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Wissenschaftler und spirituelle Forscher aus verschiedensten Gebieten sind seit der Jahrtausendwende dabei, in die verborgenen Bereiche der Anlagen in Giza vorzudringen.
Los vestigios de la vida de los pueblos cazadores–recolectores que habitaron la región que hoy ocupa Coahuila, resultan parte invaluable del patrimonio cultural de la entidad.
Esta Breve historia de la arqueología nos narra los asombrosos descubrimientos de los mayores arqueólogos del mundo: tumbas egipcias, ruinas mayas, las primeras colonias europeas en Norteamérica, los misterios de Stonehenge, los sobrecogedores eventos de Pompeya y muchos otros.
Durante el primer milenio de nuestra era, Chile Central fue el escenario donde se desarrollaron los primeros grupos que produjeron alfarería en la región, los que además incorporan a su dieta productos cultivados como la quínoa, el maíz, el zapallo y el poroto.
En esta obra, Bernardo Arriaza y Vivien Standen narran la importancia de los rituales y la momificación artificial en las poblaciones Chinchorro, práctica que comenzó hace 7000 años atrás en la costa de Arica, en el extremo norte de Chile.
Stonehenge is woven into the earliest Arthurian legends and has been analysed by everyone from archaeologists, to town planners, to the Druids who have made it their spiritual home.
Divination and Human Nature casts a new perspective on the rich tradition of ancient divination-the reading of divine signs in oracles, omens, and dreams.
La reformulación de los conceptos de patrimonio –que se ha ampliado notablemente– o de paisaje –que incluye la percepción de la población– despierta un notable interés, especialmente cuando estos se vinculan al desarrollo territorial.
Desde una perspectiva compleja, este documento piensa primero en la comunidad actual del lugar (la cuenca media del río Pasaje o Juramento, ubicada en el sureste de la provincia de Salta), indagando en su propia historia, con el objetivo de valorar su patrimonio arqueológico, clara evidencia de que el territorio fue y es propicio para el desarrollo de la vida.
Los ensayos presentes en Drenajes conforman una intrincada red por la que diversos flujos narrativos cuentan, desde múltiples perspectivas y tratamientos, la historia del agua en la cuenca del Valle de México.
A beautiful new edition of a classic work of landscape history, in which Alfred Watkins introduced the idea of ancient 'ley lines' criss-crossing the English countryside.
Selten schienen die Römer mit größerem Entsetzen auf ihren Kaiser geblickt zu haben: Was Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, besser bekannt als Elagabal, trieb, war in ihren Augen an Abartigkeit kaum zu überbieten.
A wide-ranging and accessible introduction to the origins and histories of the first agricultural populations in many different parts of the world This fully revised and updated second edition of First Farmers examines the origins of food production across the world and documents the expansions of agricultural populations from source regions during the past 12,000 years.
A wide-ranging and accessible introduction to the origins and histories of the first agricultural populations in many different parts of the world This fully revised and updated second edition of First Farmers examines the origins of food production across the world and documents the expansions of agricultural populations from source regions during the past 12,000 years.
Working with thousands of previously unreleased documents and drawing on more than one thousand interviews, with many witnesses speaking out for the first time, Joan Mellen revisits the investigation of New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, the only public official to have indicted, in 1969, a suspect in President John F.
Originally published in 1995, and in the same classic investigative style of Whitewash and Case Open, Harold Weisberg turns his sharp investigative eye towards the events surrounding the autopsy of John F.
Being an outlaw in the Old West was a dangerous, grisly businesstwenty-three gunshot wounds and living to tell the tale, falling out of a moving train, decapitation due to a hanging gone wrong, life on the lam, horse thievery, illegal alcohol trade, and more.
Originally published in 1967, Meaghers masterful dissection of the Warren Report, based on the Warren Commissions own evidence, has stood the test of time.
Durante miles de años, los seres humanos han perdido sus posesiones y han arrojado su basura en el río Támesis, convirtiéndolo en el yacimiento arqueológico más largo y variado del mundo.
A Companion to Biological Anthropology The discipline of biological anthropology the study of the variation and evolution of human beings and their evolutionary relationships with past and living hominin and primate relatives has undergone enormous growth in recent years.
Arqueología de la microcuenca presenta los resultados preliminares del reconocimiento arqueológico conducido en 20 km de dicha microcuenca, en la parte occidental de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, en el departamento del Magdalena.
Provides an expansive view of the full field of linguistic anthropology, featuring an all-new team of contributing authors representing diverse new perspectives A New Companion to Linguistic Anthropology provides a timely and authoritative overview of the field of study that explores how language influences society and culture.
»Eine Liebeserklärung an die Archäologie«Frankfurter Allgemeine ZeitungGarküchen, ein Sklavenzimmer, griechische Theater, Villen, Thermen und Tempel – die Ausgrabungen in Pompeji offenbaren eine Welt.
How the billionaire owners of Hobby Lobby are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to make America a "e;Bible nation"e;The Greens of Oklahoma City-the billionaire owners of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores-are spending hundreds of millions of dollars in an ambitious effort to increase the Bible's influence on American society.
Jane Harrison examines the festivals of ancient Greek religion to identify the primitive "e;substratum"e; of ritual and its persistence in the realm of classical religious observance and literature.
A comprehensive narrative history of the ancient world's center, from its founding to its modern rediscoveryThe oracle and sanctuary of the Greek god Apollo at Delphi were known as the "e;omphalos"e;-the "e;center"e; or "e;navel"e;-of the ancient world for more than 1,000 years.
A radical rethinking of the Anglo-Saxon world that draws on the latest archaeological discoveriesThis beautifully illustrated book draws on the latest archaeological discoveries to present a radical reappraisal of the Anglo-Saxon built environment and its inhabitants.
In a major revisionary approach to ancient Greek culture, Sarah Morris invokes as a paradigm the myths surrounding Daidalos to describe the profound influence of the Near East on Greece's artistic and literary origins.
The final chapter in the definitive, three-volume history of the world's first known stateArchaeologist John Romer has spent a lifetime chronicling the history of Ancient Egypt, and here he tells the epic story of an era dominated by titans of the popular imagination: the radical iconoclast Akhenaten, the boy-king Tutankhamun and the all-conquering Ramesses II.
La obra de Arriaza y Standen aquí presentada trata de problemas de antiguos pobladores que son, en cierta medida, invariables en el tiempo y propios del crecimiento humano.
