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Lookout Cave
The Archaeology of Perishable Remains on the Northern Plains
In the mid-1960s as a young high school student, John Brumley visited Lookout Cave for the first time and knew immediately that the site was exceptional. The cave, located in north central Montana,...
ISBN: 9781771991797
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Early Rock Art of the American West
The Geometric Enigma
The earliest rock art - in the Americas as elsewhere - is geometric or abstract. Until Early Rock Art in the American West, however, no book-length study has been devoted to the deep antiquity...
ISBN: 9780295743615
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Before Yellowstone
Native American Archaeology in the National Park
Since 1872, visitors have flocked to Yellowstone National Park to gaze in awe at its dramatic geysers, stunning mountains, and impressive wildlife. Yet more than a century of archaeological research...
ISBN: 9780295742205
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Ancient Ink
The Archaeology of Tattooing
The desire to alter and adorn the human body is universal. While specific forms of body decoration, and the underlying motivations, vary according to region, culture, and era, all human societies...
ISBN: 9780295742823
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Excavating the Afterlife
The Archaeology of Early Chinese Religion
In Excavating the Afterlife, Guolong Lai explores the dialectical relationship between sociopolitical change and mortuary religion from an archaeological perspective. By examining burial structure,...
ISBN: 9780295994499
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Ozette
Excavating a Makah Whaling Village
Makah families left the coastal village of Ozette in the 1920s to comply with the federal government’s requirement that they send their children to school, and by doing so they ended nearly two...
ISBN: 9780295994628
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Building a Sacred Mountain
The Buddhist Architecture of China's Mount Wutai
By the tenth century CE, Mount Wutai had become a major pilgrimage site within the emerging culture of a distinctively Chinese Buddhism. Famous as the abode of the bodhisattva Mañjuśrī (known...
ISBN: 9780295993522
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Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhara
The British Library Kharosthi Fragments
As the Dead Sea scrolls have changed our understanding of Judaism and early Christianity, so a set of twenty-nine scrolls recently acquired by the British Library promise to provide a window into...
ISBN: 9780295977690
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A New Version of the Gandhari Dharmapada and a Collection of Previous-Birth Stories
British Library Kharosthi Fragments 16 + 25
This volume continues the detailed examination of the British Library Kharosthi scrolls--extremely fragile and brittle fragments of manuscript on birch-bark rolls. Although their provenance is uncertain,...
ISBN: 9780295983080
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Two Gandhari Manuscripts of the "Songs of Lake Anavatapta" (Anavatapta-gatha)
British Library Kharosthi Fragment 1 and Senior Scroll 14
This fifth volume in the Gandharan Buddhist Texts series (GBT) presents two fragmentary manuscripts of the poem "Songs of Lake Anavatapta." Previously known from versions in Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan,...
ISBN: 9780295989051
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Gandharan Avadanas
British Library Kharosthi Fragments 1-3 and 21 and Supplementary Fragments A-C
The Gandharan Buddhist Texts series presents editions, translations, and studies of the British Library’s unique collection of Buddhist manuscripts in the Gandhari language, dating from the first...
ISBN: 9780295990132
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Three Gandhari Ekottarikagama-Type Sutras
British Library Kharosthi Fragments 12 and 14
Three Gandhari Ekottarikagama-Type Sutras continues the Gandharan Buddhist Texts studies of the first-century A.D. birch bark scrolls in the British Library's Kharosthi manuscript collection....
ISBN: 9780295981857
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A Gandhari Version of the Rhinoceros Sutra
British Library Kharosthi Fragment 5B
Prominent in several Buddhist traditions, the Rhinoceros Sutra espouses the virtues of solitude, explaining the dangers of attachments, prescribing a solitary spiritual life, and discussing the nature...
ISBN: 9780295980355
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Recent Archaeological Discoveries and Biblical Research
Archaeology and Bible--two simple terms, often used together, understood by everybody. But are they understood properly? If so, why are both subject to such controversy? And what can archaeology...
ISBN: 9780295972619
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Archaeology in Washington
Archaeology--along with Native American traditions and memories--holds a key to understanding early chapters of the human story in Washington. This all-new book draws together and brings up to date...
ISBN: 9780295986968
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Is It a House?
Archaeological Excavations at English Camp, San Juan Island, Washington
Prehistoric houses on the Northwest Coast were built from wood, often within piles of discarded shells, leaving little archaeological evidence from which to confirm their presence. Is It a House?...
ISBN: 9780295991474
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Four Gandhari Samyuktagama Sutras
Senior Kharosthi Fragment 5
Four Gandhari Samyuktagama Sutras continues the study of Gandharan Buddhist texts and is the first investigation of a scroll from the Senior Collection of Kharosthi manuscripts. The Senior...
ISBN: 9780295987729
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