Author: Daniel Garrison BrintonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
On an Ancient Human Footprint from Nicaragua
Author: Daniel Garrison BrintonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
ON AN ANCIENT HUMAN FOOTPRINT FROM NICARAGUA (CLASSIC REPRINT).
Author: DANIEL GARRISON. BRINTONPublisher:
ISBN: 9781527731103
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Geological Observations on the Ancient Human Footprints Near Managua, Nicaragua
Author: Howel WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Footprints, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Geologic Observations on the Ancient Human Footprints Near Managua, Nicaragua
Author: Howel WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Footprints, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
On an Ancient Human Foot-print from Nicaragua, by Daniel G. Brinton, ...
Author: Daniel G. BrintonHuman Footprints in Recent Volcanic Mud in Nicaragua
Author: Nicaraguan Antiquities
Author: Carl BovalliusPublisher:
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Category : Nicaragua
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Patriarch and Folk
Author: E. Bradford BurnsPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674657960
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The painful sixty-year process that brought Nicaragua from colonial status to incipient nation-state is the focus of this fresh examination of inner struggle in a key isthmian country. E. Bradford Burns shows how Nicaragua's elite was able to consolidate control of the state and form a stable government, resolving the bitter rivalry between the two cities Le&oacu;n and Granada, but at the same time began the destruction of the rich folk culture of the Indians, eventually reducing them to an impoverished and powerless agrarian proletariat. The history of this nation echoes that of other Latin American lands yet is peculiarly its own. Nicaragua emerged not from a war against Spain but rather from the violent interactions among the patriarchs of the dominant families, the communities of common people, and foreigners. Burns is eloquent on the subject of American adventurism in Nicaragua, which culminated in the outrageous expedition of the filibuster William Walker and his band of mercenaries in the 1850s. It was a major breach of the trust and friendship Nicaraguans had extended to the United States, and the Nicaraguans' subsequent victory over the foreign invaders helped forge their long-delayed sense of national unity. The decimation of Nicaraguan archives for the period prior to 1858 renders the study of early nineteenth-century history especially challenging, but Burns has made ingenious use of secondary sources and the few published primary materials available, including travelers' accounts and other memoirs, newspapers, government reports, and diplomatic correspondence. He provides valuable insight into Nicaraguan society of the time, of both the elite and the folk, including a perceptive section on the status and activities of women and the family in society. This book will appeal not only to professional historians but to general readers as well.
Human Footprints: Fossilised Locomotion?
Author: Matthew R. BennettPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319085727
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Human footprints provide some of the most emotive and tangible evidence of our ancestors. They provide evidence of stature, presence, behaviour and in the case of early hominin footprints, evidence with respect to the evolution of human gait and foot anatomy. While human footprint sites are rare in the geological record the number of sites around the World has increased in recent years, along with the analytical tools available for their study. The aim of this book is to provide a definitive review of these recent developments with specific reference to the increased availability of three-dimensional digital elevation models of human tracks at many key sites. The book is divided into eight chapters. Following an introduction the second chapter reviews modern field methods in human ichnology focusing on the development of new analytical tools. The third chapter then reviews the major footprint sites around the World including details on several unpublished examples. Chapters then follow on the role of geology in the formation and preservation of tracks, on the inferences that can be made from human tracks and the final chapter explores the application of this work to forensic science. Audience: This volume will be of interest to researchers and students across a wide range of disciplines – sedimentology, archaeology, forensics and palaeoanthropology.
Nicaragua; Its People, Scenery, Monuments, and the Proposed Interoceanic Canal
Author: Ephraim George SquierPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230319032
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 edition. Excerpt: ... ABORIGINES OF NICARAGUA. CHAPTER I. ABORIGINAL NATIONS OP NICARAGUA; THEIR GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LANGUAGES, AND MONUMENTS. The present condition of the Indians of Nicaragua may be very easily inferred from what I have had occasion to say of them in the preceding pages. They have now very completely assimilated with their conquerers, to a great extent intermarried with them, adopted their religion and language, and have taken an entirely new position, both in respect to themselves and the world at large, from that which they occupied at the time of the discovery of America, in the fifteenth century. But it cannot prove uninteresting to the general reader to know something of their former condition, before the infusion of European elements amongst them, when they were governed by laws and institutions originating with themselves, and by religious systems of indigenous growth. And here we are compelled to rely upon the accounts of the early Spanish adventurers, often vague, and sometimes contradictory; upon the few monumental records which time and religious zeal have spared, and upon the fragmentary traditions, and imperfect vocabularies, which are still preserved amongst them. The fullest and most reliable chronicle is that of Gonzalez Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdez, historiographer of the Indies to the King of Spain, who visited Nicaragua in 1526, within four years after its discovery by Gil Gonzalez de Avila. Some portions of his account were used by Herrara, in the compilation of his History of Spanish America, who seems also to have had access to some other sources of information, with which we are unacquainted. Oviedo's chronicle was, nevertheless, never published in the original; nor does its existence appear to have been known...