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Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Jared Diamond
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 93,351 ratings
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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Charles C. Mann
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 16,268 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Jared Diamond
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 27,099 ratings
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A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
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Robert M. Sapolsky
4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 2,011 ratings
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Kon-Tiki
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4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 6,936 ratings
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution & Future of the Human Animal
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Jared Diamond
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 7,066 ratings
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Gods, Graves & Scholars: The Story Of Archaeology
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C.W. Ceram
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 581 ratings
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Motel of the Mysteries
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David Macaulay
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 606 ratings
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The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
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David W. Anthony
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 290 ratings
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One River
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Wade Davis
4.39 of 5 stars 4.39 avg rating — 559 ratings
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Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures
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Marvin Harris
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 363 ratings
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The Serpent and the Rainbow
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Wade Davis
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 1,764 ratings
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Europe and the People Without History: With a New Preface
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Eric R. Wolf
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 385 ratings
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Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
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Daniel L. Everett
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 1,116 ratings
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The Maya
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Michael D. Coe
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 310 ratings
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In Search of the Trojan War
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Michael Wood
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 221 ratings
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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Anne Fadiman
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 22,927 ratings
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Illustrated Naked Ape
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Desmond Morris
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 3,276 ratings
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Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality
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Jared Diamond
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 1,795 ratings
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The Songlines
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4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 3,639 ratings
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Next of Kin
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Roger Fouts
4.45 of 5 stars 4.45 avg rating — 756 ratings
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Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
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Marjorie Shostak
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 1,030 ratings
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Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi
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Timothy R. Pauketat
3.42 of 5 stars 3.42 avg rating — 249 ratings
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
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Jared Diamond
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 1,220 ratings
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 7,960 ratings
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In Search of the Dark Ages
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Michael Wood
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 284 ratings
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Apocalypse: Earthquakes, Archaeology, and the Wrath of God
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Amos Nur
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Complete Pompeii
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Joanne Berry
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Shark God: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in the South Pacific
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Charles Montgomery
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Floods, Famines, And Emperors: El Nino And The Fate Of Civilizations
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Brian M. Fagan
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization
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David Keys
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 81 ratings
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The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country
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Gary Paul Nabhan
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Pegando fogo: Por que cozinhar nos tornou humanos.
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Richard W. Wrangham
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 895 ratings
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Quest for the Past: Great Discoveries in Archaeology
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Brian M. Fagan
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Mesa Verde National Park: Shadows of the Centuries, Revised Edition
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Duane A. Smith
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Archaeology: A Brief Introduction
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Brian M. Fagan
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 79 ratings
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The Bog Man and the Archaeology of People
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Don Brothwell
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Ancient Mexico: The History and Culture of the Maya, Aztects and Other Pre-Columbian Peoples
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Maria Longhena
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Mummy: A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaelogy
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E.A. Wallis Budge
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples
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Herwig Wolfram
3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen
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Howard Carter
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 157 ratings
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Stonehenge (English Heritage Guidebook)
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Julian C. Richards
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 16 ratings
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A History of the Vikings
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Gwyn Jones
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 302 ratings
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings
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Peter Sawyer (Editor)
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 65 ratings
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
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Tony Horwitz
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 3,482 ratings
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How the Barbarian Invasions Shaped the Modern World: The Vikings, Vandals, Huns, Mongols, Goths, and Tartars who Razed the Old World and Formed the New
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Thomas J. Craughwell
3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Hanta Yo
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4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 342 ratings
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How to Cook a Tapir: A Memoir of Belize
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Joan Fry
3.27 of 5 stars 3.27 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Peter Freuchen's Famous Book of the Eskimos
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4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name
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Toby Lester (Goodreads Author)
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 437 ratings
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Fieldwork
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3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 2,114 ratings
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Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland
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Nancy Scheper-Hughes
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 149 ratings
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
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4.6 of 5 stars 4.60 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Yanomamo
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3.47 of 5 stars 3.47 avg rating — 491 ratings
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Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
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Daniel Quinn
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 39,241 ratings
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The Forest People
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Colin Turnbull
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 931 ratings
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On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks
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Simon Garfield
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 509 ratings
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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Jack Weatherford
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 6,498 ratings
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Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals about the Mind
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Margalit Fox (Goodreads Author)
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 156 ratings
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The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
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Carlos Castaneda
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 14,051 ratings
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In My Family Tree: A Life with Chimpanzees
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Sheila Siddle
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River
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Alice Albinia
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 276 ratings
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Return to Laughter: An Anthropological Novel
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Elenore Smith Bowen
3.47 of 5 stars 3.47 avg rating — 245 ratings
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Schmuggler: von Grenzen und ihren Überwindern
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Roland Girtler
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Sea Kingdoms: The History of Celtic Britain & Ireland
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Alistair Moffat
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Ancient Egyptian Magic
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Bob Brier
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Courtly Culture: Literature and Society in the High Middle Ages
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Joachim Bumke
4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings
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When the Land Was Young: Reflections on American Archaeology
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3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Herculaneum: Italy's Buried Treasure
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Joseph Jay Deiss
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Traurige Tropen
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Claude Lévi-Strauss
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 797 ratings
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The Murder of Tutankhamen
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Bob Brier
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 318 ratings
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The History Of Ancient Egypt
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4.45 of 5 stars 4.45 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Rape of the Nile: Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt, Revised and Updated
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Brian M. Fagan
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Before Scotland: The Story of Scotland Before History
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Alistair Moffat
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa
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Katherine A. Dettwyler
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 435 ratings
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Gathering the Desert
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Gary Paul Nabhan
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Ancient Ruins of the Southwest: An Archaeological Guide
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David Grant Noble
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Fatu-Hiva: Back to Nature
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Thor Heyerdahl
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 272 ratings
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Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest
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Stephen Plog
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Beyond The Coral Sea: Travels In The Old Empires Of The South West Pacific
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Michael Moran
3.29 of 5 stars 3.29 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Lost Cities & Vanished Civilizations
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3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Lost World of the Anasazi
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3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Mound Builders
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3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Chaco Canyon: Archeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society
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Brian M. Fagan
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Realm of Prester John
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3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Realm Of Prester John
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3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Kokopelli: The Magic, Mirth, and Mischief of and Ancient Symbol
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Dennis Slifer
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Felipe Solis
4.57 of 5 stars 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Aztecs
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Richard F. Townsend
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs
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Michael D. Coe
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Ancient Egypt
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David P. Silverman (Editor)
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs: Official Companion Book to the Exhibition sponsored by National Geographic
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Zahi A. Hawass
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Hidden Treasures of Ancient Egypt: Unearthing the Masterpieces of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
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Zahi A. Hawass
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Mountains of the Pharaohs: The Untold Story of the Pyramid Builders
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Zahi A. Hawass
3.44 of 5 stars 3.44 avg rating — 71 ratings
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The Mysteries of Abu Simbel: Ramtesses II and the Temples of the Rising Sun
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Zahi A. Hawass
3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Briefe aus Aegypten, Aethiopien und der Halbinsel des Sinai: Geschrieben in den Jahren 1842-1845 wend der auf Befehl Sr. Majestdes Knigs Friedrich Wilhelm ... Expedition von Richard Lepsius
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Karl Richard Lepsius
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Egyptian Diaries
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Jean-François Champollion
1.0 of 5 stars 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Ancient Egypt
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Ian Shaw (Editor)
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 38 ratings
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What Life Was Like on the Banks of the Nile: Egypt, 3050-30 BC
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3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 66 ratings
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