Archaeology
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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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An Integrated Study of Art, Writing and ArchaeologyArchaeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of objects and architecture that surrounds people. It is often considered a branch of socio-cultural anthropology, but also draws from biological, geological and environmental systems. The archaeological record, which is the body...
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The Archaeology of Food: Identity, Politics, and Ideology in the Prehistoric and Historic PastThe Archaeology of Food explains how archaeologists reconstruct what people ate, and how such reconstructions reveal ancient political struggles, religious practices, ethnic identities, gender norms, and more. Balancing deep research with accessible writing, Katheryn Twiss familiarizes readers with archaeological data, methods, and intellectual approaches...
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Shaft Tombs and Figures in West Mexican Society: A ReassessmentThis volume brings together an international team of contributors to reconnect field research on the shaft tombs of western Mexico (ca. 300 B.C.-A.D. 500) with museum-based research on the distinctive human figures for which the region is known. These finely made figures and dioramas...
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Spirit of the American Southwest: Geology / Ancient Eras and Prehistoric People / Hiking Through TimeHere, in simple, straight forward language, is an exploration of the events and geologic processes responsible for the stunning beauty of the deserts, plateaus and mountains in the American Southwest. After a brief look at the basics of geology and archaeology, the reader is...
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Aztec, Salmon, and the Puebloan Heartland of the Middle San JuanOften overshadowed by the Ancestral Pueblo centers at Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde, the Middle San Juan is one of the most dynamic territories in the pre-Hispanic Southwest, interacting with Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde as well as the surrounding regions. This ancient Puebloan...
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Rethinking the Aztec EconomyWith its rich archaeological and historical record, the Aztec empire provides an intriguing opportunity to understand the dynamics and structure of early states and empires. Rethinking the Aztec Economy brings together leading scholars from multiple disciplines to thoroughly synthesize and examine the nature of...
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