The Dawn of Everything A New History of Humanity
David Graeber, David Wengrow
2021 · 2023 edition
720 pages
The most popular archaeology books of 2021
Archaeology books tell the story of the past through what people left behind. Lost cities, tombs, shipwrecks and everyday objects reveal how ancient societies lived, traded and believed. Read about famous excavations, new discoveries and the methods that let us date a pot or read a ruin. This list shows the ones first published in 2021.
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Four Lost Cities
Annalee Newitz
Published 2021
320 pages
Icebound
Andrea Pitzer
2021 · 2022 edition
320 pages
River Kings A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads
Cat Jarman
2021 · 2023 edition
352 pages
The Boy who Drew Auschwitz
Thomas Geve, Charlie Inglefield
Published 2021
304 pages
Ancestors A prehistory of Britain in seven burials
Alice M. Roberts
2021 · 2025 edition
448 pages
The Writing of the Gods The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
Edward Dolnick
2021 · 2022 edition
336 pages
Face One Square Foot of Skin
Justine Bateman
2021 · 2022 edition
272 pages
Into the Deep A Memoir from the Man who Found Titanic
Robert D. Ballard, Christopher Drew
Published 2021
335 pages
The Red Prince The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster
Helen Carr
2021 · 2022 edition
304 pages
A Short History of Humanity How Migration Made Us Who We Are
Johannes Krause - undifferentiated, Thomas Trappe, Caroline Waight
Published 2021
274 pages
Dinosaurs 10 Things You Should Know
Dean Lomax
Published 2021
128 pages
Under Jerusalem The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City
Andrew Lawler
Published 2021
464 pages
Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs 100 Discoveries that Changed the World
Ann R. Williams
Published 2021
512 pages
The Curse of the Mummy
Candace Fleming
Published 2021
304 pages
Locked in Time Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils
Dean R. Lomax
Published 2021
286 pages
The Story of the World in 100 Moments
Neil Oliver
Published 2021
448 pages
London Clay Journeys in the Deep City
Tom Chivers
2021 · 2022 edition
464 pages
The Frontiers of Knowledge
A. C. Grayling
Published 2021
432 pages
Our Oldest Companions The Story of the First Dogs
Pat Shipman
Published 2021
240 pages
In Quest of the Historical Adam A Biblical and Scientific Exploration
William Lane Craig
2021 · 2025 edition
439 pages
Thames Mudlarking Searching for London's Lost Treasures
Nick Stevens, Jason Sandy
Published 2021
96 pages
The Next Apocalypse
Chris Begley
Published 2021
288 pages
The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere
Paulette F. C. Steeves
Published 2021
326 pages