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A selection of the best electronic places one can find the best price for the out-of-print (or brand new) book you've been looking for.
Archaeology Book Publishers
Every year there are gobs of books published in archaeology, so many that it's impossible to keep up. Luckily, the home pages of some of the publishers maintain a list of recent texts. This list is of reputable presses that maintain a substantial number of scientific archaeological books for the general public.
Archaeology Book Publishers
Every year there are gobs of books published in archaeology, so many that it's impossible to keep up. Luckily, the home pages of some of the publishers maintain a list of recent texts.
Oxford University Press Archaeology Book Blog
In what might be a very sharp marketing tool, OUP has created a new weblog to describe its recent publications.
A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Book Reviews
written for the University of Adelaide's Anthropology Department, but useful to the rest of us as well.
ABE Books
Simply the best search engine for used books I've found yet. Links search 9,000 independent bookstores throughout the world.
Academic Press Archaeology Texts
Results of a keyword search of their online catalog.
Ancient History Publications
Books, journals and a locator service, as well as keychains and replicas of art objects.
Andy Burnham's Book Reviews
Andy Burnham, owner of THE megalithic website, has recently begun a collection of subject-specific book reviews.
Anthropology Review Index
From Hugh Jarvis, a searchable index of reviewed books.
AON Books
Nicely organized collection of archaeological books, sold through Amazon.
ARCHPUB
An electronic discussion list, providing updates on new books in archaeology.
Bibliofind
Six million, old, used, and rare books, available for sale on line.
Blackburn Press
A new publishing company, Blackburn Press intends to collect out-of-press texts and reprint them. Only a couple of archaeology texts at the moment, but they are looking for additional suggestions.
Book Reviews
From your About.com guide, a list of book reviews published here.
Caratzas Bookstore
Caratzas Books publishes a collection of classical archaeology, mythology, literature, and history.
Cornell University Press
At Ithaca, NY; academic and other books on archaeology.
Coyote Press
A collection of archaeology books for sale, including those printed by Coyote and others.
Curious Kiwi Books
A rare book search engine.
Danny Yee's Book Reviews in Anthropology
Know a book but don't know whether to bite? Look to Danny Yee.
Eisenbrauns
Sells new and used books on ancient Near Eastern studies, archaeology, Assyriology, and biblical studies.
Every Bookstore.com
Looking for a terrific deal on a book? This site compares the available prices (including shipping costs) for several bookstores on the Internet.
Free Book Searches.com
Site owner Jim Leftwich promises free searches for all kinds of out of print books, matched against the holdings of thousands of used, rare, and out of print dealers throughout the world.
Greenwood Press
From Westport, Connecticut, reference, professional, text, and scholarly resources in the humanities and the social and behavioral sciences.
Interloc
Book locator, for over 3.7 million books, maps, autographs and ephemera.
Louis Collins Books
Specializing in scholarly out-of-print books, especially anthropology of the world.
Middle American Research Institute
At Tulane University in New Orleans, conducts, supports, and publishes research in the anthropology, and especially the archaeology of Mexico and Central America.
Oxford University Press
Publisher of the terrific Oxford Companion series.
University of Iowa Press
Has numerous anthropology and archaeology texts.
Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH
More than 200 titles, covering subjects from pre- and protohistory, archaeology of the Roman provinces, medieval and modern archaeology, as well as topics from classical and Near Eastern archaeology. Also in German.
Vintage Books
Anthropology and archaeology; as well as many other topics

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