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Lexikon Zur Keltischen ArchaologieZiel dieses Werkes ist es einen Uberblick uber die materiellen Hinterlassenschaften der Spathallstatt- und La Tene-Kultur zu geben, welche wohl in weiten Bereichen der keltischen Archaologie zugeordnet werden kann. Die Zusammenstellung der tatsachlich vorhandenen Objekte und Uberreste gibt einen Uberblick uber die wichtigsten Fundstellen,...
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Greek Art and Archaeology C. 1200-30 BCThis lavishly illustrated volume presents a systematic survey of Greek art and archaeology from the collapse of Mycenaean civilization to the dissolution of the Ptolemaic realm. The book begins with an introductory chapter covering the basic principles of archaeological research as well as a...
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Hisat'sinom: Ancient Peoples in a Land Without WaterThe national monuments of Wupatki, Walnut Canyon, and Montezuma's Castle showcase the treasures of the first people who settled and developed farms, towns, and trade routes throughout northern Arizona and beyond. The Hopis call these ancient peoples "Hisat'sinom," and Spanish explorers named their hard,...
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The South American CamelidsOne of the most significant differences between the New World's major areas of high culture is that Mesoamerica had no beasts of burden and wool, while the Andes had both. Four members of the camelid family--wild guanacos and vicunas, and domestic llamas and alpacas--were...
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Sir John Soane's Greatest Treasure: The Sarcophagus of Seti ISir John Soane's Greatest Treasure describes one of the most important antiquities ever found in Egypt--the beautiful calcite sarcophagus of the pharaoh Seti I. Discovered in 1817 in the tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings by the flamboyant explorer Giovanni...
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The Mystery of the Crystal Skulls: Unlocking the Secrets of the Past, Present, and FutureThe action movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has based its plot on the real crystal skulls, the story of which is documented in this book - Investigates the Maya and Native American legends that tell of thirteen crystal skulls...
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Let's Look at DinosaursTravel back in time to the dark, distant past. Meet plateosaurus, diplodocus, iguanodon, and the great sea monsters.Author: Donald GrantPublisher: TorchlightPublished: 05/03/2012Pages: 38Binding Type: SpiralWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 6.90h x 5.90w x 0.50dISBN: 9781851032808Audience: Ages 4-8About the AuthorDonald Grant is a children's book creator.
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The Bull of Minos: The Great Discoveries of Ancient GreeceThis is the story of two of the most heroic, and controversial, figures in archaeology: Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered the remains of Troy, and Arthur Evans who unearthed the great city of King Minos. Ranking alongside Carter's discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, these discoveries at...
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Norwegian Runes and Runic InscriptionsAn accessible account of Norwegian runic inscriptions from their first appearance around AD200 until their demise around 1400. Runes, a unique functional writing system, exclusive to northern and eastern Europe, were used for some 1300 years in Scandinavia, from about AD 200 till around...
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Detention Castles of Stone and Steel: Landscape, Labor, and the Urban Penitentiary"Garman's research stands out as the most interesting and insightful archaeologicalanalysis of an institution that I have read." -Randall McGuire, Binghamton UniversityThe advent of the Enlightenment ignited many changes in the philosophical landscapeof both the young American republic and its European counterparts. Among the...
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Digging Deep with an ArchaeologistThe life of an archaeologist is exciting and competitive, as these specialized scientists race to discover, change, and expand what the world knows about its history. With each breakthrough, books are rewritten and the stories of both nature and humans on this planet are...
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Between the Lines: The Mystery of the Giant Ground Drawings of Ancient Nasca, PeruThe Nasca Lines are one of the world's great enigmas. Who etched the more than 1,000 animal, human, and geometric figures that cover 400 square miles of barren pampa in southern Peru? How did the makers create lifelike images of monkeys, birds, and spiders...
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Woodland Mounds in West VirginiaThe first Europeans to arrive in the Ohio Valley were intrigued and puzzled by the many conical earthen mounds they encountered there. They created wild theories about who the mysterious mound builders might be.It was not until the 1880s that Smithsonian Institution investigations revealed...
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Lucayan Legacies: Indigenous Lifeways in the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos IslandsThis book is about Lucayan legacies - the heritage of the people who made the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands (the Lucayan archipelago) their home from the 8th to the 16th centuries. This legacy is not simply the surviving physical record, consisting of...
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Unsolved! Mysterious PlacesFrom Stonehenge to the Bermuda Triangle, there are many places on Earth that remain a mystery to scientists! Readers will discover these curious places--and more!--as they move through this fascinating nonfiction title. This mysterious book features detailed images, informational text, and stimulating facts and...
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La Necropoli di Capestrano, I: Scavi d'Ercole 2003-2009La necropoli di Capestrano (AQ), celebre per la famosa statua di guerriero, rappresenta il sito archeologico pi noto dell'et preromana dell'Italia medio-adriatica. Fin dal 1934 gli scavi archeologici hanno scoperto una complessa area funeraria databile al periodo tra VIII sec. a.C. e gli inizi...
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Lithuanian Baltic Sea Coasts during the Holocene: Sea Level Changes, Environmental Developments and Human AdaptationsLithuanian Baltic Sea Coasts During the Holocenefocuses on the relicts of the cultural and natural landscapes that survived in the Baltic Sea during the final Paleolithic-Middle Neolithic period in Lithuania. Using a combination of interdisciplinary research methodologies from archaeology, physical and biomedical sciences, with...
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Echoes from the Deep: Inventorising Shipwrecks at the National Scale by the Application of Marine Geophysics and the Historical TextIn a process analogous with the impact of aerial photography on landscape archaeology, marine geophysics is locating the remains of thousands of shipwrecks across the seabed of the globe. This research project set out to establish whether all of the shipwrecks in a given...
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Heritage and Design: Ten Portraits from Goa (India)This Element looks at the relationship between heritage and design by way of a case study approach. It offers up ten distinct portraits of a range of heritage makers located in Goa, a place that has been predicated on its difference, both historical and...
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New Insights Into ArchaeoastronomyThe multidisciplinary study that focuses on how the people in the past understood the phenomena in the sky, the usage of this knowledge, and the roles the sky played in their cultures is referred to as archaeoastronomy. It uses a variety of methodologies to...
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