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Archaeology & Anthropology — page 2
61 public-domain archaeology & anthropology books, summarised. Page 2 of 2.
Olympic Victor Monuments and Greek Athletic Art
Walter Woodburn Hyde
An ancient athletic festival produced a vast forest of bronze and marble, yet almost all of it vanished into lime kilns and melting pots. Walter Woodburn Hyde sets out to rebuild these lost masterpieces using only broken stone bases, classical literature, and secondhand Roman copies.
An Illustrated Dictionary of Words used in Art and Archaeology: Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c., with their derivations
John W. (John William) Mollett
A sprawling compendium bridges antiquity, classical legend, and medieval craftsmanship into an accessible guide for art lovers, antiquarians, and readers seeking the physical reality of human culture.
Omens and Superstitions of Southern India
Edgar Thurston
Every turn of daily life in historic Southern India—from the flight of a bird to the placement of a home’s doorway—is governed by unseen spiritual forces.
Old Indian trails
Walter McClintock
A young forest surveyor ventures into the Rocky Mountains of Montana and finds himself adopted into the Blackfoot tribe. There he records a vanishing way of life centered around sacred ceremonies, wilderness survival, and deep spiritual communion with nature.
The Geography of Strabo, Volume 1 (of 3): Literally Translated, with Notes
Strabo
A expansive survey of the ancient world unfolds through geometry, poetry, and imperial ambition.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55, 1690-1691: Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century
Unknown
Colonial observers attempt to decode an unfamiliar archipelago, creating a dense portrait of island life shaped by faith, bias, and imperial ambitions.
Influences of Geographic Environment: On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
Ellen Churchill Semple
The shape of human history, its migrations, and the development of its political boundaries are bound to the soil, climate, and topography of the earth.
Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings
Edward Sylvester Morse
A quiet revolution in domestic design awaits where timber, straw, and open air replace the heavy stonework of the West.
The Negro
W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
This sweeping historical survey recovers the neglected legacy of African civilizations, challenging the pervasive racial prejudices of its time to reveal the foundational role of Black peoples in the story of humanity.
Beast and Man in India: A Popular Sketch of Indian Animals in their Relations with the People
John Lockwood Kipling
An observant Englishman walks through the markets, fields, and shrines of nineteenth-century India, watching how everyday life turns upon the bodies of working animals and the ancient stories attached to them.
Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex: with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs
William Gates
A rigorous attempt to reconstruct damaged Mesoamerican manuscripts reveals a grander vision: deciphering ancient ideographs might fundamentally reshape our understanding of human intellectual history.
Seven Mohave Myths
A. L. (Alfred Louis) Kroeber
In vast, ancient landscapes along the Colorado River, ancestral beings shape the world through song, conflict, dream, and divine decree.
Cave Hunting: Researches on the evidence of caves respecting the early inhabitants of Europe
William Boyd Dawkins
Deep beneath the surface of Europe lies an astonishing archive of early human history, where subterranean chambers preserve the bones, toolkits, and art of prehistoric peoples alongside the remains of extinct beasts.