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Brian Fagan.
The Time Detectives: How Archaeologists Use Technology to Recover the Past.
Published London: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
ISBN 0671712470;
ISBN-13: 9780671712471.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 160x240x23mm.
Page count: 288pp inc. several text figures and maps, plus 8 pages of plates, all monochrome.
Main language: English.
Overal condition good: the dustjacket on this copy is scuffed with some overall general wear, and remnants of a sticker on its front panel; the book’s spine is slightly skewed, a bump to the lower outside corner of the front board, and the page tops are dusty; text appears to be free of marking; text appears to be free of marking.


This item £4.00
P&P inc. within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price for paperback $20.95]
Weight without packaging: 607g.

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A couple of examples from the Mayas and Incas, otherwise no medieval emphasis.

Contents: The inconspicuous oasis; 'Where he got his head smashed in'; The Chumash; Abu Hureyra on the Euphrates; Anasazi; Enigma of Flag Fen; Searching for Eden; Vintages of Pharaohs; Uluburun; Glyphs of the forest; Footplows & raised fields; A wall against barbarians; Annapolis, Maryland.

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