item: #1 of 9 id: 13575 author: British Museum title: How to Observe in Archaeology Suggestions for Travellers in the Near and Middle East date: None words: 30090 flesch: 71 summary: Chert and limestone rough hoe-blades (easily mistaken for palaeolithic implements; they are, however, much flatter); polished serpentine or jasper celts; lentoid (lentil-shaped), amygdaloid (almond-shaped), and discoid beads of cornelian, crystal, obsidian, &c., unpolished; nails of translucent quartz and obsidian (obviously imitations of metal types); hard grey pottery sickles, pottery cones of various sizes, and pottery objects like gigantic nails bent up at the ends; Bronze Age, early period (before 2000 B.C.): polished red ware, hand-made, sometimes with incised ornament filled with white powder. keywords: age; antiquities; b.c; black; brick; bronze; brown; century; clay; coins; fig; figures; fine; glass; glaze; greek; ground; hand; iii; illustration; implements; inscriptions; late; light; lines; objects; palestine; paper; period; place; pottery; red; roman; sites; stone; surface; syria; tell; tombs; use; ware; white; work cache: 13575.txt plain text: 13575.txt item: #2 of 9 id: 16160 author: Weigall, Arthur E. P. Brome (Arthur Edward Pearse Brome) title: The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology date: None words: 78480 flesch: 68 summary: It is appalling to think that the peasants who found this roll of papyrus might have used it as fuel for their evening fire; and that, had not a drifting rumour of the value of such articles reached their village, this little tale of old Egypt and the long-lost Kingdoms of the Sea would have gone up to empty heaven in a puff of smoke. CHAPTER VI. The earthly grave will not hide, nor the mountain tomb imprison, the actions of the men of old Egypt, so consequent and fruitful are all human affairs. keywords: akhnaton; antiquities; archæologist; archæology; chapter; city; country; day; days; dead; death; dynasty; egypt; egyptian; end; fact; flowers; god; gods; good; great; hand; history; horemheb; iii; king; land; left; life; light; man; manner; men; mind; money; museum; nation; new; nile; objects; order; past; people; pharaoh; place; present; prince; queen; sea; set; study; syria; tell; temple; thebes; thee; thou; time; tomb; value; water; way; wenamon; work; world; years cache: 16160.txt plain text: 16160.txt item: #3 of 9 id: 16325 author: Allen, Grant title: Science in Arcady date: None words: 85312 flesch: 61 summary: The South Saxon kings probably lived for the most part at Chichester, though no doubt they had _hams_, after the royal Teutonic fashion generally, in many other parts of their territory; and they moved about from one to the other, with their suite of thegns, eating up in each what food was provided by their serfs for their use, and then moving on to the next. Woolsonbury, Westburton Hill, Clayton Hill, Wilmington, Hangleton Down, Plumpton Plain, and many other places along the coast have yielded large numbers of bronze implements; while the occurrence of the raw metal in lumps, together with the finished weapons, at Worthing and Beachy Head, as well the discovery of a mould for a socketed celt at Wilmington, shows that the actual foundry work was performed in Sussex itself. keywords: age; air; animals; birds; britain; bronze; case; ceaster; coast; conditions; country; course; day; days; doubt; downs; eggs; eliza; end; england; english; europe; example; fact; find; fish; florence; flowers; food; forest; form; fruits; general; good; green; group; hand; hill; history; human; islands; leaves; life; little; london; look; means; men; modern; mountain; mud; names; native; nature; near; new; north; northern; parrots; people; period; place; plain; plants; point; present; river; roman; round; saxon; sea; seeds; soil; sort; south; species; stone; supply; sussex; thanet; time; town; trees; type; valley; water; way; weald; welsh; west; world cache: 16325.txt plain text: 16325.txt item: #4 of 9 id: 20902 author: Lang, Andrew title: The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore date: None words: 28330 flesch: 69 summary: and so they still have _perforated_ stone churinga, not usually more than a foot in length. { Fig. 22: p128.jpg} On all this weighty mass of stone objects, Dr. Munro writes thus: Since the MS. of this volume was placed in the hands of the publishers a new side-issue regarding some strange objects, said to have been found in Portuguese dolmens, has been imported into the Clyde controversy, in which Mr. Astley has taken a prominent part. keywords: arunta; australia; central; churinga; clyde; cup; dumbuck; dunbuie; feet; fig; forger; hand; inches; langbank; lines; munro; objects; patterns; relics; scotland; scottish; sites; slate; stone; structure; things; use; vol cache: 20902.txt plain text: 20902.txt item: #5 of 9 id: 26603 author: Dopp, Katharine Elizabeth title: The Later Cave-Men date: None words: 44663 flesch: 94 summary: At length Fleetfoot saw Flaker, who was sitting all alone. Scarface asked for young men to go ahead and act as scouts. keywords: animals; antler; bison; cave; chew; children; clan; day; flaker; fleetfoot; herd; hunt; illustration; man; men; people; reindeer; saw; things; thought; time; use; way; women cache: 26603.txt plain text: 26603.txt item: #6 of 9 id: 27354 author: Simpson, James Young title: Archæological Essays, Vol. 1 date: None words: 89572 flesch: 58 summary: Professor Walker, in an elaborate Statistical Account of the Parish of Colinton, published in 1808, in his _Essays on Natural History_ describes the Cat-heaps or cairns as having been each found, when removed, to cover a coffin made of _hewn_ stones. The following account of the Ardvoirloch curing-stone is from the pen of one of the present members of that ancient family:-- It has been in the possession of our family from _time immemorial_, but there is no writing about it in any of the charters, nor even a tradition as to _when_ and _how_ it became possessed of it. keywords: a.d; account; age; anglo; annals; antiquarian; architecture; archæological; archæology; battle; bede; britain; british; building; cat; centuries; century; chamber; character; church; churches; columba; country; cubit; cut; date; day; earth; ecclesiastical; edinburgh; end; england; english; example; feet; fig; footnote; form; general; ground; having; hengist; history; horsa; house; i. p.; inchcolm; inches; inscription; interior; ireland; irish; isaac; island; king; left; length; letter; lib; life; line; measure; miles; monument; names; near; new; newton; oratories; oratory; original; parts; pictish; picts; place; point; present; professor; pyramid; remains; roman; royal; saxon; scotland; scottish; sir; smyth; society; south; standard; stone; time; tower; vetta; vol; walls; water; western; word; work; years cache: 27354.txt plain text: 27354.txt item: #7 of 9 id: 41785 author: Bayley, Harold title: Archaic England An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and Faerie Superstitions date: None words: 235982 flesch: 67 summary: It has already been noted that _treus_ was Cornish for cross, that children cross their fingers as a sign of fainits or truce, and there is very little doubt that cruciform earthworks, such as Shanid, and cruciform duns such as Hallicondane in Thanet were truce duns. The Governors of Gray's Inn, another most ancient Law School, are entitled the Ancients; _equity_ is radically the same word as _equus_, a horse; and the Mayors, or Mares, of Britain and Brittany seemingly represented the mare-headed Demeter or Good Mother. keywords: account; adjacent; akerman; alban; ancient; angel; ante; apple; associated; authorities; big; bird; black; book; bride; britain; british; britons; bronze; castle; cave; celebrated; celtic; centre; century; chapter; chief; children; christian; church; circle; city; close; coins; common; connection; cornish; cornwall; country; course; court; crete; cross; custom; day; days; death; deity; dene; description; didron; district; divine; dog; doubt; dove; druids; dun; earth; east; egypt; emblem; england; english; equivalent; etruria; europe; evidence; existence; eye; eyes; face; fact; fairy; family; father; feet; festival; fig; figs; figures; fire; folklore; form; french; george; german; giant; god; goddess; gods; golden; good; great; greek; hand; head; heart; heaven; hebrew; high; hill; history; holy; home; horse; human; i.e.; iconography; idea; illustrated; illustration; ireland; irish; island; isle; janus; john; jupiter; kent; king; lady; language; latin; legend; life; light; like; little; living; london; long; lord; love; maiden; man; margaret; mary; meaning; means; memory; men; michael; mighty; modern; monuments; moon; mother; mount; mystic; mythology; names; near; neighbourhood; neighbouring; new; nicholas; north; number; oak; opinion; origin; original; pagan; page; pair; parish; park; patrick; people; peter; place; point; power; prehistoric; present; probability; queen; race; reason; remains; river; road; rock; roman; root; rose; round; sacred; saint; saxon; scotland; sea; sense; silver; sir; site; skeat; soul; spirit; standing; stands; stone; street; sun; symbol; symbolism; temple; term; things; thou; thought; thy; time; title; town; tradition; tree; troy; truth; unknown; view; village; virgin; wales; water; way; welsh; west; wheel; white; wood; word; work; worship; years cache: 41785.txt plain text: 41785.txt item: #8 of 9 id: 42380 author: Figuier, Louis title: Primitive Man date: None words: 112500 flesch: 67 summary: Garrigou and Filhol, and other _savants_, there were found, under a very hard osseous _ If we consider the heaps of oyster-shells and other _débris_ which accumulate in the neighbourhood of eating-houses in certain districts, we may readily understand, comparing great things with small, how these Danish kitchen-middens were produced. keywords: age; animals; bear; bones; bronze epoch; cave; character; earth; end; epoch; europe; existence; fact; feet; fig; fire; flint; form; habitations; handle; hatchets; head; horn; human; illustration; implements; inches; instruments; iron; iron epoch; kind; lacustrine; lake; mammoth; man; means; men; museum; near; number; objects; order; period; place; point; pottery; present; reindeer epoch; remains; round; saint; settlements; shape; skull; species; stag; state; stone age; stone epoch; stones; switzerland; time; tombs; use; way; weapons; work cache: 42380.txt plain text: 42380.txt item: #9 of 9 id: 45741 author: Noël Hume, Ivor title: Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 249 Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology Papers 52-54 on Archeology date: None words: 58641 flesch: 71 summary: [222] _John Norton & Sons, Merchants of London and Virginia_, edit. Enquire of Capt. _William Rogers_, in _York_, or of _William Parks_, Printer in _Williamsburg_. keywords: 17th; 18th; area; artifacts; base; body; bottle; bowl; brown; building; cellar; century; clay; colonial; county; date; dating; diameter; earthenware; end; english; evidence; excavations; fig; figure; form; fragments; glass; handle; history; hole; house; illustr; illustration; inches; iron; james; john; jones; kitchen; late; london; neck; north; pipe; pit; porteus; pottery; rim; rogers; site; small; stem; stoneware; t.n; tobacco; tutter; virginia; vol; williamsburg; wine; yorktown cache: 45741.txt plain text: 45741.txt