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Author: Katy Hall
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780448401089
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides information on both human and animal skeletons and their bones. Includes bone-tickling riddles that help identify different skeletons, and special see-through pages that show entire animals, inside and out.
Author: Dean King
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2004-02-16
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 0759509697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKb.A masterpiece of historical adventure, ISkeletons on the Zahara The western Sahara is a baking hot and desolate place, home only to nomads and their camels, and to locusts, snails and thorny scrub -- and its barren and ever-changing coastline has baffled sailors for centuries. In August 1815, the US brig Commerce was dashed against Cape Bojador and lost, although through bravery and quick thinking the ship's captain, James Riley, managed to lead all of his crew to safety. What followed was an extraordinary and desperate battle for survival in the face of human hostility, starvation, dehydration, death and despair. Captured, robbed and enslaved, the sailors were dragged and driven through the desert by their new owners, who neither spoke their language nor cared for their plight. Reduced to drinking urine, flayed by the sun, crippled by walking miles across burning stones and sand and losing over half of their body weights, the sailors struggled to hold onto both their humanity and their sanity. To reach safety, they would have to overcome not only the desert but also the greed and anger of those who would keep them in captivity. From the cold waters of the Atlantic to the searing Saharan sands, from the heart of the desert to the heart of man, Skeletons on the Zahara is a spectacular odyssey through the extremes and a gripping account of courage, brotherhood, and survival.
Author: Robert D. Hoppa
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-10-30
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1139441558
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPaleodemography is the field of enquiry that attempts to identify demographic parameters from past populations (usually skeletal samples) derived from archaeological contexts, and then to make interpretations regarding the health and well-being of those populations. However, paleodemographic theory relies on several assumptions that cannot easily be validated by the researcher, and if incorrect, can lead to large errors or biases. In this book, physical anthropologists, mathematical demographers and statisticians tackle these methodological issues for reconstructing demographic structure for skeletal samples. Topics discussed include how skeletal morphology is linked to chronological age, assessment of age from the skeleton, demographic models of mortality and their interpretation, and biostatistical approaches to age structure estimation from archaeological samples. This work will be of immense importance to anyone interested in paleodemography, including biological and physical anthropologists, demographers, geographers, evolutionary biologists and statisticians.
Author: Janet Lawler
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781605809861
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo skeletons go trick-or-treating on Halloween, getting compliments on their "costumes", and making new friends.
Author: Lydia Pyne
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2016-08-16
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0698409426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn irresistible journey of discovery, science, history, and myth making, told through the lives and afterlives of seven famous human ancestors Over the last century, the search for human ancestors has spanned four continents and resulted in the discovery of hundreds of fossils. While most of these discoveries live quietly in museum collections, there are a few that have become world-renowned celebrity personas—ambassadors of science that speak to public audiences. In Seven Skeletons, historian of science Lydia Pyne explores how seven such famous fossils of our ancestors have the social cachet they enjoy today. Drawing from archives, museums, and interviews, Pyne builds a cultural history for each celebrity fossil—from its discovery to its afterlife in museum exhibits to its legacy in popular culture. These seven include the three-foot tall “hobbit” from Flores, the Neanderthal of La Chapelle, the Taung Child, the Piltdown Man hoax, Peking Man, Australopithecus sediba, and Lucy—each embraced and celebrated by generations, and vivid examples of how discoveries of how our ancestors have been received, remembered, and immortalized. With wit and insight, Pyne brings to life each fossil, and how it is described, put on display, and shared among scientific communities and the broader public. This fascinating, endlessly entertaining book puts the impact of paleoanthropology into new context, a reminder of how our past as a species continues to affect, in astounding ways, our present culture and imagination.
Author: Steve Huskey
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2017-02-15
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1421421488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCome along--let's take a voyage through the boneyard.
Author: Susie Jaramillo
Publisher: Canticos
Published: 2017-08-08
Total Pages: 22
ISBN-13: 9781945635069
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a bilingual version of a traditional Latin American song about skeletons rising from the grave on each hour, with art inspired by the famous Mexican "calavera" woodcut prints and clock hands to move to agree with the song.
Author: Lily Wood
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 35
ISBN-13: 054533148X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere are over 200 bones in your body, and you need every one of them! Learn all about your skeleton in this book full of facts and photographs.
Author: Robert Winston
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2016-09-13
Total Pages: 74
ISBN-13: 1465459022
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDid you know human bones are eight times stronger than concrete? Or that both humans and giraffes have seven vertebrae in their necks? You will learn about these amazing human body facts and much more in this fascinating book for children. Packed with amazing 3D computer images highlighted in different colors, The Skeleton Book allows children to explore every bone and joint in the human body in minute detail. Take a look at the spongy inside and tough exterior of the bone structure. Learn about the longest bone in the body and see how bones grow with age. Find out how millions of years of evolution has helped the human body to perform so many tasks with precision. Become a fossil detective and see how archaeologists study and reconstruct ancient skeletons. Explore the future with bionic skeletons and 3D printed bones. With an embossed cover and a pull out five-foot skeleton poster inside the book, The Skeleton Book gives perspective for kids to study a life-size version of the human skeleton.
Author: Christine Quigley
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780786410682
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOf the parts of the human body, the bones have a unique durability that lends itself to collection. Provided a body has not been cremated, the skeletal remains can be recovered even millions of years after death, cleaned of flesh and debris, studied at length, and stored indefinitely without the maintenance that wet specimens require. Motivations for collecting human skeletal material range from the practical (in anthropology, medicine, forensics) to the ritualistic (phrenology, in the relics of martyrs and saints). This book is an examination of those motivations and the collections they have brought about--catacombs, ossuaries, mass graves, prehistoric excavations, private collections, and institutions. The book contains sections on procuring, handling, storing, transporting, cleaning, and identifying skeletal remains. The repatriation of remains and legislation covering the topic are also addressed.
