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Prehistory : a very short introduction / by Gosden, Chris,1955-;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-123) and index.Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- Prehistory and archaeology-a note -- Very, very short introduction to chronology -- 1: What and when is prehistory? -- 2: Problems of prehistory -- 3: Human skills and experiences -- 4: Continental prehistories -- 5: Nature of human social life -- 6: Prehistory of the future -- Further reading -- Timelines -- Index.From the Publisher: Many of the familiar aspects of modern life are no more than a century or two old, yet our deep social structures and skills were in large measure developed by small bands of our prehistoric ancestors many millennia ago. In this book, readers are invited to think seriously about who we are by considering who we have been.

Subjects: History, Ancient.; Civilization, Ancient.;

© 2003., Oxford University Press,

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Mysteries of the ancient world / by National Geographic Society (U.S.).Special Publications Division.cn;

Bibliography: p. 220.

Subjects: Civilization, Ancient.; Antiquities.;

© c1979., The Society,

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Time Life's Lost civilizations [videorecording] / by Gardner, Robert.; Waterston, Sam.; Time Life Video & Television.;

DVD, region 1; Dolby Digital.Sam Waterston.Executive producer, Joel Westbrook ; series producer, Jason Williams ; producer, Robert Gardner ; coordinating producer, William Morgan.MPAA rating: Not rated.This Emmy-Award winning series for Outstanding Informational Series features original location cinematography in 25 countries, taking the viewer around the world on an incredible journey from ancient Mesopotamia to modern Tibet.1. Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Aegean (150 min.) -- 2. Greece, China, Rome (150 min.) -- 3. The Maya, the Inca (100 min.) -- 4. Africa, Tibet (100 min.).

Subjects: Documentary television programs.; DVDs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Excavations (Archaeology); Civilization, Ancient.;

© c2002., Time-Life Video and Television (distributor),

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Chariots of the gods : unsolved mysteries of the past / by Däniken, Erich von,1935-;

Includes bibliographical references (p. [[189]-194) and index.Are there intelligent beings in the cosmos? -- When our spaceship landed on Earth ... -- The improbable world of the unexplained -- Was God an astronaut? -- Fiery chariots from the heavens -- Ancient imagination and legends, or ancient facts? -- Ancient marvels or space travel centers? -- Easter Island - land of the Bird Men -- The mysteries of South America and other oddities -- The Earth's experience of space -- The search for direct communication -- Tomorrow.The author attempts to explain such perplexing archaeological discoveries as the stone figures on Easter Island and various temple and cave drawings.

Subjects: Civilization, Ancient; Life on other planets.; Archaeology.; Civilization, Ancient;

© 1999., Berkley Books,

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In pursuit of the past : decoding the archaeological record : with a new afterword / by Binford, Lewis R.(Lewis Roberts),1931-2011.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-255) and index.Translating the archaeological record -- pt. 1: What was it like? Man the mighty hunter? ; Life and death at the waterhole -- pt. 2: What does it mean? The challenge of the Mousterian ; An archaeological odyssey ; Hunter in a landscape ; People in their lifespace -- pt. 3: Why did it happen? On the origins of agriculture ; Paths to complexity.

Subjects: Archaeology.; Antiquities, Prehistoric.; Civilization, Ancient.; Excavations (Archaeology); Archaeology;

© [2002], University of California Press,

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Secrets of lost empires. [videorecording] / by WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.).Science Unit.; British Broadcasting Corporation.Television Service.; WGBH Video (Firm);

DVD, region 1, NTSC; 4x3 full screen; Dolby Digital stereo.System requirements for DVD-ROM features: Adobe Acrobat Reader, web browser, Internet connection, DVD-ROM drive.Narrator: Stacy Keach.Editors, Dick Bartlett, David Elliot ; music, Ray Loring ; cinematography, Nigel Meakin.Television programs on the history of the Colosseum and Stonehenge. Nova sent archaeological teams to each site to test their hypotheses using traditional building techniques.Colosseum (56 min.) -- Stonehenge (56 min.).

Subjects: DVD-Video discs.; Documentary television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Colosseum (Rome, Italy); Architecture, Ancient.; Ancient history.; Ancient civilization;

© c2006., WGBH Boston Video,

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Eating to excess : the meaning of gluttony and the fat body in the ancient world / by Hill, Susan E.;

Introduction: the glutton and the fat body in the ancient world -- All fat is the lord's -- Philosophizing excess in Plato and Aristotle -- Inside and out: medicine, health, and physiognomy in the ancient world -- Popular gluttons and fat bodies: the trickster Herakles, Petronius's Satyricon, and Anthenaeus's The learned banqueters -- Ingest the world, not the world: early Christian ideas of excess and self-restraint -- Gluttony becomes a deadly sin.Includes bibliographical references and index."This provocative book explores how ancient notions about the fat body and the glutton in western culture both challenge and confirm ideas about what it means to be overweight and gluttonous today"--Provided by publisher."This book is about Eating to Excess - The Meaning of Gluttony and the Fat Body in the Ancient World"--Provided by publisher.

Subjects: Food habits; Gluttony; Human body; Obesity; Excess (Philosophy); Civilization, Ancient.; History, Ancient.;

© c2011., Praeger,

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Egypt, Greece, and Rome : civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean / by Freeman, Charles,1947-;

Includes bibliographical references (p. [564]-583) and index.

© 1996., Oxford University Press,

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After the ice : a global human history, 20,000-5000 BC / by Mithen, Steven J.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.The beginning -- The birth of history -- The world at 20,000 BC -- Western Asia -- Fires and flowers -- Village life in the oak woodland -- On the banks of the Euphrates -- One thousand years of drought -- The founding of Jericho -- Pictograms and pillars -- In the valley of ravens -- The town of ghosts -- Heaven and hell at ÇatlahoÌyuÌk -- Three days on Cyprus -- Europe -- Pioneers in northern lands -- With reindeer hunters -- At Star Carr -- Last of the cave painters -- Coastal catastrophe -- Two villages in Southeast Europe -- Islands of the dead -- At the frontier -- A mesolithic legacy -- A Scottish envoi -- The Americans -- Searching for the first Americans -- American past in the present -- On the banks of Chinchihuapi -- Explorers in a restless landscape -- Clovis hunters on trial -- Virginity reconsidered -- Herders and the 'Christ-child' -- A double-take in the Oaxaca Valley -- To Koster -- Salmon fishing and the gift of history -- Greater Australia and East Asia -- A lost world revealed -- Body sculpture at Kow Swamp -- Across the arid zone -- Fighting men and a serpent's birth -- Pigs and gardens in the highlands -- Lonesome in Sundaland -- Down the Yangtze -- With the Jomon -- Summer in the Arctic -- South Asia -- A passage through India -- A long walk across the Hindu Kush -- Vultures of the Zagros -- Approaching civilisation in Mesopotamia -- Africa -- Baked fish by the Nile -- On Lukenya Hill -- Frogs' legs and ostrich eggs -- A South African tour -- Thunderbolts in the tropics -- Sheep and cattle in the Sahara -- Farmers in the Nile Valley and beyond.

Subjects: Prehistoric peoples.; Hunting and gathering societies.; Primitive societies.; Human beings; Antiquities, Prehistoric.; Civilization, Ancient.; Homme preÌhistorique.; Chasseurs-cueilleurs.; Homme primitif.; Homme; AntiquiteÌs preÌhistoriques.; Civilisation ancienne.; Archeologie.; Prehistorie.; Internationalisatie.; Jagers en verzamelaars.; Paleolithicum.; Mesolithicum.; Neolithicum.;

© 2004., Harvard University Press,

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The ancient Celts. by Cunliffe, Barry W.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.More than two hundred illustrations including twentyfour color plates and thirty maps complement an authoritative account that draws on recent archaeological findings to trace the development of Celtic civilization and its influence on Europe past and present.

Subjects: Celts; Civilization, Celtic.; Celtic antiquities.;

© 1999., Penguin,

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