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Archaeology & Paleontology

Show Me the Bone Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America

Dawson Gowan

ISBN: HB: 9780226332734, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 42 halftones

Nineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even reconstruct the extinct creature it came from with infallible certainty – "Show me the bone, and I will describe the animal!" Paleontologists such as Ge...

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Anthropology

Archaeology & Paleontology

Stepping-Stones A Journey Through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne

Desdemaines-Hugon Christine, Tattersall Ian

ISBN: PB: 9780300188028, Yale University Press, October 2012
272 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 38 black&white illus., 8 colour illus.

The cave art of France's Dordogne region is world-famous for the mythology and beauty of its remarkable drawings and paintings. These ancient images of lively bison, horses, and mammoths, as well as symbols of all kinds, are fascinating touchstones i...

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Evolution

Archaeology & Paleontology

Stratigraphic Paleobiology Understanding the Distribution of Fossil Taxa in Time and Space

Patzkowsky Mark E., Holland Steven M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226649382, ISBN: HB: 9780226649375, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 colour illus., 31 halftones, 19 line illus.

Whether the fossil record should be read at face value or whether it presents a distorted view of the history of life is an argument seemingly as old as many fossils themselves. In the late 1700s, Georges Cuvier argued for a literal interpretation, b...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Star-Crossed Stone The Secret Life, Myths, and History of a Fascinating Fossil

McNamara Kenneth J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226514697, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 26 halftones

Throughout the four hundred thousand years that humanity has been collecting fossils, sea urchin fossils, or echinoids, have continually been among the most prized, from the Paleolithic era, when they decorated flint axes, to today, when paleobiologi...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Society of Dilettanti Archaeology and Identity in the British Enlightenment

Kelly Jason M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300152197, Yale University Press, January 2010
320 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 100 black&white illus., 20 colour illus.

In 1732, a group of elite young men, calling themselves the Society of Dilettanti, held their first meeting in London. The qualification for membership was travel to Italy where the original members had met each other on the grand tour. These nobleme...

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Asia

Archaeology & Paleontology

South Asian Civilizations A Bibliographic Synthesis

Patterson Maureen L. P.

ISBN: HB: 9780226649108, University of Chicago Press, December 1981
894 pp., 28.8x22.8 cm, 2 maps

Indispensable Patterson, the preeminent bibliographer in the area of South Asian studies, has here devised an indispensible reference tool. She has drawn together over 28,000 periodical and monographic references to humanistic, social-science, and no...

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