Author: Publisher: Time Life Medical
ISBN: 9780783509006
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
A collection of questions and answers about buildings, including houses, skyscrapers, lighthouses, and stadiums.
Do Buildings Have Bones?
Author: Publisher: Time Life Medical
ISBN: 9780783509006
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
A collection of questions and answers about buildings, including houses, skyscrapers, lighthouses, and stadiums.
Built on Bones
Author: Brenna HassettPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472922956
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The city has killed most of your ancestors, and it's probably killing you, too - this book tells you why. Imagine you are a hunter-gatherer some 15,000 years ago. You've got a choice – carry on foraging, or plant a few seeds and move to one of those new-fangled settlements down the valley. What you won't know is that urban life is short and riddled with dozens of new diseases; your children will be shorter and sicklier than you are, they'll be plagued with gum disease, and stand a decent chance of a violent death at the point of a spear. Why would anyone choose this? This is one of the many intriguing questions tackled by Brenna Hassett in Built on Bones. Using research on skeletal remains from around the world, this book explores the history of humanity's experiment with the metropolis, and looks at why our ancestors chose city life, and why they have largely stuck to it. It explains the diseases, the deaths and the many other misadventures that we have unwittingly unleashed upon ourselves throughout the metropolitan past, and as the world becomes increasingly urbanised, what we can look forward to in the future. Telling the tale of shifts in human growth and health that have occurred as we transitioned from a mobile to a largely settled species. Built on Bones offers an accessible insight into a critical but relatively unheralded aspect of the human story: our recent evolution.
Detroit Is No Dry Bones
Author: Camilo J. VergaraPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472130110
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A photographic record of almost three decades of Detroit's changing urban fabric
The History of Bones
Author: John LuriePublisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0399592989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
The quintessential depiction of 1980s New York and the downtown scene from the artist, actor, musician, and composer John Lurie “A picaresque roller coaster of a story, with staggering amounts of sex and drugs and the perpetual quest to retain some kind of artistic integrity.”—The New York Times In the tornado that was downtown New York in the 1980s, John Lurie stood at the vortex. After founding the band The Lounge Lizards with his brother, Evan, in 1979, Lurie quickly became a centrifugal figure in the world of outsider artists, cutting-edge filmmakers, and cultural rebels. Now Lurie vibrantly brings to life the whole wash of 1980s New York as he developed his artistic soul over the course of the decade and came into orbit with all the prominent artists of that time and place, including Andy Warhol, Debbie Harry, Boris Policeband, and, especially, Jean-Michel Basquiat, the enigmatic prodigy who spent a year sleeping on the floor of Lurie’s East Third Street apartment. It may feel like Disney World now, but in The History of Bones, the East Village, through Lurie’s clear-eyed reminiscence, comes to teeming, gritty life. The book is full of grime and frank humor—Lurie holds nothing back in this journey to one of the most significant moments in our cultural history, one whose reverberations are still strongly felt today. History may repeat itself, but the way downtown New York happened in the 1980s will never happen again. Luckily, through this beautiful memoir, we all have a front-row seat.
The American Architect and Building News
Author: Ritual Bones or Common Waste
Author: J. ThilderkvistPublisher: Barkhuis
ISBN: 9492444453
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
This book addresses the problems of identifying human actions behind finds of bones in settlement archaeology, exemplified with the identification of ritual deposits. In order to formulate a methodological framework for approaching the identification of ritual deposits, different methods are tested on four Early Medieval case studysites: Dongjum and Leeuwarden, two artificial dwelling mounds situated in the then undiked salt marches of the Northern Netherlands, Midlaren, an inland settlement in Drenthe, also in the Northern Netherlands, and finally Uppåkra, a central place in the South of Sweden. The bone fragments from the four materials are studied in a five step process of definition, description, identification, interpretation and explanation. The deposits are discussed with the help of various archaeological, ethnographic and historical sources. The results of the analysis lead to a methodological framework for understanding individual deposits based on a holistic perspective where all information is regarded as potentially valuable, various methods are taken into consideration, and simplification is avoided.
Behaviour Behind Bones
Author: Sharyn Jones O'DayPublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1782979131
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
This book is the first in a series of volumes which form the published proceedings of the 9th meeting of the International Council of Archaeozoology (ICAZ), held in Durham in 2002. The 35 papers present a series of case studies from around the world. They stretch beyond the standard zooarchaeological topics of economy and ecology, and consider how zooarchaeological research can contribute to our understanding of human behaviour and social systems. The volume is divided into two parts. Part 1, Beyond Calories, focuses on the zooarchaeology of ritual and religion. Contributors discuss ways to approach questions of ritual and religion through the faunal record, and consider how material culture depicting and/or associated with animals can provides clues about ideology, religious practices and the role of animals within spiritual systems. Part 2, Equations for Inequality, looks at questions of identity, status and other forms of social differentiation in former human societies. Contributors discuss how differences in food consumption, nutrition, and food procurement strategies can be related to various forms of social differentiation among individuals and groups.
Author: Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
The Tale of the Tell
Author: Paul W. LappPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 0915138050
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The International Shark Attack File is a compilation of all known shark attacks that is administered by the the American Elasmobranch Society and the Florida Museum of Natural History of the University of Florida in Gainesville. The investigations housed in the file cover the period from the mid-1500s to the present. The Florida Museum of Natural History presents the information online.
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