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 61
... lizard related to ones living now in Africa , which apparently was lost with some of the Königsberg collection . Small tufts of mammal hair and a few small single feathers occur in Baltic amber , and recently the tails of a lizard and a ...
... lizard related to ones living now in Africa , which apparently was lost with some of the Königsberg collection . Small tufts of mammal hair and a few small single feathers occur in Baltic amber , and recently the tails of a lizard and a ...
Page 108
... lizard in the piece at right and on page 110 , showing tiny bones in the legs and feet . The vertebrae are jumbled ; the lizard broke its back in several places , perhaps while struggling to free itself from the resin . The leaf is not ...
... lizard in the piece at right and on page 110 , showing tiny bones in the legs and feet . The vertebrae are jumbled ; the lizard broke its back in several places , perhaps while struggling to free itself from the resin . The leaf is not ...
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... lizard . At the peak of the kauri - gum trade in the late nineteenth century , a popular sideline was the manufacture of fossil forgeries , many still in private collections . Most of these forgeries are very unsophisticated ...
... lizard . At the peak of the kauri - gum trade in the late nineteenth century , a popular sideline was the manufacture of fossil forgeries , many still in private collections . Most of these forgeries are very unsophisticated ...
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