Digging In The East
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Author |
: David B. Weishampel |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 1996-05-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:49015002362029 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dinosaurs of the East Coast by : David B. Weishampel
The great dinosaur bonebeds of the American and Canadian West are world famous for spectacular fossil yields. But the eastern U.S. and maritime Canada have been equally inportant to the study of these extraordinary creatures. Dinosaurs of the East Coast combines science, history, and modern reporting to offer a new look at an always fascinating subject. 29 line, 110 halftone illustrations.
Author |
: Kathryn Lasky |
Publisher |
: StarWalk Kids Media |
Total Pages |
: 160 |
Release |
: 2012-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781623342081 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1623342082 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dinosaur Dig by : Kathryn Lasky
In the Badlands of Montana, many stories are waiting to be told – about Triceratops and Ankylosaurus and ancient crocodiles. There, scientists search for the bones of animals that lived millions of years ago. In Dinosaur Dig, Kathryn Lasky and Christopher G. Knight, the award-winning writer-and-photographer team, describe the dirty, sweaty, and exciting job they and five other families perform as they search for fossils in the Badlands. Dinosaur Dig is a feast of keen observation, magnificent photography, and information about Earth’s ancient past. Like any good story, it captures expectations and disappointments, close calls, and finally success as the diggers uncover and race to preserve the bones of a creature that died 67 million years ago.
Author |
: Adrienne Mayor |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 489 |
Release |
: 2013-10-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400849314 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400849314 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fossil Legends of the First Americans by : Adrienne Mayor
The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills were, much later, also home to the Sioux, the Crows, and the Blackfeet, the first people to encounter the dinosaur fossils exposed by the elements. What did Native Americans make of these stone skeletons, and how did they explain the teeth and claws of gargantuan animals no one had seen alive? Did they speculate about their deaths? Did they collect fossils? Beginning in the East, with its Ice Age monsters, and ending in the West, where dinosaurs lived and died, this richly illustrated and elegantly written book examines the discoveries of enormous bones and uses of fossils for medicine, hunting magic, and spells. Well before Columbus, Native Americans observed the mysterious petrified remains of extinct creatures and sought to understand their transformation to stone. In perceptive creation stories, they visualized the remains of extinct mammoths, dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and marine creatures as Monster Bears, Giant Lizards, Thunder Birds, and Water Monsters. Their insights, some so sophisticated that they anticipate modern scientific theories, were passed down in oral histories over many centuries. Drawing on historical sources, archaeology, traditional accounts, and extensive personal interviews, Adrienne Mayor takes us from Aztec and Inca fossil tales to the traditions of the Iroquois, Navajos, Apaches, Cheyennes, and Pawnees. Fossil Legends of the First Americans represents a major step forward in our understanding of how humans made sense of fossils before evolutionary theory developed.
Author |
: Archaeological Survey of India. Eastern Circle |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 210 |
Release |
: 1920 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:31951D01068700F |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (0F Downloads) |
Synopsis Annual Report of the Archaeological Survey, Eastern Circle for by : Archaeological Survey of India. Eastern Circle
Author |
: Sheng-mei Ma |
Publisher |
: Purdue University Press |
Total Pages |
: 178 |
Release |
: 2012-07-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781612492087 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1612492088 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity by : Sheng-mei Ma
Drawing from Anglo-American, Asian American, and Asian literature as well as J-horror and manga, Chinese cinema and Internet, and the Korean Wave, Sheng-mei Ma's Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity probes into the conjoinedness of West and East, of modernity's illusion and nothing's infinitude. Suspended on the stylistic tightrope between research and poetry, critical analysis and intuition, Asian Diaspora restores affect and heart to the experience of diaspora in between East and West, at-homeness and exilic attrition. Diaspora, by definition, stems as much from socioeconomic and collective displacement as it points to emotional reaction. This book thus challenges the fossilized conceptualizations in area studies, ontology, and modernism. The book's first two chapters trace the Asian pursuit of modernity into nothing, as embodied in horror film and the gaming motif in transpacific literature and film. Chapters three through eight focus on the borderlands of East and West, the edges of humanity and meaning. Ma examines how loss occasions a revisualization of Asia in children's books, how Asian diasporic passing signifies, paradoxically, both "born again" and demise of the "old" self, how East turns "East" or the agent of self-fashioning for Anglo-America, Asia, and Asian America, how the construct of "bugman" distinguishes modern West's and East's self-image, how the extreme human condition of "non-person" permeates the Korean Wave, and how manga artists are drawn to wartime Japan. The final two chapters interrogate the West's death-bound yet enlightening Orientalism in Anglo-American literature and China's own schizophrenic split, evidenced in the 2008 Olympic Games.
Author |
: Deborah Kogan Ray |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 44 |
Release |
: 2010-04-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780374317898 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0374317895 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dinosaur Mountain by : Deborah Kogan Ray
This is the story of Earl Douglass and his discovery of the first almost complete skeleton of an Apatosaurus, one of the largest dinosaurs ever to roam Earth.
Author |
: Joseph Herbert Hartman |
Publisher |
: Geological Society of America |
Total Pages |
: 530 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0813723612 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780813723617 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the Northern Great Plains by : Joseph Herbert Hartman
Author |
: Buffalo (N.Y.). Common Council |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 2644 |
Release |
: 1895 |
ISBN-10 |
: UIUC:30112062335978 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Proceedings of the Common Council of the City of Buffalo by : Buffalo (N.Y.). Common Council
Author |
: Saskatchewan. Board of Highway Commissioners |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 484 |
Release |
: 1913 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015021043750 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Report by : Saskatchewan. Board of Highway Commissioners
Author |
: John Preston |
Publisher |
: Other Press, LLC |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2016-04-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781590517802 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1590517806 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Dig by : John Preston
THE BASIS FOR THE NETFLIX FILM STARRING CAREY MULLIGAN, RALPH FIENNES, AND LILY JAMES A literary adventure that tells the story of a priceless buried treasure discovered in England on the eve of World War II In the long, hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war, but on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind. Mrs. Pretty, the widowed owner of the farm, has had her hunch confirmed that the mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary find. This fictional recreation of the famed Sutton Hoo dig follows three months of intense activity when locals fought outsiders, professionals thwarted amateurs, and love and rivalry flourished in equal measure. As the war looms ever closer, engraved gold peeks through the soil, and each character searches for answers in the buried treasure. Their threads of love, loss, and aspiration weave a common awareness of the past as something that can never truly be left behind.