Ruby Sisson Library

An introduction to the field of archeology, covering such areas as radiocarbon dating, preservation techniques, excavation sites, and marine archeology.

After fourteen-year-old Andy slips away from his kayaking group to visit the wilderness site of his archaeologist father's death, a storm strands him on Admiralty Island, Alaska, where he manages to survive, encounters unexpected animal and human inhabitants, and looks for traces of the earliest prehistoric immigrants to America.

A group of scientists sponsored by a major media conglomerate are sent on an expedition to Alaska's Federal Wilderness Zone, one of the most remote places on Earth. When the group makes an astonishing find, an ancient animal encased in solid ice that appears to a giant cat, the parent company quickly plans the ultimate spectacle, the animal will be cut from the ice, thawed, and revealed on live television. Ignoring the dire warnings of a local Eskimo...

Includes index

An archaeological guide.

In search of fabled lands, megaliths, cities of mystery, secrets of the pyramids vanished peoples and forgotten places.

This book describes the work of archaeologists, detailing tools, buried buildings, human bones, volcanic artifacts, jewels, ancient tombs, and computer models of measurements of ancient buildings.

Underwater diver Matthew Lassiter and Tate Beaumont, a student of marine archeology, search shipwrecks for a 16th century necklace. Together they brave danger--the necklace was cursed by its owner, a witch burned at the stake--and danger leads to love.

After seeing satellite images that hint that the lost city of Atlantis is visible, world-renowned linguist and archaeologist Thomas Lourds sets out to confirm his suspicions, but first he must locate a mysterious map and decipher encrypted artifacts, while a cult makes haste to destroy the evidence contrary to the Church's purpose.

Follows a group of eighth-graders from Hannibal, Missouri as they attempt to help archaeologists at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Colorado solve the mystery of why the Puebloan people who had lived in the area for over a thousand years suddenly left around A.D. 1300.