27 black&white illus.
192 pp., 30,5x22,9 cm, 113 colour illus., 27 black&white illus.
The Baule people of the Ivory Coast are renowned for their refined sculptural work of masks and figures. This book is the first to focus exclusively on an antithetic aspect of Baule culture-rough zoomorphic sculptures representing monkeys. These awe-...
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