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Paperback. Condizione: Good. For much of the twentieth century, Mesopotamia was thought to he the singular "Cradle of Civilization," and the agents of change that brought it about were thought to be demographic, ecological, and technological. Bronze Age Mesopotamian accomplishments were believed to have diffused outward, influencing the development of civilization in the rest of the world. Part of this Mesopocentric view was revised as archaeological evidence revealed that other unique civilizations had existed in both the Old and New Worlds, but the traditional Near Eastern pattern of development continued to serve as a model. In the mid-1980s, however, Harvard's Kwang-chih Chang proposed in Symbols--a publication of Harvard's Peabody Museum and Department of Anthropology--that China's first civilization did not evolve according to the conventional Mesopotamian model and argued instead for a new paradigm for understanding the origins of civilization in ancient China and the New World. In this collection of subsequent Symbols articles and other essays, Maya and Near Eastern studies specialists engage in a stimulating debate of Chang's thesis, also presented here.…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair.

paperback. Condizione: Very Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. For much of the twentieth century, Mesopotamia was thought to he the singular "Cradle of Civilization," and the agents of change that brought it about were thought to be demographic, ecological, and technological. Bronze Age Mesopotamian accomplishments were believed to have diffused outward, influencing the development of civilization in the rest of the world. Part of this Mesopocentric view was revised as archaeological evidence revealed that other unique civilizations had existed in both the Old and New Worlds, but the traditional Near Eastern pattern of development continued to serve as a model. In the mid-1980s, however, Harvard's Kwang-chih Chang proposed in Symbols--a publication of Harvard's Peabody Museum and Department of Anthropology--that China's first civilization did not evolve according to the conventional Mesopotamian model and argued instead for a new paradigm for understanding the origins of civilization in ancient China and the New World. In this collection of subsequent Symbols articles and other essays, Maya and Near Eastern studies specialists engage in a stimulating debate of Chang's thesis, also presented here.…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair.

Condizione: very_good.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. xi+653 pages with tables, charts, maps, bibliographies, drawings, photographs, illustrations and indices. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. This Festschrift in honor of William White Howells demonstrates the vitality and methodological diversity that existed in the field of biological anthropology in the 1970s. Condition: Light edge wear with spine ends rubbed.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

1982. South America, Native Americans, Art. Peabody Museum, 106p., good paperback with creases where front cover overlaps onto spine (hope that makes sense).

1990. North America, Native Americans, Art. Peabody Museum Press/Harvard University Press. good paperback/museum exhibition 129p. With some old water rippling along the bottom outside corner.

1976. Anthropological theory, physical anthropology, journals. Peabody Museum Press. Very good boards with cloth spine 653p.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 181 pages with frontispiece, charts, tables, figures, plates, and appendices. Quarto (10 1/2" x 7 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. American School of Prehistoric Research Bulletin 29. First edition. This study is the final product of the research conducted by American School of Prehistoric Research into the prehistory of northwest Africa. Data gathered between 1936 and 1947, first by Hooker Doolittle and J Ralph Nahon, who were jointed and dieted the later stages of their work a team consisting of Coon, Bruce Howe, Charles Stearns and Hugh Hencken, Director of the ASPR completed research in the Tangier zone. The Paleolithic discoveries have been published by Howe. Condition: Light edge wear, spine sunned else very good.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 75 pages with photographs, Octavo (9" x 5 3/4") bound in original pictorial stapled wrappers. First edition. This volume publishes the complete annotated bibliography of the publications that resulted from the first 20 years of ethnological and archaeological work by faculty and graduate students in the Mexican state of Chiapas, sponsored by Harvard s Peabody Museum and Department of Anthropology. Condition: Lightly soiled, light edge wear, previous owner's stamp to end pages else very good to fine.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition.

1990. North America, Native Americans, Art. Peabody Museum Press/Harvard University Press. Very good - fine paperback/museum exhibition 129p.

Condizione: acceptable. Fairly worn, but readable and intact. If applicable: Dust jacket, disc or access code may not be included.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Feeding the Ancestors presents an exquisite group of carved spoons from the Pacific Northwest that resides in the collections of Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Carved from the horns of mountain goats and Dall sheep, and incorporating elements of abalone shell and metal, most of the spoons were collected in Alaska in the late nineteenth century and were made and used by members of the Tlingit tribe. Hillel Burger's beautiful color photographs reveal every nuance of the carvers' extraordinary artistry. Anne-Marie Victor-Howe introduces the collectors and describes the means by which these and other ethnographic objects were acquired. In the process, she paints a vivid picture of the "Last Frontier" just before and shortly after the United States purchased Alaska. A specialist in the ethnography of the Native peoples of the Northwest Coast, Victor-Howe provides a fascinating glimpse into these aboriginal subsistence cultures as she explains the manufacture and function of traditional spoons. Her accounts of the clan stories associated with specific carvings and of the traditional shamanic uses of spoons are the result of extensive consultation with Tlingit elders, scholars, and carvers. Feeding the Ancestors is the first scholarly study of traditional feast spoons and a valuable contribution to our knowledge of Pacific Northwest Coast peoples and their art.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Second Printing. Bindiing has some wear; tight. text clean. vi, 129 p., fully illustrated [otob: 28] Size: Oversize.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1975. Journals, Europe. American School of Prehistoric Research, Peabody Museum, Harvard University , Bulletin # 30. very good paperback but with minor scuffing along black edges of covers , 305p. please allow for additional overseas postage.

1990. North America, Native Americans, Art. Peabody Museum/Harvard University Press. 129p., very good paperback/ wrppers.0-87365-811-6.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition.