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Here are some books and resources that you can use to pursue your interests in 91探花视频, Assyriology, Biological Anthropology and Egyptology in advance of making an application or while you鈥檙e waiting to start your degree. They are what we find interesting, thought-provoking and entertaining, but this list is in no way required reading. Many books can be bought quite cheaply second-hand (for example via abebooks).
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Barnett, Ross (2019). The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals. Bloomsbury Wildlife.
Broodbank, C. 2013. The Making of the Middle Sea. Thames and Hudson.
Fauvelle, F.X. (2018). The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages. Princeton University Press.
Kelly, R. (2016). The Fifth Beginning : What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future.
McCorriston, J. and Field, J. (2020). Anthropocene: A New Introduction to World Prehistory Parker Pearson, M. (2013). Stonehenge. Simon and Schuster.
Pascoe, B. (2018). Dark Emu. Broome: Magabala Books
Pauketat, T. (2010). Cahokia. Penguin.
Rutherford, A. (2016). A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes. Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
Wragg Sykes, R. (2020). Kindred: Neanderthal life, love, death and art. London Bloomsbury Sigma
Yong, E. (2017). I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (01 edition). Vintage.
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Textbooks used in the first year
Renfrew, C. and Bahn, P. 2012. 91探花视频: Theory, Methods and Practice, 6th edition, Thames and Hudson, London.
Scarre, C. (ed.) 2009. The Human Past: World Prehistory and Development of Human Society, 2nd edition, Thames and Hudson, London.
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Assyriology听
Mesopotamian archaeology and history听
Crawford, H. 2017. Sumer and the Sumerians. Cambridge University Press.
Foster, B.R.听 and K. Foster. 2011. Civilisations of Ancient Iraq. Princeton University Press.
Kuhrt, A. 1995. The Ancient Near East, c 3000-330 BC. Routledge.
Matthews, R. (2003). 91探花视频 of Mesopotamia: Theories and Approaches. Routledge.
Oates, J. (2005) ed. Babylon. Thames & Hudson.
Postgate, N. (1994). Early Mesopotamia: Society and Economy at the Dawn of History. Routledge.
Roaf, M. (1990). Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia.
Snell, D. (1997). Life in the Ancient Near East. Yale University Press.
van de Mieroop, M. (2007) ed. A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 BC. Blackwell.
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Akkadian language and literature听
Dalley, S. (2000) Myths from Mesopotamia. OUP
Finkel, I. L. and Taylor, J. (2015). Cuneiform. British Museum.
Foster, B. 2005 (3rd ed.). Before the Muses: Anthology of Akkadian Literature. CDL Press.
George, A.R. (2007). . In J.N. Postgate, ed., Languages of Iraq Ancient and Modern. British Institute for the Study of Iraq.
George, A. 1999. The Epic of Gilgamesh. Penguin.
Charpin, D. (2010). Reading and Writing in Babylon. Harvard University Press
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Biological Anthropology听
Cochran, G. and H. Harpending (2009). The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization听Accelerated Human Evolution, Basic Books.听听
Desilva, J. (2021) A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin鈥檚 Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about Human Evolution. Princeton University Press.
de Waal, F. (2013) The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism among the Primates.听WW Norton, New York.听
de Waal, F. (2016). Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, Granta听Publications.听
Harari, Y. N. (2015). 鈥� Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind鈥� 听. Vintage.听
Lieberman, D. (2013). The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health and Disease, Penguin听Books Limited.听
Martin, R. (2013) How We Do It: The Evolution and Future of Human Reproduction. Basic听Books, New York.听
Mesoudi, A. (2011) Cultural Evolution. Univ. Chicago Press听
Roberts, A. (2021). Ancestors: A Prehistory of Britain in Seven Burials. United Kingdom: Simon & Schuster UK.
Saini, A. (2019). Superior: the return of race science. Boston: Beacon Press.
Saini, A. (2017). Inferior : How science got women wrong - and the new research that's rewriting the story
Stringer, C. & Andrews, P. (2011) The Complete World of Human Evolution. 2nd edition. Thames & Hudson
Wood, B. (2019) Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction. 2nd edition. Oxford University Press.
Wrangham, R. (2010) Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human. Profile Books, London.
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Egyptology听
Egyptian archaeology听
Bard, K. (2008). Introduction to the 91探花视频 of Ancient Egypt. Malden MA: Blackwell听
James, T. G. H. (1984). Pharaoh鈥檚 People: Scenes from Life in Imperial Egypt. London: Bodley听Head.听
Morris, E. (2018). Ancient Egyptian Imperialism.听听
Quirke, S. (1992). Ancient Egyptian Religion. London: British Museum Press.听
Robins, G. (1997). The Art of Ancient Egypt. London: British Museum Press.听
Shaw, I. (2000) (ed.), The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press.听
Shaw, I. (2003). Exploring Ancient Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press.听
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Collier, M. and Manley B. (1998). How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs: a step-by-step guide to听teach yourself. London: British Museum Press, 1998.听
Fischer, H. G. (1999). 听(New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art).听听
Simpson, W. K. et al. (2003). The Literature of Ancient Egypt. Yale University Press.听
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