Dougal Dixon called it Lemuria in his After Man book. I really wonder what the climate would be like.
Showing posts with label book research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book research. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
The New Contient of Somalia...in a million years
Dougal Dixon called it Lemuria in his After Man book. I really wonder what the climate would be like.
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Books Being Considered
As I said before my wife got me an Amazon gift card for Xmas. I have a list of possibilities.
The first few are related to my curiousity, almost obsession, about Deep Time and mass extinctions. The first is Modeling Extinction. The second is Out of Thin Air which is almost a given for my purchase this time. The third is Dawn of the Dinosaurs which details the Triassic. I am also considering Dinosaurs of Darkness about the critters that lived down very far south during the Mesozoic, but the review isn't that good (any coutner sugegstions, Darren?). In a semi related topic, I am looking at Dragons in the Dust about Australia's giant varanid. Instead of Dinosaurs of Darkness, I might go for Horns And Beaks. I am also tempted with Evolutionary Catastrophes.
On the book research front, Demarest's Ancient Maya is one being considered as is Handbook to Life in the Ancient Maya World, and Galinsky's Augustan Culture is also interesting and tempting. I have half a mind to toss some of these in favour of more Deep Time books.
Two I am not going to toss because I have postponed getting them for so long are The Insular Cases And the Emergence of American Empire and The Collapse of Complex Societies. These would be for my own education.
For the house, Manual of Construction Documentation is planned. I do need to go get Prescriptive Methods from the ICF guys though. I can't get that through Amazon for some reason. So that might have to wait a tad.
The first few are related to my curiousity, almost obsession, about Deep Time and mass extinctions. The first is Modeling Extinction. The second is Out of Thin Air which is almost a given for my purchase this time. The third is Dawn of the Dinosaurs which details the Triassic. I am also considering Dinosaurs of Darkness about the critters that lived down very far south during the Mesozoic, but the review isn't that good (any coutner sugegstions, Darren?). In a semi related topic, I am looking at Dragons in the Dust about Australia's giant varanid. Instead of Dinosaurs of Darkness, I might go for Horns And Beaks. I am also tempted with Evolutionary Catastrophes.
On the book research front, Demarest's Ancient Maya is one being considered as is Handbook to Life in the Ancient Maya World, and Galinsky's Augustan Culture is also interesting and tempting. I have half a mind to toss some of these in favour of more Deep Time books.
Two I am not going to toss because I have postponed getting them for so long are The Insular Cases And the Emergence of American Empire and The Collapse of Complex Societies. These would be for my own education.
For the house, Manual of Construction Documentation is planned. I do need to go get Prescriptive Methods from the ICF guys though. I can't get that through Amazon for some reason. So that might have to wait a tad.
Monday, January 08, 2007
In Search of the Maya Sea Traders
As far as a books go, this was one worth reading. However, I have tos ay that I am unfortunately rather disappointed. It wasn't the writing style. Dr McKilop's prose is an easy read and definitely not dry or unengaging: itw as definitely not the bane prose that I call Archaeological Dry. What really disappointed me was the content: this was largely Yet Another Travelogue.
I was hoping for more insight into the Mayan seatrading, but it was lightly sprinkled about her adventures off the coast of Belize. That was interesting, honestly, but again not what I was looking for. Much like my disappointment with Peter Ward's Gorgon I had wanted to hear what the experts had to say about their work more than their adventures. Thoser are interesting and ought to be included, but...I'd rather have some solid discussion of what they found and their theories.
That doesn't happen as much.
grr.
On the other hand, it did give me some bits for Epylium Aurelia that will be useful, but only bits.
I was hoping for more insight into the Mayan seatrading, but it was lightly sprinkled about her adventures off the coast of Belize. That was interesting, honestly, but again not what I was looking for. Much like my disappointment with Peter Ward's Gorgon I had wanted to hear what the experts had to say about their work more than their adventures. Thoser are interesting and ought to be included, but...I'd rather have some solid discussion of what they found and their theories.
That doesn't happen as much.
grr.
On the other hand, it did give me some bits for Epylium Aurelia that will be useful, but only bits.
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