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Book Synopsis Ancient Chamorro Society by : Lawrence J. Cunningham
Download or read book Ancient Chamorro Society written by Lawrence J. Cunningham and published by Bess Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive ethnohistory of the earliest people to settle the Mariana Islands. Maps, line drawings, glossary, bibliography, and index.
Book Synopsis Slings & Slingstones by : Robert York
Download or read book Slings & Slingstones written by Robert York and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors examine the history of Oceania and the Americas to unveil the significant role slings and slingstones played in developing societies.
Book Synopsis The Lost Dark Age Kingdom of Rheged by : Ronan Toolis
Download or read book The Lost Dark Age Kingdom of Rheged written by Ronan Toolis and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trusty's Hill is an early medieval fort at Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway. The hillfort comprises a fortified citadel defined by a vitrified rampart around its summit, with a number of enclosures looping out along lower-lying terraces and crags. The approach to its summit is flanked on one side by a circular rock-cut basin and on the other side by Pictish Symbols carved on to the face of a natural outcrop of bedrock. This Pictish inscribed stone is unique in Dumfries and Galloway, and southern Scotland, and has long puzzled scholars as to why the symbols were carved so far from Pictland and even if they are genuine. The Galloway Picts Project, launched in 2012, aimed to recover evidence for the archaeological context of the inscribed stone, but far from validating the existence of Picts in this southerly region of Scotland, the archaeological context instead suggests that the carvings relate to a royal stronghold and place of inauguration for the local Britons of Galloway around AD 600. Examined in the context of contemporary sites across southern Scotland and northern England, the archaeological evidence from Galloway suggests that this region may have been the heart of the lost Dark Age kingdom of Rheged, a kingdom that was in the late sixth century pre-eminent amongst the kingdoms of the north. The new archaeological evidence from Trusty's Hill enhances our perception of power, politics, economy and culture at a time when the foundations for the kingdoms of Scotland, England and Wales were being laid.
Download or read book Pseira III written by Cheryl R. Floyd and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pseira project began in 1985. Excavations were conducted from 1986 to 1991 as an American-Greek collaboration directed by Philip P. Betancourt and Costis Davaras. The Plateia Building (Building BS/BV) is located at the north of the Town Square or Plateia. It occupies the entire northern side of the square, with one room built on the eastern side as well. The structure is the largest building excavated at Pseira. The building was discovered by small tests made in 1986, and it was excavated in subsequent seasons. From the beginning, the building was recognized as an important structure in the town. Its excavation was conducted slowly and meticulously, with careful attention to the proper recovery and recording of its data. University Museum Monograph, 102
Book Synopsis Excavations at Tawilan in Southern Jordan by : Crystal-M. Bennett
Download or read book Excavations at Tawilan in Southern Jordan written by Crystal-M. Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the final report on Bennett's excavations at Tawilan, an Iron Age site in southern Jordan, known as the biblical Kingdom of Edom. Paying particular attention to the cuneiform tablet and gold jewelry hoard (the first to be discovered in Jordan), Bienkowski provides a comprehensive analysis of the stratigraphy, ceramics, and other finds, and an overview of the development and nature of the site. This long-awaited volume sheds light on an important aspect of biblical history."--Book jacket.
Book Synopsis An Annotated Sumerian Dictionary by : Mark E. Cohen
Download or read book An Annotated Sumerian Dictionary written by Mark E. Cohen and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 1580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sumerian was the first language to be put into writing (ca. 3200–3100 BCE), and it is the language for which the cuneiform script was originally developed. Even after it was supplanted by Akkadian as the primary spoken language in ancient Mesopotamia, Sumerian continued to be used as a scholarly written language until the end of the first millennium BCE. This volume presents the first comprehensive English-language scholarly lexicon of Sumerian. This dictionary covers all the nuances of meaning for Sumerian terms found in historical inscriptions and literary, administrative, and lexical texts dating from about 2500 BCE to the first century BCE. The entries are organized by transcription and are accompanied by the transliteration and translation of passages in which the term occurs and, where relevant, a discussion of the word’s treatment in other publications. Main entries bring together all the parts of speech and compound forms for the Sumerian term and present each part of speech individually. All possible Akkadian equivalents and variant syllabic renderings are listed for lexical attestations of a word, and a meaningful sample of occurrences is given for literary and economic passages. Entries of homonyms with different orthographies and unrelated words with the same orthography are grouped together, each being assigned a unique identifier, and the dictionary treats the phoneme /dr/ as a separate consonant. Written by one of the foremost scholars in the field, An Annotated Sumerian Dictionary is an essential reference for Sumerologists and Assyriologists and a practical help to students of ancient cultures.
Book Synopsis Andean Archaeology III by : William Isbell
Download or read book Andean Archaeology III written by William Isbell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume in the Andean Archaeology series, this book focuses on the marked cultural differences between the northern and southern regions of the Central Andes, and considers the conditions under which these differences evolved, grew pronounced, and diminished. This book continues the dynamic, current problem-oriented approach to the field of Andean Archaeology that began with Andean Archaeology I and Andean Archaeology II. Combines up-to-date research, diverse theoretical platforms, and far-reaching interpretations to draw provocative and thoughtful conclusions.
Book Synopsis Pre-historic Times by : John Lubbock (1st baron Avebury)
Download or read book Pre-historic Times written by John Lubbock (1st baron Avebury) and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pre-historic Times by : Sir John Lubbock
Download or read book Pre-historic Times written by Sir John Lubbock and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reading Sumerian Poetry by : Jeremy A. Black
Download or read book Reading Sumerian Poetry written by Jeremy A. Black and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authority on ancient Mesopotamian culture, Jeremy Black here provides an introduction to the world's oldest poetry. Sumer, in southern Iraq, was the first literate civilization, with writing dating back as far as 3100 B.C. Its extensive poetic literature was lost for nearly two millennia; rediscovery and decipherment of the ancient writings began in the nineteenth century. Black is fully aware of the difficulties of applying modern literary methods to the study of ancient literature, emphasizing theoretical problems that arise from contemporary expectations of a unitary text. Looking closely at the imagery in the Lugalbanda poems, Black perceives in them a rich and sophisticated poetic imagination and technique, which, far from being in any sense "primitive," are so complex as to resist modern literary analysis.
Download or read book Fieldiana written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin by :
Download or read book Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Descriptive Catalogue of the Specimens in the Mortimer Museum of Archæology and Geology at Driffield by : Mortimer Museum of Archaeology and Geology (Driffield, England)
Download or read book A Descriptive Catalogue of the Specimens in the Mortimer Museum of Archæology and Geology at Driffield written by Mortimer Museum of Archaeology and Geology (Driffield, England) and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Maya World written by Scott R. Hutson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-17 with total page 995 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Maya World brings together over 60 authors, representing the fields of archaeology, art history, epigraphy, geography, and ethnography, who explore cutting-edge research on every major facet of the ancient Maya and all sub-regions within the Maya world. The Maya world, which covers Guatemala, Belize, and parts of Mexico, Honduras, and El Salvador, contains over a hundred ancient sites that are open to tourism, eight of which are UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and many thousands more that have been dug or await investigation. In addition to captivating the lay public, the ancient Maya have attracted scores of major interdisciplinary research expeditions and hundreds of smaller projects going back to the 19th century, making them one of the best-known ancient cultures. The Maya World explores their renowned writing system, towering stone pyramids, exquisitely painted murals, and elaborate funerary tombs as well as their creative agricultural strategies, complex social, economic, and political relationships, widespread interactions with other societies, and remarkable cultural resilience in the face of historical ruptures. This is an invaluable reference volume for scholars of the ancient Maya, including archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists.
Book Synopsis Warfare in Cultural Context by : Axel E. Nielsen
Download or read book Warfare in Cultural Context written by Axel E. Nielsen and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warfare is a constant in human history. According to the contributors to this volume, archaeologists have assumed that—within certain socioenvironmental parameters—war is always essentially the same phenomenon and follows a common logic, breaking out under similar conditions and having analogous effects on the people involved. In pursuit of this idea, archaeologists have built models to account for the occurrence of war in various times and places. The models are then tested against prehistoric evidence to make the causes and conduct of war predictable and data-based. However, contributors argue, this model-and-evidence approach has given rise to multiple competing hypotheses and ambiguity rather than to full, coherent explanations of what turns out to be surprisingly complex acts of war. The chapters in Warfare in Cultural Context contend that agency and culture, inherited values and dispositions (such as religion and other cultural practices), beliefs, and institutions are always woven into the conduct of war. This revealing book focuses on the ways that specific people construed their interests and life projects, and their problems and possibilities, and consequently chose among alternative courses of action. Using archaeological and ethnohistorical data from various parts of the world, the contributors explore the multiple avenues for the cultural study of warfare that these ideas make possible. Contributions focus on cultural aspects of warfare in Mesoamerica, South America, North America, and Southeast Asia. Case studies include warfare among the Maya, Inca, southwestern Pueblos, Mississippian cultures, and the Enga of Papua New Guinea.
Book Synopsis Prehistoric Times by : Sir John Lubbock
Download or read book Prehistoric Times written by Sir John Lubbock and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pre-historic Times, as Illustrated by Ancient Remains, and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages by : Sir John Lubbock
Download or read book Pre-historic Times, as Illustrated by Ancient Remains, and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages written by Sir John Lubbock and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
