Author: April Rhodes James
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469168154
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Dinosaurs, indelible real life characters and a dramatic plunge down a judicial rabbit hole that occurs more often than imaginable. The book has been described as "soul searching," "a roller coaster ride" and "movie material" (it has, in fact, now been adapted as a script). It charts the unique journey of a small family, the unconditional support of community, both local and national, and lessons learned as the result of amazing entrepreneurial experiences. All in all, it tells a compelling true story of survival despite curious challenges. This book is a "Thank You" and a message of possibility to anyone who promotes inspiration through honest intent.
Prehistoric Journeys
Author: April Rhodes James
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469168154
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Dinosaurs, indelible real life characters and a dramatic plunge down a judicial rabbit hole that occurs more often than imaginable. The book has been described as "soul searching," "a roller coaster ride" and "movie material" (it has, in fact, now been adapted as a script). It charts the unique journey of a small family, the unconditional support of community, both local and national, and lessons learned as the result of amazing entrepreneurial experiences. All in all, it tells a compelling true story of survival despite curious challenges. This book is a "Thank You" and a message of possibility to anyone who promotes inspiration through honest intent.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469168154
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Dinosaurs, indelible real life characters and a dramatic plunge down a judicial rabbit hole that occurs more often than imaginable. The book has been described as "soul searching," "a roller coaster ride" and "movie material" (it has, in fact, now been adapted as a script). It charts the unique journey of a small family, the unconditional support of community, both local and national, and lessons learned as the result of amazing entrepreneurial experiences. All in all, it tells a compelling true story of survival despite curious challenges. This book is a "Thank You" and a message of possibility to anyone who promotes inspiration through honest intent.
Prehistoric Journey
Author: Kirk R. Johnson
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN: 1555915531
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
An updated edition of the award-winning primer on the evolution of the planet's life forms, "Prehistoric Journey" introduces readers to the wonders of the prehistoric world through an accessible text and 119 strong, colorful photos of world-class fossils.
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN: 1555915531
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
An updated edition of the award-winning primer on the evolution of the planet's life forms, "Prehistoric Journey" introduces readers to the wonders of the prehistoric world through an accessible text and 119 strong, colorful photos of world-class fossils.
Prehistoric Journeys
Author: Vicki Cummings
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This collection of thirteen papers focuses on what it meant to be 'on the move' at different times in prehistory. Ideas of journeys and travel are integral to many traditions of interpreting the prehistoric archaeological record. Travel was after all the driving force behind the formation and trans formation of identity. How ironic it is that this feature of prehistory has been so overlooked when the ancient world's 'discovery' in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries occurred primarily as the result of travel. The contributors to this volume see journeys as an integral part of prehistoric life - socially meaningful - which must be understood within their (pre)historic contexts.
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This collection of thirteen papers focuses on what it meant to be 'on the move' at different times in prehistory. Ideas of journeys and travel are integral to many traditions of interpreting the prehistoric archaeological record. Travel was after all the driving force behind the formation and trans formation of identity. How ironic it is that this feature of prehistory has been so overlooked when the ancient world's 'discovery' in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries occurred primarily as the result of travel. The contributors to this volume see journeys as an integral part of prehistoric life - socially meaningful - which must be understood within their (pre)historic contexts.
Prehistoric America
Author: Miles Barton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300098198
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"From the icy Arctic vastness to the steamy tropical swamps of Florida, people came upon a teeming variety of animals in North America after the Ice Age. The book travels the continent region by region, introducing fascinating and bizarre beasts including ground sloths, glyptodonts, mastodons, mammoths, saber-toothed and scimitar-toothed cats, and the short-faced bear. Alongside these now-extinct animals were lions, cheetahs, zebras, and camels - animals that have long since disappeared from their North American homes - as well as species still seen today, such as caribou, grizzlies, eagles, salmon, bison, coyotes, prairie dogs, condors, alligators, and jaguars." "A wealth of fossil evidence informs the stunning computer-generated panoramas that fill the pages of the volume. Bones of the ancient beasts again have flesh and fur, unfamiliar animals again roam the landscapes, and the world of prehistoric North America comes startlingly to life."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300098198
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"From the icy Arctic vastness to the steamy tropical swamps of Florida, people came upon a teeming variety of animals in North America after the Ice Age. The book travels the continent region by region, introducing fascinating and bizarre beasts including ground sloths, glyptodonts, mastodons, mammoths, saber-toothed and scimitar-toothed cats, and the short-faced bear. Alongside these now-extinct animals were lions, cheetahs, zebras, and camels - animals that have long since disappeared from their North American homes - as well as species still seen today, such as caribou, grizzlies, eagles, salmon, bison, coyotes, prairie dogs, condors, alligators, and jaguars." "A wealth of fossil evidence informs the stunning computer-generated panoramas that fill the pages of the volume. Bones of the ancient beasts again have flesh and fur, unfamiliar animals again roam the landscapes, and the world of prehistoric North America comes startlingly to life."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Jigsaw Journey Smithsonian: Dinosaurs & Other Prehistoric Animals
Author: Courtney Acampora
Publisher: Silver Dolphin Books
ISBN: 1684123178
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Explore the world of dinosaurs with the Smithsonian! From the mighty T. rex to the plant-grazing Triceratops, Smithsonian Jigsaw Journeys: Dinosaurs & Other Prehistoric Animals includes fascinating information about the creatures that roamed the earth during the Mesozoic Era. After reading about the discovery of Sue the T. rex, why Ankylosaurus was covered in spiky plates, and what caused the extinction of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, kids can complete the included puzzle to bring the dinosaurs to life.
Publisher: Silver Dolphin Books
ISBN: 1684123178
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Explore the world of dinosaurs with the Smithsonian! From the mighty T. rex to the plant-grazing Triceratops, Smithsonian Jigsaw Journeys: Dinosaurs & Other Prehistoric Animals includes fascinating information about the creatures that roamed the earth during the Mesozoic Era. After reading about the discovery of Sue the T. rex, why Ankylosaurus was covered in spiky plates, and what caused the extinction of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, kids can complete the included puzzle to bring the dinosaurs to life.
Prehistoric Art
Author: Randall White
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9780810942622
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Drawing on the most up-to-the-minute research on prehistoric art, an anthropologist presents a global survey, starting with the first explosion of imagery that occurred approximately 40,000 years ago but also including the creations of essentially "prehistoric" peoples living as recently as the early 20th century. 226 illustrations.
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9780810942622
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Drawing on the most up-to-the-minute research on prehistoric art, an anthropologist presents a global survey, starting with the first explosion of imagery that occurred approximately 40,000 years ago but also including the creations of essentially "prehistoric" peoples living as recently as the early 20th century. 226 illustrations.
Dig
Author: Sam Chiarelli
Publisher: Books by Hippocampus
ISBN: 9780999429983
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sam Chiarelli's Dig: A Personal Prehistoric Journey explores why we're so fascinated with dinosaurs and why some people-dinophiles-never outgrow their Mesozoic obsession.Dig follows Sam on a cross-country Amtrak trip with a final destination of a fossil dig in Colorado. Buried within these pages are encounters in museums big and small, prep labs, robotic dinosaur parks, and prehistoric themed hotels-and interviews with many of Sam's childhood heroes: paleontologists, artists, and others who've dedicated their lives to revealing the distant past.Part science and nature adventure and part memoir, this book is all dinosaur.
Publisher: Books by Hippocampus
ISBN: 9780999429983
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sam Chiarelli's Dig: A Personal Prehistoric Journey explores why we're so fascinated with dinosaurs and why some people-dinophiles-never outgrow their Mesozoic obsession.Dig follows Sam on a cross-country Amtrak trip with a final destination of a fossil dig in Colorado. Buried within these pages are encounters in museums big and small, prep labs, robotic dinosaur parks, and prehistoric themed hotels-and interviews with many of Sam's childhood heroes: paleontologists, artists, and others who've dedicated their lives to revealing the distant past.Part science and nature adventure and part memoir, this book is all dinosaur.
Exploring Prehistoric Europe
Author: Christopher Scarre
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Part travel guide, part survey of Europe's prehistory,Exploring Prehistoric Europedelves into fifteen of the most famous, most important, and most exciting archaeological sites in Europe. The first volume in the Places in Time series, this beautiful book takes us to locales both famous and obscure, from Ireland to Poland to Malta, ranging chronologically from Terra Amata, a site in southern France occupied some 380,000 years ago, to Borremose, a Danish settlement that dates to Roman times. The author, archaeologist Chris Scarre, examines the haunting cave paintings of Lascaux, France; the stone circle and ritual complexes of Avebury, England; and the ever mysterious Stonehenge--as well as lesser known but no less intriguing sites around Europe. For each location, he conducts a careful tour of the existing remains, describes the history of its excavation, and then interprets how the site might have been built, used, or occupied. Readers will explore a variety of cultures and monuments, from megalithic stone circles to Neolithic villages to Bronze Age tombs, and see intimate portraits of the daily life of Europe's prehistoric ancestors. Perhaps equally important, Scarre has selected the sites with accessibility in mind--all can be easily reached by the modern tourist--and he also highlights local museums and visitor centers where further artifacts and information can be found. Beautifully illustrated with maps and full-color photographs,Exploring Prehistoric Europemakes the perfect companion for the historically minded traveler--or the reader who wants to curl up at home and wander at leisure through the distant past.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Part travel guide, part survey of Europe's prehistory,Exploring Prehistoric Europedelves into fifteen of the most famous, most important, and most exciting archaeological sites in Europe. The first volume in the Places in Time series, this beautiful book takes us to locales both famous and obscure, from Ireland to Poland to Malta, ranging chronologically from Terra Amata, a site in southern France occupied some 380,000 years ago, to Borremose, a Danish settlement that dates to Roman times. The author, archaeologist Chris Scarre, examines the haunting cave paintings of Lascaux, France; the stone circle and ritual complexes of Avebury, England; and the ever mysterious Stonehenge--as well as lesser known but no less intriguing sites around Europe. For each location, he conducts a careful tour of the existing remains, describes the history of its excavation, and then interprets how the site might have been built, used, or occupied. Readers will explore a variety of cultures and monuments, from megalithic stone circles to Neolithic villages to Bronze Age tombs, and see intimate portraits of the daily life of Europe's prehistoric ancestors. Perhaps equally important, Scarre has selected the sites with accessibility in mind--all can be easily reached by the modern tourist--and he also highlights local museums and visitor centers where further artifacts and information can be found. Beautifully illustrated with maps and full-color photographs,Exploring Prehistoric Europemakes the perfect companion for the historically minded traveler--or the reader who wants to curl up at home and wander at leisure through the distant past.
Making Journeys
Author: Catriona D. Gibson
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 178570933X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Despite notable explorations of past dynamics, much of the archaeological literature on mobility remains dominated by accounts of earlier prehistoric gatherer-hunters, or the long-distance exchange of materials. Refinements of scientific dating techniques, isotope, trace element and aDNA analyses, in conjunction with phenomenological investigation, computer-aided landscape modeling and GIS-style approaches to large data sets, allow us to follow the movement of people, animals and objects in the past with greater precision and conviction. One route into exploring mobility in the past may be through exploring the movements and biographies of artifacts. Challenges lie not only in tracing the origins and final destinations of objects but in the less tangible ‘in between’ journeys and the hands they passed through. Biographical approaches to artifacts include the recognition that culture contact and hybridity affect material culture in meaningful ways. Furthermore, discrete and bounded ‘sites’ still dominate archaeological inquiry, leaving the spaces and connectivities between features and settlements unmapped. These are linked to an under-explored middle-spectrum of mobility, a range nestled between everyday movements and one-off ambitious voyages. We wish to explore how these travels involved entangled meshworks of people, animals, objects, knowledge sets and identities. By crossing and re-crossing cultural, contextual and tenurial boundaries, such journeys could create diasporic and novel communities, ideas and materialities.
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 178570933X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Despite notable explorations of past dynamics, much of the archaeological literature on mobility remains dominated by accounts of earlier prehistoric gatherer-hunters, or the long-distance exchange of materials. Refinements of scientific dating techniques, isotope, trace element and aDNA analyses, in conjunction with phenomenological investigation, computer-aided landscape modeling and GIS-style approaches to large data sets, allow us to follow the movement of people, animals and objects in the past with greater precision and conviction. One route into exploring mobility in the past may be through exploring the movements and biographies of artifacts. Challenges lie not only in tracing the origins and final destinations of objects but in the less tangible ‘in between’ journeys and the hands they passed through. Biographical approaches to artifacts include the recognition that culture contact and hybridity affect material culture in meaningful ways. Furthermore, discrete and bounded ‘sites’ still dominate archaeological inquiry, leaving the spaces and connectivities between features and settlements unmapped. These are linked to an under-explored middle-spectrum of mobility, a range nestled between everyday movements and one-off ambitious voyages. We wish to explore how these travels involved entangled meshworks of people, animals, objects, knowledge sets and identities. By crossing and re-crossing cultural, contextual and tenurial boundaries, such journeys could create diasporic and novel communities, ideas and materialities.
Journey to the Ice Age
Author: Peter L. Storck
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 9780774810289
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
At the end of the Ice Age, small groups of hunter-gatherers crossed from Siberia to Alaska and began the last chapter in the human settlement of the earth. Many left little or no trace. But one group, the Early Paleo-Indians, exploded onto the archaeological record about 11,500 radiocarbon years ago and expanded rapidly throughout North America, sending splinter groups into Central and perhaps South America as well. Journey to the Ice Age explores the challenges faced by the Early Paleo-Indians of northeastern North America. A revealing, autobiographical account, this is at once a captivating record of Storck's discoveries and an introduction to the practice, challenges, and spirit of archaeology.
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 9780774810289
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
At the end of the Ice Age, small groups of hunter-gatherers crossed from Siberia to Alaska and began the last chapter in the human settlement of the earth. Many left little or no trace. But one group, the Early Paleo-Indians, exploded onto the archaeological record about 11,500 radiocarbon years ago and expanded rapidly throughout North America, sending splinter groups into Central and perhaps South America as well. Journey to the Ice Age explores the challenges faced by the Early Paleo-Indians of northeastern North America. A revealing, autobiographical account, this is at once a captivating record of Storck's discoveries and an introduction to the practice, challenges, and spirit of archaeology.