100 Great Archaeological Discoveries

by Paul G. Bahn

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Brief presentations of one hundred famous archeological sites and discoveries, including dinosaurs, the first humans, early civilizations, ending with the wreck of the Amsterdam in 1750. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0760700702
• ISBN13: 9780760700709
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 3.26 lbs.

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From Front jacket: "From rock art to tattooed ice maidens, from mammoth bone houses to Assyrian palaces, from fossil hominids to writing systems, from caves to shipwrecks: here are 100 of the world's greatest archaeological discoveries." ****** Contents Include: The Discovery of Human Antiquity - Paul G. Bahn AFRICA The Taung Child: The Discovery of the first Australophithicine * Australopithecines from East Africa * Olduvai Gorge: Grand Canyon of Prehistory * Out of Africa, Always Something New * Southern African Rock Art: Images of Power * Abydos * Amarna * Tutankhamen * Deir El-Medina * Tanis * The Rosetta Stone * Romans in North Africa * The Rosetta Stone * Romans in North Africa * Nigerian Art: A 'Faberge'-like Virtuosity' * The Greatest Zimbabwe of Them All EUROPE Early Humans in Western Europe * Ice Age Settlement of the North * Mammoth-Bone Houses of Eastern Europe * Palaeolithic Portable Art * Paleolithic Cave Art * Ice Age Art and Burials of Central Europe * Ice Age Art and Burials of Eastern Europe * The Fishers of Lepenski Vir * Catal Huyuk * The Lake Dwellings of the Alpine Foreland * Early Neolithic Longhouses in Europe * Neolithic Flint Mines * Houses for the Living and the Dead * Flag Fen and the Sweet Track * Maltese Temples * Like a Circle in a Spiral: the Mysteries of Megalithic Art * The Iceman * Varna: A Copper Age Cemetary * Los Millares and Zumbajal * Bronze Age Barrows * Evans at Knossos * The Decipherment of Linear B * The Collapse of the Minoan Civilization * Schliemann at Troy and Mycenae * Blegen at Pylos * The Ulu Burun Shipwreck * Hallstatt: An Early Iron Age Mining Center * Hochdorf: A 'Tut's Tomb' of the Iron Age * Biskupin: A Waterlogged Iron Age Settlement * Etruscan Tombs * Vergina * Bog Bodies: Faces from the Past * The Athenian Agora: The Heart of Democracy * Aphrodesias * Mediterranean Shipwrecks * Pompeii and Herculaneum * Vindolanda * Sutton Hoo * Viking Ships * Novgorod: A Medieval City in Russa WESTERN AND CENTRAL ASIA Mount Carmel and the Palaeolithic Age * Jericho * Ur * Babylon * Ebla and Cuneiform Writing * Nineveh and Assyrian Palaces * Mohenjo-Daro and the Indus Civilization * Persepolis * the Frozen Tombs of Pazyryk and Ukok * Masada THE FAR EAST Peking and Java Man * Rock Art of China and India * Hongshan and Liangzhu Jades * Statuary of the Far East * Anyang * East Asian Bronzes * Royal Tombs of the East * The Terracota Army * Mural Tombs of the Orient * The Sinan Shipwreck AUSTRALASIA Lake Mungo * Australia's Rock Art * Ice Age Hungers of Tasmania * Colonizing the Pacific * Easter Island THE NEW WORLD Monte Verde and the First Americans * Big-Game Hunting on the North American Plains 8 Rock Art in the New World * The Discovery of the Olmec * Nasca Lines * Chavin * El Ceren * Naj Tunich and Maya Cave Art * Palenque: The Tomb of Pascal the Great * The Decipherment of Maya Hieroglyphics * The Moundbuilders * Ancient Farmers of the Desert * Sipan: Moche Culture * Temple of