Scenes From Prehistoric Life

Author : Francis Pryor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789544165
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scenes from Prehistoric Life written by Francis Pryor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invigorating journey through Britain's prehistoric landscape, and an insight into the lives of its inhabitants. 'Highly compelling' Spectator, Books of the Year 'An evocative foray into the prehistoric past' BBC Countryfile Magazine 'Vividly relating what life was like in pre-Roman Britain' Choice Magazine 'Makes life in Britain BC often sound rather more appealing than the frenetic and anxious 21st century!' Daily Mail In Scenes from Prehistoric Life, the distinguished archaeologist Francis Pryor paints a vivid picture of British and Irish prehistory, from the Old Stone Age (about one million years ago) to the arrival of the Romans in AD 43, in a sequence of fifteen profiles of ancient landscapes. Whether writing about the early human family who trod the estuarine muds of Happisburgh in Norfolk c.900,000 BC, the craftsmen who built a wooden trackway in the Somerset Levels early in the fourth millennium BC, or the Iron Age denizens of Britain's first towns, Pryor uses excavations and surveys to uncover the daily routines of our ancient ancestors. By revealing how our prehistoric forebears coped with both simple practical problems and more existential challenges, Francis Pryor offers remarkable insights into the long and unrecorded centuries of our early history, and a convincing, well-attested and movingly human portrait of prehistoric life as it was really lived.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of Francis Pryor's Scenes from Prehistoric Life written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-07-21T22:59:00Z with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The past was governed by the same rules as the present, and this was known as uniformitarianism. It was first developed by the Scottish geologist James Hutton in the late eighteenth century, and culminated in Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology, first published in 1830. #2 Archaeology is a science-based humanity that sets out to reveal the way various communities interacted and how this in turn led to their rise or decline. But you cannot do this simply by studying artifacts. You must also pay attention to the landscapes where people lived. #3 The seaside towns and villages of East Anglia have a charm all of their own. I have a particular fondness for the cliffs at the little village of Dunwich, in Suffolk, with their thick woods that allow tantalizing glimpses of the sea far below. #4 The footprints at Goldcliff in the Severn Estuary were made around 4700 BC, at the end of the Mesolithic, but the ones at Happisburgh were made by a family group who were out foraging for food along the tidal river.

Author : Percy Edward Raymond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prehistoric Life written by Percy Edward Raymond and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Norman
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prehistoric Life written by David Norman and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of vertebrates, looks at fossil animals, and describes the forces that shape evolution.

Author : Rupert Matthews
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN 13 : 1482451425
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prehistoric Life written by Rupert Matthews and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do future paleontologists love even more than reading about prehistoric life? They're crazy about seeing imaginative illustrations of ferocious dinosaurs, giant insects, and other incredible organisms! This high-interest volume combines 100 facts about prehistoric life with vivid illustrations and instructive photographs. Among the appealing science topics featured are fossils, extinction, and the appearance of human ancestors. Connected activities (such as making an edible reptile!) supply an interactive experience, while fun quizzes allow readers to assess their comprehension of the intriguing subject matter.

Author : M. Benton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781573355407
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prehistoric Life written by M. Benton and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Martin J. S. Rudwick
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226731056
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scenes from Deep Time written by Martin J. S. Rudwick and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-12-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the earth look in prehistoric times? Scientists and artists collaborated during the half-century prior to the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species to produce the first images of dinosaurs and the world they inhabited. Their interpretations, informed by recent fossil discoveries, were the first efforts to represent the prehistoric world based on sources other than the Bible. Martin J. S. Rudwick presents more than a hundred rare illustrations from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to explore the implications of reconstructing a past no one has ever seen.

Author : Tim Haines
Publisher : BBC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life written by Tim Haines and published by BBC. This book was released on 2005 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creators of Walking with Dinosaurs comes this stunning visual encyclopedia of prehistoric animals. The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life is a whos who of the prehistoric world from primitive amphibians and giant armoured fish, to predatory dinosaurs and sabre-toothed cats. Tracing the amazing story of the evolution of life on Earth, the book features over 100 of the largest, weirdest and scariest animals that ever existed. Here, for the first time, we meet some of the truly bizarre creatures that thrived hundreds of millions of years before the dinosaurs roamed the Earth: for example, Pterygotus, a three-metre long sea scorpion, and Hyneria, a two-tonne killer fish that was capable of walking on land. Many of these magnificent creatures have never been visualized before. Moving through the dinosaur era, the book recreates these awesome super-beasts and vividly depicts the landscapes in which they lived and died. All the favourites are here from Tyrannosaurus and Diplodocus to Iguanodon and Velociraptor. With the dying out of the dinosaurs we are introduced to a whole new cast of characters, no less fascinating the weird and wonderful mammals that are the ancestors of modern humans. What did these animals eat? How did they raise their young? How did they survive attack? The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life is packed full of the latest scientific evidence on each animals biology, lifestyle and behaviour, and highlights key facts on size, diet and distribution. Illustrated with impressive digital imagery and remarkable fossil finds, this comprehensive field guide brings alive the creatures of the past in a breathtakingly realistic way.

Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393321562
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Life written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Book of Life builds a bridge of knowledge, bringing the frontiers of science and what we know of life's history to all of us who wish to come closer to our beginnings and know more of who we are."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Allen A. Debus
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476603553
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dinosaur Sculpting written by Allen A. Debus and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book, greatly expanded from the 1995 first edition, describes detailed, step-by-step procedures for sculpting, molding and painting original prehistoric animals. It emphasizes the use of relatively inexpensive materials including oven-hardening polymer clay and wire. Additional tips are offered on how to build distinctive dino-dioramas and scenes involving one's own original sculptures that you will learn how to conceive and build. This book will appeal to a new generation who would like to break into the industry of paleosculpture. Techniques range from "basic" to "advanced." The authors also discuss what it means to be a "paleoartist."