Life in Stone

Life in Stone

Author: Christa Sadler

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780938216810

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An overview of the Colorado Plateau's fossil remains of organisms that lived millions of years ago, featuring numerous illustrations and photographs.


Life in Stone

Life in Stone

Author: Rolf Ludvigsen

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0774841516

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Life in Stone is the first book to focus on British Columbia's fossils. Each of its chapters is written by a specialist for a general audience, and each is devoted to a separate fossil group that is particularly well represented in the province. Richly illustrated with photographs and drawings, Life in Stone will provide fascinating reading for anyone interested in learning more about the animals and plants that inhabited British Columbia during prehistoric times.


The Life-Giving Stone

The Life-Giving Stone

Author: Michael T. Searcy

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2011-05-15

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 0816501262

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In The Life-Giving Stone, Michael Searcy provides a thought-provoking ethnoarchaeological account of metate and mano manufacture, marketing, and use among Guatemalan Maya for whom these stone implements are still essential equipment in everyday life and diet. Although many archaeologists have regarded these artifacts simply as common everyday tools and therefore unremarkable, Searcy’s methodology reveals how, for the ancient Maya, the manufacture and use of grinding stones significantly impacted their physical and economic welfare. In tracing the life cycle of these tools from production to discard for the modern Maya, Searcy discovers rich customs and traditions that indicate how metates and manos have continued to sustain life—not just literally, in terms of food, but also in terms of culture. His research is based on two years of fieldwork among three Mayan groups, in which he documented behaviors associated with these tools during their procurement, production, acquisition, use, discard, and re-use. Searcy’s investigation documents traditional practices that are rapidly being lost or dramatically modified. In few instances will it be possible in the future to observe metates and manos as central elements in household provisioning or follow their path from hand-manufacture to market distribution and to intergenerational transmission. In this careful inquiry into the cultural significance of a simple tool, Searcy’s ethnographic observations are guided both by an interest in how grinding stone traditions have persisted and how they are changing today, and by the goal of enhancing the archaeological interpretation of these stones, which were so fundamental to pre-Hispanic agriculturalists with corn-based cuisines.


The Lives of Stone Tools

The Lives of Stone Tools

Author: Kathryn Weedman Arthur

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2018-04-24

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0816537135

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"This book offers critical insights into lithic technology and cultural practices concerning stone tools"--Provided by publisher.


How to Live Like a Stone-Age Hunter

How to Live Like a Stone-Age Hunter

Author: Anita Ganeri

Publisher: Hungry Tomato ™

Published: 2015-10-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1467772089

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Team up with Dar, who lived around 15,000 years ago in the late Stone Age. Find out what it takes to survive in prehistoric times as he teaches you how to: ? trap animals ? make fire ? build shelters ? hunt a mammoth Do you have the skills and guts to be a Stone-Age hunter?


Life in the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age

Life in the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age

Author: Anita Ganeri

Publisher: Raintree Publishers

Published: 2014-08-14

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781406285628

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This volume examines daily life for children in prehistoric Britain. Chapters focus on the Stone, Bronze and Iron ages, looking at family life, finding food, education, religion, art, culture and much more.


The Stone Age

The Stone Age

Author: Patricia D. Netzley

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 9781560063162

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Discusses the long period of human history known as the Stone Age during which humans evolved into beings capable of inventing and using increasingly sophisticated tools and creating complex social groupings.


Listening to Stone

Listening to Stone

Author: Hayden Herrera

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2015-04-21

Total Pages: 588

ISBN-13: 0374281165

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"From the author of Arshile Gorky, a major biography of the great American sculptor that redefines his legacy"--


Stone Work

Stone Work

Author: John Jerome

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780874517620

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From John Jerome, the critically acclaimed author of Staying With It, comes this story of a year he spent building a stone wall on his property in the Massachusetts Berkshires. A vision of extraordinary grace and beauty that will challenge readers to examine the possibilities inherent in stillness.


Cutting for Stone

Cutting for Stone

Author: Abraham Verghese

Publisher: Random House India

Published: 2012-05-17

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 8184001754

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Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.