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National Geographic Atlas of Archaeology Country Notes ARCHAEOLOGY HAS a human face: Every piece of pottery ever found was once touched by someone's hands; every structure unearthed once rang to the sounds of laughter or tears: every jewel from an ancient burial once made an individual more important or alluring. Since the first stirrings of human evolution in Africa four million years ago, people have been leaving traces of themselves behind; and for the last couple of centuries, archaeologists have been finding and studying them. Wonders of the Ancient World is organized both geographically and chronologically, to take you from the Middle East and Europe through sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Oceania to the Americas; and from those distant human beginnings to around A.D. 1600. Familiar civilizations and sites are here the Greeks and the Romans, Angkor, Machu Picchu. But so are the tantalizingly unfamiliar: Tairona, Pagan, Nan Madol, and many others. Rich texts and hundreds of color illustrations bring their cultures to life. Questions are raised. How did Pacific Islanders navigate across the trackless ocean? Why were entire armies of terra-cotta figures buried with Chinese emperors? What became of the Aztec? Those answers that we have come from studies undertaken by archaeologists -people who, according to National Geographic Staff Archaeologist George E. Stuart, feel a "devotion to ancient things." And whose finds provide wonders for us all. COVER: Discovered in 1990, terra-cotta heads from two-foot-tall soldiers were buried near the tomb of Jingdi, fifth ruler of China's Han dynasty. The 2,100-year-old statues were made to defend the emperor in the afterlife. Hard cover display book Wear on dust cover, otherwise in excellent condition
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