Robert John Braidwood 1907 2003 (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. iii+181 maps, illustrations, figures and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Seventh edition. First published in 1948 by the Chicago field Museum of Natural History. This work is a lucid, simple introduction to prehistory. It tells the story of man's achievement from th earliest beginnings of culture up to the dawn of written history and clearly explains the major problems of interpretation and method confronted by prehistoric archaeologist in reconstructing this story. Condition: Ex library copy stamped on title page, back pastedown and front end paper stamped discard. Jacket not marked, text clean. …

orig. wrappers. 30x22cm, (28),184,(29)p, Series: Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization, no. 31. Weighs 1 kilo. With contributions by Hans Helbaek, Frederick R. Matson; Charles A. Reed; &Herbert E. Wright, Jr. Contents: The General Problem; Scene of the Field Work; The Development of ther Iraq-Jarmo Project's Field Activities; Description of the Sites; The Archaeological Assemblages; ; Specialised Ceramic Studies and Radioactive-Carbon Techniques; Climate & Prehistoric Man in the Eastern Mediterranean; The Paleoethnobotany of the Near East & Europe; A Review of the Archaeological Evidence on Animal Domestication in the Prehistoric Near East; The Basis for a Tentative Chronology; Toward the Reconstruction of the Environmental Sequence of Northeastern Iraq; Observations, Questions & Prospects. Small tear to spine. Light corner bumps. VG. 29pp photoplates (illustrator).…