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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Page 145
... beads and amulets found close to where the most extensive amber deposits occur even today . One can imagine that in an area where there are long winter nights , the sun was a focal point of existence and worship . A substance of such ...
... beads and amulets found close to where the most extensive amber deposits occur even today . One can imagine that in an area where there are long winter nights , the sun was a focal point of existence and worship . A substance of such ...
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... beads , and important men with special artifacts of amber . Archaeologists have uncovered amber artifacts even among the ruins of Stonehenge . Wessex Culture amber beads may be extremely important in revealing a link between the British ...
... beads , and important men with special artifacts of amber . Archaeologists have uncovered amber artifacts even among the ruins of Stonehenge . Wessex Culture amber beads may be extremely important in revealing a link between the British ...
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... beads and six beads of silver filigree are separated by sixty - three smaller amber beads that are irregular , some with a few facets but most with a rounded surface . All of the faceting is irregular . Only four decades are complete ...
... beads and six beads of silver filigree are separated by sixty - three smaller amber beads that are irregular , some with a few facets but most with a rounded surface . All of the faceting is irregular . Only four decades are complete ...
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments | 8 |
Deposits of the World | 21 |
Frozen in the Act | 79 |
Copyright | |
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amber deposits amber fossils amber pieces amber room amblypygids American Museum araucarian artifacts Arts Baltic amber Baltic Sea beads beetles Bequest of William Boston botanical bubbles burmite carved century A.D. chests China color copal Cretaceous Cretaceous amber Danzig deposits of amber Dominican amber Dominican Republic Drummond Collection eighteenth century Eocene Etruscan extinct flies flowers forgeries fossil fungus Height Hymenaea inclusions insects intricate ivory Jersey amber Königsberg Length of amber living relatives lizard Mastotermes Mexican amber microscopic midges million years old mines Museum für Naturkunde Museum of Natural Natural History Anthropology Natural History Entomology nineteenth century oldest opaque Opposite organisms original Palmnicken panels parasites pendant perhaps piece of amber plants polished pollen pounds preserved in amber Private collection probably Pseudolarix pseudoscorpions resin Roman Saint Petersburg simetite similar single piece spider stingless bee Stuttgart succinic acid surface technique termites tiny tissue transparent amber wasps William Arnold Buffum wood