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386 pages with tables, bibliography and index. Quarto (11" x 8 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition limited to 500 copies. Theoretical analysis in social sciences. Application to a theory of the origin of the State in Mesoamerica, is a book that as the author points out in the introduction, was forged in the Center of Archaeological Studies… Read more about this item

39 pages 462 place glyphs. Quarto (11" x 8 1/4") bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. First edition. The Atlas contains 462 place glyphs, most of of which are from Codex Mendoza. The text, which is not included, provides etymology of the place names and analysis of the forms of the glyphs. Antonio Peñafiel (1831-1922) was Director General of… Read more about this item

v+21 pages with plates, figures, maps, plans, tables and bibliography. Quarto (10 3/4" x 8 1/2") bound in original publisher's stapled wrappers. Technical Series Bulletin number 10. First edition. The following account gives the results of excavation of three sites in Chaves County, New Mexico, by the Laboratory of Anthropology. The three sites are habitation sites of the same general… Read more about this item

216 pages with tables, figures, plates, glossary, bibliography and index. Octavo (8" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Drawings by Gordon Pollard. First paper edition. Peru before the Incas is the fascinating story of two decades of painstaking archaeological "digging" and scientific reconstruction which has revealed the existence of a vast, highly diversified pre-Incan society in what… Read more about this item

485 pages with maps, photographs and bibliographies. Octavo (8" x 6") bound in original stiff wrappers. Inscribed by the author. First edition limited to 1000 copies. For nearly sixty years, the core countries (Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador) have been the site of particularly significant efforts to use anthropology to improve the lives of people. This book presents a corpus of… Read more about this item

465 pages with frontispiece, maps, figures, facsimiles and index. Quarto (11" x 8 1/2") bound in original publisher's brown stiff boards with black lettering to spine and cover and red insignia in original pictorial jacket. Photographs by Ignacio Uriquiza. In collaboration with Susana Alcantara Pohls, Merceds Alonso, etal. First edition limited to 5000 copies. Condition: Points gently rubbed else a… Read more about this item

595 pages with figures, illustrations, plates, tables, charts, diagrams, maps and indices. Quarto (10" x 7 1/4") bound in original publisher's beige cloth with black labels and gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. foreword by Grahame Clark. First edition. Here-for the first time in one volume-is an authoritative explanation of the most recent scientific methods and procedures as they bear… Read more about this item

xxii+453 pages with 60 plates and 88 figures some of which are fold out maps. Royal octavo (9" x 6") issued in olive green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 155. First edition. In 1946 the first attempt to study settlement patterns in the Americas took place in the Viru Valley, led by Gordon… Read more about this item

xv+522 pages with diagrams, illustrations, charts, tables, figures, site plans, maps, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with white and yellow lettering to spine and cover with blind-stamped pictorial cover. A little dated but the archaeological information in here is pretty solid. A good introduction to the general public to… Read more about this item

McGraw-Hill 1974 New York, 1974 G/NF 1st HB 4to 272 Ex lib. Library stamps on title page, head endpages and front endpaper, covers tape stained. DW has no library markings.. Hardcover.

510 pages with plates, foldout site maps, figures, and illustrations. Quarto (10 1/4" x 8") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Revista Colombiana de Antropologia, Suplemento number 1 for 1964. First edition. The San Agustín culture is one of the ancient Pre-Columbian cultures of Colombia. Its beginnings go back at least to the fourth millennium B.C. Several hundred large monolithic sculptures… Read more about this item

xxiii+497 pages with plates, figures, tables and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Details the archaeological activity that was reported over the years at the Pecos Conference which began in 1927. A lively record of regional archaeology and its role in… Read more about this item

viii+293 pages with folding charts, tables, figures, photographs, plates, appendices, bibliographies and index. Quarto (11" x 8 1/2") bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Number XXXIV. First edition. Situated at a strategic point on the south coast of England, Portchester was… Read more about this item

39 pages with 27 plates, figures and map. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 6 1/2") bound in full leather with gilt lettering to spine. Originally bound in wrappers which are lacking. First edition. Gregorio Hernández de Alba is one of the founding 'fathers' of archaeology and anthropology in Colombia. His intellectual contributions exceeded the academic level: Hernández de Alba was… Read more about this item

3 volumes in 1. Archaeology and the Old Testament, 128 pages with maps, plates, appendices and indices; Archaeology and the Pre-Christian Centuries, 139 pages with maps, plates and indices; Archaeology and the New Testament, 151 pages with maps, plates and indices. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine in… Read more about this item