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Kindred
'Beautiful, evocative, authoritative.' Professor Brian Cox
'Important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity.' Yuval Noah Harari
Kindred is the definitive guide to the Neanderthals. Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins.Rebecca Wragg Sykes uses her experience at the cutting-edge of Palaeolithic research to share our new understanding of Neanderthals, shoving aside cliches of rag-clad brutes in an icy wasteland. She reveals them to be curious, clever connoisseurs of their world, technologically inventive and ecologically adaptable. Above all, they were successful survivors for more than 300,000 years, during times of massive climatic upheaval.
Much of what defines us was also in Neanderthals, and their DNA is still inside us. Planning, co-operation, altruism, craftsmanship, aesthetic sense, imagination, perhaps even a desire for transcendence beyond mortality. Kindred does for Neanderthals what Sapiens did for us, revealing a deeper, more nuanced story where humanity itself is our ancient, shared inheritance.
Sluneční králové / Kings of the Sun
Výpravný katalog v češtině a angličtině je doplňkem unikátní výstavy Sluneční králové, která se konala v Národním muzeu v Praze od 1. září 2020 do 31. září 2021 a mapovala více než sto let archeologického výzkumu lokality Abúsíru egyptskými, německými a českými (do roku 1990 československými) misemi. Obsahuje 139 záznamů o téměř 300 předmětech z období mezi raně dynastickým a ptolemaiovským obdobím, včetně příkladů z královské pohřební výbavy krále Raneferefa z doby pyramidového pohřebiště, sochy kněze Nefera a princezny Šeretnebty z jižního Abúsíru, a také předměty ze sajsko-perských šachtových hrobek. Vzácné objekty výstavy Sluneční králové vyprávějí příběh o starověké egyptské civilizaci a o lidech, kteří ji tvořili, a katalog jejich prostřednictvím mapuje existenci a vývoj lokality Abúsír po dobu téměř tří tisíciletí.
The catalogue in Czech and English accompanied the unique exhibition Kings of the Sun that took place at the National Museum in Prague between September 1st 2020 and September 31st 2021 and mapped over a century of archaelogical exploration of the site of Abusir by Egyptian, German and Czech (until 1990 Czechoslovak) mission. It contains 139 entries on almost 300 objects dating between the Early Dynastic and Ptolemaic Periods, including examples from the royal burial equipment of King Raneferef from the pyramid cemetery, sculptures of the priest Nefer and Princess Sheretnebty from Abusir south, as well as items from the Saite-Persian shaft tombs. The objects tell a story of the ancient Egyptian civilization and of the people who formed it, and through them, the catalogue maps the existence and development of the site of Abusir for almost three millenia.
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The Dawn of Everything
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a reaction to indigenous critiques of European society, and why they are wrong. In doing so, they overturn our view of human history, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery and civilization itself.
Drawing on path-breaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we begin to see what's really there. If humans did not spend 95 per cent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful possibilities than we tend to assume.
The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision and faith in the power of direct action.
'Fascinating, thought-provoking, groundbreaking. A book that will generate debate for years to come' Rutger Bregman
'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times
'Iconoclastic and irreverent ... an exhilarating read' The Guardian
'Boldly ambitious, entertaining and thought-provoking' Observer
'This is not a book. This is an intellectual feast' Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Centrum východohalštatské kultury na střední Moravě
Doba halštatská (800450 př. Kr.) je první etapou doby železné na našem území. Do dnešních dob se z ní dochovalo velké množství archeologických nálezů, významné jsou zejména rozměrné pohřební monumenty. Je však paradoxem a zároveň velkým dluhem moravské archeologie, že o této pozoruhodné a svébytné epoše pravěku dosud nevyšlo žádné syntetické dílo. Nová kniha se snaží tuto mezeru zacelit. V kontextu celé Moravy přináší nové poznatky, reviduje početná starší data a nabízí pestrou škálu různých interpretací. Předložené závěry vycházejí zčásti ze spolupráce s řadou kolegů z humanitních a přírodovědných oborů. Kniha otevírá cestu k výraznému propojení badatelských výsledků s jinými evropskými regiony. Archeology, kteří se zabývají dobou halštatskou, nepochybně podnítí k diskuzi a studentům poskytne možnost seznámit se v ucelené podobě se zajímavým úsekem našich pravěkých dějin.
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A Short History of Humanity
Humanity has often found itself on the precipice. We've survived and thrived because we've never stopped moving...
In this eye-opening book, Johannes Krause, Chair of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Humanity, offers a new way of understanding our past, present and future.
Marshalling unique insights from archaeogenetics, an emerging new discipline that allows us to read our ancestors' DNA like journals chronicling personal stories of migration, Krause charts two millennia of adaption, movement and survival, culminating in the triumph of Homo Sapiens as we swept through Europe and beyond in successive waves of migration - developing everything from language, the patriarchy, disease, art and a love of pets as we did so.
We also meet our ancestors, from those many of us have heard of - such as Homo Erectus and the Neanderthals - to the wildly unfamiliar but no less real: the recently discovered Denisovans, who ranged across Asia and, like humans, interbred with Neanderthals; the Aurignacians, skilled artists who, 40,000 years ago, brought about an extraordinary transformation in what our species could invent and create; the Varna, who buried their loved ones with gold long before the Pharaohs of Egypt did; and the Gravettians, big game hunters who were Europe's most successful early settlers until they perished in the face of the toughest opponent humanity had ever faced: the ice age.
As well as being a radical new telling of our shared story, this book is a reminder that the global problems that keep us awake at night - climate catastrophe; the sudden emergence of deadly epidemics; refugee crises; ethnic conflict; over-population - are all things we've faced, and overcome, before.
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The Cult of Progress
Oscar Wilde said, 'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.' Was he right? In Cult of Progress, David Olusoga travels the world to piece together the shared histories that link nations.
We discover what happened to art in the great Age of Discovery, when civilisations encountered each other for the first time. Although undoubtedly a period of conquest and destruction, it was also one of mutual curiosity, global trade and the exchange of ideas.
A few hundred years on, we see how the Industrial Revolution transformed the world, impacting every corner and every civilisation from the cotton mills of the Midlands to Napoleon's conquest of Egypt, the decimation of both Native American and Maori populations, and the advent of photography in Paris in 1839.
Incredible art - both looted and created - relays the key events and their outcomes throughout the world.
A tépei kincs /The Tépe Treasure
Éppen 110 év telt el azóta, hogy mesés kincsre bukkantak egy eldugott bihari falu határában, a tépei Görbekertben, melyet "aranyos dombként" őrzött meg a családi emlékezet. A szerencsés találók az ölükbe hullott arany-és ezüstholmikon igazságosan megosztoztak, s bizonyára mindez a jótékony feledés homályába merült volna, ha éppen nem közeleg karácsony szent ünnepe... - ezzel kezdődik a magyarországi régészeti nyomozások egyik izgalmas fejezete az 1911 decemberében talált kincs történetéről.
Az elmúlt évszázad régészeti és művészettörténeti kutatásai során bebizonyosodott, hogy kb. 1350-1500 éves leletekről van szó; a Kárpát-medencét uralma alatt tartó avar kagán kincstárából származó tárgyakról, melyek fordulatos sorsának állomásait ekképpen lehet rekonstruálni: bizánci-avar ajándékcsere, tezaurálás, fejedelmi temetkezés, sírrablás, s végül rejtekhely a mocsárban.
Levéltári és meteorológiai források tanulmányozása, helyszíni szemlék, múzeumi kiállítások sora, három nemzedék egymásra épülő munkája kellett ahhoz, hogy a kincsből ránk maradt mindössze fél tucat lelet (aranyozott ezüst tálalótál, ezüstkorsó és -kehely, arany álcsatos díszöv verete, aranyszerelékes kard és kés leszaggatott részei) segítségével az Avar Kaganátus keleti határát jelentő Csörsz-árok partjáról eljuthassunk a Bizánci Birodalom fővárosáig, Konstantinápolyig.
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A World Beneath the Sands
What could be more exciting, more exotic or more intrepid than digging in the sands of Egypt in the hope of discovering golden treasures from the age of the pharaohs?
Our fascination with ancient Egypt goes back to the ancient Greeks. But the heyday of Egyptology was undoubtedly the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This golden age of scholarship and adventure is neatly book-ended by two epoch-making events: Champollion's decipherment of hieroglyphics in 1822 and the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon a hundred years later.
In A World Beneath the Sands, the acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson tells the riveting stories of the men and women whose obsession with Egypt's ancient civilisation drove them to uncover its secrets. Champollion, Carter and Carnarvon are here, but so too are their lesser-known contemporaries, such as the Prussian scholar Karl Richard Lepsius, the Frenchman Auguste Mariette and the British aristocrat Lucie Duff-Gordon. Their work - and those of others like them - helped to enrich and transform our understanding of the Nile Valley and its people, and left a lasting impression on Egypt, too. Travellers and treasure-hunters, ethnographers and epigraphers, antiquarians and archaeologists: whatever their motives, whatever their methods, all understood that in pursuing Egyptology they were part of a greater endeavour - to reveal a lost world, buried for centuries beneath the sands.
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Egyptologists’ Notebooks
For centuries the beguiling ancient ruins of Egypt have provided an endless source of fascination for explorers, antiquarians, treasure hunters and archaeologists. All, from the very earliest travellers, were entranced by the beauty and majesty of the landscape: the remains of tombs cut into the natural rock of hillsides and the temples and cities gently consumed by drift sand. These early adventurers were gripped by the urge to capture what they had seen in writings, sketches, paintings and photographs.
While it was always the scholars - the Egyptologists - who were in charge, they depended on architects, artists, engineers and photographers. Yet when we think of Petrie, we think of Sir William Matthew Flinders, not of his wife Hilda. Only through reading their diaries and letters has it come to be realized how important she and other partners were.
Similarly the role played by Egyptian workers, digging on archaeological projects and maintaining relations with the local landowners, is only just coming to be appreciated. Egyptologists' Notebooks brings together the work - reproduced in its original form - of the many people who contributed to our understanding of ancient Egypt, offering a glimpse into a very different history of Egyptology. They evoke a rich sense of time and place, transporting us back to a great age of discovery.
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America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author and television presenter, has made it his life's work to find out — and in America Before, he draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest to a stunning conclusion.
We've been taught that North and South America were empty of humans until around 13,000 years ago - amongst the last great landmasses on earth to have been settled by our ancestors. But new discoveries have radically reshaped this long-established picture and we know now that the Americas were first peopled more than 130,000 years ago - many tens of thousands of years before human settlements became established elsewhere.
Hancock's research takes us on a series of journeys and encounters with the scientists responsible for the recent extraordinary breakthroughs. In the process, from the Mississippi Valley to the Amazon rainforest, he reveals that ancient 'New World' cultures share a legacy of advanced scientific knowledge and sophisticated spiritual beliefs with supposedly unconnected 'Old World' cultures. Have archaeologists focussed for too long only on the 'Old World' in their search for the origins of civilization while failing to consider the revolutionary possibility that those origins might in fact be found in the 'New World'?
America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilisation is the culmination of everything that millions of readers have loved in Hancock's body of work over the past decades, namely a mind-dilating exploration of the mysteries of the past, amazing archaeological discoveries and profound implications for how we lead our lives today.
Archeologie
Kniha Příběh archeologie od Gaynor Aaltonen pokrývá oblast archeologie v překvapivé šíři. Jedná se sice o populárně naučnou publikaci, nicméně zvolená témata zpracovává pečlivě a s nečekanou fundovaností. Kniha poskytne čtenáři ucelený přehled jednak o dějinách archeologie coby vědního oboru, jednak o nejzajímavějších či nejslavnějších archeologických objevech. Zájemce seznámí též s technickými aspekty práce archeologů, s vývojem technologií a jejich uplatněním při odborných analýzách artefaktů či pátrání po nových nalezištích.
Nezanedbatelnou součást této výpravné publikace představují rovněž kvalitní a trefně umístěné ilustrace, zpravidla reprodukce uměleckých děl a fotografie převratných objevů.
Archaeology
New to this Edition
* Updated treatment of postcolonial approaches and indigenous archaeology, with coverage of the ontological turn in archaeology, and new examples of community archaeology in southern Africa and Australia.
* New discoveries and research across the globe, such as archaeological evidence of social hierarchies at the ancient city of Liangzhu, China, and recent evidence of Neanderthal art in France and Spain.
* A more inclusive picture of archaeology, raising the profile of women in the discipline's history, and describing the development of archaeology in China and Japan.
* In Chapter Five, updated treatment of social organization, with critical evaluations of Service's model, and new coverage of heterarchies.
* New box features include: forensic archaeology; change in the Amazon; ancient microbes; paleoproteomics; Must Farm; evidence of feasting at Stonehenge; Neanderthal art; and ceramic styles and learning.
* New book design, including, for each chapter, distinct introductions that offer a general overview of each topic covered.
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Bigger Than History - Why Archaeology Matters
Why does archaeology matter? How does studying prehistory help us understand climate change? How can archaeological discoveries challenge contemporary assumptions about gender? How has archaeology been used and misused to support political and nationalist agendas - and how can it help build a more diverse and inclusive picture of our world by examining the people left out of written history?
Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani address these and other questions, exploring how archaeology's long-term perspective offers unique views into the most challenging issues facing the world today. With examples from around the globe - including a female Viking burial in Sweden, controversies over the discovery of the Kingdom of Mapungubwe in Southern Africa, and newly discovered ancient farming techniques in South America - Bigger Than History explores how the search for the past continues to inform our understanding of the present.
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The Dinosaurs Rediscovered
Startling new fossil finds are the lifeblood of modern palaeobiology. Giant sauropod dinosaur skeletons from Patagonia, dinosaurs with feathers from China, and even a tiny dinosaur tail in Burmese amber - complete down to every detail of its filament-like feathers, skin, bones and mummified tail muscles - inspire awe in a global audience enthralled by the idea of these great creatures walking the earth. Dinosaurs are of perennial interest to all ages, as illustrated by the huge range of dino-themed films, books and live attractions, from the enduring popularity of the Jurassic Park franchise to the success of London's immersive 'Dinosaurs in the Wild' experience.
In the past twenty years, dinosaur study has changed from natural history to testable science. New technologies have revealed secrets locked in the bones in a way nobody predicted - we can now work out the colour of dinosaurs, their bite forces, speeds and parental care as well as how they came to die out.This groundbreaking book illustrates how science has replaced speculation and how our understanding of dinosaurs and their world hascompletely changed. The subject has never been so vigorous, has never changed so fast, and has never been so attractive to so many.
Thesaurus Heraldicum Ecclesiasticum I
Klenotnica cirkevných erbov - je názov dlhodobého projektu knižného publikovania cirkevných erbov. Na ekumenickej báze prezentuje erby kňazov, biskupov, či farárov rôznych vierovyznaní. Projekt sa opiera o tradície heraldickej kultúry na Slovensku a odráža súčasné oživenie erbovej tvorby v oblasti cirkevnej heraldiky ako významnej vetvy slovenskej heraldiky, ktorá má popri heraldike štátnej, župnej, mestskej, obecnej, či občianskej na Slovensku svoje nezastupiteľné miesto.
Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt
Where are the tombs of Alexander the Great or Cleopatra? Both rulers were buried in Egypt, but their tombs have never been found despite years of intensive research and excavation. Yet we have tantalizing clues. Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt describes the quest for these and other great `missing' tombs - those we know existed, but which have not yet been identified.
It also discusses key moments of discovery that have yielded astonishing finds and created the archetypal image of the archaeologist poised at the threshold of a tomb left untouched for millennia. In this gripping account, Chris Naunton explains the mysteries of the missing tombs and presents all the evidence, skilfully unravelling the tangled threads surrounding the burials of the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten and his son Tutankhamun, and the burial place of Imhotep, architect of the Step Pyramid at Saqqara, among others. Could other such tombs lie undiscovered in the Valley of the Kings? In fact, the Valley almost certainly does guard hidden treasures.
Amazing finds of unsuspected tombs continue to occur there and elsewhere in Egypt, making headlines worldwide - all are covered in this book. As well as immersing the reader, step by step, in the action of the search and the thrill of discovery, the book also explores the reasons why tombs remain such a central part of both the popular perception of Egyptology and the continuing allure of ancient Egypt.
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Sherabad Oasis
Tato práce je druhým svazkem řady zveřejňující výsledky Česko-uzbecké archeologické expedice v jižním Uzbekistánu. Zatímco první díl byl věnován výkopům na centrální lokalitě Šerabádské oázy zvané Džandavláttepa, druhý svazek představuje vývoj osídlení v celé této oáze rekonstruovaný na základě dat naší expedice. Využitá metodika zahrnuje jak extenzivní, tak intenzivní povrchové prospekce, revize dosavadních publikovaných dat, mapových podkladů a satelitních snímků. Kromě samotné dynamiky osídlení zájmové oblasti od pravěku do moderních dob, byl také sledován rozvoj zavodňovacích systémů v nížinných stepích.
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Little History of Archaeology
The thrilling history of archaeological adventure, with tales of danger, debate, audacious explorers, and astonishing discoveries around the globe
What is archaeology? The word may bring to mind images of golden pharaohs and lost civilizations, or Neanderthal skulls and Ice Age cave art. Archaeology is all of these, but also far more: the only science to encompass the entire span of human history-more than three million years!
This Little History tells the riveting stories of some of the great archaeologists and their amazing discoveries around the globe: ancient Egyptian tombs, Mayan ruins, the first colonial settlements at Jamestown, mysterious Stonehenge, the incredibly preserved Pompeii, and many, many more. In forty brief, exciting chapters, the book recounts archaeology's development from its eighteenth-century origins to its twenty-first-century technological advances, including remote sensing capabilities and satellite imagery techniques that have revolutionized the field. Shining light on the most intriguing events in the history of the field, this absolutely up-to-date book illuminates archaeology's controversies, discoveries, heroes and scoundrels, global sites, and newest methods for curious readers of every age.
Archeologie prusko-rakouské války z roku 1866
Předkládaná publikace poprvé uceleně představuje výsledky archeologických výzkumů z prostředí bojišť z roku 1866 na území České republiky. Jelikož nebyla na podobné pozůstatky této války v minulosti upřena větší pozornost archeologů, prezentuje publikace i zcela nové poznatky z nedestruktivních prospekcí východočeských bojišť, které mohou pozměnit zažitý pohled na mnohé historické události. Inspiraci pro jejich zpracování je ale nutno hledat i za hranicemi naší země, na lokalitách starších válečných konfliktů s delší výzkumnou tradicí. Studie si tak klade za cíl přehledně představit interpretace získaných dat a nastínit tak další směr, kterým by se měl výzkum ubírat.
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Archeológia je kľúčom k odhaľovaniu tajomstiev našej minulosti. Táto kategória vás zavedie na cesty späť v čase, kde sa môžete dotknúť civilizácií, ktoré už dávno vybledli z mapy, ale ich stopy v podobe artefaktov, budov a písomných záznamov pretrvávajú.
Preskúmajte svety starovekých kultúr, od majestátnych pyramíd v Egypte, cez záhady Mayského kalendára, až po zaniknuté mesto Atlantída. Ponorte sa do hĺbok podzemných jaskýň, púští a džunglí s odvážnymi archeológmi, ktorí sú poháňaní vášnivým hľadaním pravdy o našich predkoch.
Táto kategória kníh vám ponúka zasvätenie do techník vykopávok, analýz a interpretácií nálezov, a tiež vám umožní spoznať najnovšie technológie a metódy, ktoré archeológovia používajú na odhaľovanie tajomstiev, ktoré boli po stáročia skryté pod povrchom zeme.
Nech už vás fascinuje predhistorický svet, staroveké civilizácie, stredoveké rytierstvo alebo histórie blízke minulosti, archeológia vám otvorí dvere do nespočetných svetov plných dobrodružstva a objavov.
