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Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1994. Scholarly text presents a detailed study of the socioeconomic transformation of a traditional society confronting modern technological risk across the island of New Guinea, and examines the clash between the simple reproduction and subsistence production system of indigenous peoples and the expanded production and private accumulation system of mining which has resulted in environmental degradation. 208 pgs. Illustrated. Dustjacket in mylar.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1990. Comprehensive interdisciplinary text presents a detailed study on the excavation into the ancient fields bordering the Rio Hondo in northern Belize. Includes palynological, limnological, geomorphological, molluscan, and soil studies reveal the changing nature of the landscape and trace the impact of agricultural activities on the terrain; settlement, ceramic, and lithic studies reveal information on the Mayan farmers who cultivated the wetlands. 439 pp. Illustrated with 23 tables, 55 figures, and 5 plates. Publisher's stamp on front endpaper. Scarce.. First Edition. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1991. Scholarly text presents a detailed history of applied anthropology, including over 400 case studies on policy research, community action, and development projects. Each entry includes a summary of a project or other event and citations documenting that study. Topics covered include agricultural development, alcohol use, business, community action, criminal justice, disaster research, cultural resource management, demography and population, economic development, energy development, evaluation, fisheries research, forestry, gerontology, health and medicine, housing, human rights, immigration, industrial organization, land use, langiage, law, media, military affairs, mission work, nutrition, project design, recreation, resettlement, social impact assessment, and training. 254 pp.. First Edition. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1986. Scholarly text documents the experiences of anthropologists with development in West Africa during the past ten years. It presents case study material to bring out the actual and potential contributions of social science to solving development problems found in Africa and other parts of the Third World. 323 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's stamp on the half title page. . First Edition. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1984. Scholarly text presents detailed topics dealing with the megalith builders in Western Europe, North American Indians, the literate civilizations of Mesoamerica, the Andean culture of the Incas, and the Egyptians, amongst others. Text explores the relationship of ancient skywatching to the development of true science, and the cross-cultural elements of prescientific activity. 336 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's stamp on front endpaper. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/ . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987. Scholarly comprehensive text reviews the archaeology of western Iran from the first Neolithic villages through the earliest political states, from the archaic and Persian empires to the profound influences of the Greek and Roman civilizations, and finally to the fall to Islamic invaders. Text adopts a geographic approach, concentrating on settlement patterns and the inferences that can be made from them concerning population changes, the function of sites in regional social networks, and regional interactions. 332 pgs. Illustrated. Tiny faint scuff to outer edge. Minimal shelfwear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1985. Scholarly text conatins original essays of archaeological and ethnohistorical studies of west and northwest Mexico, two of the least known areas of Mesoamerica. Topics covered include areal and cultural syntheses and specific problems such as chronology, social organization, economic systems; coastal zones; etc. 487 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's stamp on the half-title page. Minor light crease to lower corner of rear cover. Minimal shelfwear. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New Haven, CT.: Yale University Press/Open University of Israel, 1992. Comprehensive highly-acclaimed scholarly text presents a detailed survey of archaeological exploration in Israel by some of Isreal's leading archaeologists who discuss the history of ancient Isreal from the Neolithic era (8th millenium b.c.e) to the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the first temple in 586 b.c.e. Includes the first permanent settlements in the land of Isreal; the nature of Canaanite culture; the crystallization of the political system of city-states; the division of the country into the kingdoms of Judah and Isreal; developments in religious practices, architecture, technology; etc. 398 pgs. Profusely illustrated with sketches, diagrams, maps, tables, and photographs. Stamped on title page and outer edge; no pockets, labels or other marks. Dustjacket in mylar. Very minimal shelfwear.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Professional Library.

New York: Garland Publishing, 1978. Comprehensive scholarly reference text contains a combination of historical narrative and extensive bibliography which facilitates access to both citations and the literature itself, compiled between 1965 and 1977. Includes detailed sections on explorers and ethnographers; expeditions and pioneers; chronologists and prehistorians; archaeologists and anthropologists; current trends and problems; information sources; etc. 279 pgs. Half-title page has a minor slight crease along vertical edge. Minimal shelfwear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1987. Scholarly text presents a detailed study of the native Andean strategies for averting risk in land, water, and animal resource management, and explores both adaptive and maladaptive solutions in the development of long-term management plans. Includes strategies indigenous to the arid land zones for managing herds and for managing land and water; cultural and social aspects of arid land management issues; etc. 335 pgs. Illustrated. Publisher's stamp on front endpaper. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Oxford, U.K.: Basil Blackwell Ltd., 1992. Comprehensive multidimensional reference text contains a pioneering collection of different strands of industrial archaeology which covers individual countries and their sites, the individual processes, and addresses key issues of conservation and preservation in a series of theoretical entries. Includes numerous maps, photographs, diagrams, archival material, and extensive bibliography of the subject. A guide to the articles on industrial pioneers from 1650 to 1950 is also included. 964 pp. Corners slightly bumped. Dustjacket in mylar.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1987. The Carthage of today is a peaceful residential suburb and a successful holiday resort with wonderful beaches. The hotels and restaurants give few clues to its often troubled and violent 3000 year history. This book tells the story of Carthage, from the arrival of Princess Eiyssa in the land of the nomadic Berbers in the 9th or 8th century BC, to the rise of Carthage as an important sea power and its eventual growth into the capital of the Phoenician Empire. 238 pgs. Illustrated in color & black/white. Minimal shelfwear. No spine cracks.. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Plenum Press, 1996. Comprehensive text presents examples from archaeological sites in North America, the Caribbean, and South America that addresses significant anthropological issues such as human nutrition and health, emergence of social complexity, complex human behaviors associated with food acquisition and resources, etc. 399 pgs. Illustrated.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1992. Comprehensive scholarly text presents a detailed study of pottery economics in preindustrial societies, demonstrating major techniques for analyzing pottery production and distribution in the archaeological record. Focusies on production and distribution as interrelated processes; emphasizing that ceramic production and distribution are interactive subsystems, dependent on each other for their existence. Includes topics covering ancient reconstructions; factors affecting ceramic standardization; formal models of ceramic production; the Ballas pottery project: ethnoarcheology in Upper Egypt; organization of production and distribution of traditional pottery in South Highland Peru; Iroquois ceramic production; etc. 342 pp. Illustrated with 25 tables and 67 figures. . First Edition. Hard Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1980. Comprehensive scholarly text encompasses multidisciplinary views, from the inference that rigorous tests show dinosaurs to have been fully endothermic, to the opinion that no unequivocal evidence of homoiothermy among dinosaurs have been determined. Topics covered include predator/prey biomass ratios, community food webs and dinosaur physiology; dinosaur metabolism; dinosaur bone histology; physiological and behavioral thermoregulation in living reptiles; relative brain size in dinosaurs; application of size-metabolism allometry to therapsids and dinosaurs; adaptive value of thermoregulation; fossil calorimetry; etc. 514 pgs. Illustrated. Publisher's stamp on front and rear endpapers.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/ . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1987. Scholarly text presents case studies involving long-term community-based research, close collaboration between researchers and representatives of the host community, and application of research methods and findings to social-change goals within the community. Includes collaborative research projects in the U.S. and the Third World. 265 pgs. A few pgs. of isolated very light highlights- does not adversely affect the text. Minimal shelfwear.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1990. Scholarly text evaluates the progress of development in the Sudan within the context of various theories including modernization dependency, and underdevelopment theory. Text explores approaches in the context of market and exchange civil and native courts, administration and politics, village development-scheme organization, the role that law, markets, and administration play in the culture and development. 230 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's stamp on front endpaper. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

South Brunswick, New Jersey: A.S. Barnes, 1966. Classic text presents a detailed study of the author's travels and life among the obscure tribe of Indians in Panama- the Carib-Cuna, including their religion, culture, birth and death rituals, marriage ceremonies, feasts, native environment, and history. 440 pgs. Photo-frontispiece. Dustjacket has some minor edgewear; in mylar. Tiny scuff to outer edge. Minimal shelfwear. Scarce.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Taipei, Taiwan, 1974. Comprehensive classic revised text presents 27 multidisciplinary papers from renown art and cultural scholars dealing with the subject of diffusion in the Pacific Basin regarding art forms and artifacts which were broadly distributed in the region that originated from China. Includes topics covering Ch'u art and archaeology; aspects of the calendar, astrology, and religious concepts of the Ch'u people revealed in the Ch'u silk manuscript; Lach-Truong culture; twelve Gods of the Chan-Kuo period silk manuscript; Thraco-Crimmerian phase in Central Asia; Tien culture; prehistoric Japan; aboriginal art of Taiwan and its implication for the cultural history of the Pacific; prehistoric pottery of Southeast Asia; aspects of the Neolithic in Oceana; pottery in the South Pacific; Neolithic cultures of Thailand and Southeast China; American Metallurgy in the Old World; relations of Chinese embroidery designs; etc. 894 pgs. No title page- as issued. Illustrated with 311 figures,… Read More

New York: Academic Press, 1983. Classic scholarly text presents a historical study of the events that led to, and were involved in the great shift in view concerning the antiquity of humankind on earth. Topics include: sequence and stratigraphy; chronologies of Earth and human history during the eighteenth century; extinct mammals and diluvium; implications of human morphological diversity; etc. 262 pgs. Illustrated. Gilt spine and front cover.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.