Download or read book The Bear written by Michel Pastoureau and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear's centrality in cults and mythologies left traces in European languages, literatures, and legends. Michel Pastoureau considers how this once venerated creature was deposed by Christianity and continued to sink lower in the symbolic bestiary before rising again in Pyrrhic triumph as the teddy bear.
Download or read book The Native Mind and the Cultural Construction of Nature written by Scott Atran and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the cognitive consequences of diminished contact with nature examines the relationship between how people think about the natural world and how they act on it, and how these are affected by cultural differences.
Download or read book De Compendiosa Doctrina written by Nonius Marcellus and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Current Research in Egyptology written by Christelle Alvarez and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixteenth Current Research in Egyptology (CRE) conference was held from the 15–18 April 2015 at the University of Oxford and once again provided a platform for postgraduates and early career Egyptologists, as well as independent researchers, to present their research. These proceedings for CREXVI represent the wide-range of themes that were offered by delegates during the conference. Papers focus on the theme of travel in ancient Egypt from a wide range of perspectives such as concrete or abstract travels, travel in space and time, travel inside, to, or from Egypt, travel in literature, travel of beliefs and ideas or travel of objects.
Download or read book Flavian Epic written by Antony Augoustakis and published by Oxford Readings in Classical S. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epics of the three Flavian poets--Silius Italicus, Statius, and Valerius Flaccus--have, in recent times, attracted the attention of scholars, who have re-evaluated the particular merits of Flavian poetry as far more than imitation of the traditional norms and patterns. Drawn from sixty years of scholarship, this edited collection is the first volume to collate the most influential modern academic writings on Flavian epic poetry, revised and updated to provide both scholars and students alike with a broad yet comprehensive overview of the field. A wide range of topics receive coverage, and analysis and interpretation of individual poems are integrated throughout. The plurality of the critical voices included in the volume presents a much-needed variety of approaches, which are used to tackle questions of intertextuality, gender, poetics, and the social and political context of the period. In doing so, the volume demonstrates that by engaging in a complex and challenging intertextual dialogue with their literary predecessors, the innovative epics of the Flavian poets respond to contemporary needs, expressing overt praise, or covert anxiety, towards imperial rule and the empire.
Download or read book Ecology Settlement and History in the Osmore Drainage Peru written by Don Stephen Rice and published by British Archaeological Reports. This book was released on 1989 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407387239 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407387246 (Volume II); ISBN 9780860546924 (Volume set).
Download or read book Lithic Analysis of Acheulean Assemblages from the Avivim Sites Israel written by Milla Y. Ohel and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 1990 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of material from a surface survey and collection over an area of about a square kilometre along the northern edge of eastern Upper Galilee, close to the border with Lebanon.
Download or read book The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt written by James P. Allen and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2005 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diseases and injuries were major concerns for ancient Egyptians. This book, featuring some sixty-four objects from the Metropolitan Museum, discusses how both practical and magical medicine informed Egyptian art and for the first time reproduces and translates treatments described in the spectacular Edwin Smith Papyrus.
Download or read book Spiral Decoration in Early Bronze Age Scandinavia written by Elisabeth Herner and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 1989 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ritual and Rubbish in the Iron Age of Wessex written by J. D. Hill and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 1995 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author has been a familiar speaker at Theoretical Archaeology Group meetings in Britain for a number of years and his general approach must now be familiar to many people. His specific argument that pit deposits usually interpreted as `rubbish' are in fact structured in a meaningful way is sure to be of interest to all archaeologists involved with the investigation of middens or faunal `rubbish' deposits, though taphonomists may remain sceptical. The wider implications for the study of the Iron Age in Britain (especially his historiographical critique of past `culture-historical' approaches) are also stimulating.
Download or read book Villas Farms and the Late Roman Rural Economy third to Fifth Centuries AD written by Tamara Lewit and published by British Archaeological Reports Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reprint with updated material of the authorÆs 1991 research into villas and farms and rural economy in the Late Roman era (Britain, Gaul, Italy, Spain and Gallia Belgica in the 3rd to 5th centuries AD).
Download or read book Evidence for Christianity in Roman Southern Pannonia Northern Croatia written by Branka Migotti and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 1997 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migotti's study is intended both as a background for a future thorough investigation of the early Christian period in Croatia, as well as an aid to academics whose lack of knowledge of written Croatian may have hindered their acquaintance with modern understanding of the subject.
Download or read book Upper Palaeolithic Faunas from South west France written by Katherine V. Boyle and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 1990 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spine title: French upper Palaeolithic faunas.
Download or read book Maritime Trade Between China and the West written by Moira Tampoe and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 1989 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An archaeological study of ceramics from the trading site at Siraf in the Persian Gulf, excavated between 1966 and 1972. Working from the pottery samples preserved in the Ashmolean and British Museums and the excavation record cards, the author presents a classification of the pottery by fabrics and shapes, and investigates those which are local (many from Siraf Kilus), and those which are imports, such as the glazed wares of Islamic and Chinese origin. This data forms the background to a discussion of Indian Ocean trade between the 8th and 15th centuries.
Download or read book The Rural Landscape of Ancient Israel written by Aren M. Maeir and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2003 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By publishing these ten essays in English in the BAR series the research carried out by the contributors, and the evidence and fieldwork methodologies they cite, is made available to a much wider audience. This volume contains an important collection of case studies and overviews of rural settlement in Israel from late prehistory to the modern period. Addressing broad questions on the physical nature of settlements, their appearance and disappearance from the archaeological record, the relationship between rural and urban sites, settlement patterns and processes, and economic activities, the contributors offer a good cross-section of approaches to the subject.
