Archaeology
epub |eng | 2017-10-26 | Author:Amelia Ann Blandford [Blandford, Amelia Ann]

CHAPTER XIV. KOROSKO TO ABOU SIMBEL. IT so happened that we arrived at Korosko on the eve of El-‘Id el-Kebîr, or the anniversary of the Sacrifice of Abraham; when, according ...
( Category: Middle East March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-14 | Author:Unknown

35. Charlie came out of his trance shouting and kicking his legs. Einstein looked bilious, crept into a corner and considered rejecting his chicken breakfast. Geraldine, mercifully, had fallen asleep ...
( Category: Architecture March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kirch, Patrick Vinton

When David Stannard published his provocative book Before the Horror, in 1989, it caught the attention of scholars working on Hawaiian history and archaeology. One of those was Tom Dye, ...
( Category: Geography March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Ginn

WOODEN BOWLS The King might have eaten off silver and his lords off pewter dishes, but most people, whether monks or lay people, ate and drank out of wooden bowls. ...
( Category: England March 22,2020 )
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, pdf |eng | | Author:Cesar Gonzalez-Perez

What makes a thing to be part of cultural heritage is some kind of value, externally assigned by agents. In addition, and once we have agreed to the principles above, ...
( Category: Computer Science 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 | | Author:Frank Joseph

Model of an ancient Canary Island town at Tenerife's Las Palmas Museum evidences Atlantean fingerprint construction design. According to Plato, Atlantis was built in concentric rings of massive walls. The ...
( Category: Unexplained Mysteries 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:Leonardo DaVinci [DaVinci, Leonardo]

The arch itself tends to fall. If the arch be 30 braccia and the interval between the walls which carry it be 20, we know that 30 cannot pass through ...
( Category: Architecture 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 | 2017-05-30 | Author:John Pearce,Jake Weekes

Mortuary ritual and personal identity It was argued above and in the introduction to this paper that a military identity was very important to the Batavian population. The Batavians supplied ...
( Category: Europe March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:J. P. Mallory

6.27. Stonyford burial: (a) mirror; (b) glass bottle; (c) glass urn (height c. 18 cm). Summary As generations of Irish archaeologists have indicated, there is really no convincing evidence for ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 21,2020 )