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America Before
- A new investigation into the ancient apocalypse
- By: Graham Hancock
- Narrated by: Graham Hancock
- Length: 17 hrs and 16 mins
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Graham Hancock, the internationally best-selling author, has made it his life's work to find out - and in America Before, he draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest to a stunning conclusion....
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Brilliant
- By Amazon Customer on 24-08-2021
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Deep Time Dreaming
- Uncovering Ancient Australia
- By: Billy Griffiths
- Narrated by: Tom Griffiths
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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Soon after Billy Griffiths joins his first archaeological dig as camp manager and cook, he is hooked. Equipped with a historian’s inquiring mind, he embarks on a journey through time, seeking to understand the extraordinary deep history of the Australian continent....
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very dry. misnomer of a title
- By Ben on 23-07-2019
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1177 B.C. (Revised and Updated)
- The Year Civilization Collapsed
- By: Eric H. Cline
- Narrated by: Eric H. Cline
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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This audiobook narrated by acclaimed archaeologist and best-selling author Eric Cline offers a breathtaking account of how the collapse of an ancient civilized world ushered in the first Dark Ages....
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The rise and fall: Two millenniums BC.
- By Amazon Customer on 18-09-2023
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Kindred
- By: Rebecca Wragg Sykes
- Narrated by: Rebecca Wragg Sykes
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
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Our perception of the Neanderthals has undergone a metamorphosis since their discovery 160 years ago, from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins....
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Amazing
- By Anonymous User on 23-10-2023
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The Scythians
- Nomad Warriors of the Steppe
- By: Barry Cunliffe
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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The Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai mountains in the east to the Great Hungarian Plain in the first millennium BC....
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Excellent overview of what is known about Scythian Culture.
- By Anonymous User on 12-07-2023
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X Marks the Spot
- The Story of Archaeology in Eight Extraordinary Discoveries
- By: Michael Scott
- Narrated by: Michael Scott
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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In a thrilling and adventurous new history of discovery, Professor Michael Scott takes us on a global tour and traces the evolution of modern archaeology from colonial expeditions to today's cutting-edge digs, unearthing traps, curses and buried treasure along the way....
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Fantastic
- By Matthew Davidson on 24-09-2023
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America Before
- A new investigation into the ancient apocalypse
- By: Graham Hancock
- Narrated by: Graham Hancock
- Length: 17 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Graham Hancock, the internationally best-selling author, has made it his life's work to find out - and in America Before, he draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest to a stunning conclusion....
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Brilliant
- By Amazon Customer on 24-08-2021
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Deep Time Dreaming
- Uncovering Ancient Australia
- By: Billy Griffiths
- Narrated by: Tom Griffiths
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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Soon after Billy Griffiths joins his first archaeological dig as camp manager and cook, he is hooked. Equipped with a historian’s inquiring mind, he embarks on a journey through time, seeking to understand the extraordinary deep history of the Australian continent....
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very dry. misnomer of a title
- By Ben on 23-07-2019
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1177 B.C. (Revised and Updated)
- The Year Civilization Collapsed
- By: Eric H. Cline
- Narrated by: Eric H. Cline
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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This audiobook narrated by acclaimed archaeologist and best-selling author Eric Cline offers a breathtaking account of how the collapse of an ancient civilized world ushered in the first Dark Ages....
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The rise and fall: Two millenniums BC.
- By Amazon Customer on 18-09-2023
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Kindred
- By: Rebecca Wragg Sykes
- Narrated by: Rebecca Wragg Sykes
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
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Our perception of the Neanderthals has undergone a metamorphosis since their discovery 160 years ago, from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins....
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Amazing
- By Anonymous User on 23-10-2023
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The Scythians
- Nomad Warriors of the Steppe
- By: Barry Cunliffe
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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The Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai mountains in the east to the Great Hungarian Plain in the first millennium BC....
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Excellent overview of what is known about Scythian Culture.
- By Anonymous User on 12-07-2023
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X Marks the Spot
- The Story of Archaeology in Eight Extraordinary Discoveries
- By: Michael Scott
- Narrated by: Michael Scott
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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In a thrilling and adventurous new history of discovery, Professor Michael Scott takes us on a global tour and traces the evolution of modern archaeology from colonial expeditions to today's cutting-edge digs, unearthing traps, curses and buried treasure along the way....
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Fantastic
- By Matthew Davidson on 24-09-2023
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Istanbul
- A Tale of Three Cities
- By: Bettany Hughes
- Narrated by: Bettany Hughes
- Length: 24 hrs and 35 mins
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Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where the idea is as potent as the historical fact....
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Great book and audio book.
- By Patrick on 01-05-2020
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The World Before Us
- How Science Is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
- By: Tom Higham
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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Fifty thousand years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world. There were at least four others, including the Neanderthals, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonesis and the Denisovans. At the forefront of the latter's ground-breaking discovery was Oxford Professor Tom Higham....
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Brilliant book beautifully narrated
- By Anonymous User on 12-03-2023
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My Life in Ruins
- By: Adam Ford
- Narrated by: Adam Ford
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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Adam Ford is an archaeologist. Not only has he been on expeditions to unlock the mysteries of the past in the Caribbean, British Isles, Jordan, Syria, Israel....
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Europe Between the Oceans
- 9000 BC-AD 1000
- By: Barry Cunliffe
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 18 hrs and 48 mins
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Distinguished archaeologist Barry Cunliffe entirely reorients our understanding of Europe from 10,000 BC to the time of the Vikings....
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Buried
- An Alternative History of the First Millennium in Britain
- By: Alice Roberts
- Narrated by: Alice Roberts
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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Professor Alice Roberts combines archaeological finds with cutting-edge DNA research and written history to shed fresh light on how people lived: by examining the stories of the dead....
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Changed the way I thought!
- By Nicholas J. Morley on 28-10-2023
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Ancestors
- A Prehistory of Britain in Seven Burials
- By: Alice Roberts
- Narrated by: Alice Roberts
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
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Told through seven fascinating burial sites, this groundbreaking prehistory of Britain teaches us more about ourselves and our history: how people came and went, how we came to be on this island....
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Strong start, then veered off course
- By Sonya on 29-09-2021
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The Lost King
- The Search for Richard III
- By: Philippa Langley, Michael Jones
- Narrated by: Emma Spurgin Hussey
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
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The official inside story of the life, death and remarkable discovery of history's most controversial monarch....
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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
- By: Bettany Hughes
- Narrated by: Bettany Hughes
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
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Bestselling historian Bettany Hughes walks through the landscapes of both ancient and modern time; on a journey whose purpose is to ask why we wonder, why we create, why we choose to remember the wonder of others....
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A History of the World in 100 Objects
- The Landmark BBC Radio 4 Series
- By: Neil MacGregor
- Narrated by: Neil MacGregor
- Length: 22 hrs and 16 mins
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In 2010, the BBC and the British Museum embarked on an ambitious project: to tell the story of 2,000,000 years of human history using 100 objects selected from the museum's vast and renowned collection....
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The Memory Code
- The Traditional Aboriginal Memory Technique That Unlocks the Secrets of Stonehenge, Easter Island and Ancient Monuments the World Over
- By: Lynne Kelly
- Narrated by: Louise Siversen
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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In the past the elders had encyclopaedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across the landscape and the stars in the sky, too....
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Fascinating, this book changed my thinking
- By Jo on 23-08-2016
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The Anunnaki Chronicles
- A Zecharia Sitchin Reader
- By: Zecharia Sitchin, Janet Sitchin - editor
- Narrated by: Luke Bob Robinson
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
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Providing an insider's look into the decades of research behind Zecharia Sitchin's complete works as well as an in-depth overview of his theories, this collection includes carefully selected chapters from the Earth Chronicles series....
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Tracing Time
- Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau
- By: Craig Childs
- Narrated by: Craig Childs
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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Craig Childs bears witness to rock art of the Colorado Plateau—bighorn sheep pecked behind boulders, tiny spirals in stone, human figures with upraised arms shifting with the desert light, each one a portal to the open mouth of time....
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Pompeii
- The Life of a Roman Town
- By: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
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An extraordinary and involving portrait of an ancient town, its life and its continuing rediscovery, by Britain's favourite classicist....
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Outstanding
- By Patrick on 25-09-2023
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Empires of the Dead
- Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology
- By: Christopher Heaney
- Narrated by: Christian Barillas
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
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Through a history of Inca mummies, a preHispanic surgery called trepanation, and Andean crania like these, Empires of the Dead explains how “ancient Peruvians” became the single largest population in the Smithsonian and many other museums in Peru, the Americas, and beyond....
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The Fens
- Discovering England's Ancient Depths
- By: Francis Pryor
- Narrated by: Francis Pryor
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
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The Fens is Britain's most distinctive, complex, man-made and least understood landscape. Francis Pryor has lived in, excavated, farmed, walked and loved the Fen Country for more than 40 years....
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Gosh he's so Posh
- By Anonymous User on 20-01-2021
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The Collapse of Complex Societies
- New Studies in Archaeology, Book 8
- By: Joseph A. Tainter
- Narrated by: Brian Arens
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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Political disintegration is a persistent feature of world history. The Collapse of Complex Societies, though written by an archaeologist, will therefore strike a chord throughout the social sciences....
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Atlantis and Other Lost Worlds
- By: Frank Joseph
- Narrated by: Blake Kubena
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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Atlantis and Other Lost Worlds is the most up-to-date and comprehensive investigation of history's infamous sunken city....
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great book
- By Robert Tansey on 28-07-2022
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The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places
- By: Neil Oliver
- Narrated by: Neil Oliver
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
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The British Isles, this archipelago of islands, is to Neil Oliver the best place in the world. From north to south, east to west, it cradles astonishing beauty. The human story here is a million years old and counting....
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Truly a love story for all generations
- By matt r. on 21-10-2023
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The Ancient Celts, Second Edition
- By: Barry Cunliffe
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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This fully updated edition of Barry Cunliffe's classic study of the ancient Celtic world presents new finds, new ways of using DNA records to understand Celtic origins, and new ideas about the proto-urban nature of early chieftains' strongholds....
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Dense but interesting
- By 99Albert on 14-03-2023
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Tutankhamun's Trumpet
- The Story of Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects
- By: Toby Wilkinson
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
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Published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the moment that Howard Carter and Lord Carnavon broke open Tutankhamun’s tomb, a riveting account of the treasures they found, by one of Britain’s leading Egyptologists....
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Excellent
- By Maxine on 21-06-2023
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The Bone Chests
- Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons
- By: Cat Jarman
- Narrated by: Cat Jarman
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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From the brilliant bioarchaeologist and bestselling author of River Kings comes a gripping new history of the Anglo-Saxons told through six bone chests, stored for over a thousand years in Winchester Cathedral. A book that unlocks the secrets of the pre-Norman past....
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If you think this is about Bone Chests
- By S.Attenborough on 08-10-2023
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Women's Work
- The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
- By: Elizabeth Wayland Barber
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies....
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Would still recommend
- By Anonymous User on 11-10-2022
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The Naked Neanderthal
- By: Ludovic Slimak, David Watson
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Ludovic Slimak has travelled around the world for the past thirty years to uncover who the Neanderthals really were. A modern-day Indiana Jones, he takes us on a fascinating archaeological investigation, tracing the steps of these enigmatic creatures and working to decipher their real stories....
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Rambling
- By KJ on 15-10-2023
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The Creative Spark
- How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional
- By: Agustín Fuentes
- Narrated by: Agustín Fuentes
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
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What made humans so exceptional among all the species on Earth? Creativity. It is the secret of what makes humans special, hiding in plain sight....
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Europe Between the Oceans
- 9000 BC-AD 1000
- By: Barry Cunliffe
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 18 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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In this magnificent book, distinguished archaeologist Barry Cunliffe reframes our entire conception of early European history, from prehistory through the ancient world to the medieval Viking period. Cunliffe views Europe not in terms of states and shifting political land boundaries but as a geographical niche particularly favored in facing many seas. These seas, and Europe's great transpeninsular rivers, ensured a rich diversity of natural resources while also encouraging the dynamic interaction of peoples across networks of communication and exchange.
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Tracing Time
- Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau
- By: Craig Childs
- Narrated by: Craig Childs
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Craig Childs bears witness to rock art of the Colorado Plateau—bighorn sheep pecked behind boulders, tiny spirals in stone, human figures with upraised arms shifting with the desert light, each one a portal to the open mouth of time. With a spirit of generosity, humility, and love of the arid, intricate landscapes of the desert Southwest, Childs sets these ancient communications in context, inviting listeners to look and listen deeply.
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The Valkyries' Loom
- The Archaeology of Cloth Production and Female Power in the North Atlantic
- By: Michèle Hayeur Smith
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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This groundbreaking study is based on the author's systematic comparative analysis of the vast textile collections in Iceland, Greenland, Denmark, Scotland, and the Faroe Islands, materials that are largely unknown even to archaeologists and span 1,000 years. Through these garments and fragments, Hayeur Smith provides new insights into how the women of these island nations influenced international trade by producing cloth (vaðmál); how they shaped the development of national identities by creating clothing; and how they helped their communities survive climate change.
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Empires of the Dead
- Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology
- By: Christopher Heaney
- Narrated by: Christian Barillas
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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When the Smithsonian’s Hall of Physical Anthropology opened in 1965 it featured 160 Andean skulls affixed to a wall to visualize how the world’s human population had exploded since the birth of Christ. Through a history of Inca mummies, a preHispanic surgery called trepanation, and Andean crania like these, Empires of the Dead explains how “ancient Peruvians” became the single largest population in the Smithsonian and many other museums in Peru, the Americas, and beyond.
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The Perfect Sword
- Forging the Dark Ages
- By: Paul Gething, Edoardo Albert
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2000, archaeologist Paul Gething rediscovered a sword. An unprepossessing length of rusty metal, it had been left in a suitcase for thirty years. But Paul had a suspicion that the sword had more to tell than appeared, so he sent it for specialist tests. When the results came back, he realized that what he had in his possession was possibly the finest, and certainly the most complex, sword ever made, which had been forged in seventh-century Northumberland by an anonymous swordsmith.
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The Naked Neanderthal
- By: Ludovic Slimak, David Watson
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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For over a century we saw Neanderthals as inferior to Homo Sapiens. After new discoveries, the pendulum swung the other way and they are generally seen as our relatives: not quite human, but similar enough, and still not equal. Now, thanks to an ongoing revolution in palaeoanthropology in which he has played a key part, Ludovic Slimak shows us that they are something altogether different - and they should be understood on their own terms rather than by comparing them to ourselves. As he reveals in this stunning book, the Neanderthals had their own history, their own rituals, their own customs.
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Rambling
- By KJ on 15-10-2023
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Europe Between the Oceans
- 9000 BC-AD 1000
- By: Barry Cunliffe
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 18 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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In this magnificent book, distinguished archaeologist Barry Cunliffe reframes our entire conception of early European history, from prehistory through the ancient world to the medieval Viking period. Cunliffe views Europe not in terms of states and shifting political land boundaries but as a geographical niche particularly favored in facing many seas. These seas, and Europe's great transpeninsular rivers, ensured a rich diversity of natural resources while also encouraging the dynamic interaction of peoples across networks of communication and exchange.
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Tracing Time
- Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau
- By: Craig Childs
- Narrated by: Craig Childs
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Craig Childs bears witness to rock art of the Colorado Plateau—bighorn sheep pecked behind boulders, tiny spirals in stone, human figures with upraised arms shifting with the desert light, each one a portal to the open mouth of time. With a spirit of generosity, humility, and love of the arid, intricate landscapes of the desert Southwest, Childs sets these ancient communications in context, inviting listeners to look and listen deeply.
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The Valkyries' Loom
- The Archaeology of Cloth Production and Female Power in the North Atlantic
- By: Michèle Hayeur Smith
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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This groundbreaking study is based on the author's systematic comparative analysis of the vast textile collections in Iceland, Greenland, Denmark, Scotland, and the Faroe Islands, materials that are largely unknown even to archaeologists and span 1,000 years. Through these garments and fragments, Hayeur Smith provides new insights into how the women of these island nations influenced international trade by producing cloth (vaðmál); how they shaped the development of national identities by creating clothing; and how they helped their communities survive climate change.
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Empires of the Dead
- Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology
- By: Christopher Heaney
- Narrated by: Christian Barillas
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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When the Smithsonian’s Hall of Physical Anthropology opened in 1965 it featured 160 Andean skulls affixed to a wall to visualize how the world’s human population had exploded since the birth of Christ. Through a history of Inca mummies, a preHispanic surgery called trepanation, and Andean crania like these, Empires of the Dead explains how “ancient Peruvians” became the single largest population in the Smithsonian and many other museums in Peru, the Americas, and beyond.
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The Perfect Sword
- Forging the Dark Ages
- By: Paul Gething, Edoardo Albert
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2000, archaeologist Paul Gething rediscovered a sword. An unprepossessing length of rusty metal, it had been left in a suitcase for thirty years. But Paul had a suspicion that the sword had more to tell than appeared, so he sent it for specialist tests. When the results came back, he realized that what he had in his possession was possibly the finest, and certainly the most complex, sword ever made, which had been forged in seventh-century Northumberland by an anonymous swordsmith.
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The Naked Neanderthal
- By: Ludovic Slimak, David Watson
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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For over a century we saw Neanderthals as inferior to Homo Sapiens. After new discoveries, the pendulum swung the other way and they are generally seen as our relatives: not quite human, but similar enough, and still not equal. Now, thanks to an ongoing revolution in palaeoanthropology in which he has played a key part, Ludovic Slimak shows us that they are something altogether different - and they should be understood on their own terms rather than by comparing them to ourselves. As he reveals in this stunning book, the Neanderthals had their own history, their own rituals, their own customs.
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Rambling
- By KJ on 15-10-2023