Author: Rebecca Wragg Sykes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-08-20
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1472937481
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →** WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 2021 ** 'Beautiful, evocative, authoritative.' Professor Brian Cox 'Important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity.' Yuval Noah Harari Kindred is the definitive guide to the Neanderthals. Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins. Rebecca Wragg Sykes uses her experience at the cutting edge of Palaeolithic research to share our new understanding of Neanderthals, shoving aside clichés of rag-clad brutes in an icy wasteland. She reveals them to be curious, clever connoisseurs of their world, technologically inventive and ecologically adaptable. Above all, they were successful survivors for more than 300,000 years, during times of massive climatic upheaval. Much of what defines us was also in Neanderthals, and their DNA is still inside us. Planning, co-operation, altruism, craftsmanship, aesthetic sense, imagination, perhaps even a desire for transcendence beyond mortality. Kindred does for Neanderthals what Sapiens did for us, revealing a deeper, more nuanced story where humanity itself is our ancient, shared inheritance.
Author: Karen Attar
Publisher: Facet Publishing
Published: 2016-05-31
Total Pages: 609
ISBN-13: 1783300167
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This directory is a handy on-volume discovery tool that will allow readers to locate rare book and special collections in the British Isles. Fully updated since the second edition was published in 1997. this comprehensive and up-to-date guide encompasses collections held in libraries, archives, museums and private hands. The Directory: Provides a national overview of rare book and special collections for those interested in seeing quickly and easily what a library holds Directs researchers to the libraries most relevant for their research Assists libraries considering acquiring new special collections to assess the value of such collections beyond the institution,showing how they fit into a ‘unique and distinctive’ model. Each entry in the Directory provides background information on the library and its purpose, full contact details, the quantity of early printed books, information about particular subject and language strengths, information about unique works and important acquisitions, descriptions of named special collections and deposited collections. Readership: Researchers, academic liaison librarians and library managers.
Author: George E. Sisley
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-10-18
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780266457237
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from The Mining World Index of Current Literature, Vol. 8: Last Half Year, 1915 As in previous volumes the world's literature on mining, metallurgy and kindred subjects appearing in periodical magazines published in America, Europe, Africa and Australia, have been arranged in classi fied form. These articles cover mining, engineering, metallurgy, geology, mineralogy, etc. There is also included papers read before institutes and affiliated engineering and technical societies, as well as reports of Federal and State Geological Surveys and Mining Bureaus at home and abroad and new books. By the system of cross-indexing adopted what is wanted on any mining or affiliated subject is readily found. A brief digest of all articles is given so that a general idea of the article may be obtained. Where more than one author occurs the first-named appears in alphabetical arrangement; the other or others will be found by referring to the authors' index. In the search for some particular article covering a certain sub ject it should be remembered that when reference of any importance is made in that article to more than one subject, the article will be indexed under the different subjects. Careful thought is given to the arrangement of subjects and the classifying of same, and the author would be glad to receive any criticism or suggestion, the adoption of which would make the book of more value to the busy man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: P. Morris
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-01-05
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 0230283144
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An engaging study of a great national institution. Essays explore the changing roles of museums and the perceived public role of a museum of science and technology. Illuminates the ways in which we think about the collecting and display of objects and the often difficult relations between the state, business and industry, and museum funding.
Author: Giulio Morteani
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-06-29
Total Pages: 604
ISBN-13: 9401512922
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Interest in the study of early European cultures is growing. These cultures have left us objects made of gold, other metals and ceramics. The advent of metal detectors, coupled with improved analytical techniques, has increased the number of findings of such objects enormously. Gold was used for economic and ceremonial purposes and thus the gold objects are an important key to our understanding of the social and political structures, as well as the technological achievements, of Bronze and Iron Age European societies. A correct interpretation of the information provided by gold and other metal objects requires the cooperation of experts in the fields of social, materials and natural science. Detailed investigation of gold deposits in Europe have revealed the composition and genesis of the deposits as sources of the metal. In Prehistoric Gold in Europe, a group of leading European geoscientists, metallurgists and archaeologists discuss the techniques of gold mining and metallurgy, the socioeconomic importance of gold as coinage and a symbol of wealth and status, and as an indicator of religious habits, as well as a mirror of trade and cultural relations mirrored by the distribution and types of gold objects in prehistoric times.
Author: Bernhard Fabian
Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag
Published:
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9783487417707
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