Category: Archaeology

Finding the Walls of Troy: Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlik.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Berkeley: University of California Press, (1999).

Seller ID: 9108gcs

Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), silver letters, xiii, 409 pp. Fine, in a Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: The relentlessly self-promoting Heinrich Schliemann took entire credit for discovering Homer's Troy. For over one hundred years that credit has been accorded to him, and generations have thrilled to the tale of his ambitions and achievements. But Schliemann gained this status as an archaeological hero partly by deliberately eclipsing the man who had guided him. Now at long last Susan Heuck Allen puts the record straight, and restores the British archaeologist Fra...
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The Amateur Archaeologist. Volume 1 (I) Fall 1994.

By: American Society for Amateur Archaeology.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Kenmore, NY: Partners' Press, Inc., (1994). American Society for Amateur Archaeology.

Seller ID: 335458qs

Octavo, softbound (stiff black illus. wrappers), 96 pp. Fine. Contents: Letters to the Organizer; Survey of State Historic Preservation Officers; Making Casts of Artifacts; The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act -- The Dilemma for Donors; A Perspective on Florida Archaeology; The Ross Bay Archaic Encampment; A Mound Near Palatka, Northern Florida; A Rare Weeden Island Vessel; A Visit to the Warrior Springs Site, Near Perry, Taylor Co., Florida; Thoughts about the ASAA Annual Meeting; Thoughts about a Correspondence Course in Archaeology; A Member's Suggestion: Pre-print...
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A History of Seafaring Based on Underwater Archaeology.

By: Bass, George F.; Editor.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York: Walker, [1972]. First American Edition.

Seller ID: 70280s

Quarto, cloth (hardcover), 320 pp. Color photos, b & w photos, illus. Former-owner bookplate; otherwise, Near-Fine in dust jacket.
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Ancient Indian Artifacts. Volume 1: Introduction to Collecting, Including Rowe's Glossary of Artifact Terms.

By: Bennett, Jim.

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Paducah, Kentucky, (2010).

Seller ID: 335510qs

Quarto, hardcover (slick, full-color photo. illus. boards), 254 pp + [ii] ads. Fine (As New).
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Ancient Indian Artifacts. Volume 1: Introduction to Collecting, Including Rowe's Glossary of Artifact Terms.

By: Bennett, Jim.

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Paducah, Kentucky, (2010).

Seller ID: 9335510qs

Quarto, hardcover (slick, full-color photo. illus. boards), 254 pp + [ii] ads. Fine (As New).
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The Zooarchaeology of Eastern North America: History, Method and Theory, and Bibliography.

By: Bogan, Arthur E. and Neil D. Robison; eds.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Knoxville: Tennessee Anthropological Association, (1987). Miscellaneious Paper No. 12.

Seller ID: 3351bd

Quarto, cloth-backed printed card-stock covers (hardcover), v + [i] + 214 pp. Good only; one-inch chip along lower edge of front cover, several tears to spine, one or two fairly significant.
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The Archeological and Paleontological Salvage Program in the Missouri Basin, 1950-1951. (With 12 Plates). Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 126, Number 2. Publication 4188.

By: Cooper, Paul L.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: City of Washington: The Smithsonian Institution, 1955. Erratum sheet laid-in.

Seller ID: 17806scs

Royal octavo, paperbound, fold-out map, uncut, iv, 99 pp. Very Good, with chip to upper tip of spine, and hand-written title to spine. Illustrated with maps, b&w photos.
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Herculaneum: Italy's Buried Treasure. Revised and Updated Edition.

By: Deiss, Joseph Jay.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers, (1985).

Seller ID: 9134gcs

Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xvii + 222 pp. Fine in Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jackeT: At noontime on August 24, A.D. 79, the tranquil mountain of Vesuvius exploded with a force ten times as violent as the recent Mt. St. Helens eruption. Buried under 25 feet of volcanic ash was Pompeii. Buried under 65 feet of pyroclastic avalanche, and sealed as if in plastic, was Pompeii's sister city, Herculaneum. Today, after almost 2,000 years, Herculaneum is the most enticing of prospective archaeological digs. Whole houses and public buildings, astonishingly we...
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Conquistadors without Swords: Archaeologists in the Americas. An account with original narratives.

By: Deuel, Leo.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: St. Martin's Press, 1967.

Seller ID: m1390

1st edition. Octavo, cloth, xix, 647 pp. Maps, plates, illus. Near-Fine in dust jacket and mylar protector.
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Fifty Years of Southeastern Archaeology. Selected Works of John W. Griffin.

By: Griffin, Patricia C.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, (1996). First Edition.

Seller ID: 9744gcs

Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xx + 257 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: John Griffin was held in equally high esteem by archaeologists and historians. Before his death in 1993, he was urged to collect some of his original and pathbreaking writings into a volume that would trace the story of his professional life. In doing that, he created a work that documents the critical early years of historical archeology in the Southeast. This volume includes sixteen selections from Griffin's extensive publication list, which began in the 1930s. Ten of the essays rel...
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50,000 Years of Stone Age Culture in Borneo. From the Smithsonian Report for 1964, Pages 521-530 (With 4 Plates).

By: Harrisson, Tom.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1965. [Publication 4635].

Seller ID: 005464 scs

Octavo, paperbound (stiff printed wrappers), illus. with b&w photos, figures, [9] pp. Fine.
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The Tombigbee Watershed in Southeastern Prehistory.

By: Jenkins, Ned J. and Richard A. Krause.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The University of Alabama Press, (1986).

Seller ID: 60683bd

Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xii + 156 pp. Fine in a Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. Illustrated with numerous black & white photographs, maps, charts, etc. From dust jacket: The Tombigbee Watershed in Southeastern Prehistory is a synthesis of ten years of archaeological research along the middle course of the Tombigbee River. In the synthesis, the Tombigbee watershed is considered a microcosm, a restricted universe, but one within which the events and processes that shaped the broader sweep of Southeastern prehistory could be better understood. The book offers new t...
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Archaeology of Northern Florida, A.D. 200-900: The McKeithen Weeden Island Culture.

By: Milanich, Jerald T.; Cordell, Ann S.; Knight, Vernon J., Jr.; Kohler, Timothy A.; Sigler-Lavelle, Brenda J.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Gainesville: University Press of Florida, (1997).

Seller ID: 9762gcs

Square octavo, softbound (slick, illus. white wrappers), xviii, 222 pp. Fine (As New). From lower cover: More than a millennium ago, the Weeden Island culture flourished across the northern half of Florida and adjacent portions of the Alabama and Georgia coastal plain. For more than a century, archaeologists have marveled over the extraordinary animal effigy pottery vessels left behind by these pre-Columbian peoples in their mounds and villages. In this volumes the authors draw on north Florida archaeological excavations and site surveys to unlock the secrets of the Weeden Island cultur...
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River Basin Archaeology: A Race Against Time. [Reprinted from July-Sept., 1949, Planning and Civic Comment; Quarterly Pbulciation of american Planning and Civic Association].

By: National Council for Historic Sites and Buildings.

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Washington, D.C.: National Council for Historic Sites and Buildings, (1949).

Seller ID: 005474scs

Octavo, paperbound (stiff white stapled printed wrappers), illus. with f b&w photos, figures, [64] pp. Near-Fine, with former-owner signature. ÒSince the beginning of the program in 1946, the National Park Service, the Smithsonian Institution, and several state organizations have made archeological surveys in 185 proposed reservoir areas besides conducting excavations in 18. These surveys uncovered remains ranging in time from the early Folsom type of primitive hunter to the more elaborate, late prehistoric Temple Mound Buildiner, and they vary in character from simple village sites in open...
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River Basin Archaeology: A Race Against Time. [Reprinted from July-Sept., 1949, Planning and Civic Comment; Quarterly Pbulciation of american Planning and Civic Association].

By: National Council for Historic Sites and Buildings.

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Washington, D.C.: National Council for Historic Sites and Buildings, (1949).

Seller ID: 005475scs

Octavo, paperbound (stiff white stapled printed wrappers), illus. with f b&w photos, figures, [64] pp. Very Good+, with several tiny ships along edges.. ÒSince the beginning of the program in 1946, the National Park Service, the Smithsonian Institution, and several state organizations have made archeological surveys in 185 proposed reservoir areas besides conducting excavations in 18. These surveys uncovered remains ranging in time from the early Folsom type of primitive hunter to the more elaborate, late prehistoric Temple Mound Buildiner, and they vary in character from simple village sit...
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The Archaeology of Crete: An Introduction.

By: Pendlebury, J. D. S.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: [New York]: Biblo and Tannen, n.d. [ca. 1973]. Archives of Civlization Series, No. 2.

Seller ID: 50309fd

Octavo, softbound, xxxii + 400 + 43 pp. Plates, maps. Fine.
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Decade of Adventure.

By: Pope, J. Keith.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Singer Island, Florida: Singer Island Press, 1979. First Edition.

Seller ID: 3273qsl

Inscribed and signed by the author. Octavo, burgundy boards (hardcover), xv, 295 pp. Photos. Near-Fine; one or two underlinings, in a slightly chipped dust jacket.
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Decade of Adventure.

By: Pope, J. Keith.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Singer Island, FL: Singer Island Press, 1979. First Edition.

Seller ID: 3293qls

Inscribed & Signed by the author. Octavo, burgundy boards (hardcover), xv, 295 pp. Photos. Near-Fine; one or two underlinings, in a slightly chipped dust jacket.
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Archeological Remains in the Whitewater District, Eastern Arizona. Part II: Artifacts and Burials. With Appendix: Skeletal Remains from the Whitewater District, Eastern Arizona, by T. D. Stewart. [Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 126].

By: Roberts, Frank H. H., Jr.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1940

Seller ID: 005463 scs

Octavo, paperbound (stiff printed wrappers), illus. with b&w photos, figures, 170 pp. Very Good, with former-owner signature and fading & wear to spine.
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River Basin Surveys: The First Five Years of the Inter-Agency Archeological and Paleontoogical Salvage Program. From the Smithsonian Report for 1951, Pages 351-383 (With 10 Plates).

By: Roberts, Frank H. H., Jr.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1952. [Publication 4079].

Seller ID: 005465 scs

Octavo, paperbound (stiff stapled printed wrappers), illus. with b&w photos, figures, [28] pp. Fine.
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Category: Archaeology