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| Author | : C. N. Dubelaar |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : |
For review see: Arie Boomert, in The Journal of Caribbean History, vol. 21, no. 1 (1987); p. 78-81; Samuel M. Wilson, in Nieuwe West-Indische Gids/New West Indian Guide, vol. 62 (1988); p. 194-195; Montalban, no. 19 (1987); p. 343.
| Author | : Michele Hayward |
| Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
| Total Pages | : 301 |
| Release | : 2009-07-14 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0817355308 |
Rock Art of the Caribbean focuses on the nature of Caribbean rock art or rock graphics and makes clear the region's substantial and distinctive rock art tradition.
| Author | : David S. Whitley |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 876 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780742502567 |
While there has always been a large public interest in ancient pictures painted or carved on stone, the archaeological study of rock art is in its infancy. But intensive amounts of research has revolutionized this field in the past decade. New methods of dating and analysis help to pinpoint the makers of these beautiful images, new interpretive models help us understand this art in relation to culture. Identification, conservation and management of rock art sites have become major issues in historical preservation worldwide. And the number of archaeologically attested sites has mushroomed. In this handbook, the leading researchers in the rock art area provide cogent, state-of-the-art summaries of the technical, interpretive, and regional advances in rock art research. The book offers a comprehensive, basic reference of current information on key topics over six continents for archaeologists, anthropologists, art historians, and rock art enthusiasts.
| Author | : C. N. Dubelaar |
| Publisher | : Caribbean |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
" South American and Caribbean Petroglyphs" offers a critical summary of the crucial data for an analysis of South American and Antillean rock inscriptions.
| Author | : Simon J. Holdaway |
| Publisher | : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 2017-12-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1938770501 |
The Neolithic is thought to have arrived in Egypt via diffusion from an origin in southwest Asia, relatively late compared to neighboring locations. The authors suggest an alternative approach to understanding the development of food production in Egypt based on the results of new fieldwork in the Fayum. They provide the results of a detailed study of the Fayum archaeological landscape interpretable at different temporal and spatial scales, using an expanded version of low-level food production to organize observations concerning paleoenvironment, socioeconomy, settlement, and mobility. While domestic plants and animals were indeed introduced from elsewhere, when a number of aspects of the archaeological record are compared, a settlement system is suggested that has no obvious analogues with the Neolithic in southwest Asia. The results obtained from the Fayum are used to assess other contemporary sites in Egypt.
| Author | : Lorenc Bejko |
| Publisher | : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press |
| Total Pages | : 1178 |
| Release | : 2015-12-31 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1938770528 |
The burial tumulus of Lofkend lies in one of the richest archaeological areas of Albania (ancient "Illyria"), home to a number of burial tumuli spanning the Bronze and Iron Ages of later prehistory. Some were robbed long ago, others were reused for modern burials; few were excavated under scientific conditions. Modern understanding of the pre- and protohistory of Illyria has largely been shaped by the contents of such burial mounds. What inspired the systematic exploration of Lofkend by UCLA was more than the promise of an unplundered necropolis; it was also a chance to revisit the significance of this tumulus and its fellows for the emergence of urbanism and complexity in ancient Illyria. In addition to artifacts, the recovery of surviving plant remains, bones, and other organic material contribute insights into the environmental and ecological history of the region.
| Author | : Juan Schobinger |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 590 |
| Release | : 2016-12-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317476654 |
Lavishly illustrated in full color and black and white, this handsome reference provides a broad survey of the rich artistic heritage of pre-Columbian North and South America. Meticulously researched by archaeologists and anthropologists, the set features dramatic close-ups of engraved rock artifacts, cave paintings, pottery, and inscribed and sculpted bones. Covering the entire two continents from present-day Canada in the far north through Central America and down to the Andes Mountains and Patagonia in the south, it is a stunning visual and written record of the great variety of artworks created by Neolithic American peoples over many millennia.
| Author | : Brian S Bauer |
| Publisher | : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2020-12-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1950446220 |
The Wari State was the first expansionistic power to develop in the Andean highlands. Emerging in the area of modern Ayacucho (Peru) around AD 650, the Wari expanded to control much of the central Andes by the time of their collapse at AD 1000. This book describes the discovery and excavation (2010-2012) of a major new Wari site (Espiritu Pampa), located in the subtropical region of Vilcabamba (Department of Cuzco). While it was long believed that the Wari established trade networks between their highland capital and the Amazonian lowlands, the identification of a large Wari site in the Vilcabamba region came as a surprise to most Wari specialists. This book covers the first three years of excavations at the Wari site of Espiritu Pampa. It describes the identification of a central plaza surrounded by a series of D-shaped structures, that are believed to the loci of special activates for the Wari. It also describes the contents of more than 30 burials, many of which contained finely crafted silver, gold, bronze and ceramic objects.
| Author | : Zecharia Sitchin |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 462 |
| Release | : 1990-09-01 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 1591439167 |
The Earth Chronicles series is based on the premise that mythology is not fanciful but the repository of ancient memories; that the Bible ought to be read literally as a historic/scientific document; and that ancient civilizations--older and greater than assumed--were the product of knowledge brought to Earth by the Anunnaki, "Those Who from Heaven to Earth Came." The 12th Planet, the first book of the series, presents ancient evidence for the existence of an additional planet in the Solar System: the home planet of the Anunnaki. In confirmation of this evidence, recent data from unmanned spacecraft has led astronomers to actively search for what is being called "Planet X." The subsequent volume, The Stairway to Heaven, traces man's unending search for immortality to a spaceport in the Sinai Peninsula and to the Giza pyramids, which had served as landing beacons for it--refuting the notion that these pyramids were built by human pharaohs. Recently, records by an eye witness to a forgery of an inscription by the pharaoh Khufu inside the Great Pyramid corroborated the book's conclusions. The Wars of Gods and Men, recounting events closer to our times, concludes that the Sinai spaceport was destroyed 4,000 years ago with nuclear weapons. Photographs of Earth from space clearly show evidence of such an explosion. Such gratifying corroboration of audacious conclusions has been even swifter for The Lost Realms. In the relatively short interval between the completion of the manuscript and its publication, archaeologists, linguists, and other scientists have offered a "coastal theory" in lieu of the "frozen trekking" one to account for man's arrival in the Americas--in ships, as this volume has concluded. These experts have "suddenly discovered 2,000 years of missing civilization" in the words of a Yale University scholar--confirming this book's conclusion--and are now linking the beginnings of such civilizations to those of the Old World, as Sumerian texts and biblical verses. For the first time, the entire Earth Chronicles series is now available in a hardcover collector's edition.
