Author: Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370575
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 127, No. 2, 1983)
Author: Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370575
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 127, No. 4, 1983)
Author: American Philosophical SocietyPublisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370599
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 127, No. 6, 1983)
Author: Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370612
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 127, No. 1, 1983)
Author: Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370568
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 127, No. 5, 1983)
Author: Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370605
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 140, No. 3, 1996)
Author: Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370063
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Atlas of the World with Geophysical Boundaries
Author: Athelstan SpilhausPublisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871691965
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
"To show the world ocean, insofar as possible, uninterrupted by the edge of the map"--P. 1.
Cycles of the Sun, Mysteries of the Moon
Author: Vincent H. MalmströmPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292743122
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
The simple question "How did the Maya come up with a calendar that had only 260 days?" led Vincent Malmström to discover an unexpected "hearth" of Mesoamerican culture. In this boldly revisionist book, he sets forth his challenging, new view of the origin and diffusion of Mesoamerican calendrical systems—the intellectual achievement that gave rise to Mesoamerican civilization and culture. Malmström posits that the 260-day calendar marked the interval between passages of the sun at its zenith over Izapa, an ancient ceremonial center in the Soconusco region of Mexico's Pacific coastal plain. He goes on to show how the calendar developed by the Zoque people of the region in the fourteenth century B.C. gradually diffused through Mesoamerica into the so-called "Olmec metropolitan area" of the Gulf coast and beyond to the Maya in the east and to the plateau of Mexico in the west. These findings challenge our previous understanding of the origin and diffusion of Mesoamerican civilization. Sure to provoke lively debate in many quarters, this book will be important reading for all students of ancient Mesoamerica—anthropologists, archaeologists, archaeoastronomers, geographers, and the growing public fascinated by all things Maya.
Index of Conference Proceedings Received
Author: British Library. Lending DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congresses and conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Routes of Power
Author: Christopher F. JonesPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674728890
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The fossil fuel revolution is usually a tale of advances in energy production. Christopher Jones tells a tale of advances in energy access—canals, pipelines, wires delivering cheap, abundant power to cities at a distance from production sites. Between 1820 and 1930 these new transportation networks set the U.S. on a path to fossil fuel dependence.