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By: Berlitz, Charles (with J. Manson Valentine)
Price: $3.00
Publisher: NY, Dell: 1973
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Seller ID: 004627
Condition: Very Good
225 pp., light to moderate toning. No spine creases or markings, a few pages have dog-ear creases. With b&w photos and illustrations. Green-tinted edges. An unorthodox survey of various archaelogical sites and what they hint at in terms of extraterrestial visits, etc. View more info
By: Ceram, C.W. (Garside, E.B., Trans.)
Price: $4.00
Publisher: NY, Alfred A. Knopf: 1953
Edition: 13th Printing
Seller ID: 002923
Condition: Very Good +
428 pp. Very clean and sturdy, light wear, no markings except for tiny ink date on front endpaper, and previous owner's embossed ID seal on front endpaper and flyleaf. With 32 plates, bibliography and index. An introduction to archaelogy for the layman; a highly readable explanation of what archaelogy is all about and brief descriptions of some of its major figures. View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Irvine, California, Kherem La Yah Press: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 005788
ISBN: 0933677006
Condition: Very Good
136 pp. with photos, drawings, bibliography, reference notes, linguistic charts. Fading of grey cover along spine. No spine creasing, no markings. Light wear. An errata sheet laid in. In this monograph written for laymen, Deal lays out his theory that ancient Hebrew mariners visited North America perhaps 3,000 years ago. He asserts that inscriptions found on a cliff in Valencia County, New Mexico, are a form of ancient Hebrew and proclaim the Ten Commandments. Several appendices discuss linguistic connections between Shemetic (Semitic) language and Toltec, Aztec and Maya languages. Deal is a t... View more info
By: Drosnin, Michael
Price: $4.00
Publisher: NY, Simon & Schuster: 1997
Seller ID: 002225
ISBN: 0684810794
Condition: Very Good
233 pp. Inscription on front endpaper, otherwise no markings. Faint outline of a coffee spot on rear panel of dust jacket, slight chipping. A Biblical code discovered by Israeli mathemetician Eliyahu Rips and his colleagues in 1994 is presented in layman's terms by an investigative reporter. The code is a series of Hebrew words that can be found in the first 5 books of the Old Testament. Drosnin said he became a believer in the code after he warned Yitzhak Rabin of a foretold assassination a year before Rabin's murder occurred. An appendix gives the text of the 1994 Statistical Science paper t... View more info
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Peking, China, Foreign Language Press: 1978
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 005536
Condition: Very Good
128 pp., with 8 pp. of color photos, additional b&w photos. Clean, light wear, no markings. Light soil on rear cover. A collection of 16 articles from various Chinese archaeologists and publications re archaeological work inside China during the 1970s. Quotes from Chairman Mao sprinkled throughout. Includes a summary of finds, plus details about Panlunghcheng, a Shang city; tombs f the early western Chou dynasty; a mining site in Hupeh province; Chu's tomb in Kiangling; Chin pottery unearthed in Kirin; an overview of the art of the early Chin Dynasty; silk books from Tomb 3 at Mawangtui; milit... View more info
By: Leakey, Richard
Price: $5.50
Publisher: NY, E.P. Dutton & Co: 1977
Seller ID: 004034
ISBN: 0525171940
Condition: Very Good
264 pp., 240 illustrations, photos and maps, 100 in color. Fine except for 1 by 2 inch upper right corner ripped away from front free endpaper. No markings, binding solid. The son of Louis and Richard Leakey theorizes that 3 different species of hominids lived in the same era in prehistoric Africa. He argues that humans are distinguished from apes by their ability to share and construct a culture. Readable distilliation of archaelogical issues of human evolution. View more info
By: Renfrew, Colin
Price: $5.00
Publisher: NY, Alfred A. Knopf: 1994
Seller ID: 000056
ISBN: 0394481933
Condition: Very Good
292 pp. with b&w photos, illustrations. Bibliog., notes, index. British archaeologist-anthropologist applies radiocarbon dating to conclude that European prehistoric cultures predate Pyramids. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
