Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738176941
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738176941
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Wildlife Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wildlife conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Thesaurus of Agricultural Organisms
Author: Derwent PublicationsPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780412372902
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 1578
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Canids of the World
Author: José R. CastellóPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691185417
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The most complete and user-friendly photographic field guide to the world’s canids This stunningly illustrated and easy-to-use field guide covers every species of the world’s canids, from the Gray Wolf of North America to the dholes of Asia, from African jackals to the South American Bush Dog. It features more than 150 superb color plates depicting every kind of canid and detailed facing-page species accounts that describe key identification features, morphology, distribution, subspeciation, habitat, and conservation status in the wild. The book also includes distribution maps and tips on where to observe each species, making Canids of the World the most comprehensive and user-friendly guide to these intriguing and spectacular mammals. Covers every species and subspecies of canid Features more than 150 color plates with more than 600 photos from around the globe Depicts species in similar poses for quick and easy comparisons Describes key identification features, habitat, behavior, reproduction, and much more Draws on the latest taxonomic research Includes distribution maps and tips on where to observe each species The ideal field companion and a delight for armchair naturalists
Bulletin ...
Author: Société ethnologique, ParisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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The Magdalenian Household
Author: Ezra ZubrowPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438433662
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A comprehensive investigation of household life during the Upper Paleolithic era. What was home and family like in Paleolithic Europe? How did mobile hunter-gatherer families live, work, and play together in the fourteenth millennium BP? What were the functional and spatial constraints and markers of their domesticitythe processes that create and sustain a household? Despite the long recognized absence of comprehensive archaeological data on such ancient homes and hearths, the archaeologists in this volume begin unraveling the domesticity of the Upper Paleolithic by drawing on both an immense trove of new material evidence and comparative site data, and a range of incisive and illuminating ethnographic analogies, theoretical models, and simulations. Five Late Magdalenian sites from the Paris Basin and one later Azilian site provide striking evidence of well-preserved camps of short duration, situated on valley bottoms and buried by gentle floods. Of particular interest and value is the site of Verberie, rich in lithic tools, faunal remains, hearths, and other indicators of spatial organization, which has been excavated continuously for twenty-six years by the same director and provides an unparalleled source of information on Paleolithic domesticity. The first group of essays and reports look at the technology and demographic evidences of domesticity; the second set seeks clues to the spatial patterning of Paleolithic households; while the final essays draw on ethnographic analogies to reconstruct and interpret gendered divisions of labor, perishable technologies, and other activities not directly recognizable from archaeological remains. [The Magdalenian Household] should be required reading for anyone with an interest in Upper Palaeolithic behaviour and the evolution of the use of space. Antiquity because of the excellent syntheses of especially the long-term, high-quality research at Verberie, this book should be in the collections of all institutions with serious interests in Upper Paleolithic prehistory. Journal of Anthropological Research
The Hippodrome of Constantinople and Its Still Existing Monuments
Author: Edwin Augustus GrosvenorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Istanbul (Turkey)
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Geodiversitas
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earth sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Ammassalik, East Greenland - End or Presistance of an Isolate
Author: Joelle Robert-LamblinPublisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 9788763511742
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
This work retraces the various phases of the evolution of a small East Greenlandic society throughout the twentieth century and sums up its present-day transformations as a result of its contact with the western world. Discovered barely a century ago, the Ammassalik Eskimo ethnic group was in a way a "perfect" model of an isolate -- whether from a biological or a cultural point of view. It opened to the outside world, slowly before the Second World War, then consistently faster after the 1940's. This society of nomadic sea mammal hunters under-went a real demographic explosion, became sedentary, diversified its activities and lifestyles and is beginning to show some social stratification. Demographic analysis, on a genealogical basis, has been at the heart of this re-search on change; it allows us to appreciate transformations in the biological heritage, as well as in family organisation and social and economic structures. This approach draws attention to the existing interactions between the various phenomena which make up the life of a small society and determine its evolution. In conclusion, the contemporary history of some 2300 Ammassalimmiut of Ammassalik district is placed in the wider context of Greenland's accession to Home Rule (in 1979) and of the unifying movement initiated between three of the territories where the Inuit live today: Alaska, Canada and Greenland.
Greenland Impressions
Author: Luc HardyPublisher: Luc Hardy
ISBN: 0974608017
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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