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Archaeology & Anthropology — page 18
826 public-domain archaeology & anthropology books, summarised. Page 18 of 18.
Short Sketches from Oldest America
John B. (John Beach) Driggs
An ancient, isolated people tell their own story through the myths, domestic rituals, and ingenious tools that sustain life on the edge of the frozen Arctic.
The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales
R. H. (Robert Hamilton) Mathews
A meticulous study records the complex grammars and rich vocabularies of First Nations tongues across central and southern New South Wales.
Nationality and Race from an Anthropologist's Point of View: Being the Robert Boyle lecture delivered before the Oxford university junior scientific club on November 17, 1919
Keith, Arthur, Sir
Deep human history shapes our modern world, and ancient evolutionary drives continue to dictate modern global politics.
Pleistocene Bats from San Josecito Cave, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
J. Knox Jones
In the darkness of an ancient Mexican cavern, preserved bones reveal the deep evolutionary history and prehistoric diversity of American bats.
The Egyptian Conception of Immortality: The Ingersoll Lecture, 1911
George Andrew Reisner
A centuries-long obsession with the afterlife was not born of darkness, but of an intense, persistent love for everyday existence on earth.
Notes and Queries, Number 17, February 23, 1850
Various
A lively marketplace of Victorian erudition, where scholars trade insights on ancient geographic maps, local folk rituals, and forgotten poetic lines.
Sacred Mysteries Among the Mayas and the Quiches, 11,500 Years Ago: Their relation to the sacred mysteries of Egypt, Greece, Chaldea and India. Free Masonry in times anterior to the Temple of Solomon
Augustus Le Plongeon
A millennia-old network of sacred knowledge ties the ancient Mayas directly to the foundational rites of world religion and Freemasonry.
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia
Charles Sturt
A solitary boat drifts down untamed rivers into Australia’s uncharted interior, where sandstorms, submerged timber, and thousands of armed natives test the boundary between heroic endurance and total disaster.
Two New Pelycosaurs from the Lower Permian of Oklahoma
Richard C. Fox
In the limestone fissures of Oklahoma, tiny fragments of bone preserved across two hundred and eighty million years reveal two previously unknown species of early Permian reptiles.
Wanderings in North Africa
Hamilton, James, traveler
A solitary traveler sets out across the desolate tablelands and forgotten oases of North Africa, risking disease, ambush, and hostile ruins to map the classical remnants of a lost empire.