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Author : James Easton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1821
Category : Druids and druidism
ISBN : UCD:31175000815459
Author : Lisa Greathouse,Stephanie Kuligowski
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1433348284
Shares information on different mysterious places and rumored oddities, including Stonehenge, Atlantis, and Roswell, N.M.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Printing
ISBN : NYPL:33433000823397
Author : John Barrett,Richard J. Bradley,Martin T. Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1991-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 052132128X
Cranborne Chase, in central southern England, is the area where British field archaeology developed in its modern form. The site of General Pitt Rivers' pioneering excavations in the nineteenth century, Cranborne Chase also provides a microcosm of virtually all the major types of filed monument present in southern England as a whole. Much of the archaeological material has fortuitously survived, offering the fullest chronological cover of any part of the prehistoric British landscape. Martin Green began working in this region in 1968 and was joined by John Barrett and Richard Bradley in 1977 for a fuller programme of survey and excavation that lasted for nearly ten years. In this important study, they apply some of the questions in prehistory to one of the first regions of the country to be studied in such detail. The book is a regional study of long-term change in British prehistory, and contains a unique collection of data. A landmark in the archaeological literature, it will be essential reading for students and scholars of British prehistory and social and historical geography, and also for all those involved with archaeological methods.
Author : Anthony Eglin
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429923842
Can Lawrence Kingston unearth the key to a deadly secret hidden by a mysterious ancient garden inscription in the newest English Garden Mystery? Codebreakers have tried for centuries to decipher the enigmatic inscription on a strange monument in the garden at Sturminster Hall, but no one has ever succeeded. When a murder occurs on the garden grounds, the intellectual puzzle becomes all too real, and Dr. Lawrence Kingston—retired professor of botany and reluctant sleuth—is called in to investigate. Other than a scrap of paper bearing a random sequence of letters found on the victim, the police have no meaningful clues. Convinced that the crime must be linked to the seemingly unbreakable centuries-old code, Kingston begins hunting for clues that will help him unmask the murderer's identity as well as the arcane mystery of the monument. But he quickly finds himself swept along in the dangerous undertow of a centuries' old family conflict and a second murder, by poisoning. What could be so valuable, so important to justify such extreme measures and complex codes to keep sacrosanct for over two centuries? To unlock the garden's dark secret, Kingston must delve into the brilliant minds of three famous men to fathom what part each may have played in masterminding the riddle: an Admiral hailed as father of Britain's navy, the author of England's most celebrated poem, and Great Britain's first Prime Minister. But as Kingston's investigation into an England's past leads him closer to a killer in the very dangerous present, his own prospects for survival start to look less and less assured.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11547450
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : America
ISBN : CORNELL:31924093240335
Author : Edwin Paxton Hood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Parables
ISBN : UOM:39015024532155
Author : Stephen Denison Peet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : America
ISBN : WISC:89069659928
Author : Thomas J. Harvey
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806150420
The Colorado River Plateau is home to two of the best-known landscapes in the world: Rainbow Bridge in southern Utah and Monument Valley on the Utah-Arizona border. Twentieth-century popular culture made these places icons of the American West, and advertising continues to exploit their significance today. In Rainbow Bridge to Monument Valley, Thomas J. Harvey artfully tells how Navajos and Anglo-Americans created fabrics of meaning out of this stunning desert landscape, space that western novelist Zane Grey called “the storehouse of unlived years,” where a rugged, more authentic life beckoned. Harvey explores the different ways in which the two societies imbued the landscape with deep cultural significance. Navajos long ago incorporated Rainbow Bridge into the complex origin story that embodies their religion and worldview. In the early 1900s, archaeologists crossed paths with Grey in the Rainbow Bridge area. Grey, credited with making the modern western novel popular, sought freedom from the contemporary world and reimagined the landscape for his own purposes. In the process, Harvey shows, Grey erased most of the Navajo inhabitants. This view of the landscape culminated in filmmaker John Ford’s use of Monument Valley as the setting for his epic mid-twentieth-century Westerns. Harvey extends the story into the late twentieth century when environmentalists sought to set aside Rainbow Bridge as a symbolic remnant of nature untainted by modernization. Tourists continue to flock to Monument Valley and Rainbow Bridge, as they have for a century, but the landscapes are most familiar today because of their appearances in advertising. Monument Valley has been used to sell perfume, beer, and sport utility vehicles. Encompassing the history of the Navajo, archaeology, literature, film, environmentalism, and tourism, Rainbow Bridge to Monument Valley explores how these rock formations, Navajo sacred spaces still, have become embedded in the modern identity of the American West—and of the nation itself.
Author : Clive L.N. Ruggles
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781851096169
An authoritative introduction to the fascinating topic of archaeoastronomy—ancient peoples' understanding and use of the skies. Ancient Astronomy: An Encyclopedia of Cosmologies and Myth draws on archaeological evidence and oral traditions to reveal how prehistoric humans perceived the skies and celestial phenomena. With over 200 entries, it offers a number of ways to approach ancient astronomy, from key examples and case studies worldwide (Stonehenge; Mexican and Egyptian pyramids; Chaco Canyon, New Mexico; the Nazca lines in Peru) to general themes (cosmologies, calendars, ancient ideas of space and time, origin myths), to fundamental concepts and methods (how the sky has changed over the centuries, how to survey a site), and to the field's most frequently asked questions (How did ancient peoples navigate the ocean using the stars? How does astrology relate to ancient astronomy? Can ancient sites be dated astronomically?) By revealing the astronomical significance of some of the world's most famous ancient landmarks and enduring myths and by showing how different themes and concepts are connected, Ancient Astronomy: An Encyclopedia of Cosmologies and Myth brings a unique authoritative perspective to an area too often left to speculation and sensationalism.
Author : William Hickling Prescott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Mexico
ISBN : UOMDLP:ajl4366:0006.001
Author : William Hickling Prescott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Mexico
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010200645
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Preaching
ISBN : NYPL:33433067408306
Author : William Hickling Prescott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Mexico
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010205206