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Book Archaeological Oddities

Download or read book Archaeological Oddities written by Kenneth L. Feder and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does evidence show that Native Americas residing in Utah a thousand years ago lived among dinosaurs, depicting those creatures in their rock art? Did some of those same ancient Americans also encounter visitors from other planets, painting images of space-suited aliens on canyon walls? Have archaeologists discovered evidence that members of the Lost Tribes of Israel visited ancient America, leaving their mark by engraving the Ten Commandments in Hebrew on rocks in New Mexico? And Ohio? Is there archaeological evidence of ancient Celtic visitors to the New World in the form of messages etched in stone, megalithic monuments, and even the remnants of the villages in which they lived? Are American archaeologists covering up the remains of lost cities deeply ensconced in a secret cave in Arizona and in a subterranean chamber in Missouri? Finally, have archaeologists discovered the far western outpost of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, not in Egypt or even Africa, but in, of all places, California? Those questions and more are answered by archaeologist Ken Feder in Archaeological Oddities: A Field Guide to Forty Claims of Lost Civilizations, Ancient Visitors, and Other Strange Sites in North Americathat the above listed questions and others addressed in his book represent the equivalent of “fake news” about America’s ancient past. The forty sites he highlights are, in fact, fascinating and fun places to visit. Feder’s guide provides an entertaining summary of those forty sites along with the practical information you’ll need to visit them. This full-color book includes over 100 fascinating photographs.

Book Phase 1 Intensive Archaeological Survey of the Route 213 Merrimack River Crossing  Lowell  Dracut  and Chelmsford  Massachusetts

Download or read book Phase 1 Intensive Archaeological Survey of the Route 213 Merrimack River Crossing Lowell Dracut and Chelmsford Massachusetts written by Leslie C. Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Why Fairy Tales Stick

Download or read book Why Fairy Tales Stick written by Jack Zipes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his latest book, fairy tales expert Jack Zipes explores the question of why some fairy tales "work" and others don't, why the fairy tale is uniquely capable of getting under the skin of culture and staying there. Why, in other words, fairy tales "stick." Long an advocate of the fairy tale as a serious genre with wide social and cultural ramifications, Jack Zipes here makes his strongest case for the idea of the fairy tale not just as a collection of stories for children but a profoundly important genre. Why Fairy Tales Stick contains two chapters on the history and theory of the genre, followed by case studies of famous tales (including Cinderella, Snow White, and Bluebeard), followed by a summary chapter on the problematic nature of traditional storytelling in the twenty-first century.

Book Geologic Names of North America

Download or read book Geologic Names of North America written by Druid Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Forest and the EcoGothic

Download or read book The Forest and the EcoGothic written by Elizabeth Parker and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first full length study on the pervasive archetype of The Gothic Forest in Western culture. The idea of the forest as deep, dark, and dangerous has an extensive history and continues to resonate throughout contemporary popular culture. The Forest and the EcoGothic examines both why we fear the forest and how exactly these fears manifest in our stories. It draws on and furthers the nascent field of the ecoGothic, which seeks to explore the intersections between ecocriticism and Gothic studies. In the age of the Anthropocene, this work importantly interrogates our relationship to and understandings of the more-than-human world. This work introduces the trope of the Gothic forest, as well as important critical contexts for its discussion, and examines the three main ways in which this trope manifests: as a living, animated threat; as a traditional habitat for monsters; and as a dangerous site for human settlement. This book will appeal to students and scholars with interests in horror and the Gothic, ecohorror and the ecoGothic, environmentalism, ecocriticism, and popular culture more broadly. The accessibility of the subject of ‘The Deep Dark Woods’, coupled with increasingly mainstream interests in interactions between humanity and nature, means this work will also be of keen interest to the general public.

Book The Roman Fort at Ribchester

Download or read book The Roman Fort at Ribchester written by John Henry Hopkinson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1928 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book EcoGothic

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew Smith
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2015-11-01
  • ISBN : 1526102927
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book EcoGothic written by Andrew Smith and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. Ecocriticism has frequently explored images of environmental catastrophe, the wilderness, the idea of home, constructions of 'nature', and images of the post-apocalypse – images which are also central to a certain type of Gothic literature. By exploring the relationship between the ecocritical aspects of the Gothic and the Gothic elements of the ecocritical, this book provides a new way of looking at both the Gothic and ecocriticism. Writers discussed include Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Margaret Atwood, Cormac McCarthy, Dan Simmons and Rana Dasgupta. The volume thus explores writing and film across various national contexts including Britain, America and Canada, as well as giving due consideration to how such issues might be discussed within a global context.

Book Gubik Formation of Quaternary Age in Northern Alaska

Download or read book Gubik Formation of Quaternary Age in Northern Alaska written by Robert Foster Black and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Archaeology as Political Action

Download or read book Archaeology as Political Action written by Randall H. McGuire and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is rare to read an archaeological book that has the capacity to inspire, as this one has."--Mark P. Leone, author of The Archaeology of Liberty in an American Capital "Archaeology as Political Action is a highly original work that will be important for archaeologists and others concerned with processes of social change in the world today and, more importantly, with making a difference."--Thomas C. Patterson, coeditor of Foundations of Social Archaeology "This powerful statement by a leading archaeological thinker has profound implications for rigorous archaeological interpretation, community collaboration, and political intervention."--Stephen W. Silliman, coeditor of Historical Archaeology

Book The Dawn of Astronomy

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. Norman Lockyer
  • Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
  • Release : 2006-04-28
  • ISBN : 0486450120
  • Pages : 465 pages

Download or read book The Dawn of Astronomy written by J. Norman Lockyer and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2006-04-28 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneer in the fields of astrophysics and astro-archeology, J. Norman Lockyer believed that ancient Egyptian monuments were constructed "in strict relation to the stars." In this celebrated study, he explores the relationship between astronomy and architecture in the age of the pharaohs. Lockyer addresses one of the many points already extensively investigated by Egyptologists: the chronology of the kings of Egypt. All experts are in accord regarding the identity of the first monarch, but they cannot agree upon the dates of his reign within a thousand years. The author contends that by applying a knowledge of astronomy to the actual site orientation of the region's pyramids and temples, accurate dating can be achieved. In order to accomplish this, Lockyer had to determine the level of the ancient Egyptian ideas of astronomy. Some of his inferences have been invalidated by subsequent scholarship, but many of his other conclusions stand firm and continue to provide sensational leads into contemporary understanding of archaic astronomy.

Book Mercury

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Wilson Pennington
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1959
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 116 pages

Download or read book Mercury written by James Wilson Pennington and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Annenbergs

Download or read book The Annenbergs written by John E. Cooney and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1982 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the colorful and dramatic biography of two of America's most controversial entrepreneurs: Moses Louis Annenberg, 'the racing wire king, ' who built his fortune in racketeering, invested it in publishing, and lost much of it in the biggest tax evasion case in United States history; and his son, Walter, launcher of TV Guide and Seventeen magazines and former ambassador to Great Britain."--Jacket.

Book The Stars   Serendipity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Shirley Richardson
  • Publisher : Pantheon
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book The Stars Serendipity written by Robert Shirley Richardson and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1971 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses some of the important discoveries in astronomy and the circumstances that prompted them.

Book The Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths

Download or read book The Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths written by John Adair and published by Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1944, (1975 printing). This book was released on 1944 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents imaginary battles between teams of characters, creatures, and machinery from the "Star Wars" films that never fought each other, outlines the strengths and weaknesses of each opponent, and suggests the probable winner.

Book Phonetics  Theory and Application

Download or read book Phonetics Theory and Application written by William R. Tiffany and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1977 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: