Archaeology
epub |eng | | Author:Bryan E. Penprase

The sophisticated mathematics of the Arabic and European astronomers combined with their abilities in metalwork provided some of the world’s most beautiful sundials, which also came in portable varieties, used ...
( Category: Astronomy March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-27 | Author:Gillis, C.,Nosch, Marie-Louise & Marie-louise Nosch

Conclusion In compiling these most basic guidelines for the excavation of textiles, it has not been possible to address all the vastly different conditions that may be encountered by excavators. ...
( Category: Archaeology March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-15 | Author:Hester, Thomas R,Shafer, Harry J,Feder, Kenneth L

Figure 10.4 Complex stratigraphy at the Willowbend site, Mashpee, Massachusetts: (a) profile; (b) completed Harris Matrix for the site. An analogy from linguistics may be useful here. The phonetic unit ...
( Category: Archaeology March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-14 | Author:Robert Chapman,Alison Wylie

Figure 3.7 Comparison of (left) Clarke’s ‘speculative’ environmental reconstruction of the Glastonbury Iron Age village territory and (right) Aalbersberg and Brown’s most recent palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. (Sources: adapted from Clarke 1972b: ...
( Category: Archaeology March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Faust, Avraham [Avraham Faust]

Urbanization The Philistine cities were large and prosperous during the Iron Age I. According to Stager, Ashkelon in the late twelfth century BCE had expanded to urban proportions, with finds ...
( Category: Archaeology March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:David H. Kelley & Eugene F. Milone

9.4 Tibet Tibet lies in the highest mountainous region of the world between the Indian subcontinent and the deserts of central Asia. Although the dominant cultural relationships have been with ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Håkon Hermanstrand & Asbjørn Kolberg & Trond Risto Nilssen & Leiv Sem

6.2 The Bad Reputation of Picture Postcards The bad reputation of picture postcards is of course due to photographs’ colonial role as technologies of cultural appropriation, racism, denigration, sexual exploitation, ...
( Category: Archaeology March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-19 | Author:Tom Cotter

Drabant, also a Porsche enthusiast, fell in love with the Healey parked in front of the Porsche. It’s a 1957 100-6 that was a one-owner 49,000-mile car. Steve is presently ...
( Category: Classic Cars March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Professor Christopher Tilley, Professor of Anthropology & Archaeology, UCL

People were also asked which was their favourite Common or area of the heathlands. Two had no favourite area, one stated East Budleigh, two Aylesbeare Common and seventeen Woodbury Common. ...
( Category: Urban March 18,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-06-19 | Author:D. G. Hogarth

CHAPTER IV THE EAST IN 400 B.C. As the fifth century draws to its close the East lies revealed at last in the light of history written by Greeks. Among ...
( Category: Archaeology March 18,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-02-29 | Author:Christy G Turner Carole A Travis-Henikoff [Carole A Travis-Henikoff, Christy G Turner]

CHAPTER ELEVEN THROUGH A DISTANT WINDOW “ … then hot gum leaves are pressed on the bridge of the baby’s nose, to make it flat, for a thoroughly flat nose ...
( Category: Evolution March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Duncan Lunan

‘Altar’ inner ring 2.0 ft (0.74 MY) 0.28 ft (2.31 MY) ‘Altar’ outer ring 2.75 ft (1.01 MY) 8.64 ft (3.18 MY) Horseshoe 4.25 ft (1.56 MY) 13.35 ft (4.91 ...
( Category: Geology March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-14 | Author:Julian Henderson & Julian Henderson [Henderson]

( Category: Glass & Glassware March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Clive Cussler & Craig Dirgo [Cussler, Clive & Dirgo, Craig]

“We’re not out of the woods yet,” cautioned Dixon. “Take up the crank. I want to put another three hundred Yards between us and Housatonic before the Union fleet is ...
( Category: History March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-13 | Author:Henderson, Julian;

4.6.2 Green glazed wares and the development of glaze colour in celadons The Chinese were involved in making green glazed ware for a span of some 3,500 years from the ...
( Category: Materials Science March 14,2020 )