Ancient Traces

Ancient Traces

Author: Michael Baigent

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 1999-08-26

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 0140264485

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In a series of different chapters Michael Baigent examines a number of enigmas surrounding such ancient mysteries as Atlantis and the Pyramids. He investigates such questions as whether there were ancient contacts between Europe and America,and whether a great catastrophe hit the planet around 10000 BC. And in the process he calls into question much of today's orthodoxy on such subjects.


Traces of the Past

Traces of the Past

Author: Karen Bassi

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2016-08-17

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0472119923

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An innovative multidisciplinary study of the relationship between visual perception and temporal meaning in ancient Greek literature and history writing


Traces of Fremont

Traces of Fremont

Author: Steven R. Simms

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13:

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This book takes a fascinating look at rock art through the lens of archeology and anthropology, offering an innovative model of Fremont society, politics, and worldview.


Traces on the Rhodian Shore

Traces on the Rhodian Shore

Author: Clarence J. Glacken

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 798

ISBN-13: 9780520023673

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In the history of Western thought, men have persistently asked three questions concerning the habitable earth and their relationships toit. From the time of the Greeks to our own, answers to these questions have been and are being given so frequently and so continually that we may restate them in the form of general ideas.


Ritual in Early Bronze Age Grave Goods

Ritual in Early Bronze Age Grave Goods

Author: John Hunter

Publisher: Oxbow Books

Published: 2014-10-31

Total Pages: 593

ISBN-13: 1782976957

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The exotic and impressive grave goods from burials of the ‘Wessex Culture’ in Early Bronze Age Britain are well known and have inspired influential social and economic hypotheses, invoking the former existence of chiefs, warriors and merchants and high-ranking pastoralists. Alternative theories have sought to explain the how display of such objects was related to religious and ritual activity rather than to economic status, and that groups of artefacts found in certain graves may have belonged to religious specialists. This volume is the result of a major research that aimed to investigate Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age grave goods in relation to their possible use as special dress accessories or as equipment employed within ritual activities and ceremonies. Many items of adornment can be shown to have formed elements of elaborate costumes, probably worn by individuals, both male and female, who held important ritual roles within society. Furthermore, the analysis has shown that various categories of object long interpreted as mundane types of tool were in fact items of bodily adornment or implements used in ritual contexts, or in the special embellishment of the human body. Although never intended to form a complete catalogue of all the relevant artefacts from England the volume provides an extensive, and intensively illustrated, overview of a large proportion of the grave goods from English burial sites.


The Ancient Circuit Walls of Athens

The Ancient Circuit Walls of Athens

Author: Anna Maria Theocharaki

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-12-02

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 3110638207

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In Athens, most remains of the ancient city-wall were revealed during rescue excavations; as a result, documentation is scattered and fragmented. This book systematically investigates all published data, revealing the history and the nature of the surviving remains of this significant monument. The book provides an analysis of the ancient literary sources, the western travellers’ accounts, and the history of archaeological research on the circuit walls of ancient Athens. It collects, records, and maps all archaeological data from systematic and rescue excavations of the physical remains of the wall as it evolved over eleven centuries and through more than a dozen construction phases. It reviews issues relating to structure, chronology and topography of the ancient city wall, as well as to the management of its remains by the state authorities. The enormous amount of primary evidence makes the book essential reading for scholars of the topography of ancient Athens. This monograph also aspires to increase community awareness of cultural heritage in everyday urban contexts, as the wall has been preserved in a number of ways: in basements of buildings, reburied in situ, in the open air or beneath glass floors.