The People of Palomas
Title | The People of Palomas PDF eBook |
Author | Erik Trinkaus |
Publisher | Texas A&M University Press |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2017-04-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1623494796 |
The Neandertal site of the Sima de las Palomas del Cabezo Gordo, located in Murcia in southeastern Spain, is unique in several respects. One of its most important contribution to the field of Anthropology, however, may be that it has yielded of the remains of at least 17 Neandertals, adding appreciable breadth to the available data for a greater understanding of Neandertals. Further, its location in the southern Iberian Peninsula provides the potential for studying a population that may have been somewhat isolated from contemporaneous groups of early humans. This comprehensive analysis represents the first detailed description and analysis of the human fossil assemblage found at the Sima de las Palomas site. While scientific discussion continues regarding the precise impact of Neandertals upon modern human physiology and biology, The People of Palomas adds significantly to our knowledge of the human fossil record of the Late Pleistocene.
Life And Death At Paloma
Title | Life And Death At Paloma PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Quilter |
Publisher | University of Iowa Press |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2005-02-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1587293994 |
Gold, pomp, and circumstances surrounded the mummies of Inca emperors, but the elaborate funerary rites at the end of prehistory were only part of a tradition that began thousands of years earlier. Life and Death at Paloma, the first in-depth treatment of burials from a preagricultural South American village, analyzes the life of its people during a revolutionary time in prehistory: the transition from a hunting-gathering-fishing way of life to a more sedentary horticultural society. Drawing upon the data that he collected as part of the University of Missouri's excavations at Paloma, Jeffrey Quilter gives us the first study of preceramic Peruvian life through his analysis of this site's graves and contents. His extensively illustrated book is also the first attempt to infer social organization from such data for this period—circa 5000 to 2500 B.C.—in Peru. In addition, he presents the only available summary and discussion of the known preceramic interments from western South America. Coastal Peru is one of the few New World regions where the early development of complex societies can be studied. Life and Death at Paloma will greatly assist such research by specialists in mortuary studies, in Andean prehistory, and in hunter-gatherer societies.
The Weight of Feathers
Title | The Weight of Feathers PDF eBook |
Author | Anna-Marie McLemore |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 319 |
Release | 2015-09-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1250058651 |
Lace Paloma and Cluck Corbeau, from feuding families of traveling performers, fall in love.
Food Fight!
Title | Food Fight! PDF eBook |
Author | Paloma Martinez-Cruz |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 2019-03-19 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0816536066 |
From the racial defamation and mocking tone of “Mexican” restaurants geared toward the Anglo customer to the high-end Latin-inspired eateries with Anglo chefs who give the impression that the food was something unattended or poorly handled that they “discovered” or “rescued” from actual Latinos, the dilemma of how to make ethical choices in food production and consumption is always as close as the kitchen recipe, coffee pot, or table grape. In Food Fight! author Paloma Martinez-Cruz takes us on a Chicanx gastronomic journey that is powerful and humorous. Martinez-Cruz tackles head on the real-world politics of food production from the exploitation of farmworkers to the appropriation of Latinx bodies and culture, and takes us right into transformative eateries that offer a homegrown, mestiza consciousness. The hard-hitting essays in Food Fight! bring a mestiza critique to today’s pressing discussions of labeling, identity, and imaging in marketing and dining. Not just about food, restaurants, and coffee, this volume employs a decolonial approach and engaging voice to interrogate ways that mestizo, Indigenous, and Latinx peoples are objectified in mainstream ideology and imaginary.
Drinking with Chickens
Title | Drinking with Chickens PDF eBook |
Author | Kate E. Richards |
Publisher | Running Press Adult |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2020-04-07 |
Genre | Cooking |
ISBN | 0762494425 |
It's drinks, it's chickens: It's the cocktail book you didn't know you needed! To add some extra happy to your happy hour , invite a chicken and pour yourself a drink. Author Kate Richards serves up cocktails made for Instagram with the spoils of her Southern California garden, chicken friends by her side. Enjoy any (or all) of the 60+ deliciously drinkable garden-to-glass beverages, such as: Lilac Apricot Rum Sour Meyer Lemon + Rosemary Old Fashioned Rhubarb Rose Cobbler Blackberry Sage Spritz Cantaloupe Mint Rum Punch Cocktails are arranged seasonally, and are 100% accessible for those of us without perpetually sunny backyard gardens at our disposal. Drinking with Chickens will quickly become a boozy favorite, perfect for gifting or for hoarding all for yourself. You don't need chickens to enjoy these drinks or the colorful photos, but be careful, because you may even find yourself aspiring to be, as Kate is, a home chixologist overrun by gorgeous, loud, early-rising egg-laying ladies, and in need of a very strong drink.
The Massacura Man - a Folk Play for Young People
Title | The Massacura Man - a Folk Play for Young People PDF eBook |
Author | Paloma Mohamed |
Publisher | CreateSpace |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 2014-10-16 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781502872623 |
A play about moral courage, social justice, respect for the environment, history and tradition. "The Massacuraman, engages mythology in its use of the Massacuraman, a feared demon figure who inhabits the Guyanese rivers and creeks. Despite his dreaded reputation, he is, in fact, a protector of the forest environment similar to the role played by Papa Bois of the Eastern Caribbean and Trinidad. The villagers live in fear of the supernatural monster, but his anger is basically provoked by their own monstrous acts and abuses. This is sustained in the plot when the Massacuraman is blamed for the villainy of one of the residents, then the damage done is atoned for by a most unexpected sacrifice. " Al Creighton, Director Center for Amerindian Studies, University of Guyana."`The Massacuraman', is darker and takes readers on a roller-coaster of emotions: hope, fear, dread, outrage - but the ending is more than a little controversial - though well handled. Mohamed encourages us to develop a real empathy for Ovid - perhaps his failure to take action over his wife's misdemeanours accounts for what happens to him in the end!... Mohamed has successfully incorporated Caribbean mythology and folklore into contemporary situations and/or at least made Caribbean mythology and folklore accessible for contemporary readers/performers and audiences ....delightful!"Black and Asian Studies Association Review
Tropical Secrets
Title | Tropical Secrets PDF eBook |
Author | Margarita Engle |
Publisher | Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2009-03-31 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 1429919817 |
Daniel has escaped Nazi Germany with nothing but a desperate dream that he might one day find his parents again. But that golden land called New York has turned away his ship full of refugees, and Daniel finds himself in Cuba. As the tropical island begins to work its magic on him, the young refugee befriends a local girl with some painful secrets of her own. Yet even in Cuba, the Nazi darkness is never far away . . .