Great Crowns Of Stone

Author : Adam Welfare
Publisher : Royal Commission
ISBN 13 : 9781902419558
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Crowns of Stone written by Adam Welfare and published by Royal Commission. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stone circles always excite the imagination, and nowhere more so than in the north-east of Scotland, which holds one of the most dense concentrations to be found anywhere in the British Isles. Illustrated with unique plans, this volume examines the facts, myths and mysteries surrounding some of Scotland's most evocative ancient monuments.

Author : Robert Simmons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1583949089
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Stones written by Robert Simmons and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in association with North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California.

Author : Joanna Brück
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191080918
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Personifying Prehistory written by Joanna Brück and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bronze Age is frequently framed in social evolutionary terms. Viewed as the period which saw the emergence of social differentiation, the development of long-distance trade, and the intensification of agricultural production, it is seen as the precursor and origin-point for significant aspects of the modern world. This book presents a very different image of Bronze Age Britain and Ireland. Drawing on the wealth of material from recent excavations, as well as a long history of research, it explores the impact of the post-Enlightenment 'othering' of the non-human on our understanding of Bronze Age society. There is much to suggest that the conceptual boundary between the active human subject and the passive world of objects, so familiar from our own cultural context, was not drawn in this categorical way in the Bronze Age; the self was constructed in relational rather than individualistic terms, and aspects of the non-human world such as pots, houses, and mountains were considered animate entities with their own spirit or soul. In a series of thematic chapters on the human body, artefacts, settlements, and landscapes, this book considers the character of Bronze Age personhood, the relationship between individual and society, and ideas around agency and social power. The treatment and deposition of things such as querns, axes, and human remains provides insights into the meanings and values ascribed to objects and places, and the ways in which such items acted as social agents in the Bronze Age world.

Author : Waseda Daigaku. Rikō Gakubu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs written by Waseda Daigaku. Rikō Gakubu and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ken McNamara
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226514714
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Star-Crossed Stone written by Ken McNamara and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the four hundred thousand years that humanity has been collecting fossils, sea urchin fossils, or echinoids, have continually been among the most prized, from the Paleolithic era, when they decorated flint axes, to today, when paleobiologists study them for clues to the earth’s history. In The Star-Crossed Stone, Kenneth J. McNamara, an expert on fossil echinoids, takes readers on an incredible fossil hunt, with stops in history, paleontology, folklore, mythology, art, religion, and much more. Beginning with prehistoric times, when urchin fossils were used as jewelry, McNamara reveals how the fossil crept into the religious and cultural lives of societies around the world—the roots of the familiar five-pointed star, for example, can be traced to the pattern found on urchins. But McNamara’s vision is even broader than that: using our knowledge of early habits of fossil collecting, he explores the evolution of the human mind itself, drawing striking conclusions about humanity’s earliest appreciation of beauty and the first stirrings of artistic expression. Along the way, the fossil becomes a nexus through which we meet brilliant eccentrics and visionary archaeologists and develop new insights into topics as seemingly disparate as hieroglyphics, Beowulf, and even church organs. An idiosyncratic celebration of science, nature, and human ingenuity, The Star-Crossed Stone is as charming and unforgettable as the fossil at its heart.

Author : Robert Barron
Publisher : Crossroad
ISBN 13 : 9780824519933
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heaven in Stone and Glass written by Robert Barron and published by Crossroad. This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like a mystical tome awaiting to be deciphered, a Gothic cathedral holds many secrets about the soul's yearning for God. In Heaven in Stone and Glass, Catholic priest and professor of theology at Mundelein Seminary in Chicago teaches us how to read these secrets, with beautiful reflections on aspects such as light and darkness, the labyrinth, the meaning of gargoyles and demons, and the imagery of vertical space. whether you are preparing for a pilgrimage to York Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, or looking ahead to inspirational bedside reading, this book is the perfect guide.

Author : Robert Tuck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Handbook of Biblical Difficulties, Or, Reasonable Solutions of Perplexing Things in Sacred Scripture written by Robert Tuck and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.AL/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greater Britain written by Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Wentworth Dilke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greater Britain written by Charles Wentworth Dilke and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sarah Maria Burnham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Precious Stones in Nature, Art, and Literature written by Sarah Maria Burnham and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: