azw3 |eng | 2001-01-31 | Author:Jordan, Paul [Jordan, Paul]

Possibly non-utilitarian markings on pieces from Mousterian sites: Abri Souard above, Quneitra below. Among the remaining candidates for artistic status among the products found on Mousterian sites are: a circular ...

azw3 |eng | 2012-10-22 | Author:Martin, Thomas R. [Martin, Thomas R.]

Figure 18. The gladiators shown in this mosaic are armed and armored according to their different styles of fighting and their names are recorded. The most exciting gladiatorial matches often ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2003-04-14 | Author:Graham Hancock [Hancock, Graham]

The strange case of the bison-bull (1) In David Trump’s authoritative Archaeological Guide to Malta, most recently updated and extended in March 2000, the visitor to the Hypogeum is urged ...

epub |eng | 2016-03-14 | Author:David Miles

Ireland In Ireland most archaeologists were reluctant to accept the theory that mobile native hunter-gatherers gradually adopted Neolithic traits, and for a very good reason. For a long time they ...

epub |eng | 2016-06-11 | Author:Jean Manco

Now the disease in Byzantium ran a course of four months, and its greatest virulence lasted about three. And at first the deaths were a little more than the normal, ...

epub |eng | 2001-07-18 | Author:Francis Pryor [Pryor, Francis]

FIG 15 Plan of Bronze Age fields revealed by air photography at West Deeping, near Maxey. Barrows are shown in bold line I don’t want to give the impression that ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-03-21 | Author:Brian Haughton

CHAPTER 10 Lost Treasures of Afghanistan The 2,000-year-old Bactrian Gold is one of the largest hoards of gold ever discovered, and the story behind its loss and rediscovery is as ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2015-02-10 | Author:Francis Pryor

I well recall the first time I saw the Orkney Islands. I was on that trawler I wrote about in Chapter 5, and we were steaming north towards the Pentland ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Oppenheimer, Stephen [Oppenheimer, Stephen]

Figure 5.9 First entry of Y-chromosome lines into Central Asia. As with mtDNA (Figure 5.7), the entry routes correspond with major Asian rivers. Seth’s grandsons Polo and TAT entered to ...

epub |eng | 2013-01-20 | Author:Thomas R. Martin

SEVEN Culture and Society in Classical Athens As mentioned in the previous chapter, the prosperity and cultural achievements of Athens in the mid-fifth century B.C. have led to this period ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |ru | 1999-12-31 | Author:Brian Fagan

CHAPTER 8 Fat, Flints, and Furs MORAVIA, LATE WINTER, TWENTY-NINE THOUSAND years ago. The twelve-year-old boy sits listlessly by the hearth, shoulders sagging, seemingly exhausted. He has spent the day ...

mobi |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Graham Hancock

The strange case of the bison-bull (1) In David Trump’s authoritative Archaeological Guide to Malta, most recently updated and extended in March 2000, the visitor to the Hypogeum is urged ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1995-01-02 | Author:Graham Hancock

37 Ibid., pp. 7, 31. 38 World Mythology, p. 139. It should also be noted that, like Samson, Orion was blind— the only blind figure in constellation mythology. See Hamlet’s ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Ralph D. Sawyer

EARLY CHINESE BOWS Despite its primal importance in Chinese warfare, there has been a surprising dearth of articles on the bow and arrow. However, from the few attempts,40 numerous archaeological ...

mobi |eng | 2011-11-16 | Author:Richard Ellis

SHOWERS OF ASH rain down on the lagoon of Santorini in 1870 as the volcano begins to rumble. (illustration credit 6.5) According to Bond and Sparks, “it is the only ...