From Black Land to Fifth Sun - The Science of Sacred Sites

Informationen zum Autor Brian Fagan is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he has written many internationally acclaimed popular books about archaeology, including The Little Ice Age, Floods, Famines, and Emperors, and The Long Summer. He lives in Santa Barbara, California. Klappentext A prominent archaeologist uses the latest scientific techniques to interpret the spiritual lives of ancient people. Zusammenfassung A prominent archaeologist uses the latest scientific techniques to interpret the spiritual lives of ancient people. Inhaltsverzeichnis * The Archaeology of the Intangible * Dark Caves! Obscure Visions * San Artists in Southern Africa * Fertility and Death * Power and the Ancestors * Avebury: Landscapes of the Ancestors * Stonehenge and the Idea of Time * Two Livings: Agriculture and Religion * The Moundbuilders of Eastern North America * The Bull Beneath the Earth * A Shrine at Phylakopi * Divine Kings Along the Nile * Xunantunich: The Maiden of the Rock * The World of the Fifth Sun * Epilogue

Product details

• Authors: Brian Fagan, Brian M. Fagan
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.03.1999
• EAN: 9780738201412
• ISBN: 978-0-7382-0141-2
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Helix Books; Helix Books
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity