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Author : Vincent L. Morgan,Spencer G. Lucas
Publisher : New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Paleontologists
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Vincent L. Morgan,Spencer G. Lucas
Publisher : New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fayyūm (Egypt)
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Paige Williams
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780316382502
In this 2018 New York Times Notable Book,Paige Williams "does for fossils what Susan Orlean did for orchids" (Book Riot) in her account of one Florida man's attempt to sell a dinosaur skeleton from Mongolia--a story "steeped in natural history, human nature, commerce, crime, science, and politics" (Rebecca Skloot). In 2012, a New York auction catalogue boasted an unusual offering: "a superb Tyrannosaurus skeleton." In fact, Lot 49135 consisted of a nearly complete T. bataar, a close cousin to the most famous animal that ever lived. The fossils now on display in a Manhattan event space had been unearthed in Mongolia, more than 6,000 miles away. At eight-feet high and 24 feet long, the specimen was spectacular, and when the gavel sounded the winning bid was over $1 million. Eric Prokopi, a thirty-eight-year-old Floridian, was the man who had brought this extraordinary skeleton to market. A onetime swimmer who spent his teenage years diving for shark teeth, Prokopi's singular obsession with fossils fueled a thriving business hunting, preparing, and selling specimens, to clients ranging from natural history museums to avid private collectors like actor Leonardo DiCaprio. But there was a problem. This time, facing financial strain, had Prokopi gone too far? As the T. bataar went to auction, a network of paleontologists alerted the government of Mongolia to the eye-catching lot. As an international custody battle ensued, Prokopi watched as his own world unraveled. In the tradition of The Orchid Thief, The Dinosaur Artist is a stunning work of narrative journalism about humans' relationship with natural history and a seemingly intractable conflict between science and commerce. A story that stretches from Florida's Land O' Lakes to the Gobi Desert, The Dinosaur Artist illuminates the history of fossil collecting--a murky, sometimes risky business, populated by eccentrics and obsessives, where the lines between poacher and hunter, collector and smuggler, enthusiast and opportunist, can easily blur. In her first book, Paige Williams has given readers an irresistible story that spans continents, cultures, and millennia as she examines the question of who, ultimately, owns the past.
Author : Cassandra Vivian
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786463046
The voices of Americans have long been absent from studies of modern Egypt. Most scholars assume that Americans were either not in Egypt in significant numbers during the nineteenth century or had little of importance to say. This volume shows that neither was the case by introducing and relating the experiences and attitudes of 15 American personalities who worked, lived, or traveled in Egypt from the 1770s to the commencement of World War I. Often in their own words, explorers, consuls, tourists, soldiers, missionaries, artists, scientists, and scholars offer a rare American perspective on everyday Egyptian life and provide a new perspective on many historically significant events. The stories of these individuals and their sojourns not only recount the culture and history of Egypt but also convey the domination of the country by European powers and the support for Egypt by a young American nation.
Author : Jane P. Davidson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253033567
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, North American and European governments generously funded the discoveries of such famous paleontologists and geologists as Henry de la Beche, William Buckland, Richard Owen, Thomas Hawkins, Edward Drinker Cope, O. C. Marsh, and Charles W. Gilmore. In Patrons of Paleontology, Jane Davidson explores the motivation behind this rush to fund exploration, arguing that eagerness to discover strategic resources like coal deposits was further fueled by patrons who had a genuine passion for paleontology and the fascinating creatures that were being unearthed. These early decades of government support shaped the way the discipline grew, creating practices and enabling discoveries that continue to affect paleontology today.
Author : C.L. Camp, S.P. Welles, and Morton Green,Charles Lewis Camp,Joseph Tracy Gregory
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Vertebrates, Fossil
ISBN : 9780813710372
Author : David Rains Wallace
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004-05-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520237315
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Author : Spencer G. Lucas,Justin A. Spielmann,Martin G. Lockley
Publisher : New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Footprints, Fossil
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : David B. Williams
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780295746470
Most people do not think to observe geology from the sidewalks of a major city, but all David B. Williams has to do is look at building stone in any urban center to find a range of rocks equal to any assembled by plate tectonics. In Stories in Stone, he takes you on explorations to find 3.5-billion-year-old rock that looks like swirled pink-and-black taffy, a gas station made of petrified wood, and a Florida fort that has withstood three hundred years of attacks and hurricanes, despite being made of a stone that has the consistency of a granola bar. Williams also weaves in the cultural history of stone, explaining why a white fossil-rich limestone from Indiana became the only building stone used in all fifty states; how in 1825, the construction of the Bunker Hill Monument led to America’s first commercial railroad; and why when the same kind of marble used by Michelangelo clad a Chicago skyscraper it warped so much after nineteen years that all 44,000 panels of it had to be replaced. This love letter to building stone brings to life the geology you can see in the structures of every city.
Author : Justin A. Spielmann,Spencer G. Lucas,Larry F. Rhinehart,Andrew B. Heckert
Publisher : New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Paleontology
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Spencer G. Lucas,Gary S. Morgan,Justin A Spielmann,Donald R. Prothero
Publisher : New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Neogene Mammals: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 44
Author : George Gaylord Simpson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520332140
Author : Jesper Milàn,Spencer G. Lucas,Martin G. Lockley,Justin A. Spielmann
Publisher : New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Crocodiles
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Spencer G. Lucas,Jörg W. Schneider,Justin A. Spielmann
Publisher : New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Cañon del Cobre (N.M.)
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Hendrik Klein,Spencer G. Lucas
Publisher : New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Dinosaur tracks
ISBN : 8210379456XXX