Beautifully illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs, "Chaco Canyon" draws on the very latest research on Chaco and its environs to tell the remarkable story of ...

. But the heart of the book is the excitement of the discoveries themselves.

Tells the story of archaeological travel and excavation in Iraq -- then Mesopotamia -- from the time of the great Arab geographers to the 2003 devastation of the Iraq National ...

Explains the ways in which archaeologists use forensic medicine to study ancient corpses; nonintrusive methods to study the marks societies have left on the land, artifacts to ...

Demonstrates that feelings such as guilt, fear, or confusion are common to everyone.

The story of how lost civilizations, buried cities, and ancient scripts were rediscovered for the modern age, as seen through the lives and exploits of the great archaeologists ...

"Before prehistoric humans began to cultivate grain, they had three main methods of acquiring food: hunting, gathering, and fishing. Hunting and gathering are no longer ...

This well illustrated, full-color, site-by-site survey of prehistory captures the popular interest, excitement, and visual splendor of archaeology as it provides insight into ...