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Arrowheads and Stone Artifacts: A Practical Guide for the Amateur Archaeologist (The Pruett Series)

This practical, down-to-earth guide for surface collectors of arrowheads and stone artifacts is designed especially for amateur archaeologists and people interested in learning how to study and collect artifacts safely and responsibly. The author reveals invaluable tips on: where to look for artifacts; how to identify artifacts; where surface collecting is permissible; starting and caring for your own …

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The Cruise of the Corwin: Journal of the Arctic Expedition of 1881 in search of De Long and the Jeannette (The Literary Naturalist Series)

John Muir agreed in 1881 to sail aboard the Corwin, whose fruitless mission it was to search for the missing scientific research vessel Jeannette, which itself became icebound while exploring the distant and mysterious Wrangell Land in the higher latitudes of the Arctic. This cruise would afford Muir the opportunity to examine evidence of glaciation along the arctic …

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