Author: Nicola Frances Denzey
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 9780807013083
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Bone Gatherers is a Beacon Press publication.
The Bone Gatherers
Author: Nicola Frances Denzey
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 9780807013083
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Bone Gatherers is a Beacon Press publication.
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 9780807013083
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Bone Gatherers is a Beacon Press publication.
The Bone Pickers
Author: Al Dewlen
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
ISBN: 9780896724792
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Against the flamboyant background of the "Golden Spread," the oil-rich Panhandle of the late 1950s, Al Dewlen has poised a full-scale and truly original novel of one Texas family--the Mungers of Amarillo. The six Munger siblings are the heirs of hard-drinking, hardscrabble farmer Cecil Munger, who in one generation brought his family from Dust Bowl poverty to unfathomable wealth. Wayward humor, warmth and passion, vigorous and imaginative revelation silhouette their individual rebelliousness against the debilitating restrictions of the family empire.
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
ISBN: 9780896724792
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Against the flamboyant background of the "Golden Spread," the oil-rich Panhandle of the late 1950s, Al Dewlen has poised a full-scale and truly original novel of one Texas family--the Mungers of Amarillo. The six Munger siblings are the heirs of hard-drinking, hardscrabble farmer Cecil Munger, who in one generation brought his family from Dust Bowl poverty to unfathomable wealth. Wayward humor, warmth and passion, vigorous and imaginative revelation silhouette their individual rebelliousness against the debilitating restrictions of the family empire.
The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers
Author: Robert L. Kelly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107024870
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107024870
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity.
Early Hunter-Gatherers of the California Coast
Author: Jon M. Erlandson
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475750420
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Based on detailed excavation data, the author reconstructs the paleography of the Santa Barbara coast ca. 8500 years ago, makes comparisons to other early California sites, and applies his findings to current theories of hunter-gatherers and coastal environments. With an emphasis on paleographic reconstructions, site formation processes, chronological studies, and integrated faunal analyses, the work will be of interest to a wide range of scholars working in shell middens, hunter-gatherer ecology, geoarchaeology, and coatal or aquatic adaptations.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475750420
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Based on detailed excavation data, the author reconstructs the paleography of the Santa Barbara coast ca. 8500 years ago, makes comparisons to other early California sites, and applies his findings to current theories of hunter-gatherers and coastal environments. With an emphasis on paleographic reconstructions, site formation processes, chronological studies, and integrated faunal analyses, the work will be of interest to a wide range of scholars working in shell middens, hunter-gatherer ecology, geoarchaeology, and coatal or aquatic adaptations.
Built on Bones
Author: Brenna Hassett
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472922956
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The city has killed most of your ancestors, and it's probably killing you, too - this book tells you why. Imagine you are a hunter-gatherer some 15,000 years ago. You've got a choice – carry on foraging, or plant a few seeds and move to one of those new-fangled settlements down the valley. What you won't know is that urban life is short and riddled with dozens of new diseases; your children will be shorter and sicklier than you are, they'll be plagued with gum disease, and stand a decent chance of a violent death at the point of a spear. Why would anyone choose this? This is one of the many intriguing questions tackled by Brenna Hassett in Built on Bones. Using research on skeletal remains from around the world, this book explores the history of humanity's experiment with the metropolis, and looks at why our ancestors chose city life, and why they have largely stuck to it. It explains the diseases, the deaths and the many other misadventures that we have unwittingly unleashed upon ourselves throughout the metropolitan past, and as the world becomes increasingly urbanised, what we can look forward to in the future. Telling the tale of shifts in human growth and health that have occurred as we transitioned from a mobile to a largely settled species. Built on Bones offers an accessible insight into a critical but relatively unheralded aspect of the human story: our recent evolution.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472922956
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The city has killed most of your ancestors, and it's probably killing you, too - this book tells you why. Imagine you are a hunter-gatherer some 15,000 years ago. You've got a choice – carry on foraging, or plant a few seeds and move to one of those new-fangled settlements down the valley. What you won't know is that urban life is short and riddled with dozens of new diseases; your children will be shorter and sicklier than you are, they'll be plagued with gum disease, and stand a decent chance of a violent death at the point of a spear. Why would anyone choose this? This is one of the many intriguing questions tackled by Brenna Hassett in Built on Bones. Using research on skeletal remains from around the world, this book explores the history of humanity's experiment with the metropolis, and looks at why our ancestors chose city life, and why they have largely stuck to it. It explains the diseases, the deaths and the many other misadventures that we have unwittingly unleashed upon ourselves throughout the metropolitan past, and as the world becomes increasingly urbanised, what we can look forward to in the future. Telling the tale of shifts in human growth and health that have occurred as we transitioned from a mobile to a largely settled species. Built on Bones offers an accessible insight into a critical but relatively unheralded aspect of the human story: our recent evolution.
Leverage
Author: Sovereign Press
Publisher: Steve Jackson Games
ISBN: 9781931567053
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher: Steve Jackson Games
ISBN: 9781931567053
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Schedule A, Duties on Chemicals, Oils, and Paints
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemical industry
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemical industry
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Duties on Chemicals
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemical industry
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemical industry
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Animal Teeth and Human Tools
Author: Christy G. Turner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107030293
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
A unique study of Ice Age human and carnivore bone damage and its importance in understanding ancient life in Siberia.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107030293
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
A unique study of Ice Age human and carnivore bone damage and its importance in understanding ancient life in Siberia.
Death and Rebirth in Late Antiquity
Author: Lee M. Jefferson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1978701608
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Death and rebirth was of vital importance to early Christians in late antiquity. In late antiquity, death was all encompassing. Mortality rates were high, plague and disease in urban areas struck at will, and one lived on the knife’s edge regarding one’s health. Religion filled a crucial role in this environment, offering an option for those who sought cure and comfort. Following death, the inhumed were memorialized, providing solace to family members through sculpture, painting, and epigraphy. This book offers a sustained interdisciplinary treatment of death and rebirth, a theme that early Christians (and scholars) found important. By analysing the theme of death and rebirth through various lenses, the contributors deepen our understanding of the early Christian funerary and liturgical practices as well as their engagement with other groups in the Empire.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1978701608
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Death and rebirth was of vital importance to early Christians in late antiquity. In late antiquity, death was all encompassing. Mortality rates were high, plague and disease in urban areas struck at will, and one lived on the knife’s edge regarding one’s health. Religion filled a crucial role in this environment, offering an option for those who sought cure and comfort. Following death, the inhumed were memorialized, providing solace to family members through sculpture, painting, and epigraphy. This book offers a sustained interdisciplinary treatment of death and rebirth, a theme that early Christians (and scholars) found important. By analysing the theme of death and rebirth through various lenses, the contributors deepen our understanding of the early Christian funerary and liturgical practices as well as their engagement with other groups in the Empire.