Archaeology
epub |eng | 2017-05-27 | Author:Bruno David

106. 75,000-year-old perforated Nassarius kraussianus shells from Blombos Cave, South Africa. 107. (top) Six hypothetical ways (using modern shells) that the c. 75,000-year-old Nassarius kraussianus beads from Blombos Cave may ...
( Category: Archaeology May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-28 | Author:Johnson, Scott A J;

9 SOCIAL ORGANIZATION My favorite way to get people thinking about human societies across the globe and through history is to ask the deceptively simple question: “Are all people fundamentally ...
( Category: Archaeology May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-11 | Author:Barber, Elizabeth Wayland [Barber, Elizabeth Wayland]

CHAPTER 16 Koshchey the Deathless The Frog Princess (8 bis) Baba Yaga fed him, gave him to drink, and steamed him in a bath, and the tsarevich recounted to her ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dillon, Matthew; Garland, Lynda;

10.16 CIL I2 848, 857–61, 875, 877: Inscriptions found on sling-shots Lead sling-shots found at Corropoli (848) and Asculum, dated to 90–89 BC. Pompeius is Pompeius Strabo, sent to besiege ...
( Category: Archaeology May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-27 | Author:Joshua Englehardt

FIGURE 6.7. Detail, inscription from an unprovenanced limestone panel (drawing by Nikolai Grube, after Mayer 1987, plate 125). Again, this is not to say that objects were not conceived of ...
( Category: Archaeology May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Manzanilla, Linda R.; Rothman, Mitchell;

CHAPTER EIGHT STOREHOUSE OF SEASONS AND MOTHER OF FOOD: AN ANDEAN RITUAL-ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM Frank Salomon, Gino de las Casas, and Víctor Falcón-Huayta Introduction1 Until the mid-twentieth century, the village of ...
( Category: Social Sciences May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-27 | Author:Robin Osborne

Figure 5.18–20. Red-figure cup, diameter 0.227 m, attributed to the Calliope Painter, said to be from Magna Graecia. ARV 1259.11, Boston Museum of Fine Arts 21.4. Photograph © 2017 Museum ...
( Category: Pottery & Ceramics May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Isager, Signe.,Skydsgaard, Jens Erik.

THE SELF-GROWN CITY In the ideal states of the philosophers, as in the newly founded colony, there was full agreement between the number of citizens and the number of lots ...
( Category: History of Technology May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-25 | Author:Christina Riggs

Figure 4.6 The axles from two chariots, objects 120a and 122a. Photograph by Harry Burton, December 1923; GI neg. P0530. Figure 4.7 The body of object 120, a gilded wooden ...
( Category: Monuments May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joann Fletcher [Joann Fletcher]

The foreign campaigns allowed Tuthmosis III to indulge his love of hunting – hippo and elephant hunting in particular. And he also seems to have had something of an interest ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-30 | Author:David, A. Rosalie; David, Rosalie;

Religion at Kahun At Kahun, as elsewhere throughout Egypt, there were different levels of religious practice. The official cults, performed on behalf of the king and the gods in the ...
( Category: Archaeology May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-26 | Author:Aidan Dodson [Dodson, Aidan]

Fig. 121. Head of a fragmentary statue of a female member of the royal family during the reign of Taharqa; her name and principal titles are missing and the face ...
( Category: Archaeology May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2000-05-26 | Author:Aidan Dodson [Aidan Dodson]

Tutankhamun c. 1343-1333 BC Tutankhaten, as he was known when he came to the throne, was almost certainly the younger son of Akhenaten, and once appeared as a prince on ...
( Category: Archaeology May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-05 | Author:Bryce, Trevor;

5 TROY’S ROLE AND STATUS IN THE NEAR EASTERN WORLD RELATIONS WITH THE NEIGHBOURS This tablet which I have made for you, Alaksandu, must be read out to you three ...
( Category: Archaeology May 27,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:A. Leo Oppenheim [A. Leo Oppenheim]

The Scribes The cuneiform source material is such that in it we have the unique opportunity of observing the evolution of a writing system. Nearly all but the very first ...
( Category: Archaeology May 27,2019 )