Stone Mirror: A Novel of the Neolithic by Swigart, Rob

Stone Mirror: A Novel of the Neolithic (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781598740165)

Vendor: Rob Swigart
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Format: Hardcover
$180.00
$180.00
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Stone Mirror: A Novel of the Neolithic by Swigart, Rob

Stone Mirror: A Novel of the Neolithic

$180.00
Stone Mirror: A Novel of the Neolithic by Swigart, Rob

Stone Mirror: A Novel of the Neolithic

$180.00
Format: Hardcover
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A Turkish farmer finds a large obsidian mirror on top of a mound. How did it get there? What did it mean for its creator, and what does it mean for us? In this teaching novel by writer Rob Swigart, the story toggles back and forth between a Neolithic village--and the changing fortunes of the family who finds this wondrous tool--and modern archaeologists whose excavated treasure stirs journalists, governments, and goddess worshippers alike. Through an engrossing tale across millennia, Swigart's novel provides both a basic reconstruction of Neolithic lifeways and a primer on contemporary archaeological politics and practice. For archaeology students, and for anyone curious about artifacts past and present, Stone Mirror will be a fun, informative introduction both to archaeology and to the people they study.

Author: Rob Swigart
ISBN-10: 1598740164
ISBN-13: 9781598740165
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2007
Pages: 287
Format: Hardcover
By Rob Swigart
By Rob Swigart
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Rob Swigart is research affiliate at the Institute for the Future in Menlo Park, California, where he develops scenarios and vignettes for Fortune 500 companies. He is author of nine novels, including Little America, The Time Trip, and The Book of Revelations, as well as several works of interactive and electronic fiction. This is his second teaching novel after Xibalbá Gate, (AltaMira 2005) which describes Late Classic Maya life.

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