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Region: Americas

An exceedingly detailed survey of this palace complex located in Teotihuacan, discovered and excavated by the author of this report.  Every aspect of its architecture, design, likely purpose, and mural decorations are discussed.

Region: Americas

A large visitor's handbook for those touring the Gold Museum in Lima.  Working case-by-case a total of 4446 items (!) are identified and given brief descriptions.  Many are illustrated in b&w photographs and a few in full colour.

Region: Americas

Alfred Kroeber’s groundbreaking expedition in 1926 to the Nazca region yielded an unparalleled set of excavation reports which were left unfinished at Koeber’s death in 1960.

Region: Americas

A large format souvenir guide describing J Paul Getty's ambition to recreate  a museum modelled on the lavish Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum and published to mark its opening in Malibu in 1975, now home to the large Getty collection of Greek, Roman and Etruscan antiquities.

Region: Americas

Illustrated guide to the design, construction, history and use of what was once the world's highest hydraulic boat lift opened in 1904 and still in operation today on the Trent Canal in Ontario. Includes a map of the waterway and its many locks.   Paperback.  64 pages.

Region: Americas

Fabulously illustrated album of rock art from North-East Argentina recorded on canyons and rock shelters, most tentatively dated from the late Pleistocene or early Holocene.

Region: Americas

Fabulously illustrated album of  rock art from Central Argentina recorded on canyons and rock shelters, most tentatively dated from the late Pleistocene or early Holocene.

Region: Americas

Contains nine substantial papers on various aspects of Amazonian archaeology, two are in English, the remainder in Portuguese with English abstracts.  Two reflect on the work and publications of Goeldi and reproduce three of his learned papers from the 1890's.

Region: Americas

A guide to exhibits exploring the history of Canada from the Viking settlements at L'Anse aux Meadows, through French farming immigration of the C17th, to the British fur and timber trading of the C18th and C19th where relations with indigenous tribes were of significance.

Region: Americas

Detailed and extensive guide to all the ruins of Tikal.  This copy includes a very large scale fold-out map of the site.  Paperback.  128 pages.  Illustrated.  Bibliography.  Good condition.  Cat No 4489