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Author : David Zink
Publisher : Don Mills, Ont. : Musson Book Company
ISBN 13 : 9780773710337
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Ancient Stones Speak written by David Zink and published by Don Mills, Ont. : Musson Book Company. This book was released on 1979 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marc Waelkens
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789061864943
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (649 download)
Download or read book Ancient Stones written by Marc Waelkens and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The meeting assembled an interdisciplinary group of nearly 50 archaeologists and art historians, geologists and geochemists from the U.S.A. and 14 European and Near Eastern countries to discuss the provenance, quarrying, transport and use of stone from prehistoric to early Christian times, both in Europe and in the Near East. The papers which reflect a merger between classicism and geotechnology, thus deal with (1) quarries from the Bronze Age to the Byzantine period, their technology and organization, (2) quarry prospection through satellite imaging, (3) dressing of artifacts near the quarries, (4) trade, availability and archaeological use of certain stones in antiquity, (5) determination of obsidian, flint, granite, marble, limestones, sandstones and arkoses from Europe, Asia Minor and the Near East by means of petrological and chemical analysis, trace element analysis, electron microprobe and stable isotope analysis, ESR spectroscopy, X-ray fluorescence and X-ray powder diffradtometry, mercury porosimetry, cathodoluminiscence, light diffustion from laser-irradiated stones, computer assisted assessment of coloured stones or amulti-method appraoch, and (6) provenance determination applied to ancient artifacts.The volume is highly recommended for those who wish to combine a journey into classical scholarship with geochemical sciences.
Author : Rupert Soskin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Standing with Stones written by Rupert Soskin and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ireland.
Author : Andy Burnham
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1786782030
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book The Old Stones written by Andy Burnham and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of Current Archaeology’s Book of the Year Discover the iconic standing stones and prehistoric sites of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland—this comprehensive, coffee table travel guide features over 750 must-see destinations, with maps and color photographs The ultimate insiders’ guide, The Old Stones gives unparalleled insight into where to find prehistoric sites and how to understand them, by drawing on the knowledge, expertise and passion of the archaeologists, theorists, photographers and stones aficionados who contribute to the world’s biggest megalithic website—the Megalithic Portal. Including over 30 maps and site plans and hundreds of color photographs, it also contains scores of articles by a wide range of contributors—from archaeologists and archaeoastronomers to dowsers and geomancers—that will change the way you see these amazing survivals from our distant past. Locate over 1,000 of Britain and Ireland’s most atmospheric prehistoric places, from recently discovered moorland circles to standing stones hidden in housing estates. Discover which sites could align with celestial bodies or horizon landmarks. Explore acoustic, color, and shadow theory to get inside the minds of the Neolithic and Bronze Age people who created these extraordinary places. Find out which sites have the most spectacular views, which are the best for getting away from it all and which have been immortalized in music. And don't forget to visit the Megalithic Portal website and get involved by posting your discoveries online. All royalties from this book go to support the running of the Megalithic Portal: www.megalithic.com.
Author : Jan Pohribný
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Magic Stones written by Jan Pohribný and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fascinating exploration of our early ancestors' obsession with stone. With more than 250 stunning full-colour illustrations, Magic Stones is the most wide-ranging photographic record ever published on the megalithic monuments of Europe"--Back cover.
Author : Steve Betts
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1490840591
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Ancient Stones written by Steve Betts and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dawsons have decided to take an impromptu camping trip since their parents are out of town. When the park closes at 8:00 p.m. and the sun sets, ancient residents make themselves known, and the three children are thrust into a supernatural world where their eternal freedom is at stake. On a late September afternoon, three teens embark on a weekend of relaxation only to find themselves engaged in a supernatural struggle against an evil that seeks to take them captive for eternity.
Author : Henry Neil Richardson
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 : 9780931464737
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (647 download)
Download or read book Uncovering Ancient Stones written by Henry Neil Richardson and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 1994 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his long teaching career at Syracuse University and Boston University, H. Neil Richardson touched the lives of many students and colleagues. The nineteen essays included in this volume were written in his memory following his death in 1988.
Author : Salvatore Piccolo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780956510624
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Ancient Stones written by Salvatore Piccolo and published by . This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly illustrated guide to the dolmen culture of Prehistoric Sicily. Scattered around the world in woods and on mountains dolmens have posed a mystery for hundreds of years. The interpretations of these mysteries have been extremely imaginative over the centuries. But in Sicily it has only been in recent years that the presence of numerous megaliths has been revealed. This manual provides a comprehensive guide to the dolmens of Sicily and the artefacts as well as historical and cultural associations of these prehistoric sites. With 26 black and white illustrations
Author : Francis Melville
Publisher : Wellfleet Press
ISBN 13 : 157715133X
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (771 download)
Download or read book The Book of Runes written by Francis Melville and published by Wellfleet Press. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both an alphabet and tools of divination and magic, Norse runes are beautiful and iconic. Learn their meanings and how to use their magic.
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Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0789211521
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Spirit Stones written by and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliant photographs of scholars' rocks, or Chinese ornamental stones, from a leading collection Shaped by nature and selected by man, scholars' rocks, or gongshi, have been prized by Chinese intellectuals since the Tang dynasty, and are now sought after by Western collectors as well. They are a natural subject for the photographer Jonathan Singer, most recently acclaimed for his images of those other remarkable hybrids of art and nature, Japanese bonsai. Here Singer turns his lens on some 150 fine gongshi, ancient and modern, from the world-class collection of Kemin Hu, a recognized authority on this art form. In his photographs, Singer captures the spiritual qualities of these stones as never thought possible in two dimensions; he shows us that scholars' rocks truly are, in Hu's words, "condensations of the vital essence and energy of heaven and earth." Hu contributes an introductory essay on the history and aesthetics of scholars' rocks, explaining the traditional terms of stone appreciation, such as shou (thin), zhou (wrinkled), lou (channels), and tou (holes). She also provides a narrative caption for each stone, describing its history and characteristics.
Author : Thomas Brooks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks written by Thomas Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a collection of sentences, illustrations, and quaint sayings, from the works of that renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks.
Author : Fabio Barry
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300248164
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Painting in Stone written by Fabio Barry and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping history of premodern architecture told through the material of stone Spanning almost five millennia, Painting in Stone tells a new history of premodern architecture through the material of precious stone. Lavishly illustrated examples include the synthetic gems used to simulate Sumerian and Egyptian heavens; the marble temples and mansions of Greece and Rome; the painted palaces and polychrome marble chapels of early modern Italy; and the multimedia revival in 19th-century England. Poetry, the lens for understanding costly marbles as an artistic medium, summoned a spectrum of imaginative associations and responses, from princes and patriarchs to the populace. Three salient themes sustained this “lithic imagination”: marbles as images of their own elemental substance according to premodern concepts of matter and geology; the perceived indwelling of astral light in earthly stones; and the enduring belief that colored marbles exhibited a form of natural—or divine—painting, thanks to their vivacious veining, rainbow palette, and chance images.
Author : Thea Potter
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1800642695
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Horos written by Thea Potter and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2022-01-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Horos, Thea Potter explores the complex relationship between classical philosophy and the ‘horos’, a stone that Athenians erected to mark the boundaries of their marketplace, their gravestones, their roads and their private property. Potter weaves this history into a meditation on the ancient philosophical concept of horos, the foundational project of determination and definition, arguing that it is central to the development of classical philosophy and the marketplace. Horos challenges many significant interpretations of ancient thought. With nuance and insight, Potter combines the works of Aristotle, Plato, Homer and archaic Greek inscriptions with the twentieth-century continental philosophy of Heidegger, Derrida and Walter Benjamin. The result is a powerful study of the theme of boundaries in classical Athenian society as evidenced by boundary stones, law and exchange, ontology, insurgency and occupation. The innovative book will be of interest to scholars in the fields of ancient Greek social history, philosophy, and literature, as well as to the general reader who is curious to know more about classical life and philosophy.
Author : John A. Burke
Publisher : Council Oak Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571781840
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (818 download)
Download or read book Seed of Knowledge, Stone of Plenty written by John A. Burke and published by Council Oak Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burke and Halbert present the scientific evidence behind their startling, original theory: ancient peoples constructed temples, mounds, and megaliths to increase the fertility of crops. These peoples used an ancient technology, only now rediscovered.
Author : Erica Ehrenberg
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 : 1575060558
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Leaving No Stones Unturned written by Erica Ehrenberg and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 2002 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fitting tribute to the life and achievements of Donald P. Hansen, this collection includes contributions by Z. Bahrani, R. A. Fazzini, R. E. Freed, P. O. Harper, J. and D. Oates, D. O'Connor, E. L. Ochsenschlager, E. Holmes-Peck, W. H. Peck, H. Pittman, M. Van de Mieroop, M. S. Venit, K. Wilson, I. J. Winter, and many others.
Author : Jing Wang
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822311959
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (119 download)
Download or read book The Story of Stone written by Jing Wang and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pathbreaking study of three of the most familiar texts in the Chinese tradition--all concerning stones endowed with magical properties--Jing Wang develops a monumental reconstruction of ancient Chinese stone lore. Wang's thorough and systematic comparison of these classic works illuminates the various tellings of the stone story and provides new insight into major topics in traditional Chinese literature. Bringing together Chinese myth, religion, folklore, art, and literature, this book is the first in any language to amass the sources of stone myth and stone lore in Chinese culture. Uniting classical Chinese studies with contemporary Western theoretical concerns, Wang examines these stone narratives by analyzing intertextuality within Chinese traditions. She offers revelatory interpretations to long-standing critical issues, such as the paradoxical character of the monkey in The Journey to the West, the circularity of narrative logic in The Dream of the Red Chamber, and the structural necessity of the stone tablet in Water Margin. By both challenging and incorporating traditional sinological scholarship, Wang's The Story of Stone reveals the ideological ramifications of these three literary works on Chinese cultural history and makes the past relevant to contemporary intellectual discourse. Specialists in Chinese literature and culture, comparative literature, literary theory, and religious studies will find much of interest in this outstanding work, which is sure to become a standard reference on the subject.
Author : Kenneth McNally
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ireland's Ancient Stones written by Kenneth McNally and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Ireland's Ancient Stones' celebrates Ireland's rich megalithic heritage from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. McNally describes over 100 sites in detail and every site has been illustrated with a combination of colour and black and white photography with drawings and engravings, many dating from 17th and 18th centuries.
