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Author : Christa Sadler
Release : 2005
Genre : NATURE
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 810/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Life in Stone by : Christa Sadler
Download or read book Life in Stone written by Christa Sadler. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the Colorado Plateau's fossil remains of organisms that lived millions of years ago, featuring numerous illustrations and photographs.
Author : Kathryn Weedman Arthur
Release : 2018-04-24
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 135/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Lives of Stone Tools by : Kathryn Weedman Arthur
Download or read book The Lives of Stone Tools written by Kathryn Weedman Arthur. This book was released on 2018-04-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book offers critical insights into lithic technology and cultural practices concerning stone tools"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Michael T. Searcy
Release : 2011-05-15
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 262/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Life-Giving Stone by : Michael T. Searcy
Download or read book The Life-Giving Stone written by Michael T. Searcy. This book was released on 2011-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Life-Giving Stone, Michael Searcy provides a thought-provoking ethnoarchaeological account of metate and mano manufacture, marketing, and use among Guatemalan Maya for whom these stone implements are still essential equipment in everyday life and diet. Although many archaeologists have regarded these artifacts simply as common everyday tools and therefore unremarkable, Searcy’s methodology reveals how, for the ancient Maya, the manufacture and use of grinding stones significantly impacted their physical and economic welfare. In tracing the life cycle of these tools from production to discard for the modern Maya, Searcy discovers rich customs and traditions that indicate how metates and manos have continued to sustain life—not just literally, in terms of food, but also in terms of culture. His research is based on two years of fieldwork among three Mayan groups, in which he documented behaviors associated with these tools during their procurement, production, acquisition, use, discard, and re-use. Searcy’s investigation documents traditional practices that are rapidly being lost or dramatically modified. In few instances will it be possible in the future to observe metates and manos as central elements in household provisioning or follow their path from hand-manufacture to market distribution and to intergenerational transmission. In this careful inquiry into the cultural significance of a simple tool, Searcy’s ethnographic observations are guided both by an interest in how grinding stone traditions have persisted and how they are changing today, and by the goal of enhancing the archaeological interpretation of these stones, which were so fundamental to pre-Hispanic agriculturalists with corn-based cuisines.
Author : Rolf Ludvigsen
Release : 2011-11-01
Genre : Nature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 516/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Life in Stone by : Rolf Ludvigsen
Download or read book Life in Stone written by Rolf Ludvigsen. This book was released on 2011-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in Stone is the first book to focus on British Columbia's fossils. Each of its chapters is written by a specialist for a general audience, and each is devoted to a separate fossil group that is particularly well represented in the province. Richly illustrated with photographs and drawings, Life in Stone will provide fascinating reading for anyone interested in learning more about the animals and plants that inhabited British Columbia during prehistoric times.
Author : Richard Hammer
Release : 2015-06-23
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 038/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Blood from a Stone by : Richard Hammer
Download or read book Blood from a Stone written by Richard Hammer. This book was released on 2015-06-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The search for the Life Diamonds--the subject of the compelling documentary produced by the History Channel. They were known as Life Diamonds--rough uncut diamonds of high quality bought by Jews in Eastern Europe to use as passports to safety. After 1939 and the Nazi blitzkrieg, after the extermination camps began belching black smoke into the skies and the railroad station at Auschwitz II-Birkenau became the busiest train station in the world, they became Death Diamonds. Blood from a Stone is the amazing story of forty of those diamonds, of their journey across continents and oceans, from the mines of South Africa to the diamond centers in Antwerp and Amsterdam, to the Jews of Eastern Europe, to the Death Camps. . . and to the two American soldiers who liberated them from the SS, finally, and buried them in a forest in Alsace on the border between France and Germany. It is the story of the curse believed to lie over the fabulous wealth of these stones, bringing death and disaster to all who touched them. It is the story of Yaron Svoray, who spent more than a decade in search of one small foxhole somewhere in a thousand square miles of forest...and of his unbelievable success. Blood from a Stone is a unique story, a story unlike any to come out of World War II. Blood from a Stone will more than over a dozen exclusive photos from the two-hour History Channel documentary.
