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Download or read book Mystery Islands written by Tom Koppel and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are more than 20,000 islands in the Pacific; fewer than half of them are inhabited. Some are too small or too barren to sustain human life, others are subject to the vagaries of the tides or without fresh water. But many uninhabited Pacific islands have supported life, and been home to Pacific island cultures and societies only to disappear seemingly in an instant--the so-called Mystery Islands. Tom Koppel's personal odyssey across a vast ocean and through time explores new theories and discoveries surrounding life throughout the Pacific. From celestial navigation and the sweep of the ocean currents, the hardships of survival and settlement, to the rich tapestry of Pacific Island customs and traditions, Mystery Islands shows how new archaeological findings have changed our entire of when and how the Pacific islands were first discovered and settled, beginning over 3,000 years ago.
Book Synopsis The Ancient and Modern History of the Balearick Islands by : Juan Bautista Dameto
Download or read book The Ancient and Modern History of the Balearick Islands written by Juan Bautista Dameto and published by . This book was released on 1716 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Islands of Salt by : Konrad A. Antczak
Download or read book Islands of Salt written by Konrad A. Antczak and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early-modern Venezuelan Caribbean did not lure seafarers with the saccharine delights of cane sugar but with the preserving qualities of solar sea salt. In this book, the historical archaeological study of this salty commodity offers a unique entryway into the hitherto unknown maritime mobilities and daily lives of the seafarers who camped at the saltpans of Venezuelan islands from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth centuries, cultivating and harvesting the white crystal of the sea.For the first time, this study offers a comprehensive documentary history of the saltpans of La Tortuga Island and Cayo Sal in the Los Roques Archipelago, uncovering the surprising importance of their salt. Long-term archaeological excavations at the campsites by these saltpans have brought to light the plethora of material remains left behind by seafarers during their seasonal and temporary salt forays. The exhaustive analysis of the thousands of recovered things - pipes, punch bowls, plates, teapots, buttons, bones - contrasted with documentary evidence, not only enables us to understand where these things came from but also by whom they were used. By engaging the evidence through my theoretical framework of assemblages of practice, I demonstrate how seafarers and things were vibrantly entangled in the everyday assemblages of practice of salt cultivation, dining and drinking.This multisited approach spanning 256 years, reveals that seafarers were fervent buyers of fashionable products, drinking hot tea from porcelain tea bowls, using colorful ceramic chamber pots for their hygienic needs and imbibing exotic rum punch by the scorching saltpans of the uninhabited Venezuelan islands. Intended for scholars, students and the interested public alike, this historical archaeological study positions humble seafarers in the limelight, not as the anonymous movers of international trade and facilitators of imperial interests, but as avid trans-imperial and extra-imperial consumers of the fruits of those very empires.
Book Synopsis A View of the Ancient and Present State of the Zetland Islands by : Arthur Edmondston
Download or read book A View of the Ancient and Present State of the Zetland Islands written by Arthur Edmondston and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Observations on the ancient and present state of the islands of Scilly, and their importance to the trade of Great-Britain. In a letter by : William Borlase
Download or read book Observations on the ancient and present state of the islands of Scilly, and their importance to the trade of Great-Britain. In a letter written by William Borlase and published by . This book was released on 1756 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Islands by : Rosemary G. Gillespie
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Islands written by Rosemary G. Gillespie and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-08-19 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Islands have captured the imagination of scientists and the public for centuries - unique and rare environments, their isolation makes them natural laboratories for ecology and evolution. This authoritative, alphabetically arranged reference, featuring more than 200 succinct articles by leading scientists from around the world, provides broad coverage of all the island sciences. But what exactly is an island? The volume editors define it here as any discrete habitat isolated from other habitats by inhospitable surroundings. The Encyclopedia of Islands examines many such insular settings - oceanic and continental islands as well as places such as caves, mountaintops, and whale falls at the bottom of the ocean. This essential, one-stop resource, extensively illustrated with color photographs, clear maps, and graphics will introduce island science to a wide audience and spur further research on some of the planet's most fascinating habitats." --Book Jacket.
Book Synopsis Friendly Islands by : Noel Rutherford
Download or read book Friendly Islands written by Noel Rutherford and published by Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ritual and Pilgrimage in the Ancient Andes by : Brian S. Bauer
Download or read book Ritual and Pilgrimage in the Ancient Andes written by Brian S. Bauer and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Islands of the Sun and the Moon in Bolivia's Lake Titicaca were two of the most sacred locations in the Inca empire. A pan-Andean belief held that they marked the origin place of the Sun and the Moon, and pilgrims from across the Inca realm made ritual journeys to the sacred shrines there. In this book, Brian Bauer and Charles Stanish explore the extent to which this use of the islands as a pilgrimage center during Inca times was founded on and developed from earlier religious traditions of the Lake Titicaca region. Drawing on a systematic archaeological survey and test excavations in the islands, as well as data from historical texts and ethnography, the authors document a succession of complex polities in the islands from 2000 BC to the time of European contact in the 1530s AD. They uncover significant evidence of pre-Inca ritual use of the islands, which raises the compelling possibility that the religious significance of the islands is of great antiquity. The authors also use these data to address broader anthropological questions on the role of pilgrimage centers in the development of pre-modern states.
Download or read book Parallel Lives written by Gerald Cadogan and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do the cultures of Crete and Cyprus, the two great islands of the eastern Mediterranean, compare in their history and development from the 3rd millennium to the 1st millennium BC? What was similar and what was different in their social and political, economic and technological, and religious and mortuary practices and behaviours, and in the natural settings and choices of places for settlements? Why, and how, did convergences and divergences come about? Why for instance did monumental buildings appear in Cyprus several centuries after they had emerged in Crete? And what was the impact on Cypriot society of the island's rich copper resources, while Crete as a rule had to import the metal? How and why did Cyprus manage an apparently much more peaceful transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age than Crete? These are among the important questions that a leading group of experts on the two islands addressed at Parallel Lives, a pioneering conference in Nicosia organised by the British School at Athens, the University of Crete and the University of Cyprus, to compare and discuss the islands' cultural trajectories diachronically from c. 3000 BC through their Bronze Ages and down to their loss of independence in 300 BC for Cyprus and 67 BC for Crete. Papers given then are now presented in fully revised form as chapters in this book, which is the first to bring together the study of Crete and Cyprus in this way, while starting with their insular geo-cultural identities. It will be a valuable resource for students of both islands, for all who are interested in ancient material cultures and mentalities in the Mediterranean, as well as those engaged in island studies across the world.
Book Synopsis The Ancient Islands of Britain! by : Sc Benham
Download or read book The Ancient Islands of Britain! written by Sc Benham and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-12-11 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was life like in ancient and prehistoric Britain? The British Isles have a history and culture that is entirely unique to the world and Europe. The great people that lived on the isles back in the far distant past left behind them great examples of their abilities, they shaped the future, making great human achievements, building great structures like Stonehenge. Who were the rulers that stood out? What was the conflict like between the Celtic natives and the Roman intruders? All this and more is covered in this book.
Book Synopsis Islands of History by : Marshall Sahlins
Download or read book Islands of History written by Marshall Sahlins and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-03-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marshall Sahlins centers these essays on islands—Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand—whose histories have intersected with European history. But he is also concerned with the insular thinking in Western scholarship that creates false dichotomies between past and present, between structure and event, between the individual and society. Sahlins's provocative reflections form a powerful critique of Western history and anthropology.
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 Island in the Sea of Time by : S. M. Stirling
Download or read book Island in the Sea of Time written by S. M. Stirling and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-03-01 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Utterly engaging...a page-turner that is certain to win the author legions of new readers and fans.”—George R. R. Martin, author of A Game of Thrones It's spring on Nantucket and everything is perfectly normal, until a sudden storm blankets the entire island. When the weather clears, the island's inhabitants find that they are no longer in the late twentieth century...but have been transported instead to the Bronze Age! Now they must learn to survive with suspicious, warlike peoples they can barely understand and deal with impending disaster, in the shape of a would-be conqueror from their own time.
Book Synopsis Ancient history from the monuments: Greek cities & islands of Asia Minor by : W. S. W. Vaux
Download or read book Ancient history from the monuments: Greek cities & islands of Asia Minor written by W. S. W. Vaux and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of this book about ancient history in Turkey and Greece, was a scholar of the subject and had worked for many years in the department of antiquities in The British Museum. The book is divided geographically into sections. Each area is described in some depth and the ruins and statues are examined in order to gain an insight into the lives of the people in ancient times.
Book Synopsis THE ANCIENT ISLANDS of BRITAIN! by : SC Benham
Download or read book THE ANCIENT ISLANDS of BRITAIN! written by SC Benham and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Islands of History by : Marshall David Sahlins
Download or read book Islands of History written by Marshall David Sahlins and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marshall Sahlins centers these essays on islands—Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand—whose histories have intersected with European history. But he is also concerned with the insular thinking in Western scholarship that creates false dichotomies between past and present, between structure and event, between the individual and society. Sahlins's provocative reflections form a powerful critique of Western history and anthropology.
Book Synopsis The Economic History of the Hawaiian Islands by : Ulysses Simpson Parker
Download or read book The Economic History of the Hawaiian Islands written by Ulysses Simpson Parker and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
