Search Results: Archaeology from Aardvark Rare Books

Redlands, CA: ESRI Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Near FIne / Very Good Plus. Wide Quarto, 11.25 in. x 11.25 in., pp. xv, [2], 209. Richly illustrated with color photographs and maps. Foreward by Jalbuu Choinkhor in both Mongolian and Engish. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt title to front and spine. Very light rubbing to edges of dustjacket. Protected in mylar.

Eugene, OR: University of Oregon Books, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Very Good Plus. Small Quarto, 10.25 in. x 6.75 in. , pp. xiv, 189. Illustrated with many photographs, maps, and diagrams. Red cloth boards with light green title, arrowhead design and frame on brown background to front. Dark brown title on white spine. Very light rubbing to extremities. Red and dark brown arrowhead design to endpapers. Unmarked interior. Light sunning and very light edgwear to dustjacket. The author was newly launched on a teaching career when he was kiled in a boating accident in May 1972. At the time of his death he was an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh. His extensive archaeological investigation as a grad student is "a landmark in the study of Great Basin prehistory." (from the dustjacket) "In 1938, University of Oregon archaeologist Luther Cressman excavated at Fort Rock Cave, where he and his crew found dozens of sandals below a layer of… Read More

Boise, Idaho: Boise State University, 1986. Staplebound Pamphlet. Very Good. [v] pp. 43. Contains An Overview of Archaeology, its methods, an historical outline and then overview of Southern Idaho archaeology, a bibliography, and a listing of archaeological centers. Illustrations and maps throughout. A Hemingway Western Studies Publication.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1890. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio. 12 3/4" x 10 3/4". Quarterbound thick card covers with black binding. Browning to edges of covers. 73 pp. 26 pl. Twenty-Six plates to rear. Constitutes the Seventh Memoir of THE EGYPT EXPLORATION FUND (Extra Volume for 1888-1889). "Describes those excavations which were made (to these sites) during the first half of the winter of 1887..." (The author goes on to declare the results short, due to the need for further, more thorough excavation during the following two winters, and writes "the considerable results of which will be putlished in a separate volume". During the winter of 1887, Edouard Naville "had the valuable help of Mr. Griffith, who in the present work deals chiefly with the archaeological side of the excavations. The reader will notice that our opinions disagree as to the age to which some of the objects discovered in the necropolis of Tell el. Yahoodieh should be attributed..." {Preface}.

Salta, Argentina: MAAM: Museum of High Altitude Archaeology, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Plus. Trade paperback, 12 in. x 8.7 in., pp. 131. Text in Spanish and English. Illustrated with color photographs. Very light wear to covers. Laid in: Museum Brochure. Rich photographs of the permanent collection on display at the Museum of High Altitude Archaeology in Salta, Argentina.

Taunton, England: Barnicott & Pearce, The Wessex Press, 1917. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. Greenish-blue cloth-covered boards. with gilt and white embossed lettering to front board, as well as a paste-on photo-image of a Dial. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown ("This Book was presented to the Burlington Fine Arts Club by _____on the 10th day of Sept. 1917") Boards considerably scuffed, smudged, and discolored from the sun, with rubbing to extremities. 90 pp. including index. Handwritten errata slip (approximately 1.5 in. x 4 in.) tipped in at bottom of Contents page. 17 photographic ilustrations. Text 36 pp., with a 50-page Appendix listing locations of sun or scratch dials in Somerset, England, as well as precise location. With a Preface by J. Charles Cox.

Oxford, England: University Press by John Johnson for the Society of Antiquaries, 1944. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto, 10 1/2 in. x 8 1/2 in. pp. 191, LXXXI plates. Original beige paper boards, black printed letters. Boards very clean, no spotting or discoloring. Black letter title and author to spine. Spine mildly creased but very sound. Internal pages very clean. Plates include photographs, diagrams, maps, charts, and excavation sites and items. The female archaeologist Gertrude Canton-Thompson (1888-1985) led an archeological team to excavate 4th and 5th century BCE tombs in southern Arabia. The Oxford geologist Elinor Gardner and Freya Stark accompanied her. As L.P. Kirwan writes of these three women, they "carried out in a region then rarely visited by Western, let alone female, travelers, they were the first scientific excavations in southern Arabia." The present report details their findings of various pre-Islamic religious artifacts and sites, including shrines, structures, and ceramics.… Read More

London: G. G. And J. Robinson, Pater-noster Row, 1796. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vos. Consists of four volumes, and a fifth containing maps, plans, views and coins "Illustrative of the Geography and Antiquities of Ancient Greece".Five volumes. Octavos rebound in modern green library buckram with titles in white. The Fifth Volume is bound in a darker green buckram. All the volumes are bright and tight with no marks, etc. The four volumes are internally clean and bright in tight bindings with no marks to text. Volume I: ix, 504 pages; ix; Volume II: 123 pages; [4]; Volume III: 508 pages, iv; Volume IV: , 483 pages [includes general index]. Volume V: 28 page "On the Maps", followed by 28 engraved foldout and folding maps, and 3 plans for a total of 31 as called for. Maps are good to very good with some of the front margins showing wear and toning as they extend past the protective cover by 1/4 inch. Translated from the French. Written as an historical novel of 4th Century Greece, this… Read More