Chamberlin Free Public Library Catalog

Image from Google Jackets

Tombs, graves and mummies /

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Barnes & Noble, 1996.Description: 213 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 0760704333
  • 9780760704332
Other title:
  • Tombs, graves & mummies [Spine title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 930.1
LOC classification:
  • CC77.B8 T66 1996
Contents:
BONES: 1. Lucy: Our Most Famous Relative -- 2. The Turkana Boy -- 3. Before the Neanderthals: The First Europeans -- 4. Peking and Java Man: Early Humans in Eastern Asia -- 5. Earliest Australians -- 6. Human Sacrifice at Archanes-Anemospilia -- GRAVES: 7. The Puzzle of Neanderthal Burial -- 8. Late Ice Age Burials of Eurasia -- 9. Jericho Skulls -- 10. La Chaussee-Tirancourt -- 11. The Talheim Neolithic Mass Burial -- 12. Mass Burials in North America -- 13. Mass Graves: Visby and East Smithfield -- 14. The Tragic End of the Romanovs -- CEMETERIES: 15. Scandinavian Mesolithic Burials -- 16. Murray Valley Cemeteries -- 17. The Royal Cemetery at Ur -- 18. The Cemetery at Khok Phanom Di -- 19. Battle Cemeteries -- 20. The Paracas Necropolis -- 21. The Temple of Quetzalcoatl at Teotihuacan -- 22. Ingombe Ilede -- 23. Voices of the Seventh Cavalry.
TOMBS: 24. The Shaft Graves of Mycenae -- 25. Danish Bronze Age Log Coffin Burials --26. Tombs in the Persian Gulf -- 27. Klasies River Mouth Cave -- 28. Hochdorf -- 29. Philip of Macedon -- 30. Royal Burials of Early Imperial China -- 31. The Lords of Sipan -- 32. Monte Alban, Tomb -- 33. The Tomb of Pacal at Palenque -- 34. Igbo-Ukwu -- 35. Early Pacific Islanders -- CORPSES: 36. Discovering the Origins of New World Humans -- 37. The Iceman -- 38. Pazyryk and the Ukok Princess -- 39. Lost Caucasoids of the Tarim Basin -- 40. Herculaneum and Pompeii -- 41. Inka Mountain Sacrifices -- 42. Bog Bodies of Britain and Denmark -- 43. The Franklin Expedition -- 44. Mummies in the Far North -- MUMMIES: 45. Chinchorro-The Oldest Mummies in the World -- 46. Making Mummies -- 47. Mummies and Medicine -- 48. The Deir El-Bahri Cache -- 49. The Family of Tutankhamen -- 50. The Mummies of Northern Fujiwara.
Summary: "Bodies and graves present a unique and exciting aspect of archaeology, providing much information about social status through the quality and quantity of goods found in graves and tombs. This book surveys the great variety of this archaeological form from around the world, from the earliest fossil humans to the royal burials of Ur and the victims of the Battle of Little Bighorn, and explores what it is they have to tell us about the lives and deaths of our ancestors". --Amazon.com.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
NF NF Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction 932 BAH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 34517000461767

Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-207) and index.

BONES: 1. Lucy: Our Most Famous Relative -- 2. The Turkana Boy -- 3. Before the Neanderthals: The First Europeans -- 4. Peking and Java Man: Early Humans in Eastern Asia -- 5. Earliest Australians -- 6. Human Sacrifice at Archanes-Anemospilia -- GRAVES: 7. The Puzzle of Neanderthal Burial -- 8. Late Ice Age Burials of Eurasia -- 9. Jericho Skulls -- 10. La Chaussee-Tirancourt -- 11. The Talheim Neolithic Mass Burial -- 12. Mass Burials in North America -- 13. Mass Graves: Visby and East Smithfield -- 14. The Tragic End of the Romanovs -- CEMETERIES: 15. Scandinavian Mesolithic Burials -- 16. Murray Valley Cemeteries -- 17. The Royal Cemetery at Ur -- 18. The Cemetery at Khok Phanom Di -- 19. Battle Cemeteries -- 20. The Paracas Necropolis -- 21. The Temple of Quetzalcoatl at Teotihuacan -- 22. Ingombe Ilede -- 23. Voices of the Seventh Cavalry.

TOMBS: 24. The Shaft Graves of Mycenae -- 25. Danish Bronze Age Log Coffin Burials --26. Tombs in the Persian Gulf -- 27. Klasies River Mouth Cave -- 28. Hochdorf -- 29. Philip of Macedon -- 30. Royal Burials of Early Imperial China -- 31. The Lords of Sipan -- 32. Monte Alban, Tomb -- 33. The Tomb of Pacal at Palenque -- 34. Igbo-Ukwu -- 35. Early Pacific Islanders -- CORPSES: 36. Discovering the Origins of New World Humans -- 37. The Iceman -- 38. Pazyryk and the Ukok Princess -- 39. Lost Caucasoids of the Tarim Basin -- 40. Herculaneum and Pompeii -- 41. Inka Mountain Sacrifices -- 42. Bog Bodies of Britain and Denmark -- 43. The Franklin Expedition -- 44. Mummies in the Far North -- MUMMIES: 45. Chinchorro-The Oldest Mummies in the World -- 46. Making Mummies -- 47. Mummies and Medicine -- 48. The Deir El-Bahri Cache -- 49. The Family of Tutankhamen -- 50. The Mummies of Northern Fujiwara.

"Bodies and graves present a unique and exciting aspect of archaeology, providing much information about social status through the quality and quantity of goods found in graves and tombs. This book surveys the great variety of this archaeological form from around the world, from the earliest fossil humans to the royal burials of Ur and the victims of the Battle of Little Bighorn, and explores what it is they have to tell us about the lives and deaths of our ancestors". --Amazon.com.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.