Author : James E. Bruseth
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 31,83 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781585443475
An account of the discovery and excavation of the French ship La Belle, shipwrecked in 1686 in Matagorda Bay, Texas.
Author : Lyndel V. Prott
Publisher :
Page : 1049 pages
File Size : 22,8 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 9780862050658
Author : Council for British Archaeology. Scottish Regional Group
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 14,57 MB
Release : 1961
Category :
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Author : Greg Hawley
Publisher : Paddlewheel Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,86 MB
Release : 1998-04-01
Category : Missouri River
ISBN : 9780965761253
Steaming up the Missouri River en route to the frontier, the Arabia carried 130 passengers and 220 tons of precious cargo. On September 5, 1856, a submerged walnut tree pierced her hull, sinking the Arabia one-half mile below Parkville, Missouri. In time the river changed course, leaving the Arabia and her priceless freight deep beneath a Kansas farm field. In 1988, four men and their families dedicated themselves to achieve what others could not; to recover the treasure from the Great White Arabia.
Author : Helge Ingstad
Publisher : Breakwater Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,93 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9781550811582
Faced with harsh conditions in their Greenland home, a group of Vikings took the reins of fate into their own hands. With incredible luck, skill and fortitude, they discovered lands filled with a profusion of wood, wild game and fertile land. In the sagas that grew from this discovery, the lands were given names that resonated with hope and promise. Almost 1000 years later, a husband and wife team united their talents. Intrigued by allusions in the ancient sagas to fabled Vinland, they considered the scholarship on Viking culture and technology; they studied maps and they researched intensively the prominent theories on Vinland's location. And finally their efforts bore fruit when a remote Newfoundland peninsula yielded up a soapstone spindle-whorl, a Viking ring pin, and what had to be the overgrown remnants of over a dozen Viking buildings.
Author : Council for British Archaeology. Scottish Group
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,21 MB
Release : 1986
Category :
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Author : Yusuf M. Juwayeyi
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 19,95 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 1847012531
First comprehensive account of the origins and early history of the Chewa as revealed by oral tradition and archaeology that allows a more accurate picture of a pre-literate society.
Author :
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,54 MB
Release : 1962
Category :
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Author : R. Martin Harrison
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 17,8 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : Brian S Bauer
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 25,85 MB
Release : 2020-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1950446220
The Wari State was the first expansionistic power to develop in the Andean highlands. Emerging in the area of modern Ayacucho (Peru) around AD 650, the Wari expanded to control much of the central Andes by the time of their collapse at AD 1000. This book describes the discovery and excavation (2010-2012) of a major new Wari site (Espiritu Pampa), located in the subtropical region of Vilcabamba (Department of Cuzco). While it was long believed that the Wari established trade networks between their highland capital and the Amazonian lowlands, the identification of a large Wari site in the Vilcabamba region came as a surprise to most Wari specialists. This book covers the first three years of excavations at the Wari site of Espiritu Pampa. It describes the identification of a central plaza surrounded by a series of D-shaped structures, that are believed to the loci of special activates for the Wari. It also describes the contents of more than 30 burials, many of which contained finely crafted silver, gold, bronze and ceramic objects.
