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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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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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After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC
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Temples, Tombs & Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt
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Gods, Graves & Scholars: The Story of Archaeology
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Archaeology: A Brief Introduction
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Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice
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Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
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4.08 avg rating — 28,607 ratings
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The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen
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Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
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Was This Camelot? Excavations at Cadbury Castle, 1966 - 1970
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In Search of the Trojan War
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The Rape of the Nile: Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt
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In Search of the Dark Ages
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Quest for the Past: Great Discoveries in Archaeology
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1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
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The Complete Pompeii (The Complete Series)
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The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
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Ancient Egypt
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
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The Bluffer's Guide to Archaeology: Bluff Your Way in Archaeology
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America BC: Ancient Settlers in the New World
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3.74 avg rating — 267 ratings
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The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language
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The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
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4.10 avg rating — 5,364 ratings
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Eyewitness to Discovery: First-Person Accounts of More Than Fifty of the World's Greatest Archaeological Discoveries
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3.65 avg rating — 75 ratings
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The Aztecs
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People of the Earth: An Introduction to World Prehistory
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3.70 avg rating — 203 ratings
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The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts
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4.14 avg rating — 3,425 ratings
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Lucy's Bones, Sacred Stones and Einstein's Brain : The Remarkable Stories Behind the Great Objects and Artifacts of History from Antiquity to The Modern Era
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A History of the Vikings
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The Trojan War: A New History
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Europe Between the Oceans: Themes and Variations, 9000 BC - AD 1000
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World Prehistory: A Brief Introduction
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Disclosing the Past
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The Lost City of the Monkey God
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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
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Origins
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Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
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Ancient Ruins of the Southwest: An Archaeological Guide
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The Maya
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The First Signs: Unlocking the Mysteries of the World's Oldest Symbols
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Chaco Canyon: Archaeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society
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Ancient Mexico: The History and Culture of the Maya, Aztecs and Other Pre-Columbian Peoples
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The First Americans: In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery
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From Lucy to Language: Revised, Updated, and Expanded
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Voyages of the Pyramid Builders: The True Origins of the Pyramids from Lost Egypt to Ancient America
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Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins
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The Druids (Ancient Peoples and Places Series)
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The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor
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The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead
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The Man in the Ice: The Discovery of a 5000-year-old Body Reveals the Secrets of the Stone Age
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Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe
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Neanderthals in Plato’s Cave: A Relativistic Approach to Cultural Evolution
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The First North Americans: An Archaeological Journey
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
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Ancient Mysteries
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Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Biological & Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World
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Smiths and Prophets: The Curse of Cain on History
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Stonehenge (English Heritage Guidebook)
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The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
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The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization
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Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans
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The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt
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The Bog Man and the Archaeology of People
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The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
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Before the Flood: The Biblical Flood as a Real Event and How It Changed the Course of Civilization
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Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs
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Libraries in the Ancient World
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Mountains of the Pharaohs: The Untold Story of the Pyramid Builders
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Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
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Europe Before Rome: A Site-by-Site Tour of the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages
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Egyptian Diaries
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The Early Germans
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The Great Journey: The Peopling of Ancient America
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Mesa Verde National Park: Shadows of the Centuries
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Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings
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Hidden Treasures of Ancient Egypt: Unearthing the Masterpieces of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
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The Mummy: A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaelogy
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Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
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In Search of the First Civilizations
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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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The City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek Lives in Roman Egypt
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Ancestors: In Search of Human Origins
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The History of Archaeology: Great Excavations of the World
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The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance
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The Descent of Woman
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Prehistoric Art: The Symbolic Journey of Humankind
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The Age of Sutton Hoo: The Seventh Century in North-Western Europe
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Arthur's Britain
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
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The Making of the Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World
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