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Journey Through the Ice Age

Author : Paul G. Bahn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520213067
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Journey Through the Ice Age written by Paul G. Bahn and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the oldest art in the world is the subject of this riveting and beautiful book. Paul Bahn and Jean Vertut explore carved objects and wall art discoveries from the Ice Age, covering the period from 300,000 B.P. to 10,000 B.P., and their collaboration marks a signal event for archaeologists and lay readers alike. Utilizing the most modern analytical techniques in archaeology, Bahn presents new accounts of Russian caves only recently opened to foreign specialists; the latest discoveries from China and Brazil; European cave finds at Cosquer, Chauvet, and Covaciella; and the recently discovered sites in Australia. He also studies sites in Africa, India, and the Far East. Included are the only photographic images of many caves that are now closed to protect their fragile environments. A separate chapter in the book examines art fakes and forgeries and relates how such deceptions have been exposed. The beliefs and preoccupations of Paleolithic peoples resonate throughout this book: the importance of the hunt and the magic and shamanism surrounding it, the recording of the seasons, the rituals of sex and fertility, the cosmology and associated myths. Yet enigmas and mysteries emerge as well, particularly as new analytical techniques raise new questions and cast doubt on our earlier suppositions. A comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of all that has been discovered about Ice Age art, Bahn and Vertut's book offers a visually rich link with the past.

Journey to the Ice Age

Author : Rien Poortvliet
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 9780810936485
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Journey to the Ice Age written by Rien Poortvliet and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1994 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed Dutch painter and illustrator of the enormously successful Gnomes takes readers back hundreds of thousands of years to the Ice Age. Through more than 220 pages of full-color illustrations and incisive text, Rien Poortvliet presents an up-close look at real and imaginary Ice Age animals.

Journey to the Ice Age

Author : Peter L. Storck
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774841273
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Journey to the Ice Age written by Peter L. Storck and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the Ice Age, small groups of hunter-gatherers crossed from Siberia to Alaska and began the last chapter in the human settlement of the earth. Many left little or no trace. But one group, the Early Paleo-Indians, exploded onto the archaeological record about 11,500 radiocarbon years ago and expanded rapidly throughout North America, sending splinter groups into Central and perhaps South America as well. Journey to the Ice Age explores the challenges faced by the Early Paleo-Indians of northeastern North America. A revealing, autobiographical account, this is at once a captivating record of Storck's discoveries and an introduction to the practice, challenges, and spirit of archaeology.

Frozen Earth

Author : Doug Macdougall
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520954947
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Frozen Earth written by Doug Macdougall and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engrossing and accessible book, Doug Macdougall explores the causes and effects of ice ages that have gripped our planet throughout its history, from the earliest known glaciation—nearly three billion years ago—to the present. Following the development of scientific ideas about these dramatic events, Macdougall traces the lives of many of the brilliant and intriguing characters who have contributed to the evolving understanding of how ice ages come about. As it explains how the great Pleistocene Ice Age has shaped the earth's landscape and influenced the course of human evolution, Frozen Earth also provides a fascinating look at how science is done, how the excitement of discovery drives scientists to explore and investigate, and how timing and chance play a part in the acceptance of new scientific ideas. Macdougall describes the awesome power of cataclysmic floods that marked the melting of the glaciers of the Pleistocene Ice Age. He probes the chilling evidence for "Snowball Earth," an episode far back in the earth's past that may have seen our planet encased in ice from pole to pole. He discusses the accumulating evidence from deep-sea sediment cores, as well as ice cores from Greenland and the Antarctic, that suggests fast-changing ice age climates may have directly impacted the evolution of our species and the course of human migration and civilization. Frozen Earth also chronicles how the concept of the ice age has gripped the imagination of scientists for almost two centuries. It offers an absorbing consideration of how current studies of Pleistocene climate may help us understand earth's future climate changes, including the question of when the next glacial interval will occur.

Atlas of a Lost World

Author : Craig Childs
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 034580631X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book Atlas of a Lost World written by Craig Childs and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first people in the New World were few, their encampments fleeting. On a side of the planet no human had ever seen, different groups arrived from different directions, and not all at the same time. The land they reached was fully inhabited by megafauna—mastodons, giant bears, mammoths, saber-toothed cats, enormous bison, and sloths that stood one story tall. These Ice Age explorers, hunters, and families were wildly outnumbered and many would themselves have been prey to the much larger animals. In Atlas of a Lost World, Craig Childs blends science and personal narrative to upend our notions of where these people came from and who they were. How they got here, persevered, and ultimately thrived is a story that resonates from the Pleistocene to our modern era, and reveals how much has changed since the time of mammoth hunters, and how little. Through it, readers will see the Ice Age, and their own age, in a whole new light.

The Ice Age

Author : Kirsten Reed
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1921520744
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book The Ice Age written by Kirsten Reed and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-29 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We stopped at a roadside diner. People asked if I was his daughter. They ask all the time. Hoping, accusing. We never say yes, and we never say no. We ate our food at a booth in a hungry, self-conscious rush, straight out of the wrappers. They didn't have plates. We left a tip, just change. The waitress scooped it up straight away as we slid out of the booth. She was middle-aged and bulgy, in a proper matronly waitress's dress. She shot us what I suppose was intended to be a look of gratitude. She really only managed a weak glare. I guess that's the countryside for you. People are a little edgy.' Across the heartless expanse of middle America, a teenaged girl is riding shotgun with an older man. She watches him; she sees her fascination tallied in the black looks of waitresses, the knowing smiles of motel clerks. The man can see no proper way of conducting this relationship but is bound to her by concern and tenderness; perhaps desire. The girl craves only closeness. She knows the Ice Age is coming, and we will need to huddle together for warmth. Kirsten Reed's debut novel, with its echoes of Nabokov, Kerouac and Bret Easton Ellis, captures the translucent moment at the end of childhood in all its awkwardness, sincerity and heedless vulnerability. In prose both lyrical and earthy, comic and darkly harrowing, this extraordinary young writer creates a journey of irresistible momentum and tragic possibility. It will leave you with the sense that you have met someone significant; and you will not soon forget her.

Terra Tempo

Author : David Shapiro
Publisher : Craigmore Creations
ISBN 13 : 9780984442218
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Terra Tempo written by David Shapiro and published by Craigmore Creations. This book was released on 2010 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jenna, Caleb, and Ari discover a time map and journey back 15,000 years to witness the great Missoula Floods of the Ice Ages.

Prehistoric America

Author : Miles Barton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300098198
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Prehistoric America written by Miles Barton and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the icy Arctic vastness to the steamy tropical swamps of Florida, people came upon a teeming variety of animals in North America after the Ice Age. The book travels the continent region by region, introducing fascinating and bizarre beasts including ground sloths, glyptodonts, mastodons, mammoths, saber-toothed and scimitar-toothed cats, and the short-faced bear. Alongside these now-extinct animals were lions, cheetahs, zebras, and camels - animals that have long since disappeared from their North American homes - as well as species still seen today, such as caribou, grizzlies, eagles, salmon, bison, coyotes, prairie dogs, condors, alligators, and jaguars." "A wealth of fossil evidence informs the stunning computer-generated panoramas that fill the pages of the volume. Bones of the ancient beasts again have flesh and fur, unfamiliar animals again roam the landscapes, and the world of prehistoric North America comes startlingly to life."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Stepping-Stones

Author : Christine Desdemaines-Hugon
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300159064
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Stepping-Stones written by Christine Desdemaines-Hugon and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-19 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The next best thing to actually seeing the prehistoric cave art of southern Franc[e] . . . A rapturous guide through five major Ice Age sites” (Archaeology). The cave art of France’s Dordogne region is world-famous for the mythology and beauty of its remarkable drawings and paintings. These ancient images of lively bison, horses, and mammoths, as well as symbols of all kinds, are fascinating touchstones in the development of human culture, demonstrating how far humankind has come and reminding us of the ties that bind us across the ages. Over more than twenty-five years of teaching and research, Christine Desdemaines-Hugon has become an unrivaled expert in the cave art and artists of the Dordogne region. In Stepping-Stones she combines her expertise in both art and archaeology to convey an intimate understanding of the “cave experience.” Her keen insights communicate not only the incomparable artistic value of these works but also the near-spiritual impact of viewing them for oneself. Focusing on five fascinating sites, including the famed Font de Gaume and others that still remain open to the public, this book reveals striking similarities between art forms of the Paleolithic and works of modern artists and gives us a unique pathway toward understanding the culture of the Dordogne Paleolithic peoples and how it still touches our lives today. “Her vivid descriptions help readers visualize the Cro-Magnon man or woman painting the beautiful bison, horses, mammoths, and other symbols. [A] fine reading experience.” —Library Journal

Journeys

Author : Tim Fox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780985641108
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Journeys written by Tim Fox and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 12 year-old Mark Jamison and his 10 year-old brother, Barry, are normally curious and full of fun. The boys want to live life to its fullest, but are struggling to overcome their family's recent difficulties. While exploring the Baraboo Hills near their home, they make an incredible discovery. Unleashing forces that bridge two worlds, they travel 11,000 years into Wisconsin's Ice Age past. An important journey awaits -- the journey of two lifetimes!

Ice Age

Author : Luke Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925228922
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Ice Age written by Luke Williams and published by . This book was released on 2017-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Across Atlantic Ice

Author : Dennis J. Stanford
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520949676
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Across Atlantic Ice written by Dennis J. Stanford and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea. Distinctive stone tools belonging to the Clovis culture established the presence of these early New World people. But are the Clovis tools Asian in origin? Drawing from original archaeological analysis, paleoclimatic research, and genetic studies, noted archaeologists Dennis J. Stanford and Bruce A. Bradley challenge the old narrative and, in the process, counter traditional—and often subjective—approaches to archaeological testing for historical relatedness. The authors apply rigorous scholarship to a hypothesis that places the technological antecedents of Clovis in Europe and posits that the first Americans crossed the Atlantic by boat and arrived earlier than previously thought. Supplying archaeological and oceanographic evidence to support this assertion, the book dismantles the old paradigm while persuasively linking Clovis technology with the culture of the Solutrean people who occupied France and Spain more than 20,000 years ago.

First Peoples in a New World

Author : David J. Meltzer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520943155
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book First Peoples in a New World written by David J. Meltzer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then truly a new world. Just when and how they did so has been one of the most perplexing and controversial questions in archaeology. This dazzling, cutting-edge synthesis, written for a wide audience by an archaeologist who has long been at the center of these debates, tells the scientific story of the first Americans: where they came from, when they arrived, and how they met the challenges of moving across the vast, unknown landscapes of Ice Age North America. David J. Meltzer pulls together the latest ideas from archaeology, geology, linguistics, skeletal biology, genetics, and other fields to trace the breakthroughs that have revolutionized our understanding in recent years. Among many other topics, he explores disputes over the hemisphere's oldest and most controversial sites and considers how the first Americans coped with changing global climates. He also confronts some radical claims: that the Americas were colonized from Europe or that a crashing comet obliterated the Pleistocene megafauna. Full of entertaining descriptions of on-site encounters, personalities, and controversies, this is a compelling behind-the-scenes account of how science is illuminating our past.

The Ice at the End of the World

Author : Jon Gertner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0812996623
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Ice at the End of the World written by Jon Gertner and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change. As Greenland's ice melts and runs off into the sea, it not only threatens to affect hundreds of millions of people who live in coastal areas. It will also have drastic effects on ocean currents, weather systems, economies, and migration patterns

Journey to the Ice Age: Dinosaur Cove

Author : Rex Stone
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780192729279
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book Journey to the Ice Age: Dinosaur Cove written by Rex Stone and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Christmas Eve in Dinosaur Cove and Jamie and Tom are off to their secret dino world. But the Jurassic jungle has disappeared and been replaced with snow! A new ice age world awaits them - blizzards, avalanches, a woolly mammoth in need of their help . . . and the boys' most amazing discovery EVER!

Journey to the Ice

Author : Jennifer Slattery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578004600
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Journey to the Ice written by Jennifer Slattery and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nimrod, the world's first dictator, has devised an evil plan to take over the world. Through deception and intimidation, he commands his people to build a tower the likes of which they have never seen before. Every brick baked, every chant spoken, and every ritual performed are all part of his evil plan--a plan of total domination. And he nearly succeeds, until Yahweh lifts his mighty hand. Can the city of Babylon withstand the power of Yahweh? Join Makir, a young Mesopotamian boy from the land of Shinar as he and his family leave the only land they've ever known to embark on a journey into the harsh and unpredictable wilderness and experience for yourself what it may have been like to live during this chaotic time. And as you watch Makir and his family struggle to survive in their new land, visualize what life may have been like for the men and women who lived during the early stages of the Ice Age. Who were the Neanderthals? Did the biblical flood really happen? When was the first Ziggurat created? Find out the answers to all these questions and more in Journey to the Ice!

Geronimo Stilton Graphic Novels Vol. 5

Author : Geronimo Stilton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1597075760
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Geronimo Stilton Graphic Novels Vol. 5 written by Geronimo Stilton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular children’s story appears in graphic novel form for the first time in the U.S., with stories never seen in America. Geronimo Stilton is a talking mouse who lives in New Mouse City on Mouse Island with his friends and relatives. He works at The Rodent’s Gazette, the most famous newspaper in New Mouse City. In this series of comics, Geronimo Stilton travels through time in order to defend history from his arch nemeses, the Pirate Cats. These devious felines plan to travel back in time in order to change history to make them supreme rulers of Mouse Island!