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Old bones / by Preston, Douglas J.,author.; Child, Lincoln,author.;
Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator with a series of important excavations already under her belt, is approached by the handsome historian, Guy Porter, to lead an expedition unlike any other. Guy tells his story--one involving the ill-fated Donner Party, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the winter of 1847, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party stumbled out of the California mountains, replete with tales of courage, resourcefulness, bad luck, murder, barbarism--and, finally, starvation and cannibalism. Captivated by the Donner Party, Nora agrees and they venture into the Sierra Nevada in search of the camp. Quickly, they learn that the discovery of the missing starvation camp is just the tip of the iceberg--and that the real truth behind those long-dead pioneers is not only far more complex and surprising than they could have imagined ... but it is one that puts them both in mortal danger from a very real, present-day threat in which the search for the lost party, and its fabled fortune in gold, are merely means to a horrifying end.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Donner Party; Archaeologists; Archaeological expeditions; Detective and mystery stories;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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The Stone of Fire / by Facciotto, Giuseppe.; Dami, Elisabetta.;
"Appeals to 2nd-4th graders, Reading level: grade 4"--P. [4] of cover.LSC
Subjects: Mice; Reporters and reporting; Archaeological thefts; Stone age;
© c2013., Scholastic,
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The lost tomb : and other real-life stories of bones, burials, and murder / by Preston, Douglas J.,author.; Grann, David,writer of foreword.;
"What's it like to be the first to enter an Egyptian burial chamber that's been sealed for thousands of years? What horrifying secret was found among the prehistoric ruins of the American Southwest? Who really was the infamous the Monster of Florence? Douglas Preston's journalistic explorations have taken him from the haunted country of Italy to the jungles of Honduras. He was granted exclusive journalistic access to the largest tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, broke the story of an extraordinary mass grave of animals killed by the asteroid impact that ended the Cretaceous period and caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, and explored what lay hidden in the booby-trapped Money Pit on Oak Island. When he hasn't been co-authoring bestselling thrillers featuring FBI Agent Pendergast, Preston has been writing about some of the world's strangest and most dramatic mysteries. The Lost Tomb brings together an astonishing and compelling collection of true stories about buried treasure, enigmatic murders, lost tombs, bizarre crimes, and other fascinating tales of the past and present"--
Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Archaeology; Civilization, Ancient; Curiosities and wonders.;
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Silent are the dead / by Rowell, D. M.,author.;
While back on tribal land, Mud Sawpole uncovers an illegal fracking operation underway that threatens the Kiowas' ancestral homeland. But there's an even greater threat: a local businessman involved in artifact thefts is murdered, and a respected tribe elder faces accusation of the crime. After being roped in by her cousin, Denny, they begin to investigate the death while also pursuing evidence to permanently stop frackers from destroying Kiowa land, water, and livelihoods. When answers evade her, Mud heeds her grandfather's and great-aunt's words of wisdom and embraces Kiowa tribal customs to find the answers that she seeks. But her ceremonial sweat leads to a vision with answers wrapped in more questions. Mud and Denny race against the clock to uncover the real killer and must face the knowledge that there may be a traitor--and a murderer--in their midst. It's already too late for one victim--and Mud may be next.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Archaeological thefts; Grandfathers; Hydraulic fracturing; Murder; Kiowa;
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Strangers in a new land : what archaeology reveals about the first Americans / by Adovasio, J. M.; Pedler, David.;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.A look at 35 archaeological sites across the Americas which are being excavated in order to determine the date of the first arrival of Native Americans.LSC
Subjects: Paleo-Indians.; Excavations (Archaeology);
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Out of the ice : how climate change is revealing the past / by Eamer, Claire,1947-; Shannon, Drew,1988-;
As the Earth's climate continues to warm, the permafrost melts, glaciers recede, and ice patches shrink, resulting in the discovery of a treasury of preserved organic material, like human and animal remains, and inorganic artifacts, like ancient tools and clothing. The big melt is providing us with new information about how people and animals lived several thousand years ago. But it's a race against time for archaeologists. As soon as the objects begin to thaw, they also begin to disintegrate.LSC
Subjects: Ice patch archaeology; Excavations (Archaeology); Climatic changes; Global warming;
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Ancient Africa : archaeology unlocks the secrets of Africa's past / by Sherrow, Victoria.; National Geographic Society (U.S.);
Includes bibliographical references (p. 60), Internet addresses and index.LSC
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology);
© c2007., National Geographic,
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Apocalypse. by Wade, Lizzie.;
'Apocalypse' is a richly imagined new view on the great human tradition of apocalypse, from the rise of Homo sapiens to the climate instability of our present, that defies conventional wisdom and long-held stories about our deep past to reveal how cataclysmic events are not irrevocable endings, but transformations. A RADD Pick. Goodreads Giveaway.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: HISTORY / Civilization; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology;
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The Ward uncovered : the archaeology of everyday life / by Lorinc, John,1963-editor.; McClelland, Michael,1951-editor.; Taylor, Tatum,editor.; Martelle, Holly,1969-editor.;
Includes bibliographical references."An archaeological dig uncovers the secret history of Toronto's long-forgotten first immigrant neighbourhood. In early 2015, a team of archaeologists began digging test trenches on a non-descript parking lot next to Toronto City Hall--a site designated to become a major new court house. What they discovered was the rich buried history of an enclave that was part of The Ward-- that dense, poor, but vibrant 'arrival city' that took shape between the 1840s and the 1950s. Home to waves of immigrants and refugees--Irish, African-Americans, Italians, eastern European Jews, and Chinese--The Ward was stigmatized for decades by Toronto's politicians and residents, and eventually razed to make way for New City Hall. The archaeologists who excavated the lot, led by co-editor Holly Martelle, discovered almost half a million artifacts--a spectacular collection of household items, tools, toys, shoes, musical instruments, bottles, industrial objects, food scraps, luxury items, and even a pre-contact Indigenous projectile point. Martelle's team also unearthed the foundations of a nineteenth-century Black church, a Russian synagogue, early-twentieth-century factories, cisterns, privies, wooden drains, and even row houses built by formerly enslaved African Americans. Following on the heels of the immensely popular The Ward: The Life and Loss of Toronto's First Immigrant Neighbourhood, which told the stories of some of the people who lived there, The Ward Uncovered digs up the tales of things, using these well-preserved artifacts to tell a different set of stories about life in this long-forgotten and much-maligned neighbourhood."--
Subjects: Neighborhoods; Immigrants; Excavations (Archaeology);
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Written in the waters : a memoir of history, home, and belonging / by Roberts, Tara,author.;
"The memoir of one woman's life-changing journey to face up to the reality of the global slave trade and find her place in the world"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Roberts, Tara.; African American women journalists; Community archaeology; Transatlantic slave trade; Underwater archaeology;
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