Amber: Window to the PastOriginally published to accompany a 1996 exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, this volume, now in paperback, explores the properties of amber (fossilized tree resin) and reveals its role in tracing evolutionary history and its use in the decorative arts and jewellery. |
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... living relatives are found in tropical or subtropical Asia , Australia , or southern South America . For example , the small parasitic plant Trigonobalanus today grows in Southeast Asia . The plant Trianthera in Baltic amber is closely ...
... living relatives are found in tropical or subtropical Asia , Australia , or southern South America . For example , the small parasitic plant Trigonobalanus today grows in Southeast Asia . The plant Trianthera in Baltic amber is closely ...
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... family . The social insect colony , then as now , is a cosmos of ecological relationships . Many predatory beetles ... Living relatives of this bug today lure ants from their nests with the scent from a special gland , then they 0 ...
... family . The social insect colony , then as now , is a cosmos of ecological relationships . Many predatory beetles ... Living relatives of this bug today lure ants from their nests with the scent from a special gland , then they 0 ...
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... living relatives feeding exclusively on a particular genus of tree , we can be fairly certain that the extinct species fed on an extinct species of the tree . For example , we are fairly certain that fig trees lived in the amber forest ...
... living relatives feeding exclusively on a particular genus of tree , we can be fairly certain that the extinct species fed on an extinct species of the tree . For example , we are fairly certain that fig trees lived in the amber forest ...
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 region 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 figures 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 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