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Book American Antiquities and Discoveries in the West

Download or read book American Antiquities and Discoveries in the West written by Josiah Priest and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nature and Antiquities

Download or read book Nature and Antiquities written by Philip L. Kohl and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature and Antiquities analyzes how the study of indigenous peoples was linked to the study of nature and natural sciences. Leading scholars break new ground and entreat archaeologists to acknowledge the importance of ways of knowing in the study of nature in the history of archaeology.

Book American Antiquities

Download or read book American Antiquities written by Terry A. Barnhart and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing the history of American archaeology, especially concerning eighteenth and nineteenth-century arguments, is not always as straightforward or simple as it might seem. Archaeology’s trajectory from an avocation, to a semi-profession, to a specialized, self-conscious profession was anything but a linear progression. The development of American archaeology was an organic and untidy process, which emerged from the intellectual tradition of antiquarianism and closely allied itself with the natural sciences throughout the nineteenth century—especially geology and the debate about the origins and identity of indigenous mound-building cultures of the eastern United States. Terry A. Barnhart examines how American archaeology developed within an eclectic set of interests and equally varied settings. He argues that fundamental problems are deeply embedded in secondary literature relating to the nineteenth-century debate about “Mound Builders” and “American Indians.” Some issues are perceptual, others contextual, and still others basic errors of fact. Adding to the problem are semantic and contextual considerations arising from the accommodating, indiscriminate, and problematic use of the term “race” as a synonym for tribe, nation, and race proper—a concept and construct that does not, in all instances, translate into current understandings and usages. American Antiquities uses this early discourse on the mounds to frame perennial anthropological problems relating to human origins and antiquity in North America.

Book Field Guide to American Antique Furniture

Download or read book Field Guide to American Antique Furniture written by Joseph T. Butler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1985 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 1700 of Skibinski's line drawings present a visual approach to the identification of antique furnishings. The book is arranged in chronological sequences (17th century through the early 20th century) by type of furniture, from tables and settees to desks and bookcases. Butler and Johnson have included some important information for the novice and the experienced collector: the sources of furniture used as models for the illustrations; lists of museums, art galleries, and special displays of outstanding collections of furniture; a selected bibliography and a glossary; the anatomy of a piece of furniture; and a brief history of the periods of furniture and furniture makers. Highly recommended for public libraries and other subject collections.

Book American Antiquities

Download or read book American Antiquities written by Terry A. Barnhart and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing the history of American archaeology, especially concerning eighteenth- and nineteenth-century arguments, is not always as straightforward as it might seem. Archaeology’s trajectory from an avocation to a semi-profession to a specialized profession, rather than being a linear progression, was an untidy organic process that emerged from the intellectual tradition of antiquarianism. It then closely allied itself with the natural sciences throughout the nineteenth century, especially with geology and the debate about the origins and identity of the indigenous mound-building cultures of the eastern United States. In his reexamination of the eclectic interests and equally varied settings of nascent American archaeology, Terry A. Barnhart exposes several fundamental, deeply embedded historiographical problems within the secondary literature relating to the nineteenth-century debate about “Mound Builders” and “American Indians.” Some issues are perceptual, others contextual, and still others are basic errors of fact. Adding to the problem are semantic and contextual considerations arising from the problematic use of the term “race” as a synonym for tribe, nation, and race proper—a concept and construct that does not in all instances translate into current understanding and usage. American Antiquities uses this early discourse on the mounds to reframe perennial anthropological problems relating to human origins and antiquity in North America.

Book American Antiquities

    Book Details:
  • Author : Josiah Priest
  • Publisher : Hayriver Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780970398529
  • Pages : 412 pages

Download or read book American Antiquities written by Josiah Priest and published by Hayriver Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being an exhibition of the evidence that an ancient population of many partially civilized nations differing entirely from those of the present day indians peopled America many centuries before its discovery by Columbus, and inquiries into their origin, with a copious description of many of their stupendous works, now in ruins, with conjectures concerning what may have become of them. Compiled from travels, Authentic sources, and the researches of antiquarian societies. - from the 1832 second edition by Josiah Priest.

Book American Antiquities  and Discoveries in the West

Download or read book American Antiquities and Discoveries in the West written by Josiah Priest and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Short Guide to the American Antiquities in the British Museum

Download or read book A Short Guide to the American Antiquities in the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Antiquities  and discoveries in the West     Second edition  revised

Download or read book American Antiquities and discoveries in the West Second edition revised written by Josiah Priest and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Antique Toys  1830 1900

Download or read book American Antique Toys 1830 1900 written by Bernard Barenholtz and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1980 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Antiquities

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  • Author : Cynthia Ozick
  • Publisher : Knopf
  • Release : 2021-04-13
  • ISBN : 0593318838
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book Antiquities written by Cynthia Ozick and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of our most preeminent writers, a tale that captures the shifting meanings of the past and how our experience colors those meanings In Antiquities, Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven elderly trustees of the now-defunct (for thirty-four years) Temple Academy for Boys, is preparing a memoir of his days at the school, intertwined with the troubling distractions of present events. As he navigates, with faltering recall, between the subtle anti-Semitism that pervaded the school's ethos and his fascination with his own family's heritage--in particular, his illustrious cousin, the renowned archaeologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie--he reconstructs the passions of a childhood encounter with the oddly named Ben-Zion Elefantin, a mystifying older pupil who claims descent from Egypt's Elephantine Island. From this seed emerges one of Cynthia Ozick's most wondrous tales, touched by unsettling irony and the elusive flavor of a Kafka parable, and weaving, in her own distinctive voice, myth and mania, history and illusion.

Book Encyclopedia of American Farm Implements   Antiques

Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Farm Implements Antiques written by C.H. Wendel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-04-06 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolution of the modern farm Finally, an encyclopedia reference work covering American farm implements and farm-related antiques from the 1800s through the 1940s. Through Encyclopedia of American Farm Implements & Antiques, follow the exciting and fascinating technological advances in farm equipment that made the United States the breadbasket to the world. Thoroughly researched, this guide features nearly 2,000 rare illustrations of farm equipment - the most poplar to the most obscure - from firms such as Deere & Co., J.I. Case, Allis-Chalmers, International Harvester and McCormick. Trace the history of: Alfalfa Grinders Balers Corn Binders Corn Harvesters Cultivators Elevators Drills Hay Tools Milking Machines Plows Saws Threshers Washing Machines Plus Much More! If you have an interest in farming and history, you'll love Encyclopedia of American Farm Implements & Antiques. Not only does it identify and illustrate farm equipment, but it explains how this equipment was used and reveals many of the trials and tribulations farmers faced in using it. Also includes current price ranges for thousands of implements and antiques.

Book Early American Antique Country Furnishings

Download or read book Early American Antique Country Furnishings written by George C. Neumann and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1984 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Antiquities Act

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  • Author : David Harmon
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 2006-04-20
  • ISBN : 9780816525607
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book The Antiquities Act written by David Harmon and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2006-04-20 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origins of the Antiquities Act / Ronald F. Lee -- Edgar Lee Hewett and the politics of archaeology / Raymond Harris Thompson -- John F. Lacey : conservation's public servant / Rebecca Conard -- Landmark decision : the Antiquities Act, big-stick conservation, and the modern state / Char Miller -- Showdown at Jackson Hole : a monumental backlash against the Antiquities Act / Hal Rothman -- President Carter's coup : an insider's view of the 1978 Alaska monument designations / Cecil D. Andrus and John C. Freemuth -- The Antiquities Act and the exercise of presidential power : the Clinton monuments / Mark Squillace -- Antiquities Act monuments : the Elgin marbles of our public lands? / James R Rasband -- The foundation for American public archaeology : section 3 of the Antiquities Act of 1906 / Francis P. McManamon -- The Antiquities Act and historic preservation / Jerry L. Rogers -- The Antiquities Act at one hundred years : a Native American perspective / Joe E. Watkins -- The Antiquities Act and nature conservation / David Harmon -- The Antiquities Act meets the Federal Land Policy and Management Act / Elena Daly and Geoffrey B. Middaugh -- Co-managed monuments : a field report on the first years of Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument / Darla Sidles and Dennis Curtis -- Application of the Antiquities Act to the oceans : something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue / Brad Barr and Katrina Van Dine -- The Antiquities Act : a cornerstone of archaeology, historic preservation, and conservation / David Harmon, Francis P. McManamon, and Dwight T. Pitcaithley -- Appendix: essential facts and figures on the national monuments.

Book Ancient America in Notes on American Archaeology

Download or read book Ancient America in Notes on American Archaeology written by John Dennison Baldwin and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ancient America  in Notes on American Archaeology

Download or read book Ancient America in Notes on American Archaeology written by John D. Baldwin and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology' by John D. Baldwin is a fascinating account of the ancient American continent, delving into the remains of the Mound-Builders, Mexico and Central America, and the Aztec and Peruvian civilizations. Written in the 1800s, this book provides a comprehensive view of the subject, with Baldwin summarizing the known American antiquities and offers thoughts and suggestions relative to their significance.