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Author : Lorna Greenberg,Margot F. Horwitz
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0531118576
Profiles archaeolgists who have made significant contributions to dinsosaur research, and describes their work.
Author : W. John Hackwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Antiquities
ISBN : 0663601320
Describes the routines of archaeological field work as participants painstakingly search for information about the past; and discusses some assumptions about life long ago in the Middle East, based on discoveries made there.
Author : John Collis
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996-11-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780750954181
This concise and fully illustrated introduction to methods of excavation describes a technique that is essential for all kinds of archaeology. It presents new ideas on excavation techniques and challenges traditional approaches to site organisation and recording. John Collis uses his 40 years of excavation experience to recommend practical solutions to problems, and considers the impact of computerisation and other technical innovations. He also describes the history and development of archaeological excavation which provides a background to the methods employed today. This practical common sense guide should find a place on the bookshelf of everyone who practices archaeology on a professional or amateur basis, and is illuminating reading for anyone who wants to understand how archaeologists can recover the past by digging in the soil.
Author : Leonard Woolley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : UOM:39015058460521
Author : Frances E. Dolan
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812252330
A detailed study of seventeenth century farming practices and their relevance for today We are today grappling with the consequences of disastrous changes in our farming and food systems. While the problems we face have reached a crisis point, their roots are deep. Even in the seventeenth century, Frances E. Dolan contends, some writers and thinkers voiced their reservations, both moral and environmental, about a philosophy of improvement that rationalized massive changes in land use, farming methods, and food production. Despite these reservations, the seventeenth century was a watershed in the formation of practices that would lead toward the industrialization of agriculture. But it was also a period of robust and inventive experimentation in what we now think of as alternative agriculture. This book approaches the seventeenth century, in its failed proposals and successful ventures, as a resource for imagining the future of agriculture in fruitful ways. It invites both specialists and non-specialists to see and appreciate the period from the ground up. Building on and connecting histories of food and work, literary criticism of the pastoral and georgic, histories of elite and vernacular science, and histories of reading and writing practices, among other areas of inquiry, Digging the Past offers fine-grained case studies of projects heralded as innovations both in the seventeenth century and in our own time: composting and soil amendment, local food, natural wine, and hedgerows. Dolan analyzes the stories seventeenth-century writers told one another in letters, diaries, and notebooks, in huge botanical catalogs and flimsy pamphlets, in plays, poems, and how-to guides, in adages and epics. She digs deeply to assess precisely how and with what effect key terms, figurations, and stories galvanized early modern imaginations and reappear, often unrecognized, on the websites and in the tour scripts of farms and vineyards today.
Author : Judy Monroe Peterson
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781435849587
This book offers insight into the fascinating field of archaeology. It examines what archaeologists do and what they have learned about past civilizations.
Author : Mary Meinking
Publisher : Essential Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Cuzco Region (Peru)
ISBN : 1624032346
Examines the exploration and study of Machu Picchu. Explores the lives of the site's builders, traces its discovery and scientific investigation, and discusses future study and conservation efforts.
Author : Adam Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0170379531
Did you know that some people travel around the world digging things out of the ground for a living? Archaeologist Adam Ford explains exactly what his job involves. Read about the types of places an archaeologist can work in and the sorts of things they find. And find out what makes an ordinary house turn into a ruin over many years. Adam recounts the childhood event that made him want to become an archaeologist, some of the faraway places his job has taken him to and the amazing discoveries he's made while 'digging up' the past. Learn why peering into history ' through archaeology ' can teach us so much about today.
Author : Deborah Nourse Lattimore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0850978130
Author : David Veart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1869404653
In this book David Veart walks alongside New Zealand archaeologists as they dig up the past on top of volcanoes and beneath city streets, in Maori pa and explorers huts.
Author : Lisa J. Amstutz
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781629685144
Every new and groundbreaking archaeological discovery refines our understanding of human history. This title examines the exploration and study of the Titanic's wreck. The book explores the ship's sinking, traces its discovery and scientific investigation, and discusses future study and conservation efforts. Well-placed sidebars, vivid photos, helpful maps, and a glossary enhance readers' understanding of the topic. Additional features include a table of contents, a selected bibliography, source notes, and an index, plus a timeline and essential facts. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author : Rebecca Yamin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300142648
Beneath the modern city of Philadelphia lie countless clues to its history and the lives of residents long forgotten. This intriguing book explores eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Philadelphia through the findings of archaeological excavations, sharing with readers the excitement of digging into the past and reconstructing the lives of earlier inhabitants of the city.Urban archaeologist Rebecca Yamin describes the major excavations that have been undertaken since 1992 as part of the redevelopment of Independence Mall and surrounding areas, explaining how archaeologists gather and use raw data to learn more about the ordinary people whose lives were never recorded in history books. Focusing primarily on these unknown citizens-an accountant in the first Treasury Department, a coachmaker whose clients were politicians doing business at the State House, an African American founder of St. Thomas’s African Episcopal Church, and others-Yamin presents a colorful portrait of old Philadelphia. She also discusses political aspects of archaeology today-who supports particular projects and why, and what has been lost to bulldozers and heedlessness. Digging in the City of Brotherly Love tells the exhilarating story of doing archaeology in the real world and using its findings to understand the past.
Author : Howard Williams,Pauline Magdalene Clarke
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789695281
What does the ‘Dark Ages’ mean in contemporary society? Tackling public engagements through archaeological fieldwork, heritage sites and museums, fictional portrayals and art, and increasingly via a broad range of digital media, this is the first-ever dedicated collection exploring the public archaeology of the Early Middle Ages.
Author : Richard F. Veit
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0813531136
When people think of archaeology, they commonly think of unearthing the remains of ancient civilizations in Egypt, Greece, Rome, Central or South America. But some fascinating history can be found in your own New Jersey backyard 3/4 if you know where to look. Richard Veit takes readers on a well-organized guided tour through four hundred years of Garden State development as seen through archaeology in Digging New Jerseys Past. This illustrated guidebook takes readers to some of the states most interesting discoveries and tells us what has been learned or is being learned from them. The diverse array of archaeological sites, drawn from all parts of the state, includes a seventeenth-century Dutch trading post, the site of the Battle of Monmouth, the gravemarkers of freed slaves, and a 1920s railroad roundhouse, among others. Veit begins by explaining what archaeologists do: How do they know where to dig? What sites are likely to yield important information? How do archaeologists excavate a site? How are artifacts cataloged, stored, and interpreted? He then moves through the states history, from the contact of first peoples and explorers, to colonial homesteads, Revolutionary War battlefields, cemeteries, railroads, and factories. Veit concludes with some thoughts about the future of archaeological research in New Jersey and with suggestions on ways that interested individuals can become involved in the field.
Author : Michael Gibson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : OCLC:731432038
