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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... century A.D. What Pliny did not mention was that even Aristotle recognized that the inclusions in amber indicated a liquid origin , that amber was " petrified poplar gum . " More detailed ancient knowledge about Baltic amber comes from ...
... century A.D. What Pliny did not mention was that even Aristotle recognized that the inclusions in amber indicated a liquid origin , that amber was " petrified poplar gum . " More detailed ancient knowledge about Baltic amber comes from ...
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... century A.D. , the Romans controlled a veritable industry of amber carving , with products ranging from small New Year's tokens of acorns and fruits to elaborate vessels for the tables of the wealthy . The principal center of ...
... century A.D. , the Romans controlled a veritable industry of amber carving , with products ranging from small New Year's tokens of acorns and fruits to elaborate vessels for the tables of the wealthy . The principal center of ...
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... A.D. 85 . There is a much later mention of " Hsi " amber , in the fifth century A.D. , but that actually refers to jet . The Chinese , like the Europeans , put forth accurate as well as embellished explanations for the origin of amber ...
... A.D. 85 . There is a much later mention of " Hsi " amber , in the fifth century A.D. , but that actually refers to jet . The Chinese , like the Europeans , put forth accurate as well as embellished explanations for the origin of amber ...
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