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Norse Myths: A Guide to the Gods and Heroes
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Norse Myths

By Carolyne Larrington ,

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The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia
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The Viking Way

By Neil Price ,

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Rome: An Oxford Archaeological Guide
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Rome

By Amanda Claridge ,

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The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail
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The Land of Open Graves

By Jason De Leon ,

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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
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The Lost City of the Monkey God

By Douglas Preston ,

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Lords of the Desert: The Battle Between the United States and Great Britain for Supremacy in the Modern Middle East
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Lords of the Desert

By James Barr ,

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Ancient Brews: Rediscovered and Re-Created
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Ancient Brews

By Patrick E. McGovern ,

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Cafe Neandertal
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Cafe Neandertal

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The Viking Diaspora
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The Viking Diaspora

By Judith Jesch ,

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The Elder Edda: A Book of Viking Lore
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The Elder Edda

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Myths of the Pagan North: The Gods of the Norsemen
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Myths of the Pagan North

By Christopher Abram ,

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Bosworth: The Birth of the Tudors
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Bosworth

By Chris Skidmore ,

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At the Yeoman's House
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At the Yeoman's House

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The Science of Roman History: Biology, Climate, and the Future of the Past
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The Science of Roman History

By Walter Scheidel (editor) ,

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A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Republic
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A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Republic

By Jane DeRose Evans (editor) ,

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The Atlas of Ancient Rome: Biography and Portraits of the City - Two-Volume Slipcased Set
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The Atlas of Ancient Rome

By Andrea Carandini ,

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Understanding Collapse: Ancient History and Modern Myths
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Understanding Collapse

By Guy D. Middleton ,

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Concrete Evidence
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Concrete Evidence

By Rachel Grant ,

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A Pueblo Social History: Kinship, Sodality, and Community in the Northern Southwest
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A Pueblo Social History

By John A. Ware ,

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How Things Shape the Mind: A Theory of Material Engagement
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How Things Shape the Mind

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Die for You
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Die for You

By Amy Fellner Dominy ,

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Crusader Archaeology: The Material Culture of the Latin East
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Crusader Archaeology

By Adrian J. Boas ,

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Strangers in a New Land: What Archaeology Reveals about the First Americans
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Strangers in a New Land

By J. M. Adovasio , David Pedler ,

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The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh
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The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh

By William Matthew Flinders Petrie ,

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Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology
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Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries

By Kenneth L. Feder ,

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Spooky Archaeology: Myth and the Science of the Past
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Spooky Archaeology

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Hidden Scholars: Women Anthropologists and the Native American Southwest
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Hidden Scholars

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Textiles and Textile Production in Europe: From Prehistory to Ad 400
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Textiles and Textile Production in Europe

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Breaking the Maya Code
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Breaking the Maya Code

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Four Thousand Years Ago: A World Panorama Of Life In The Second Millennium B. C.
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Four Thousand Years Ago

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Discovering Paquimé
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Discovering Paquimé

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Mimbres Lives and Landscapes
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Mimbres Lives and Landscapes

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Woodlands
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Woodlands

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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial
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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial

By Sarah Tarlow , Liv Nilsson Stutz ,

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Archaeology and the Senses: Human Experience, Memory, and Affect
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Archaeology and the Senses

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Digging Up Britain: A New History in Ten Extraordinary Discoveries
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Digging Up Britain

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The Ghost Riders of Ordebec
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The Ghost Riders of Ordebec

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The Archaeology of Race: The Eugenic Ideas of Francis Galton and Flinders Petrie
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The Archaeology of Race

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The Street Beneath My Feet
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The Street Beneath My Feet

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The Secret of the Stones
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The Secret of the Stones

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Seeking Sicily: A Cultural Journey Through Myth and Reality in the Heart of the Mediterranean
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Seeking Sicily

By John Keahey ,

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The Archaeology of Urbanism in Ancient Egypt: From the Predynastic Period to the End of the Middle Kingdom
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The Archaeology of Urbanism in Ancient Egypt

By Nadine Moeller ,

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Diggersaurs
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Diggersaurs

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I'm Not a Pandacow
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I'm Not a Pandacow

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Over Vales and Hills: The Illustrated Poetry of the Natural World
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Over Vales and Hills

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Beastly Questions: Animal Answers to Archaeological Issues
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Beastly Questions

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Magicians of the Gods
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Magicians of the Gods

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Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture
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Making

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Artifact: A Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt Mystery
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Artifact

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