Search Results: ARCHEOLOGY from Bookhome Sydney

Florence: Casa Editrice Bonechi, 2001. 1st ed.. Paperback small quarto, thick card covers (with flaps), very good condition, colour photos, minor edgewear, crease cover corners, reader crease in spine, slight bump top spine, faint foxing title page. Heavy, and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia 191 pp. Art and History Sicily: The Archaeology, Art, and Culture of the Mediterranean's Most Beautiful Island, by Giuliano Valdes (2001). An unforgettable journey into the history of this fascinating Italian island. The flaps inside the covers give a rich description of Sicily.

New York: W. W. Norton, 2008. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), full-page black & white text-photos, minor edgewear jacket (little rubbed). 240 pp. This book looks at the Dark Ages in Europe through the benefit of archaeological material from the first millennium, and gives a powerful rich alternative picture. The author shows that the time known as the Dark Ages - the 5th through 8th Centuries - was anything but dark. It was a time of great cultural activity. First edition stated.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011. Reprint ed.. Paperback small trade, very good condition, black & white photos, maps, small indentation front cover, minimal edgewear corner tips covers & few pages. 286 pp. In 1911 Hiram Bingham discovered the Inca city that was to make him famous: Machu Picchu, in Peru. In the space of one short season he went on to discover two more lost Inca cities: Vitcos, where one of the last Inca Emperors was assassinated, and another settlement buried deep below the cloud-forest in the jungle. This edition includes Bingham's original photos with a new essay by Hugh Thomson to mark the centenary of the discovery of Machu Picchu. (Centenary Edition with a new introduction by Hugh Thomson.)

Sydney, Belrose: Noahide Publishing, 2000. Hardback small quarto, no jacket as issued, very good condition, pictorial cover, few colour photos, few black & white text-photos & drawings, edges lightly foxed (title page minimally), autograph (author's written dedication). 196 pp. Subtitle: 'After David Fasold Believed He'd Confirmed the Ark Site, He Became the Victim of a Bitter Clash Between Creationists and Skeptics.' David Fasold, adventurer, seafarer and salvage expert, identified what he believed to be the remnants of Noah's Ark near Mount Ararat in modern Turkey. Obsessed, he sacrificed everything in his attempts to prove it or not. June Dawes describes the incredible events that ultimately overtook Fasold and exposed the many injustices of his critics in the efforts to set the record straight.

London: Atlantic Books / Grove Atlantic, 2003. U.K. p/b ed.. Paperback thick octavo, very good condition, colour photos, figures, plans, spine creased, small some foxing edges, scuff inside rear cover, minor edgewear cover corner tips, owner's name title page. 495 pp. Miroslav Verner, a Czech Egyptologist, presents the key discoveries that answer some fundamental questions that have puzzled Egyptologists for centuries. Set against the background of ancient Egyptian culture and politics, this book is a fresh look at these unique edifices. (Translated from the German language.).

Sydney: Methuen Australia, 1985. 1st ed.. Hardback small quarto, no jacket, very good condition, pictorial cover, illustrated endpapers, colour text-photos, few black & white drawings, top spine slightly bumped, small part near top of front cover little faded, bookplate front pastedown. 32 pp. This fascinating book has been written to educate young readers. It explains what archaeology is and the important part it plays in Australia in helping us to learn about our past. Examines Aboriginal lifestyles of the past, Aboriginal prehistoric art, Aborigines and Europeans. Colonial archaeology, Port Arthur, First Government House, industrial archaeology, protecting archaeological sites, how stone tools were made, maritime archaelogy, analysing the finds, the oldest sites, and changes in prehistory.