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011034
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Great Britain, Kingfisher Publications Plc, 2006.
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48pPurple Spine
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Kingfisher history encyclopedia
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Provides fascinating facts about the earliest history of humanity, as it evolved from cave-dwellers to village-dwelling farmers to populations in towns, up to and including the first advanced civilizations.
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What is history?
The world at a glance
The first humans
The first farmers
Ancient Egypt
Megalithic Europe
The Indus valley
Ancient Crete
The Myceneans
Shang dynasty
The Hittites
Babylon
The Assyrians
The Hebrews
Egypt, the new kingdom
The Phoenicians
Africa
America
Aryan India
The founding of Rome
Babylon revived
Greek dark age
The Zhou dynasty
The Persian empire
The Arts
Architecture
Science and technology
Index
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9780753409756 Pb.
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007567
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Great Britain, Oxford University Press, 2008.
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128pBlue Spine
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This book links archaeological techniques with the incredible stories of how pioneers decoded ancient voices and discovered lost worlds, and describes the thrilling process of analysis, frustrations, breakthroughs - and luck.
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Altamira - Ice age paintings
Mohenjo-daro - An ancient Indian city
Troy - A city under siege
Palace of Knossos - The Minotaur's palace
The Tomb of Tutankhamun - The golden tomb of a Pharoah
Mont Lassois and Vix - Celtic Hill Fort and Burial site
Alexandria Lighthouse - One of the seven wonders of the Ancient World
Terracotta Warriors - Guardians of the Tomb
The Rosetta Stone - Cracking an ancient code
Pompeii - Roman city
Tenochtitlan - Capital of the mighty Aztec Empire
Machu Picchu - Lost city of the Incas
Ozette - Native American village
The Vasa - Flagship of the Swedish King
Titanic - The unsinkable ship
Places to visit
Glossary
Index
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9780199116805 Pb.
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ID:
000397
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Bath, Parragon Publishing, 2007.
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304pMaroon Spine
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From well-known treasures like those of Tatankhamun, to less familiar finds like the mummies of the Silk Road and the "frozen chief" from Pazyryk, Archaelogy: Unearthing the Mysteries of the Past presents a lavishly illustrated survey of the most remarkable archaelogical finds in the world, and sets them in their context.
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9781405487863 Hb.
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| 003678 | 930.1/SAN | Main | On Shelf | Reference books | Reference |
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ID:
009281
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UK, Scholastic, 2001.
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160pCream Spine
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The Knowledge
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Readers can delve into the awesome world of archaeology to discover sinister tombs, sunken wrecks and hidden caves. This dead interesting guide has bucketfuls of archaeological facts and hilarious cartoons.
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Introduction
Dodgy diggers
Secret sites
Enormous excavations
Murky marine archaeology
Terrible tombs
Dead interesting people
Fascinating finds
Revealing reconstructions
Epilogue: No future in the past
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043999081 Pb.
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| 009682 | 930.1/ARN | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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011769
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Illinois, Raintree Publishers, 2001.
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32pGreen Spine
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Mysteries of the past
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Find out buried treasure, where it was hidden, and how it was discovered.
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A world of treasure
The oldest treasure
Treasures of the Pharaohs
Viking hoards
Golden cannonballs
The golden city
Pirate treasure
Treasure island
The Dutchmen's mine
African gold
Nazi loot
Facts about buried treasure
Words about buried treasure
Projects on buried treasure
Index
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1410900614 Pb.
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000944
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Great Britain, Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2003.
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72pRed Spine
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DK Eyewitness
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Early people had amazing lives as they learnt to hunt dangerous wild animals, gather nutritious foods and make clothes and shelter.
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Human or ape?
Prehistoric food
The toolmakers
Flintworking
Moving northwards
The coming of fire
Life in the Ice Age
Ice-Age hunters
Modern humans
The first artists
Hunting and gathering
Desert hunters
Tilling the soil
Clothing and fabrics
Skin deep
Magic
Death and burial
Ancient writing
Bronzeworking
The beauties of bronze
A Bronze-age warrior
Iron-Age finery
Life in the Iron Age
Men of iron
Ancient China
Small change
Central Americans
Digging up the past
Did you know?
Who's who?
Find out more
Glossary
Index
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0751364908 Pb .
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| 002903 | 930.1/WIL | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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003217
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London, Thames & Hudson, 1999.
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159pBlack spine
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New Horizons
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The whole puzzle of our life on earth is pieced together from fragments of bone, skulls and primitive tools dispersed throughout the world.
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Antediluvian People
Humans : Naked apes or little gods
Our ancestor's ancestors
From the taung child to Lucy
The long march of 'homo erectus'
From neanderthal to lascaux
Documents
Glossary
Chronology
Furthur reading
List of illustrations
Index
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0500300569 Pb.
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| 004506 | 930.1/THO | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
020913
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Historium
/ Nelson, Jo; Wilkinson, Richard (ill.)
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2015
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Surrey, Big Picture Press, 2015.
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95pGrey Spine
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Welcome to the museum! Here you will find a collection of objects from ancient civilisations. Objects of beauty, functionality, war, life, death and burial. As you wander from room to room, explore the magnificence of what civilisations have left behind over thousands of years of human history!"
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Welcome to Historium
What is Archaeology
Timeline of hisotrium objects
Africa -
Southern Africa
Western Africa
Ancient Egypt
America -
The Olmec
The Maya
The Aztecs
The Hopewell
The Pueblo
Asia -
Ancient India
Ancient China
Ancient Japan
Ancient Korea
Europe -
The Celts
Ancient Greece
Ancient Rome
The Vikings
The Middle East -
Mesopotamia
The ancient Levant
Ancient Persia
Early Islam
Oceania -
Indigenous Australians
Melanesia
Polynesia
The Māori
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9781783701889 Hb.
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| 019492 | 930.1/NEL | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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025058
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London, Raintree Publishers, 2016.
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56pWhite Spine
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Impact of technology
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Looks at historical, current and future techniques for helping us discover traces of the past from artifacts to human remains
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History's technological revolution
Finding historical remains
Dating techniques
Examining bodies
Examining artefacts
History in the computer age
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9781406298680 Hb.
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ID:
011768
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Illinois, Raintree Publishers, 2001.
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32pPurple Spine
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Mysteries of the past
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Find out about the world's lost cities, and how they were rediscovered and explored.
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Lost cities
The city of Ur
The monster of Knossos
The tower of Babylon
The horse of Troy
Pompeii under ash
Great Zimbabwe
The legend of El Dorado
The Pyramids of Tikal
The skulls of Tenochtitlan
Machu Picchu
Facts about lost cities
Words on lost cities
Projects on lost cities
Index
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1410900622 Pb.
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ID:
009371
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India, Euro Books, 2008.
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32pBlack Spine
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Amazing history
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Takes you on a fascinating journey to discover the mighty cities that have been abandoned and forgotten, all through history.
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What is a lost city?
Ur- the forgotten city
Mohenjo-Daro
Knosos
Troy
Pompeii
Angkor
Teotihuacan
Great Zimbabwe
El Dorado
Tikal
Machu Picchu
Finding lost cities
Glossary
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9788126620065 Pb.
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| 009788 | 930.1/MOR | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
008833
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Euro Books, 2008.
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32pBlack Spine
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Amazing history
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Describes the lost cities of Troy ,Babylon and Pompeii which were destroyed in different ways.
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What is a lost city?
Ur-the forgotten city
Mohenjo-daro
Knossos
Troy
Pompeii
Angkor
Teotohuacan
Great Zimbabwe
El Dorado
Tikal
Machu Picchu
Finding lost cities
Glossary
Index and webfinder
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9788128620065 Pb.
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| 009234 | 930.1/MOR | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
008664
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Great Britain, Parragon Publishing, 2009.
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303pBrown Spine
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9781407564036 Hb.
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| 009024 | 930.1/HAT | Main | On Shelf | General | Reference |
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ID:
023678
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London, Kingfisher Publications Plc, 2003.
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32pBlue Spine
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My Best Book
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From prehistory of how humans evolved from East African apes to the building of the first cities in Mesopotamia, young readers should find this book a useful introduction to our direct ancestors. Detailed illustrations introduce the different species of early humans across the globe
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075340821X Pb.
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ID:
013705
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Paris, Fleurus, 2003.
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125pBrown Spine
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Pourquoi l'imagerie comment
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9782215069317 Hb.
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| 013576 | 930.1/DER | Main | On Shelf | General | French |
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ID:
018105
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London, Hamlyn, 1972.
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74pWhite spine
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Tells the fascinating story of the evolution of man from the primates to the beginning of modern man.
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0600334619 Hb.
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ID:
010914
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Great Britain, Southwater, 2008.
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64pLigth Green Spine
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Explore History
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Discover the prehistoric world and find out what it was like to live through the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages, and how the first settled communities grew up.
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Finding the evidence
The toolmakers
The coming of fire
The spread of the Hominids
Neandethals
Wise man
The first Europeans
The Ice age
Images of the Ice age
The first Australians
Early Americans
The thaw begins
A better food supply
Rock paintings
The first farmers
Plants and animals
The coming of trade
Pots and potters
European settlements
Asian communities
The Americas
Hunting and gathering
The first metalworkers
Megaliths
Lake villages
The Iron age
Birth of civilizationn
Glossary
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1844769494X Pb.
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ID:
018097
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London, Usborne Publishing Ltd., 2004.
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96pOrange Blue Spine
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The Usborne Internet-linked library of Science
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Find out how life on earth began, how birds learnt to fly and what helped mammals survive.
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0746061390 Pb.
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ID:
017108
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London, McRae Publishing, 2011.
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48pGrey Spine
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History of the world
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Discover the origins of history, from the creation of the Universe to the beginnings of life, and from human evolution to the invention of writing.
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Hb.
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ID:
008027
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Great Britain, Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2008.
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96pPink Spine
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Explores various aspects of prehistory and provides instructions on how to find additional information via the DK online website by using keywords in the book.
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How to use the website
What is prehistory
Evidence from the past
Discovering prehistory
Evolution
The first steps
The first toolmakers
The first humans
Neanderthals
Cro-Magnon people
How did we get here?
The first artists
Mammoth hunters
Settling Australia
Settling the Americas
After the ice age
The first farmers
The invention of pottery
Catal Hoyuk
Mesopotamia - The first cities
Egypt - the first state
The Indus
The first Chinese farmers
The first Chinese civilizations
The Megalith builders
Standing stones
Flint mining
The copper age
Bronze-age Europe
The Minoans
Mycenae
The coming of iron
The first American farmers
Pueblo and mound builders
Mesoamerica
The Maya
Early South-American civilizations
Empires of the Andes
Steppe Nomads
Arctic people
Peopling the Pacific
Towards history
Timeline
Glossary and who's who
Index
Acknowledgements
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9781405321761 Hb.
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