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Author: Timothy H. Ives
Publisher: World Encounter Institute/New English Review Press
Published: 2021-10-04
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781943003532
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One archeologist stands alone against the Ceremonial Stone Landscape movement. Read his story.
Author: Todd Cleveland
Publisher: Africa in World History
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780821421000
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Stones of Contention explores the major developments in the remarkable history of Africa's diamonds, from the earliest stirrings of international interest in the continent's mineral wealth in the first millennium A.D. to the present day.
Author: John McNabb
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011-03-17
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 1134090552
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Taking as its central theme the issue of whether early Hominins organized themselves into societies as we understand them, John McNabb looks at how modern researchers recognize such archaeological cultures. He examines the existence of a stone tool culture called the Clactonian to introduce the multidisciplinary nature of the subject. In analyzing the various kinds of data archaeologists would use to investigate the existence of a Palaeolithic culture, this book represents the latest research in archaeology, population dispersals, geology, climatology, human palaeontoloty, evolutionary psychology, environmental and biological disciplines and dating techniques, along with many other research methods.
Author: Aubrey Burl
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780300076899
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Archaeologist Aubrey Burl, for more than thirty years a specialist in the study of stone circles, selects a dozen attractive and evocative rings for close examination. Each of the twelve sites illuminates a particular archaeological question - the purpose of stone circles, their construction, age, distribution, design, art, legend and relation to astronomy. Burl asks, and offers sometimes surprising answers to questions about Stonehenge: how were its bluestones transported from south-west Wales, why was its Slaughter Stone not used for sacrifice, and why is Stonehenge - the most British of stone circles - not a stone circle and not British? To conclude his account of the strange subtleties of stone circles, Burl reconstructs the social history of Swinside in the Lake District, describing the builders, their way of life, and the ceremonies they performed inside their lovely ring.
Author: Richard Lyman Bushman
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2007-03-13
Total Pages: 786
ISBN-13: 1400077532
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Founder of the largest indigenous Christian church in American history, Joseph Smith published the 584-page Book of Mormon when he was twenty-three and went on to organize a church, found cities, and attract thousands of followers before his violent death at age thirty-eight. Richard Bushman, an esteemed cultural historian and a practicing Mormon, moves beyond the popular stereotype of Smith as a colorful fraud to explore his personality, his relationships with others, and how he received revelations. An arresting narrative of the birth of the Mormon Church, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling also brilliantly evaluates the prophet’s bold contributions to Christian theology and his cultural place in the modern world.
Author: George Shannon
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780439260732
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When Snake starts sleeping on the rock where Lizard lives, Lizard must figure out how to get his home back.
Author: Barbara McKean Parmenter
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010-07-05
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 0292787952
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A struggle between two memories" is how Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish describes the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. Within this struggle, the meanings of land and home have been challenged and questioned, so that even heaps of stones become points of contention. Are they proof of ancient Hebrew settlement, or rubble from a bulldozed Palestinian village? The memory of these stones, and of the land itself, is nurtured and maintained in Palestinian writing and other modes of expression, which are used to confront and counter Israeli images and rhetoric. This struggle provides a rich vein of thought about the nature of human experience of place and the political uses to which these experiences are put. In this book, Barbara McKean Parmenter explores the roots of Western and Zionist images of Palestine, then draws upon the work of Darwish, Ghassan Kanafani, and other writers to trace how Palestinians have represented their experience of home and exile since the First World War. This unique blending of cultural geography and literary analysis opens an unusual window on the struggle between these two peoples over a land that both divides them and brings them together.
Author: United States. Department of the Treasury
Publisher:
Published: 1904
Total Pages: 1470
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Department of the Treasury
Publisher:
Published:
Total Pages: 1036
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Beginning with 1915 the Abstracts of decisions of the United States Customs court are included
