Global in perspective and covering over four million years of history, this accessible volume provides a chronological account of both the development of the human race and the order in which modern societies have made discoveries about their ancient past. Beginning deep in prehistory, it takes in all the great archaeological sites of the world as it advances to the present day. A masterful combination of succinct analysis and driving narrative, Archaeology: The Whole Story also addresses the questions that inevitably arise as we gradually learn more about the history of our species: what are we? Where did we come from? What inspired us to start building, writing and all the other activities that we traditionally regard as exclusively human? A concluding section explains how we know what we know: for example, how seventeen prehistoric shrines were discovered around Stonehenge using magnetometers, ground-penetrating radars, and 3D laser scanners; and how DNA analysis enabled us to identify some bones discovered beneath a car park in Leicester as the remains of a fifteenth-century king of England.
Peter Grant has recently studied the same finches on the Galápagos Islands that partially inspired Darwin's theory . But unlike Darwin , Grant had the chance to see natural selection in action . And it was surprisingly quick .
Dinwoody Dissected is a compilation of papers presented at a workshop in Thermopolis, Wyoming during June 2016.
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This book summarizes results of decades of Japanese intensive archaeological study and introduces some local museums conserving and interpreting cultural heritage in the face of overwhelming urbanization.
For the group 0.5-1.5 yr . , however , the longbone lengths are significantly greater in the Merchant and Ubelaker study than in the study reported by Johnston , and the variance is even greater when compared with the Hesi data .
In this fascinating book, Clark Spencer Larsen shows that the dead can speak to us--about their lives, and ours--through the remarkable insights of bioarchaeology, which reconstructs the lives and lifestyles of past peoples based on the ...
To Illustrate the Monuments: Essays on Archaeology Presented to Stuart Piggott on the Occasion of His Sixty-fifth Birthday
Hodgson , GWI 1981 A comparative account of the metrical data derived from selected historic sites in Great Britain . PhD thesis , Dundee University . Hodgson , GWI 1983 ' The animal remains from medieval sites within three royal burghs ...
McLean , Ruari . The Thames & Hudson Manual of Typography . London : Thames & Hudson , 1997. In a thorough discussion of how to present text on a page , McLean considers issues of typeface readability ( serif typefaces are usually best ...
Center for Atmospheric Research , Boulder , Colo . , May , 1979 R. F. Willetts , The Civilization of Ancient Crete ( London 1977 ) CHAPTER 4 : The Lyric Age Works already cited : Cartledge , Payne - Dunbabin E. Akurgal , Ancient Ruins ...