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Sigma Force novels volume 7
Language
English
Description
After a mountainside massacre yields a grim message, Painter Crowe, director of Sigma Force, must join with Commander Grayson Pierce and an unlikely ally if he is going to get to the root of a conspiracy that stretches back to a lost prehistoric colony in America.
Author
Language
English
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Description
A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.
Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus’s landing had crossed the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago; existed mainly in small, nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas was, for all practical...
Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus’s landing had crossed the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago; existed mainly in small, nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas was, for all practical...
Author
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Description
Describes numerous archaeological projects in all parts of the United States which provide opportunities for young people to work as volunteers. Includes first-person accounts of their experiences byarchaeologists and volunteers, as well as general information on archaeological methods and the profession of archaeology.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Connecticut middle-schooler Jake and his older sister Kady are transported by a Mayan artifact to a strange world inhabited by a mix of people from long-lost civilizations who are threatened by prehistoric creatures and an evil alchemist, the Skull King.
Author
Series
Civilization of the American Indian volume 131
Pub. Date
[1975]
Edition
[First edition].
Language
English
16) The Maya
Author
Series
Ancient peoples and places volume 52
Language
English
Description
The Maya has long been established as the best, most accessible introduction to the New World's greatest ancient civilization. Coe and Houston update this classic by distilling the latest scholarship for the general listener and student.
This new edition incorporates the most recent archaeological and epigraphic research, which continues to proceed at a fast pace. Among the finest new discoveries are spectacular stucco sculptures at El Zotz and Holmul,...
18) Ancient America
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Language
English
Description
Maps and text offer information on the cultures and histories of native groups in both North and South America.
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Modern Library paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
J. M. Adovasio has spent the last thirty years at the center of one of our most fiery scientific debates: Who were the first humans in the Americas, and how and when did they get there?
At its heart, The First Americans is the story of the revolution in thinking that Adovasio and his fellow archaeologists have brought about, and the firestorm it has ignited. As he writes, "The work of lifetimes has been put at risk, reputations have been damaged,...
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English
Description
Presents a collection of full-color and black and white illustrated photographs depicting the art and cultures of native peoples of the Western Hemisphere from ancient times to the twenty-first century and examines their heritage and the impact they had upon the growth and development of the nation.
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