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 79
... amber tear has covered round ; so she that was in life despised , in death preserved , is highly prized . In the bright tear Phaëthon's sister shed a bee is seen , as in its nectar , dead . Its many toils have earned a guerdon high , in ...
... amber tear has covered round ; so she that was in life despised , in death preserved , is highly prized . In the bright tear Phaëthon's sister shed a bee is seen , as in its nectar , dead . Its many toils have earned a guerdon high , in ...
Page 99
... preserved , the more complete is a recon- struction of the amber forest . A fascinating insight is revealed by discovery of amber pieces with a menagerie preserved inside , forming a true snapshot of a tiny part of the community . Some ...
... preserved , the more complete is a recon- struction of the amber forest . A fascinating insight is revealed by discovery of amber pieces with a menagerie preserved inside , forming a true snapshot of a tiny part of the community . Some ...
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... amber are not well preserved . In at least a few cases , though , clumps of pollen attached to stingless bees in Dominican amber were preserved with remarkable fidelity . They were so completely preserved , in fact , that two types of ...
... amber are not well preserved . In at least a few cases , though , clumps of pollen attached to stingless bees in Dominican amber were preserved with remarkable fidelity . They were so completely preserved , in fact , that two types of ...
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