An authoritative summary of the results of the archaeological excavations in the middle Senegal River valley, site of the ancient African Empire of Takrur. A summary of archaeological discoveries in the middle Senegal River valley, this authoritative volume presents new data on iron production, population settlement, and environmental change on the site of the ancient West African empire of Takrur, the first kingdom south of the Sahara mentioned by medieval Arab chroniclers. This authoritative volume should prove of great value to students of archaeology, anthropology, and African history, as well as to climatologists, geomorphologists, and ecologists.

The Search for Takrur: Archaeological Excavations and Reconnaissance along the Middle Senegal Valley (Yale University Publications in Anthropology)

History

Africa

The Yale Peabody Museum

Wood—perhaps no natural material has been used longer by man, and none seems more suited to human tastes and needs. Its properties are the result of a long evolutionary history as an integral part of the earth's forests. This story describes what it is, explores how it is put together, and recounts the story of wood from its origin, giving us new insights into this familiar material all around us, as well as into the petrified wood that occurs so abundantly in the fossil record.

The Forest Primeval: The Geologic History of Wood and Petrified Forests

Science & Math

Hickey, Leo J.

Biological Sciences

Rudolph Zallinger’s 110-foot (33.5-meter) fresca secco painting of The Age of Reptiles is one of the largest natural history murals in the world. Completed in 1947, it is an overview of prehistoric life told through the principal features and concepts of The Age of Reptiles. The mural has defined our view of the prehistoric world, and continues to teach, inform and spark the imagination of thousands of visitors that walk through the Yale Peabody Museum’s Great Hall each year, as well as to admirers around the world over through countless reproductions in publications and textbooks. 
This second edition of the Peabody’s guide to Zallinger’s masterwork is a compilation of earlier material and new information—including Vincent Scully’s classic essay on the mural’s place in the history of art—contributed by the staff and scientists of the Yale Peabody Museum. Filled with full color illustrations throughout, the concealed spiral paperback includes updated descriptions and identifying illustrations of the animals and plants depicted in the mural keyed to a 12 page foldout full-color poster that is bound into the book.

The Age of Reptiles: The Art and Science of Rudolph Zallinger's Great Dinosaur Mural at Yale

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Order Iniomi (Myctophiformes): Part 7, Neoscopelidae and Myctophidae and Atlantic Mesopelagic Zoogeography (Fishes of the Western North Atlantic)

Gibbs, Robert H.

Order Gasterosteiformes, Suborder Syngnathoidei: Part 8, Syngnathidae (Doryrhamphinae, Syngnathinae, Hippocampinae) (Fishes of the Western North Atlantic) [hardcover] Dawson, C. E.,Vari, Richard P. [Jul 27, 2010]

Order Gasterosteiformes, Suborder Syngnathoidei: Part 8, Syngnathidae (Doryrhamphinae, Syngnathinae, Hippocampinae) (Fishes of the Western North Atlantic)

Dawson, C. E.

Vari, Richard P.

GOGGIN, J. M.: SPANISH MAJOLICA IN THE NEW WORLD. TYPES OF THE SIXTEENTH TO EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES. NEW HAVEN, CT, 1968, xix 277 p. laminas.Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

Spanish Majolica in the New World: Types of the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries (Volume 72) (Yale University Publications in Anthropology)

Goggin, John M.

Reference

DUNNELL, R. THE PREHISTORY OF FISHTRAP, KENTUCKY. , 1972, viii 98 p. figuras.Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

The Prehistory of Fishtrap, Kentucky (Volume 75) (Yale University Publications in Anthropology)

Dunnell, R.C.

Americas

The Ngandong Fossil Hominids: A Comparative Study of a Far Eastern Homo erectus Group (Volume 78) (Yale University Publications in Anthropology)

Santa Luca, A.P.

The Yale University Publications in Anthropology series is currently published jointly by the Yale University Department of Anthropology and the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.

Ball Courts and Ceremonial Plazas in the West Indies (Volume 79) (Yale University Publications in Anthropology)

Alegría, Ricardo E.

From Contents - Voyaging, Colonization and Cultural Change in East Polynesia; Marquesan Environment; Marquesas in Polynesian Prehistory; Archaeological Investigations; Changes in Subsistence and Ecology; Fishing Strategies; Fishing Technology; Basalt Adzes and Other Chipped-Stone Artifacts; Other Artifacts; Synthesis Hanamiai Cultural Sequence; Conclusions. (Description by http-mart)

Hanamiai: Prehistoric Colonization and Cultural Change in the Marquesas Islands (East Polynesia) (Yale University Publications in Anthropology) (Volume 81)

Rolett, Barry Vladimir

Asia

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