Prehistoric

Author : John A. Walthall
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1990-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780817305529

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Prehistoric Indians of the Southeast by John A. Walthall Pdf

This book deals with the prehistory of the region encompassed by the present state of Alabama and spans a period of some 11,000 years—from 9000 B.C. and the earliest documented appearance of human beings in the area to A.D. 1750, when the early European settlements were well established. Only within the last five decades have remains of these prehistoric peoples been scientifically investigated. This volume is the product of intensive archaeological investigations in Alabama by scores of amateur and professional researchers. It represents no end product but rather is an initial step in our ongoing study of Alabama's prehistoric past. The extent of current industrial development and highway construction within Alabama and the damming of more and more rivers and streams underscore the necessity that an unprecedented effort be made to preserve the traces of prehistoric human beings that are destroyed every day by our own progress.

Author : DK,Dean R. Lomax
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780744041293

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My Book of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life by DK,Dean R. Lomax Pdf

Take a journey back in time to discover the incredible plants and animals of prehistoric Earth. It’s the ultimate first dinosaur book for young readers! From the first living cells to fearsome dinosaurs and giant mammals, this children’s book brings your budding paleontologist face-to-face with these awe-inspiring creatures! Inside the pages of this dinosaur encyclopedia from DK Books, you’ll discover: • Large pictures and clear, jargon-free text • A handy, pronunciation guide for each animal or plant • Visual index arranged chronologically, so species can be found quickly • Detailed profiles of each featured species with key information and fun facts such as size, time period, and location Little dinosaur lovers will be captivated by the amazing range of prehistoric beasts on display! Detailed artworks bring the past to life, painting a spectacular portrait of the supersized, the scary, and the downright bizarre animals and plants that inhabited Earth in ancient times. Throughout the pages of this fascinating prehistoric book, you’ll discover how the Earth has changed over time, why fossils formed, and the arrival of early humans. A pronunciation guide helps kids with tricky names and encourages early learning and language development. The helpful visual index provides a quick overview of every species in the book. Learn more about prehistoric animals and plants through detailed profiles of 50 key species. Your little one will love reading about famous favorites such as the mighty Tyrannosaurus and the huge Woolly Mammoths! They will also get to know lesser-known dinosaurs, including sail-backed Dimetrodon and airplane-sized pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus. These profiles are jargon-free and based on the latest science. The Prehistoric World Awaits! Packed with jaw-dropping images, fascinating facts, and straightforward explanations, it’s the perfect gift for children aged 5 to 8 with a love of prehistoric beasts and dinosaurs.

Author : David Lambert,Diagram Group
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1402725930

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Super Little Giant Book of Prehistoric Creatures by David Lambert,Diagram Group Pdf

Introduces the development of life in the sea, land, and air, including invertebrates, fish, amphibians, early tetrapods, reptiles, birds, mammals and other prehistoric beings.

Author : Gesa Mackenthun,Christen Mucher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0816542295

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Decolonizing "prehistory" by Gesa Mackenthun,Christen Mucher Pdf

Decolonizing "Prehistory"critically examines and challenges the paradoxical role that modern historical-archaeological scholarship plays in adding legitimacy to, but also delegitimizing, contemporary colonialist practices. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this volume empowers Indigenous voices and offers a nuanced understanding of the American deep past.

Author : Timothy Darvill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1996-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0521551323

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Prehistoric Britain from the Air by Timothy Darvill Pdf

This book provides a bird's eye look at the monumental achievements of Britain's earliest inhabitants. Arranged thematically, it illustrates and describes a wide selection of archaeological sites and landscapes dating from between 500,000 years ago and the Roman conquest. Timothy Darvill brings to life many of the familiar sites and monuments that prehistoric communities built, and exposes to view many thousands of sites that simply cannot be seen at ground level. Throughout the book, he makes a unique application of social archaeology to the field of aerial photography.

Author : Tracey West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Animals, Mythical
ISBN : 0439135508

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Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon by Tracey West Pdf

This book is a retelling of one of Pokemons most popular episode.

Author : William Hranicky
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 9781438968490

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Material Culture from Prehistoric Virginia by William Hranicky Pdf

Material Culture from Prehistoric Virginia: Volume 1 is one volume of a two-volume set. This two-volume set is available in black and white and in color. Volume 1 contains artifact listings from A through L. Volume 2 contains the remainder of the alphabetical listings. These publications contain over 10,000 prehistoric artifacts mainly from Virginia, but the publication covers the eastern U. S. The set starts with Pre-Clovis and goes through Woodland times with some Indian ethnography and rockart. Each volume is indexed, contains references, has charts and graphs, drawings, photographs, artifact dates, and artifact descriptions. These volumes contain artifacts that have never appeared in the archaeological literature. From beginners to experienced archaeologists, they offer a complete library for the American Indian culture and experience. If the prehistoric Indian made it, an example is probably shown.

Author : Shirley Powell,Francis E. Smiley
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816532872

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Prehistoric Culture Change on the Colorado Plateau by Shirley Powell,Francis E. Smiley Pdf

A collection of writings by participants in the Black Mesa Archaeological Project offers a synthesis of Kayenta-area archaeology, examining the ancestral Puebloan and Navajo occupation of the Four Corners region, and analysing faunal, lithic, ceramic, chronometric, and human osteological data, to construct an account of the prehistory and ethnohistory of northern Arizona that demonstrates how organizational variation and other aspects of culture change are largely a response to a changing natural environment.

Author : Joanna Bruck,Melissa Goodman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135361013

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Making Places in the Prehistoric World by Joanna Bruck,Melissa Goodman Pdf

This groundbreaking volume addresses issues central to the study of prehistoric settlement including group memory, the transmission of ideology and the impact of mobility and seasonality on the construction of social identity. Building on these themes, the contributors point to new ways of understanding the relationship between settlement and landscape by replacing Capitalist models of spatial relations with more intimate histories of place.

Author : Joseph A. Tainter
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780429972218

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Evolving Complexity And Environmental Risk In The Prehistoric Southwest by Joseph A. Tainter Pdf

This book explores how and why prehistoric Southwestern societies changed in complexity, and offers important new perspectives on evolution of culture. It discusses the factors that made prehistoric Southwesterners vulnerable to an arid environment, and their strategies to lessen risk and stress.

Author : Nastja Holtfreter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1610675789

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Colorful World by Nastja Holtfreter Pdf

Sturdy board books, ideal for multiple readings and eager young hands! Fun and (sometimes) silly illustrations. A playful way to discover the world.A series of look-and-find books for the very young featuring playful introductions to animals and nature. Every page has a new puzzle to solve! Which cow is the most colorful? Find the badger going the other way. Are they all brown bears? Which octopus is wearing a hat?

Author : William R. Dickinson
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813724065

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Temper Sands in Prehistoric Oceanian Pottery by William R. Dickinson Pdf

"Oceanian ceramic cultures making earthenware pottery spread during the past 3500 years through a dozen major island groups spanning 6000 km of the tropical Pacific Ocean from western Micronesia to western Polynesia. Island potters mixed sand as temper into clay bodies during ceramic manufacture. The nature of island sands is governed by the geotectonics of hotspot chains, island arcs, subduction zones, backarc basins, and remnant arcs as well as by sedimentology. Because small islands with bedrock exposures of restricted character are virtual point sources of sand, many tempers are diagnostic of specific islands. Petrographic study of temper sands in thin section allows distinction between indigenous pottery and exotic pottery transported from elsewhere. Study of 2223 prehistoric Oceanian potsherds from 130 islands and island clusters indicates the nature of Oceanian temper types and documents 105 cases of interisland transport of ceramics over distances typically

Author : Eric Chevillard
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781935744115

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Palafox by Eric Chevillard Pdf

Eric Chevillard’s visionary play of word and thought has been compared to the work of Beckett, Michaux, and Pinget, yet the universe he spins is utterly his own. Palafox (Editions de Minuit, 1990), Chevillard’s third novel of eleven, explores the ecosystem of an unclassifiable yet enchanting protean creature, Palafox. A team of experts armed with degrees of higher learning is determined to label, train, baptize, and realize the elusive creature, while Palafox effortlessly and wordlessly defies them all.

Author : Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1912920042

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Prehistoric by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld Pdf

Author : Joanna Brück
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191080913

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Personifying Prehistory by Joanna Brück Pdf

The Bronze Age is frequently framed in social evolutionary terms. Viewed as the period which saw the emergence of social differentiation, the development of long-distance trade, and the intensification of agricultural production, it is seen as the precursor and origin-point for significant aspects of the modern world. This book presents a very different image of Bronze Age Britain and Ireland. Drawing on the wealth of material from recent excavations, as well as a long history of research, it explores the impact of the post-Enlightenment 'othering' of the non-human on our understanding of Bronze Age society. There is much to suggest that the conceptual boundary between the active human subject and the passive world of objects, so familiar from our own cultural context, was not drawn in this categorical way in the Bronze Age; the self was constructed in relational rather than individualistic terms, and aspects of the non-human world such as pots, houses, and mountains were considered animate entities with their own spirit or soul. In a series of thematic chapters on the human body, artefacts, settlements, and landscapes, this book considers the character of Bronze Age personhood, the relationship between individual and society, and ideas around agency and social power. The treatment and deposition of things such as querns, axes, and human remains provides insights into the meanings and values ascribed to objects and places, and the ways in which such items acted as social agents in the Bronze Age world.