Archaeology
epub |eng | 2001-02-22 | Author:Byock, Jesse L [Byock, Jesse L]

Outlawry Individuals who failed to observe the rules of feud and settlement were outlawed. The legal process of banishing people from the island served to guarantee the integrity of the ...
( Category: Evolution June 7,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2011-09-29 | Author:Green, Miranda [Green, Miranda]

Pits – Entrances to the Underworld The custom of digging deep pits or shafts in the ground, where the primary function was apparently religious rather than utilitarian dates back, in ...
( Category: Celtic June 6,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-07-31 | Author:Ross, Anne [Ross, Anne]

The Book of Invasions The Book of Invasions is an ancient chronicle purporting to give the origins of the Irish people, and known as Lebor Gabála Érenn (‘the Book of ...
( Category: Druidism June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-09-06 | Author:Manco, Jean [Manco, Jean]

71 Caesar’s campaigns in Gaul. The southern part of the lands of the Gauls had been taken by the Romans before Caesar’s day. As governor of Cisalpine Gaul and Gallia ...
( Category: Archaeology June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2019-06-05 | Author:Farrer, James Anson, 1849-1925 [Farrer, James Anson, 1849-1925]

In the earlier or “Gothic” Alphabet, many of the letters are quite different. [Pg 25] Readings of the Inscriptions by Professors Stephens, Munch, Rafn. Plate VII. No. I. Thatir Vikinkr ...
( Category: Archaeology June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-08-30 | Author:Manco, Jean [Manco, Jean]

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, ...
( Category: Prehistory June 6,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2011-04-28 | Author:Hedeager, Lotte [Hedeager, Lotte]

Gold in the Old Norse sources In Volsunga Saga, treasures of gold generate the greed that constitutes the main story line. In Old Norse sources, gold and gold treasures regularly ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology June 6,2019 )
mobi | | 2002-09-10 | Author:

* * * CHAPTER SEVEN MILK AND THE NORTHERN GODDESS 1 Hilda Ellis Davidson Links between milk and the goddess go back to very early times. In Ancient Egypt Hathor ...
( Category: Comparative Religion June 6,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2004-08-25 | Author:Harding, Dennis W. [Harding, Dennis W.]

Despite the evidence of radiocarbon dates, which somewhat erratically endorse a pre-Roman dating for the site at Long Knowe in Eskdale (Mercer, 1981b), it is worth recalling that here too ...
( Category: Social Sciences June 6,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2008-10-30 | Author:The Viking World [Retail]

BIBLIOGRAPHY Abegg, D. (1894) Zur Entwicklung der historischen Dichtung bei den Angelsachsen, Strassburg: Karl J. Truebner. Abrams, L. (1997) 'The conversion of the Scandinavians of Dublin', Anglo-Norman Studies, 20: 1–29. ...
( Category: Historical June 6,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hugh George Rawlinson

AUTHORITIES. Justin and Strabo, among ancient writers, are of the most importance. The works of Messrs. E. R. Bevan and Vincent Smith are the principal modern authorities. The writers on ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations June 1,2019 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Cussler, Clive [Cussler, Clive]

The Toughest Find of All July 1980 Through the centuries, sailors have been haunted by superstitions concerning their lives at sea. A woman on a ship was once considered unlucky. ...
( Category: Archaeology May 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-14 | Author:Andrew K. Scherer [Scherer, Andrew K.]

FIGURE 3.57. A water lily jaguar serves a cache vessel with a human arm and eyeball to a Death God (K1380 © Justin Kerr). FIGURE 3.58. Detail of figure missing ...
( Category: Archaeology May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-27 | Author:Andrew Shryock & Daniel Lord Smail

KIN RECOGNITION Humans do not find it particularly difficult to distinguish kin from nonkin. Family ties validated and reinforced through language usually make clear who is related to whom. But ...
( Category: Evolution May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2002-12-14 | Author:David Lewis-Williams [Lewis-Williams, David]

43 North American rock art images depicting shamanistic experience: A Flight; the figure wears a quail topknot; B and C Winged flight; D Underwater; a salamander swimming around a saltwater ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology May 28,2019 )