Amber: Window to the PastThis is a comprehensive study of the various roles and uses of amber, in nature as well as art. The fossilized tree resin has not only inspired elaborate workmanship and long been used in jewelry and other decorative objects, but is also highly valued by natural scientists because it frequently encapsulates flora and fauna from other periods of evolution. |
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... Roman adornment and the absurd Greek legends about its origin : He discounted Sophocles ' tale that amber was ... Romans even called Glaesaria . ) Pliny conjectured that the actual river represented by the mythical Eridanus in the legend ...
... Roman adornment and the absurd Greek legends about its origin : He discounted Sophocles ' tale that amber was ... Romans even called Glaesaria . ) Pliny conjectured that the actual river represented by the mythical Eridanus in the legend ...
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... Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus . Tacitus was the first to write that beyond the land of the Goths lay the Aestii people , who gathered amber ( metallum sudaticum , or " exuded metal " ) that had been washed up by the sea . They sell ...
... Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus . Tacitus was the first to write that beyond the land of the Goths lay the Aestii people , who gathered amber ( metallum sudaticum , or " exuded metal " ) that had been washed up by the sea . They sell ...
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... Roman officer to find the source of amber ; he reached the Baltic coast and returned with hundreds of pounds of the substance , some pieces weighing several pounds . Roman coins from A.D. 138 to 180 scattered throughout the Gulf of ...
... Roman officer to find the source of amber ; he reached the Baltic coast and returned with hundreds of pounds of the substance , some pieces weighing several pounds . Roman coins from A.D. 138 to 180 scattered throughout the Gulf of ...
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments | 8 |
Deposits of the World | 21 |
Frozen in the Act | 79 |
Copyright | |
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