Bodies from the Ash

Bodies from the Ash
Author: James M. Deem
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2005
Genre: Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN: 0618473084

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Bodies from the Bog

Bodies from the Bog
Author: James M. Deem
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1998
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780618354023

Describes the discovery of bog bodies in northern Europe and the evidence which their remains reveal about themselves and the civilizations in which they lived.

Bodies from the Ice

Bodies from the Ice
Author: James M. Deem
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780618800452

The author of "Bodies from the Ash" and "Bodies from the Bog" takes readers on a captivating and creepy journey to learn about glaciers, hulking masses of moving ice that are now offering up many secrets of the past. Full color.

Bodies from the Ash

Bodies from the Ash
Author: James M. Deem
Publisher:
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2017-10-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781536423600

Details the events that occurred when Mount Vesuvius erupted and buried Pompeii in 79 A.D., focusing on how this information was deduced from the skeletons found by archaeologists at the site.

The Analysis of Burned Human Remains

The Analysis of Burned Human Remains
Author: Christopher W. Schmidt
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2011-10-10
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 008055928X

This unique reference provides a primary source for osteologists and the medical/legal community for the understanding of burned bone remains in forensic or archaeological contexts. It describes in detail the changes in human bone and soft tissues as a body burns at both the chemical and gross levels and provides an overview of the current procedures in burned bone study. Case studies in forensic and archaeological settings aid those interested in the analysis of burned human bodies, from death scene investigators, to biological anthropologists looking at the recent or ancient dead. - Includes the diagnostic patterning of color changes that give insight to the severity of burning, the positioning of the body, and presence (or absence) of soft tissues during the burning event - Chapters on bones and teeth give step-by-step recommendations for how to study and recognize burned hard tissues

Transformation by Fire

Transformation by Fire
Author: Gabriel Cooney
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2014-11-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0816531145

Transformation by Fire offers a current assessment of the archaeological research on the widespread social practice of cremation. Editors Ian Kuijt, Colin P. Quinn, and Gabriel Cooney chart a path for the development of interpretive archaeology surrounding this complex social process.

The Buried City of Pompeii : what it was Like when Vesuvius Exploded

The Buried City of Pompeii : what it was Like when Vesuvius Exploded
Author: Shelley Tanaka
Publisher: Richmond Hill, Ont. : Scholastic Canada
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1997
Genre: Pompeii (Extinct city)
ISBN: 9780590123778

The book recreates the lost world of Pompeii and -- based on archaeological detective work -- discribes how Eros the steward might have lived and how he came to die in his master's house.

The Ash Family

The Ash Family
Author: Molly Dektar
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2020-04-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1501144871

When a young woman leaves her family to join a secret off-the-grid community headed by an enigmatic leader, she discovers that belonging comes with a deadly cost, in this “stunning debut,” (The New Yorker) “perfect for fans of Philip Roth’s American Pastoral and the film Martha Marcy May Marlene” (Booklist, starred review). At nineteen, Berie encounters a seductive and mysterious man at a bus station near her home in North Carolina. Shut off from the people around her, she finds herself compelled by his promise of a new life. He ferries her into a place of order and chaos: the Ash Family farm. There, she joins a community living off the fertile land of the mountains, bound together by high ideals and through relationships she can’t untangle. Berie—now renamed Harmony—renounces her old life and settles into her new one on the farm. She begins to make friends. And then they start to disappear. “An excellent debut, Molly Dektar probes life in a cult with a masterful hand, excavating the troubled mind of a young woman,” (Publishers Weekly). The Ash Family explores what we will sacrifice in the search for happiness, and the beautiful and grotesque power of the human spirit as it seeks its ultimate place of belonging. “A captivating and haunting tale” (New York Journal of Books).

Secrets of Pompeii

Secrets of Pompeii
Author: Emidio De Albentiis
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2009
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0892369418

The remains of the ancient city of Pompeii, frozen in time following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79, have provided invaluable evidence of daily life, not only in Rome's provinces, but in its larger urban centers as well. This book provides a fascinating look at how ancient Romans interacted in their public squares and marketplaces, how they worshipped, decorated their homes, and spent their leisure time--at the theater, in the gymnasium, and in the baths and brothels. Illustrated with photographs of architectural remains and exquisite details from a range of ancient artworks, including wall paintings, sculptures, mosaics, and carved reliefs, the book offers a glimpse into a lost world.