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Book Synopsis The Mystery of the Conguel Stone by : Colin Wilce
Download or read book The Mystery of the Conguel Stone written by Colin Wilce and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Baxter family had always enjoyed their holidays in France. Well they did until they visited Le Camping de le Plage on the tip of the Quiberon Peninsula in Southern Brittany. When James Baxter picked up an eel shaped stone off the Plage du Conguel and passed it to his Dad, Ralph, he could not have foreseen the mystery and adventure that would follow them around during the following twelve months until they made their inevitable return to the area. With stone in pocket, Ralph had left his family to walk out to the very tip of the Quiberon Peninsula only to experience what he deemed to be a deathly experience that affected his mental state until he was able to return and solve the Mystery of the Conguel Stone. A year full of strange characters, mysterious events, disbelieving wife and daughter and a determination to solve the mystery leads to a surprising resolution to what did actually happen to Ralph on the Peninsula.
Book Synopsis Axe-heads and Identity by : Katharine Walker
Download or read book Axe-heads and Identity written by Katharine Walker and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to re-assess the significance accorded to the body of stone and flint axe-heads imported into Britain from the Continent which have until now often been poorly understood, overlooked and undervalued in Neolithic studies.
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Book Synopsis The Exploitation and Cultural Importance of Sea Mammals by : International Council for Archaeozoology. Conference
Download or read book The Exploitation and Cultural Importance of Sea Mammals written by International Council for Archaeozoology. Conference and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 2005 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans are known to exploit plant and animal resources for a variety of purposes. Subsistence is the most obvious of these, but there are also social and technological reasons behind such activities, not to mention ideological and spiritual motives for exploitation. In order to maximise exploitation of resources, human often exploit ecotones, where several ecological zones exist in close proximity. The seashore is such an ecotone, and sea mammals are just one of many groups of resources who are available here. This volume looks to address some of the vast array of coastal adaptations that have occurred during the human past and the role that sea mammals have played in them.
Download or read book Alexander Thom written by Robin Heath and published by Blue Stone Press. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Alexander Thom was a foremost scientist and engineer of the last century. Once Chair of Engineering Science at Brasenose College, Oxford, following an already distinguished career in both the academic and industrial world, during the War he had been Principal Scientific Officer for the design of the High Speed Wind Tunnel at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, and had assisted Sir Barnes Wallace in the design of the famous 'bouncing bomb' of Dambuster's fame. From 1934, Thom became interested in the megalithic culture that had erected the stone circles, rows and other monuments in Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain. He began to accurately survey these sites, and in 1967 published Megalithic Sites in Britain (Oxford) where he claimed the builders had been skilled surveyors and astronomers, and had used an identical and accurate unit of length to mark out their constructions throughout Britain, a length he called the Megalithic yard (2.72 feet or 0.829m). Thom also discovered that they were using a geometry based on right-angled 'Pythagorean' triangles, triangles whose sides were whole numbers of this same megalithic yard, or subdivisions or multiples of it. He also proposed that they were observing both the sun and moon using precision alignments to identified sites or natural features on a distant horizon. He even showed that they could have predicted eclipses. The book was described by archaeologist Professor Richard Atkinson as 'a well-constructed time-bomb dropped through the letterbox of archaeology', and it caused a huge rumpus within the profession. In effect Thom had demonstrated that there was a huge missing component in our understanding of the Megalithic culture, one that archaeologists had totally missed, and that our model of prehistory was flawed and hopelessly inadequate. In 1970, The BBC made a full-length documentary about Thom under its flagship 'Chronicle' series. Magnus Magnusson amiably presented Thom's discoveries for the first time to a non-specialist audience. Once out in the open, the archaeologists increasingly closed ranks while the informed public were enthralled. Despite the top statistician of the day validating the Megalithic yard at the Royal Society and British Academy, and despite several leading archaeologists supporting Thom, he was increasingly marginalised, airbrushed from the subject and forgotten. Apart from the Chronicle documentary, Thom's story has never properly been told until now - "Alexander Thom - Cracking the Stone Age Code" takes this fascinating subject beyond Thom's lifetime, the author showing how and why the archaeology profession missed a huge opportunity to embrace a remarkable aspect of our prehistoric past, one which carries huge implications for our modern culture.
Download or read book Ulysses' Sail written by Mary W. Helms and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do long-distance travelers gain from their voyages, especially when faraway lands are regarded as the source of esoteric knowledge? Mary Helms explains how various cultures interpret space and distance in cosmological terms, and why they associate political power with information about strange places, peoples, and things. She assesses the diverse goals of travelers, be they Hindu pilgrims in India, Islamic scholars of West Africa, Navajo traders, or Tlingit chiefs, and discusses the most extensive experience of long-distance contact on record--that between Europeans and native peoples--and the clash of cultures that arose from conflicting expectations about the "faraway.". The author describes her work as "especially concerned with the political and ideological contexts or auras within which long-distance interests and activities may be conducted ... Not only exotic materials but also intangible knowledge of distant realms and regions can be politically valuable `goods,' both for those who have endured the perils of travel and for those sedentary homebodies who are able to acquire such knowledge by indirect means and use it for political advantage." Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Book Synopsis The Irish Stone Axe Project by : Gabriel Cooney
Download or read book The Irish Stone Axe Project written by Gabriel Cooney and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ancient Cities and Modern Tribes by : Thomas William Francis Gann
Download or read book Ancient Cities and Modern Tribes written by Thomas William Francis Gann and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Megalithic European by : Julian Cope
Download or read book The Megalithic European written by Julian Cope and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2004 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julian Cope's long-awaited follow up to The Modern Antiquarian, his bestselling and critically acclaimed guide to ancient Britain. The Megalithic European takes us on a breathtaking journey around prehistoric Europe's first temples.
Book Synopsis The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region by : Sir Cyril Fox
Download or read book The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region written by Sir Cyril Fox and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1948 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Babylonian Problems by : William Horsburgh Lane
Download or read book Babylonian Problems written by William Horsburgh Lane and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Archaeology of Ireland by : Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister
Download or read book The Archaeology of Ireland written by Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments, of Great Britain by : John Evans
Download or read book The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments, of Great Britain written by John Evans and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Continental Connections by : Hugo Anderson-Whymark
Download or read book Continental Connections written by Hugo Anderson-Whymark and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prehistories of Britain and Ireland are inescapably entwined with continental European narratives. The central aim here is to explore Ôcross-channelÕ relationships throughout later prehistory, investigating the archaeological links (material, social, cultural) between the areas we now call Britain and Ireland, and continental Europe, from the Mesolithic through to the end of the Iron Age. Since the separation from the European mainland of Ireland (c. 16,000 BC) and Britain (c. 6000 BC), their island nature has been seen as central to many aspects of life within them, helping to define their senses of identity, and forming a crucial part of their neighbourly relationship with continental Europe and with each other. However, it is important to remember that the surrounding seaways have often served to connect as well as to separate these islands from the continent. In approaching the subject of Ôcontinental connectionsÕ in the long-term, and by bringing a variety of different archaeological perspectives (associated with different periods) to bear on it, this volume provides a new a new synthesis of the ebbs and flows of the cross-channel relationship over the course of 15,000 years of later prehistory, enabling fresh understandings and new insights to emerge about the intimately linked trajectories of change in both regions.
Book Synopsis Report by : Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1884
Download or read book Report written by Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1884 and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Arts in Early England by : Gerard Baldwin Brown
Download or read book The Arts in Early England written by Gerard Baldwin Brown and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author died while several chapters of v. 6 were obviously unfinished, but no attempt was made to complete the subject-matter. The work was to have been concluded with a 7th volume discussing the illuminated manuscripts of the period.
Book Synopsis Braybrooke by : William Paley Baildon
Download or read book Braybrooke written by William Paley Baildon and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Becker written by Sir George Francis Hill and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
