Archaeology
epub |eng | | Author:Joseph Campbell [Campbell, Joseph]

* * * The main point that has here been so vividly illustrated is that in the phenomenology of mythology and religion two factors are to be distinguished: the non-historical ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology May 1,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Howgego, Christopher;

CONCLUSION The early part of this chapter sketched the evolution of political representations, and tried to indicate the historical relevance of important developments such as the introduction of portraiture, the ...
( Category: World Coins April 25,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Diane Gifford-Gonzalez

Pickering and Egeland (2006) follow the same definition but argue from their experimental observations that some pseudo notches are definitely percussion products, and that these may be more common on ...
( Category: Archaeology April 24,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rosemarie Klemm & Dietrich Klemm

A diagonally running retention wall crossing the N-S oriented wadi is just barely made out in the stereoscopic aerial image, though hardly in the field. The wall served to collect ...
( Category: Natural Resources April 16,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2020-02-27 | Author:Vanessa Davies & Dimitri Laboury [Davies, Vanessa]

A Journeyman Illustrator For the next several years, I was a journeyman archaeological illustrator working at sites in Egypt, Syria, Cyprus, and Greece, drawing primarily pottery and small objects. In ...
( Category: Archaeology April 14,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan M. Golden [Jonathan M. Golden]

By addressing these questions, each of which pertain to various stages or facets of the metallurgical process, we can attempt to reconstruct the entire process of copper production. Raw Material: ...
( Category: History of Technology April 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-01 | Author:Christine Desdemaines-Hugon [Desdemaines-Hugon, Christine]

The train moves back to the junction, taking the left fork this time, the one leading to the Great Ceiling. Just at the fork, on the ceiling above the protruding, ...
( Category: Prehistory April 2,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:David J. Meltzer [David J. Meltzer]

( Category: Geology April 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-22 | Author:Roberts, Neil

Southwest Asia Southwest Asia (alternatively known as the Near East) is probably the earliest and arguably the most important of all the global centres of domestication. From the Neolithic farmers ...
( Category: Environmental Science April 2,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-02-18 | Author:Christine Desdemaines-Hugon

The train moves back to the junction, taking the left fork this time, the one leading to the Great Ceiling. Just at the fork, on the ceiling above the protruding, ...
( Category: Prehistory April 2,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-07-10 | Author:Bahn, Paul & Lorblanchet, Michel [Bahn, Paul]

41. The Acheulian ‘proto-figurine’ from Berekhat Ram (Israel), dating to around 280,000–250,000 years ago. It is a largely natural volcanic nodule, just 3.5 cm (1.4 in.) long, but there has ...
( Category: Archaeology April 2,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-09-17 | Author:Fagan, Brian M. & Durrani, Nadia [Fagan, Brian M.]

Further Reading Bellwood, Peter. 1997. The History of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago, 2nd ed. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press. Hunt, Terry, and Carl Lipo. 2011. The Statues that Walked. New ...
( Category: Fossils April 2,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rosen, Steven;

The elaborate ceramic assemblages of the late Pottery Neolithic Qatifian culture (ca. 5000 BCE) of the northwestern Negev (Abadi-Reiss 2009; Gilead 1990) did not penetrate farther south than the dunes ...
( Category: Archaeology March 30,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mairs, Rachel;

BESNAGAR (VIDIŚĀ) AND BHĀGABHADRA Besnagar, in the present-day Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, is the site of the ancient city of Vidiśā, which is mentioned in a number of ancient ...
( Category: Greece March 29,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Cordell, Linda S,McBrinn, Maxine & Maxine E. McBrinn [Linda S. Cordell]

Great house sites of the Classic Bonito phase in Chaco Canyon are located only on the north side of the canyon. This placement gives them a southern exposure, which would ...
( Category: Archaeology March 27,2020 )