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The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
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The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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The Collapse of Complex Societies
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The Collapse of Ancient States and Civilizations
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A Green History of the World: The Environment & the Collapse of Great Civilizations
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Human Impact on Ancient Environments
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The Archaeology of Global Change: The Impact of Humans on Their Environment
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Floods, Famines, And Emperors: El Nino And The Fate Of Civilizations
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Historical Dynamics: Why States Rise and Fall
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Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World
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Montana: High, Wide, and Handsome
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Montana: An Uncommon Land
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Twentieth Century Montana: A State of Extremes
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Montana: A History of Two Centuries
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Montana's Bitterroot Valley
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Lost Landscapes and Failed Economies: The Search For A Value Of Place
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Post-Cowboy Economics: Pay And Prosperity In The New American West
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Wounding the West: Montana, Mining, and the Environment
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The Battle for Butte: Mining and Politics on the Northern Frontier, 1864―1906 (Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography)
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Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
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Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910
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Flames in Our Forest: Disaster Or Renewal?
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Waste of the West: Public Lands Ranching
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The Enigmas of Easter Island
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Easter Island, Earth Island
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Easter Island: Archaeology, Ecology and Culture
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Among Stone Giants: The Life of Katherine Routledge and Her Remarkable Expedition to Easter Island (Lisa Drew Books)
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The Silent Gods: Mysteries of Easter Island
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Easter Island: Scientific Exploration into the World’s Environmental Problems in Microcosm
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The Mystery of Easter Island
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Ethnology of Easter Island
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Splendid Isolation: Art of Easter Island
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Pacific Art: Persistence, Change, and Meaning
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Onward And Upward!: Papers in Honor of Clement W. Meighan
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Keith Johnson (Editor)
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On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact
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The Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdoms
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Polynesians: Prehistory of an Island People
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The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific
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We, the Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific
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Historical Ecology in the Pacific Islands: Prehistoric Environmental and Landscape Change
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Kon-Tiki
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Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island
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Glyph-Breaker
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Rongorongo: The Easter Island Script: History, Traditions, Text
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The journal of Jacob Roggeveen;
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Pacific Landscapes. Archaeological Approaches
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Pitcairn Islands: Biogeography, Ecology and Prehistory
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Pitcairn's Island (The Bounty Trilogy, #3)
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The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
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Chaco Canyon: Archaeology and Archaeologists
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Great Pueblo Architecture of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
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Anasazi Ruins of the Southwest
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ANCIENT PUEBLO PEOPLES
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Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest
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Archaeology of The Southwest
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Anasazi America: Seventeen Centuries on the Road from Center Place
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Mimbres Painted Pottery, Revised Edition (A School for Advanced Research Resident Scholar Book)
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Mimbres People: Ancient Pueblo Painters of the American Southwest (New Aspects of Antiquity Series)
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Mimbres Pottery: Ancient Art of the American Southwest
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Man Corn: Cannibalism and Violence in the Prehistoric American Southwest
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Prehistoric Warfare in the American Southwest
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Copan: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Maya Kingdom
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The Lords of Tikal: Rulers of an Ancient Maya City
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Hieroglyphs and History at DOS Pilas: Dynastic Politics of the Classic Maya
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Lords of the Hills: Ancient Maya Settlement in the Puuc Region, Yucatan, Mexico (Monographs in World Archaeology)
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The Maya
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Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens: Deciphering the Dynasties of the Ancient Maya
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The Ancient Maya
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A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya
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The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art
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Incidents of Travel in Yucatan
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Maya Explorer: John Lloyd Stephens & the Lost Cities of Central America & Yucatan
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Pulltrouser Swamp: Ancient Maya Habitat, Agriculture, and Settlement in Northern Belize (Texas Pan American Series)
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The Murals of Bonampak
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Breaking the Maya Code
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The Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing
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Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga
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The Norsemen in the Viking Age
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The Vikings in History
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The Norse Atlantic Saga: Being the Norse Voyages of Discovery and Settlement to Iceland, Greenland, and North America
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The Conquest of the North Atlantic
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Viking Age Iceland
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Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power
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Iceland's 1100 Years: History of a Marginal Society
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Environmental Change in Iceland: Past and Present
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Island of Anthropology: Studies in Past & Present Iceland (Studies in Northern Civilization : No 5)
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The Complete Sagas of Icelanders, including 49 Tales (5 Volumes)
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Viðar Hreinsson (Editor)
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Norse and later settlement and subsistence in the North Atlantic (Occasional paper series / Dept. of Archaeology, University of Glasgow)
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The Viking Age in Caithness, Orkney and the North Atlantic: Select Papers from the Proceedings of the Eleventh Viking Congress, Thurso and Kirkwall, 22 August-1 September 1989
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The Frozen Echo: Greenland and the Exploration of North America, ca. A.D. 1000-1500
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History of Greenland: I. Earliest Times to 1700
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GREENLAND MUMMIES
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New Guinea: The Last Unknown
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First Contact: New Guinea's Highlanders Encounter the Outside World
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Throwim Way Leg: Tree-Kangaroos, Possums and Penis Gourds
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Tikopia: The Prehistory and Ecology of a Polynesian Outlier
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We, the Tikopia: A Sociological Study of Kinship in Primitive Polynesia
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Primitive Polynesian Economy (Norton Library; N774)
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The Green Archipelago: Forestry in Pre-Industrial Japan
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