Past Worlds: The Times Atlas of Archaeology By Christopher Scarre
320 Pages | 1988 | ISBN: 0723003068 | DJVU | 109 MB
An archaeological reconstruction of the human story, using hundreds of maps, illustrations, photographs and reconstructions of ancient sites. As well as examining the well known classical civilisations, it looks at the obscure and mysterious, such as the pyramid temples of the Yucatan.
Landscape of the Mind: Human Evolution and the Archaeology of Thought By John F. Hoffecker
288 Pages | Publisher: Colu\\mbia Univ\\ersity Pr\\ess 2011 | ISBN: 023114704X | EPUB + PDF | 5 MB + 50 MB
In Landscape of the Mind, John F. Hoffecker explores the origin and growth of the human mind, drawing on archaeology, history, and the fossil record. He suggests that, as an indirect result of bipedal locomotion, early humans developed a feedback relationship among their hands, brains, and tools that evolved into the capacity to externalize thoughts in the form of shaped stone objects.
Carl C. Gaither, Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither, "Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations: A Collection of Approximately 27,000 Quotations Pertaining to Archaeology, Architecture, Astronomy, ... Technology, Theory, Universe, and Zoology"
2815 pages | S,,.er | 2012 | ISBN: 1461411130 | PDF | 17 MB
This unprecedented collection of 27,000 quotations is the most comprehensive and carefully researched of its kind, covering all fields of science and mathematics. With this vast compendium you can readily conceptualize and embrace the written images of scientists, laymen, politicians, novelists, playwrights, and poets about humankind's scientific achievements.
TMS - Eric H. Cline - Archaeology and the Iliad: The Trojan War in Homer and History
English | MP3 96 kbps 44 KHz Stereo | 138 MP3s | 312 MB Genre: AudioBook
The Trojan War, captured forever in Homer’s epic poem the Iliad, resonates to the present day in the popular imagination, and this magnificent confrontation continues to exert a tremendous influence on modern audiences.
But did Troy actually exist?
And if so, where is it located?
Was the Trojan War actually fought?
If it was, did it take place over the course of ten years, as Homer wrote, or was it a much longer series of battles?
And why was the war fought?
Could Helen’s face alone really have launched a thousand ships?
History Channel - Secrets of Archaeology (2007)
English | AVI | XVID 1673 kbps 29.970 fps | 704x544 | AC3 128 kbps 48 KHz | 9.24 GB Genre: Documentary
If you'd have told me when I was in high school that not only would there one day be a "History Channel," but also that I would grow to "love it," I would have called you a stoned apparition from the future and commanded you to leave me alone.
But strange things happen as you grow older. You often develop tastes for things you never liked before. Like sour cream on soft tacos, or history. So after spending many nights glued to The History Channel, I now consider myself a real enthusiast on the subject. I'm surrounded by all sorts of American history, but what I find really interesting are the old-old-old school civilizations and all their ancient mysteries.
A visit to the heart of the first great civilizations between the Euphrates and the Agean Sea takes us to the pre-Hellenic cities of Mycenae, Tiryns, and the legendary Babylonian city of Troy where archeological findings have confirmed existence of the world of heroes that Homer depicted in his epic poems. We will even visit the site of the classic battle between Hector and Achilles.
In the 2nd century BC, artistic and cultural activities reached their heights in the cities of Ionia, a densely populated area on the cost of modern-day Turkey, as well as on a cluster of islands off the eastern Mediterranean. Priene, Miletus, Delos, “Slave Island”, Kos and Rhodes, home of the famous Colossus, are just some of the destinations we will be visiting.
Take a virtual reality tour of history’s most intriguing ancient civilizations. Uncover the secrets of the pyramids as the Pharaohs reach for immortality, walk the streets of the Eternal City of Rome, relive a step-by-step reconstruction of Pompeii under the shadow of mighty Vesuvius, experience life in bustling Baghdad and journey to Latin America to the mythical "El Dorado." SECRETS OF ARCHAEOLOGY makes history come alive!
During the 4th Century BC, Sicily was the “new Greece” of the west. Our journey will take us to the various cultural centers that dotted the island, such as Syracuse, Agrigento, with the exquisite Valley of the Temples, and Selinus, present-day Selenunte.
For many centuries, Greeks, Romans, Persians and Egyptians turned to Apollo, the lunar God, in hopes of being granted good fortune. This episode chronicles the sanctuaries built in Apollo’s honor, and includes Delos in the Cyclades, Delphi in the region of Phocis and Didymi in Ionia.
John Oswin, "A Field Guide to Geophysics in Archaeology (Springer Praxis Books / Geophysical Sciences)"
Springer; 1 edition | English | 2009-06-30 | ISBN: 354076691X | 248 pages | PDF | 5.1 mb
Geophysics operations in archaeology have become well known through exposure on television. However, the technique is presented as the action of specialists and something of a mystery, where people walk about with strange contraptions, and results appear from a computer. This is not the case, however.
Between the 3rd and 1st centuries BC, many cities in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey) reached unprecedented artistic levels. They were the new centers of Hellenism; the fruit of the junction of Greek and Eastern civilizations. In this episode, we will journey to the cities of Ephesus and Pergamum. In Pergamum, we will behold the city’s great alter, which the citizens considered to be a symbol of the cultural supremacy of Hellenistic people over the rest of the world.
