The Atlas of World Archaeology
Author | : Paul G. Bahn |
Publisher | : HP Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Antiquities |
ISBN | : 9780955247842 |
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Author | : Paul G. Bahn |
Publisher | : HP Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Antiquities |
ISBN | : 9780955247842 |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
An enticing survey for the general reader. The scope is broad, from discussion of the field of archaeology, and of human origins, to a survey of the early settlements and ancient kingdoms of the world, arranged by region. Thematic "portfolio" sections take up such topics as the origin of writing, metal use, textiles, and the potter's art. Abundantly and spectacularly illustrated. Lacks a bibliography. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Nick Constable |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Take a fascinating journey through human history with this illustrated guide to the world's most amazing archaeological discoveries.
Author | : Reinder Neef |
Publisher | : Barkhuis |
Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9491431021 |
The third part of the Digital Plant Atlas presents illustrations of subfossil remains of plants with economic value. These plant remains mainly derive from excavations in the Old World (Europe, Western Asia and North Africa) that the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI, Berlin) and the Groningen Institute of Archaeology (GIA) have conducted or participated in. Plant material is usually very perishable, but can nevertheless be preserved in archaeological sites if the biological decay of the material is blocked. Many plant remains are discovered during excavations in carbonized form, where despite having been in contact with fire, they have not been completely reduced to ash. Extremely dry climatic conditions, like those in Egypt, can also preserve plant material in a completely dessicated condition. Most of the economically valuable plants illustrated here have been carbonized or desiccated. So this atlas links up very well with the Digital Atlas of Economic Plants.Like the other atlasses, this atlas is a combination of a book and a website.The Book: Just as in part two of the series, this part will not only include illustrations of seeds and fruits, but also of other plant parts. The resulting variety in seed and fruit forms will be illustrated by examples from different excavations. To support their identification and determination, also pictures of recent plants and relevant plant parts have been included.The Website: To supplement the photographs, the website will also include morphometric measurements of the subfossil seeds and fruits. These measurements can be compared with own measurements of the plant taxa in question.Summary: Plant families: 56 Plant species (Taxa): 191 Photographs: 773 photographs of subfossil plant parts, 1137 photographs of recent plants and plant parts Languages: English and 15 indices (scientific plant name, pharmaceutical plant name, English, German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Arab, Arab in transliteration, Turkish, Chinese, Pinyin (Chinese in transliteration), Hindi, Sanskrit, and Malayalam) Purchase of the book grants access to the protected parts of the websites of the project.
Author | : Chris Green |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2021-09-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1803270616 |
An atlas of English archaeology covering the period from the middle Bronze Age (c. 1500 BC) to Domesday Book (AD 1086), encompassing the Bronze and Iron Ages, the Roman period, and the early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) age.
Author | : John Onians |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
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ISBN | : |
Author | : Kai-cheung Dung |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2012-07-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0231504225 |
Set in the long-lost City of Victoria (a fictional world similar to Hong Kong), Atlas is written from the unified perspective of future archaeologists struggling to rebuild a thrilling metropolis. Divided into four sections—"Theory," "The City," "Streets," and "Signs"—the novel reimagines Victoria through maps and other historical documents and artifacts, mixing real-world scenarios with purely imaginary people and events while incorporating anecdotes and actual and fictional social commentary and critique. Much like the quasi-fictional adventures in map-reading and remapping explored by Paul Auster, Jorge Luis Borges, and Italo Calvino, Dung Kai-cheung's novel challenges the representation of place and history and the limits of technical and scientific media in reconstructing a history. It best exemplifies the author's versatility and experimentation, along with China's rapidly evolving literary culture, by blending fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in a story about succeeding and failing to recapture the things we lose. Playing with a variety of styles and subjects, Dung Kai-cheung inventively engages with the fate of Hong Kong since its British "handover" in 1997, which officially marked the end of colonial rule and the beginning of an uncharted future.
Author | : Borders Group, Inc. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Antiquities |
ISBN | : 9780681502635 |
Past Worlds is an archaeological reconstruction of the human story, using hundreds of maps, illustrations and meticulous reconstructions of ancient sites.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 423 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Archaeology |
ISBN | : 9780855335540 |
Author | : Craig Childs |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2018-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307908666 |
From the author of Apocalyptic Planet comes a vivid travelogue through prehistory, that traces the arrival of the first people in North America at least twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that tell of their lives and fates. In Atlas of a Lost World, Craig Childs upends our notions of where these people came from and who they were. How they got here, persevered, and ultimately thrived is a story that resonates from the Pleistocene to our modern era. The lower sea levels of the Ice Age exposed a vast land bridge between Asia and North America, but the land bridge was not the only way across. Different people arrived from different directions, and not all at the same time. The first explorers of the New World were few, their encampments fleeting. The continent they reached had no people but was inhabited by megafauna—mastodons, giant bears, mammoths, saber-toothed cats, five-hundred-pound panthers, enormous bison, and sloths that stood one story tall. The first people were hunters—Paleolithic spear points are still encrusted with the proteins of their prey—but they were wildly outnumbered and many would themselves have been prey to the much larger animals. Atlas of a Lost World chronicles the last millennia of the Ice Age, the violent oscillations and retreat of glaciers, the clues and traces that document the first encounters of early humans, and the animals whose presence governed the humans’ chances for survival. A blend of science and personal narrative reveals how much has changed since the time of mammoth hunters, and how little. Across unexplored landscapes yet to be peopled, readers will see the Ice Age, and their own age, in a whole new light.