Author: Felix LorenzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cowries
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
New Worldwide Cowries
Author: Felix LorenzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cowries
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A Guide to Worldwide Cowries
Author: Felix LorenzPublisher:
ISBN: 9783925919251
Category : Cowries
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Cowries of the World
Author: Clarence M. BurgessPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cowries
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Australia's Spectacular Cowries
Author: Barry Robert WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cowries
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Cowries
Author: Felix LorenzPublisher:
ISBN: 9783939767886
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Palaeontos
Author: Encyclopedia of Texas Seashells: Identification, Ecology, Distribution, and History
Author: John Wesley TunnellPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603443371
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
A guide to seashells found in Texas that discusses the historical uses of mollusks and seashells, the history of conchology and malacology in the state, habitats, and other related topics, and provides information for identifying nine hundred species.
Diagnosing Cowry Species
Author: E. L. HeimanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cowries
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Cowrie Shells and Cowrie Money
Author: Bin YangPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429952333
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Originating in the sea, especially in the waters surrounding the low-lying islands of the Maldives, Cypraea moneta (sometimes confused with Cypraea annulus) was transported to various parts of Afro-Eurasia in the prehistoric era, and in many cases, it was gradually transformed into a form of money in various societies for a long span of time. Yang provides a global examination of cowrie money within and beyond Afro-Eurasia from the archaeological period to the early twentieth century. By focusing on cowrie money in Indian, Chinese, Southeast Asian and West African societies and shell money in Pacific and North American societies, Yang synthsises and illustrates the economic and cultural connections, networks and interactions over a longue durée and in a cross-regional context. Analysing locally varied experiences of cowrie money from a global perspective, Yang argued that cowrie money was the first global money that shaped Afro-Eurasian societies both individually and collectively. He proposes a paradigm of the cowrie money world that engages local, regional, transregional and global themes.
The Mollusks
Author: Charles F. SturmPublisher: Universal-Publishers
ISBN: 1581129300
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Mollusks have been important to humans since our earliest days. Initially, when humans were primarily interested in what they could eat or use, mollusks were important as food, ornaments, and materials for tools. Over the centuries, as human knowledge branched out and individuals started to study the world around them, mollusks were important subjects for learning how things worked. In this volume, the editors and contributors have brought together a broad range of topics within the field of malacology. It is our expectation that these topics will be of interest and use to amateur and professional malacologists.