TY - BOOK AU - Fagan, Brian M. TI - Discovery! : unearthing the new treasures of archaeology SN - 9780500051498 U1 - 930.10282 PY - 2007/// CY - New York PB - Thames & Hudson KW - Excavations (Archaeology) KW - Archaeology KW - History KW - Methodology KW - Antiquities KW - Archaeology and history N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-251) and index; I. Discoveries from the Ice Age; II.Tombs, Graves and Mummies; III. Treasures of Ancient Art; IV. Lost Cities and Towns; V. Enigmas of Ritual and Religion; VI. Discoveries from the Deep; VII. Scientific Discoveries. ; Discoveries from the Ice Age --; New Evidence from Africa: Rewriting the Story of Human Origins; Peter Andrews --; The Mystery of the Skulls from Dmanisi, Georgia; Chris Stringer --; The First Europeans and the Pit of the Bones at Atapuerca, Spain; Chris Stringer --; Boxgrove: The Oldest Human Fossils in Britain; Chris Stringer --; The 'Hobbit': An Unknown Human Relative?; Chris Stringer --; Tombs, Graves and Mummies --; The Iceman: A 5,000-Year-Old Murder Victim?; Chris Scarre --; The Amesbury Archer and the Boscombe Bowmen: Men of Stonehenge; Andrew P. Fitzpatrick --; New Revelations from the Pyramids of Giza; Zahi Hawass --; The Tomb of Tutankhamun's Mother? An 18th Dynasty Chamber in the Valley of the Kings; Zahi Hawass --; Pharaoh's Children: The Tomb of the Sons of Ramesses II in the Valley of the Kings; Kent R. Weeks --; New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara; Alain Zivie --; Where the living Feasted with the Dead: The Royal Tombs of Qatna, Syria; Peter Pfalzner --; The Royal Tombs of Nimrud, Iraq: The Treasures of Assyrian Queens; Joan Dates --; The Great Ryzhanovka Barrow: An Intact Burial of a Scythian Nobleman; Sergey Skory and Jan Chochorowski --; The Valley of the Golden Mummies, Egypt; Zahi Hawass --; Bodies from the Bog: New Insights into life and Death in Pagan Celtic Ireland; Eamonn P. Kelly --; Warriors, Musicians and Acrobats at the Tomb of the First Emperor of China; Zhang Yinglan --; The Spitalfields Lady: The Finest Roman Grave Ever Found in London; Christopher Thomas --; Moche Tombs at Dos Cabezas, Peru; Christopher B. Donnan --; Power and Prestige: Middle Sican Elite Tombs of North Coastal Peru; Izumi Shimada --; The Red Queen and Other New Maya Tombs; George Stuart --; Chachapoya: Mummies in the Cloud Forest of Peru; Adriana Von Hagen --; Inca Mummies: Child Sacrifice on Andean Peaks; Johan Reinhard --; The Prittlewell Prince: An Anglo-Saxon Royal Burial; Ian Blair --; Treasures of Ancient Art --; At the Origins of Art: New Discoveries of Decorated Caves; Jean Clottes --; Black Pharaohs: A Cachette of Statues from Kerma, Sudan; Charles Bonnet and Dominique Valbelle --; A Celtic Warrior Prince from Glauberg, Germany; Holger Baitinger and Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann --; Artistic Splendours from the Greek and Roman World; Mark Merrony --; Turkey's Pompeii: The Magnificent Mosaics of Zeuqrna; Robert Early --; The Maize God and the Mythology of Kings: Maya Paintings at San Bartolo, Guatemala; William A. Saturno --; Torcs, Coins and Gold Cups: Ancient Hoards from Britain; Jeremy D. Hill --; The Hoxne Treasure: A Late Roman Hoard; Catherine Johns --; Spillings: The World's Biggest Viking Silver Hoard; Dan Carlsson --; Portraits in Pottery: Ceramic Vessels from Lake Titicaca; Antti Korpisaari and Martti Parssinen --; Statues of the Buddha from Qingzhou, China; Jan Stuart --; Lost Cities --; Caral: The Oldest Civilization in Peru and the Americas; Ruth Shady --; Pyramid City, Giza; Mark Lehner --; Jinsha: Changing the Map of Ancient China; Jay Xu --; Towards a New Jerusalem; Roberta L. Harris --; Saxon London, Concealed Beneath the City Streets; Robert Cowie --; Jamestown: The Fort that was the Birthplace of the United States of America; William M. Kelso --; Enigmas of Ritual and Religion --; Carved Creatures from the Dawn of Agriculture: Gobekli Tepe, Turkey; Klaus Schmidt --; Secrets Revealed at Britain's Henges; Mike Pitts --; The Nebra Sky Disc: The Oldest Representation of the Heavens; Harald Meller --; Helmets and War-Trumpets: A Ritual Hoard from Tintignac, France; Christophe Maniquet --; Symbols of Religion and Power: The Pyramid of the Moon, Teotihuacan; Saburo Sugiyama --; Moche Ritual Sacrifice at Huaca de la Luna, Peru; Steve Bourget --; Discoveries from the Deep --; The World's Oldest Boats, from Abydos, Egypt; Matthew Douglas Adams and David O'connor --; Alexandria Underwater: Greek Cities Beneath the Sea in Egypt; Filanck Goddio --; The Ancient Port and Ships of Pisa; Stefano Bruni --; HMS Pandora: The Ship Sent to Find the Bounty Mutineers; Peter Gesner --; Submarine and Ironclad: American Civil War Wrecks; Robert S. Neyland --; Scientific Discoveries --; DNA and Archaeology; Brian M. Fagan --; Ice Ages, Floods and Droughts: The Impact of Climate Change in the Past; Brian M. Fagan --; Ancient Wine and Beer; Patrick E. McGovern --; Medical Science and Archaeology; Charlotte Roberts --; Ancient Writing: Early Hieroglyphs from Abydos, Egypt; Toby Wilkinson --; Ancient Writing: Biblical Inscriptions; Roberta L. Harris --; Ancient Writing: China's 'Dead Sea Scrolls'; Wang Tao --; Ancient Writing: New Advances in Maya Decipherment; David Stuart --; Ancient Writing: Deciphering the Knotted Strings of the Incas; Gary Urton --; The Cascajal Block: The New World's Oldest Writing; Michael D. Coe ER -