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Wraps (Paperback). Zustand: Moderate Edge & Shelfwear. Pages are unmarked and binding is firm. Small scuff on back cover.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. This collection presents, for the first time, a much-needed synthesis of the major research themes and findings that characterize the Woodland Period in the southeastern United States.The Woodland Period (ca. 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1000) has been the subject of a great deal of archaeological research over the past 25 years. Researchers have learned that in this approximately 2000-year era the peoples of the Southeast experienced increasing sedentism, population growth, and organizational complexity. At the beginning of the period, people are assumed to have been living in small groups, loosely bound by collective burial rituals. But by the first millennium A.D., some parts of the region had densely packed civic ceremonial centers ruled by hereditary elites. Maize was now the primary food crop. Perhaps most importantly, the ancient animal-focused and hunting-based religion and cosmology were being replaced by solar and warfare iconography, consistent with societies dependent on agriculture, and whose elites were increasingly in competition with one another. This volume synthesizes the research on what happened during this era and how these changes came about while analyzing the period's archaeological record.In gathering the latest research available on the Woodland Period, the editors have included contributions from the full range of specialists working in the field, highlighted major themes, and directed readers to the proper primary sources. Of interest to archaeologists and anthropologists, both professional and amateur, this will be a valuable reference work essential to understanding the Woodland Period in the Southeast. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 285 pages. 10.20x7.10x0.80 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. A first edition book. Near fine, in a near fine DW. "Written shortly after the war - but never before published - Bowen's narrative is immediate, direct and compelling. His account, one of the few by a member of a glider regiment, is a brutal insight into the battlefields of World War II and a vivid recreation of just what life was like in an elite unit.".…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 353 pages. 8.75x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 175 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 324 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.73 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 723 pages. 10.00x7.50x1.15 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 5th edition. 1100 pages. 10.87x8.50x1.97 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 5th edition. 1100 pages. 10.87x8.50x1.97 inches. In Stock.

dj. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by editor and contributor Harlan Ellison in the year after publication on the title page: "For Elyse / with unrestrained passion / Harlan Ellison / Berkeley '68." A collection of 33 stories selected by Ellison, winner of a special Hugo Award in 1968 for Best Anthology. Along with its sequel in 1972, "Again, Dangerous Visions," probably the most important single anthology of science fiction produced in its time, representing nearly every major science fiction author of the 1950s and 1960s. Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket. Light offsetting on the pastedowns. Jacket has nicks and accompanying creasing at the corners, with moderate creasing on the top edge of the front panel and the bottom edge of the rear panel, and a few tiny splashes on the crown. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-535. Signed.…