Archaeology
mobi |eng | 2016-06-18 | Author:Robinson, Andrew [Robinson, Andrew]

Impression of a cylinder seal from Kalibangan showing two men apparently fighting over a woman. Violent scenes are extremely uncommon in Indus art. Further evidence for a central Indus authority ...
( Category: Archaeology May 27,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2001-10-01 | Author:Allen, Emory Adams [Allen, Emory Adams]

The plate represents what was probably the idol of Huitzilopochtli. "It was brought to light in grading the Plaza Mayor in the City of Mexico in August, 1790. It was ...
( Category: Archaeology May 27,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2011-11-06 | Author:Shryock, Andrew & Smail, Daniel Lord [Shryock, Andrew]

FIGURE 15. The mothers, sisters, and daughters in this wild gelada group in Ethiopia have formed a “grooming train.” Geladas live in matrilineal societies in which female kin form the ...
( Category: Evolution May 27,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2009-10-12 | Author:Kingsley, Sean [Kingsley, Sean]

( Category: Archaeology May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-12-05 | Author:Miranda J. Green

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO JEWELLERY AND ADORNMENT Sara Champion It is not currently possible to prove that any of the iron age peoples who lived in central and western Europe in the ...
( Category: Celtic May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-08-06 | Author:Burman, Edward [Burman, Edward]

9 WHAT IS IN THE MAUSOLEUM? The title of this chapter presupposes an answer to the apparently much simpler question, what in the mind of kings and emperors of that ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-06-20 | Author:Pryor, Francis [Pryor, Francis]

FIG 15 Plan of Bronze Age fields revealed by air photography at West Deeping, near Maxey. Barrows are shown in bold line I don’t want to give the impression that ...
( Category: Prehistory May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2001-01-31 | Author:Jordan, Paul [Jordan, Paul]

Possibly non-utilitarian markings on pieces from Mousterian sites: Abri Souard above, Quneitra below. Among the remaining candidates for artistic status among the products found on Mousterian sites are: a circular ...
( Category: Prehistory May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2004-04-16 | Author:Lewis-Williams, David [Lewis-Williams, David]

42 The killing of a bighorn sheep was associated with rain-making. When a shaman killed a sheep, he was, in effect, killing himself. In this list, Whitley gathers together the ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-02-27 | Author:David, Bruno [David, Bruno]

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 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:James, Peter & Thorpe, Nick [James, Peter]

Church ley lines in Oxford, as envisaged by Alfred Watkins. While he has collected some intriguing snippets of British folklore in support of his theory, Devereux has yet to prove ...
( Category: Archaeology May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-09-28 | Author:Cunliffe, Sir Barry [Cunliffe, Sir Barry]

9.7 Two cognitive geographies of western Europe: (a) Strabo’s view in the late first century BC; (b) Ptolemy’s more accurate view in the second century ad Meanwhile in Africa Following ...
( Category: Maritime History & Piracy May 27,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2011-03-06 | Author:Mayor, Adrienne [Mayor, Adrienne]

Evidence of Giant Populations of the Past Not all fabulous creatures of myth were inspired by fossils, of course; some were imaginary. And it’s impossible to know which came first, ...
( Category: Paleozoology May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-04-05 | Author:Matyszak, Philip [Matyszak, Philip]

ARMINIUS BOUDICCA JOSEPHUS DECEBALUS Pax Romana With the victory of Augustus at Actium, Rome’s government entered a new phase. Democratic elections for Rome’s top magistracies continued, but the results were ...
( Category: Archaeology May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-06-27 | Author:Aldhouse-Green, Miranda [Aldhouse-Green, Miranda]

Ravens and ‘bird-men’ ‘Conare took his sling and stepped from his chariot and followed the great speckled birds until he reached the ocean. The birds went on the waves, but ...
( Category: Rome May 27,2019 )