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Focuses on pottery, establishing a cultural and ceramic sequence and chronology from the Final Copper Age to the Early Bronze Age (c.4050 BC - 2000 BC). From the evidence of these, and from metallurgy, burials and anthropomorphic figurines, the author detects settlement pattern, subsistence mode, social strategies and cultural interactions.

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Thesis on the question of agricultural origin in China by summarising, analysing and integrating data from various disciplines and theoretical analysis and comparative studies.

The aim of this interesting study is to provide insight into some current thoughts pertaining to the field of maritime archaeology and to sketch certain developments which are in part focused on the region of South Africa and complemented with case studies on surveys and excavation of 17th century shipwrecks of the Dutch East India Company.

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In this volume, Christensen outlines a new method for the identification of worked material through its physio-chemical (or mineral and organic) components. This assumes that, in modifying or making tools, micro-fragments of this material would stay at the edge of the tools.

This study reports on one of the largest and best dated assemblages of clay pipes recovered from the site of Port Royal in Jamaica. Many of the pipes came from Bristol and date to the 17th century AD.

This book deals with the phenomenon of the heroes' cults in the Bronze-Age Greece. More than eighty different sites, from the mainland Greece to Asia Minor were analysed and primary archaeological evidence, the votives dedicated at sites of hero-cult were dealt with. Extensive catalogue lists details of sites as well as archaeological material.

Main Street is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis, and published in 1920.Satirizing small town life, Main Street is perhaps Sinclair Lewis's most famous book, and led in part to his eventual 1930 Nobel Prize for Literature. It relates the life and struggles of Carol Milford Kennicott in the small town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, as she comes into conflict with the small-town mentality of its residents. Highly acclaimed upon publicat...

Babbitt (1922), by Sinclair Lewis, is a satirical novel about American culture and society that critiques the vacuity of middle class life and the social pressure toward conformity. The controversy provoked by Babbitt was influential in the decision to award the Nobel Prize in Literature to Lewis in 1930.The word "Babbitt" entered the English language as a "person and especially a business or professional man who conforms unthinkingly to preva...

Free Air is a 1919 novel written by Sinclair Lewis. A silent film adaptation of the novel was also released on April 30, 1922. The film starred Tom Douglas as Milt Daggett and Marjorie Seaman as Claire Boltwood. "This cheerful little road novel, published in 1919, is about Claire Boltwood, who, in the early days of the 20th century, travels by automobile from New York City to the Pacific Northwest, where she falls in love with a nice, down-to-...

The House of the Dead is a semi-autobiographical novel published in 1860-2 in the journal Vremya by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp. The novel has also been published under the titles Memoirs from the House of The Dead, Notes from the Dead House (or Notes from a Dead House), and Notes from the House of the Dead. The book is, essentially, a disguised memoir, a loosely-knit collecti...

This is the second volume of the Adriatic Island Project. It lists the results of extensive archaeological survey of the island of Brac in the Croatian Adriatic. The fieldwork resulted in a database which includes all archaeological sites on the island, from prehistory, Greek and Roman periods to the Medieval time. Each site entry gives a precise location, description and bibliography.

The authors endeavoured to interpret the evolution and development of thought about the Palaeolithic of Iberian Peninsula. A line of argument and a broad, generalized chronology are given. For each period examined a brief review of socio-political context is given, and the specialist literature is analyzed. The discussion shows how archaeologists generated knowledge, how they selected from it and how they transmitted it.

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (11 November 1821 - 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated as Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, philosopher, short story writer, essayist, and journalist. Dostoevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed works include Crime and Punishme...

Poor Folk sometimes translated as Poor People, is the first novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, written over the span of nine months between 1844 and 1845. Dostoevsky was in financial difficulty because of his extravagant lifestyle and his developing gambling addiction, although he had produced some translations of foreign novels, they had little success, and he decided to write a novel of his own to try to raise funds.Inspired by the works of Gogol, ...

The objective of this work is the study of prehistoric agriculture during the Neolithic and the Bronze Age in a small region of Andalucía. Ethnographic models to archaeobotanical samples were applied. This was possible because small pockets of land where glume-wheat cultivation continues to date can be studied. Therefore a detailed analysis of glume-wheat husbandry and processing sequences was carried out. The result is an extension of the ran...

This study addresses the issue of recent hunter-gatherer subsistence and adoption of herding through excavation and analysis of archaeological material from Shulumai Rockshelter, inhabited until 50 years ago by Mukogodo hunter-gatherers of Laikipia District in north-central Kenya. New information on hunter-gatherer subsistence and the relations of Mukogodo hunter-gatherers to food producers helps current efforts in documenting processes involv...