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Author: Julian D. Richards
Publisher: BBC Books
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresenting archaeological examinations of nine burials, this book unearths the secrets of the past and pieces together ancient clues to deduce how each individual lived and died. Each of the nine chapters focuses on one burial, the story of which unfolds as the excavation and analysis progress.
Author: Alice Roberts
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-05-27
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1471188035
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn extraordinary exploration of the ancestry of Britain through seven burial sites. By using new advances in genetics and taking us through important archaeological discoveries, Professor Alice Roberts helps us better understand life today. ‘This is a terrific, timely and transporting book - taking us heart, body and mind beyond history, to the fascinating truth of the prehistoric past and the present’ Bettany Hughes We often think of Britain springing from nowhere with the arrival of the Romans. But in Ancestors, pre-eminent archaeologist, broadcaster and academic Professor Alice Roberts explores what we can learn about the very earliest Britons, from burial sites and by using new technology to analyse ancient DNA. Told through seven fascinating burial sites, this groundbreaking prehistory of Britain teaches us more about ourselves and our history: how people came and went and how we came to be on this island. It explores forgotten journeys and memories of migrations long ago, written into genes and preserved in the ground for thousands of years. This is a book about belonging: about walking in ancient places, in the footsteps of the ancestors. It explores our interconnected global ancestry, and the human experience that binds us all together. It’s about reaching back in time, to find ourselves, and our place in the world. PRE-ORDER CRYPT, THE FINAL BOOK IN ALICE ROBERTS' BRILLIANT TRILOGY – OUT FEBRUARY 2024.
Author: Anne-Marie Victor-Howe
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2007-06-30
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 087365403X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTlingit carved horn spoons -- The collectors -- Spoons in Tlingit culture -- Spoons in ceremonial use -- Spoons and shamans -- Spoons and their stories -- Spoons since the nineteenth century.
Author: Diane Marelli
Publisher: How To Books Ltd
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781857039085
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides an introduction to the whole process of discovering your own family history. Topics covered include searching for birth, marriage and death cerificates, census and church records, newspaper archives, and using the Internet. How to think laterally to solve mysteries, asking for help, storing your records and other useful tips.
Author: Richard Dawkins
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 696
ISBN-13: 9780618619160
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA renowned biologist provides a sweeping chronicle of more than four billion years of life on Earth, shedding new light on evolutionary theory and history, sexual selection, speciation, extinction, and genetics.
Author: Barbara J. Starmans
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Published: 2017-04-30
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1473879736
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTracing Your Ancestors Lives is not a comprehensive study of social history but instead an exploration of the various aspects of social history of particular interest to the family historian. It has been written to help researchers to go beyond the names, dates and places in their pedigree back to the time when their ancestors lived. Through the research advice, resources and case studies in the book, researchers can learn about their ancestors, their families and the society they lived in and record their stories for generations to come. Each chapter highlights an important general area of study. Topics covered include the family and society; domestic life; birth life and death; work, wages and economy; community, religion and government. Barbara J. Starmanss handbook encourages family historians to immerse themselves more deeply in their ancestors time and place. Her work will give researchers a fascinating insight into what their ancestors lives were like.
Author: Lisa Alther
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Published: 2012-03
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1611451760
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author looks for her father's family in Virginia. They may have belonged to a mysterious group known as the Melungeons.
Author: David Reich
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-03-29
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 0192554387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe past few years have seen a revolution in our ability to map whole genome DNA from ancient humans. With the ancient DNA revolution, combined with rapid genome mapping of present human populations, has come remarkable insights into our past. This important new data has clarified and added to our knowledge from archaeology and anthropology, helped resolve long-existing controversies, challenged long-held views, and thrown up some remarkable surprises. The emerging picture is one of many waves of ancient human migrations, so that all populations existing today are mixes of ancient ones, as well as in many cases carrying a genetic component from Neanderthals, and, in some populations, Denisovans. David Reich, whose team has been at the forefront of these discoveries, explains what the genetics is telling us about ourselves and our complex and often surprising ancestry. Gone are old ideas of any kind of racial 'purity', or even deep and ancient divides between peoples. Instead, we are finding a rich variety of mixtures. Reich describes the cutting-edge findings from the past few years, and also considers the sensitivities involved in tracing ancestry, with science sometimes jostling with politics and tradition. He brings an important wider message: that we should celebrate our rich diversity, and recognize that every one of us is the result of a long history of migration and intermixing of ancient peoples, which we carry as ghosts in our DNA. What will we discover next?
Author: Lori Holmes
Publisher:
Published: 2020-04-19
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781838029821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the blood settles into the snow, Rebaa's life will never be the same again. Lost, alone and damingly burdened with her murdered lover's Forbidden offspring, Rebaa must learn to survive in a freezing and hostile world. Hunted by a murderous chieftain, a man hell-bent on possessing her mysterious powers for his own, Rebaa calls upon all of her cunning and extraordinary gifts to evade capture. Facing relentless danger, Rebaa must attempt to reach the one place that surely promises salvation; she can only hope that her ancestral home is the haven she needs it to be... But can any haven truly exist for one who bears...The Forbidden?
Author: Parker Shipton
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2009-01-06
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 0300152744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title looks briefly at European and North American theories on private property and the mortgage, then shows how these theories have played out as attempted economic reforms in Africa.
