100 Great Archaeological Discoveries

From Front jacket: "From rock art to tattooed ice maidens, from mammoth bone houses to Assyrian palaces, from fossil hominids to writing systems, from caves to shipwrecks: here are 100 of the world's greatest archaeological discoveries." ****** Contents Include: The Discovery of Human Antiquity - Paul G. Bahn AFRICA The Taung Child: The Discovery of the first Australophithicine * Australopithecines from East Africa * Olduvai Gorge: Grand Canyon of Prehistory * Out of Africa, Always Something New * Southern African Rock Art: Images of Power * Abydos * Amarna * Tutankhamen * Deir El-Medina * Tanis * The Rosetta Stone * Romans in North Africa * The Rosetta Stone * Romans in North Africa * Nigerian Art: A 'Faberge'-like Virtuosity' * The Greatest Zimbabwe of Them All EUROPE Early Humans in Western Europe * Ice Age Settlement of the North * Mammoth-Bone Houses of Eastern Europe * Palaeolithic Portable Art * Paleolithic Cave Art * Ice Age Art and Burials of Central Europe * Ice Age Art and Burials of Eastern Europe * The Fishers of Lepenski Vir * Catal Huyuk * The Lake Dwellings of the Alpine Foreland * Early Neolithic Longhouses in Europe * Neolithic Flint Mines * Houses for the Living and the Dead * Flag Fen and the Sweet Track * Maltese Temples * Like a Circle in a Spiral: the Mysteries of Megalithic Art * The Iceman * Varna: A Copper Age Cemetary * Los Millares and Zumbajal * Bronze Age Barrows * Evans at Knossos * The Decipherment of Linear B * The Collapse of the Minoan Civilization * Schliemann at Troy and Mycenae * Blegen at Pylos * The Ulu Burun Shipwreck * Hallstatt: An Early Iron Age Mining Center * Hochdorf: A 'Tut's Tomb' of the Iron Age * Biskupin: A Waterlogged Iron Age Settlement * Etruscan Tombs * Vergina * Bog Bodies: Faces from the Past * The Athenian Agora: The Heart of Democracy * Aphrodesias * Mediterranean Shipwrecks * Pompeii and Herculaneum * Vindolanda * Sutton Hoo * Viking Ships * Novgorod: A Medieval City in Russa WESTERN AND CENTRAL ASIA Mount Carmel and the Palaeolithic Age * Jericho * Ur * Babylon * Ebla and Cuneiform Writing * Nineveh and Assyrian Palaces * Mohenjo-Daro and the Indus Civilization * Persepolis * the Frozen Tombs of Pazyryk and Ukok * Masada THE FAR EAST Peking and Java Man * Rock Art of China and India * Hongshan and Liangzhu Jades * Statuary of the Far East * Anyang * East Asian Bronzes * Royal Tombs of the East * The Terracota Army * Mural Tombs of the Orient * The Sinan Shipwreck AUSTRALASIA Lake Mungo * Australia's Rock Art * Ice Age Hungers of Tasmania * Colonizing the Pacific * Easter Island THE NEW WORLD Monte Verde and the First Americans * Big-Game Hunting on the North American Plains 8 Rock Art in the New World * The Discovery of the Olmec * Nasca Lines * Chavin * El Ceren * Naj Tunich and Maya Cave Art * Palenque: The Tomb of Pascal the Great * The Decipherment of Maya Hieroglyphics * The Moundbuilders * Ancient Farmers of the Desert * Sipan: Moche Culture * Temple of