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The Ancient Stones Speak: A Journey To The World's Most Mysterious Megalithic Sites
by David D. Zink
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- ISBN 10
- 0773710337
- ISBN 13
- 9780773710337
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xiv, 202 p.; ill.; 28 cm. Includes Appendices, Glossary, Bibliography (p. 192-199), and Index (p. 200-201). "A Jonathan-James book."
The book has some minor shelfwear and a blacked-out name to half-title, which bleeds through to the other side of the page, otherwise Near Fine, clean, bright, and tightly bound.
From the rear cover:
The mysteries of the ancients—the builders of such remarkable monuments as Stonehenge, The Great Pyramid of Giza, Machu Picchu and the awesome monoliths of Easter Island—have long been the subject of great fascination to scholars and laymen. Just who were these peoples, the possessors of vast knowledge and impressive technology that rival our own? Why and how did they build these stone monoliths in diverse places all over the globe? And what wisdom do these ancient stones hold for us today?
Dr. David Zink, named Explorer of the Year in 1976 by the International Explorers Society and the author of THE STONES OF ATLANTIS, has traveled all over the world to gather data for this new investigation of these age-old mysteries. In addition to the well-known sites mentioned above, he visited such monuments as The Ring of Brodgar in the British Isles, New Hampshire's Mystery Hill, Nuku Hiva in the Pacific and the legendary lost city of Honduras, Cuidad Blanca—twenty-three sites in all. Zink took hundreds of stunning photographs and gathered the latest data on each monument, obtained by radiocarbon dating, archaeoastronomy, statistical analysis—and including in each case the captivating speculations of a talented psychic.
The result is a photographic and textual atlas essential for anyone intrigued by these ancient mysteries. THE ANCIENT STONES SPEAK is a remarkable picture of cultures that date from as far back as 30,000 B.C.—cultures with impressive global mobility and advanced knowledge of geography, astronomy, geophysics, engineering and architecture—in some cases equaling or even surpassing our own.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Preface
Does Science Have a Prehistory?
-The Ancient Navigators
-The Ancient Astronomers
-Rediscovering an Ancient Geophysics?
The Old World
-Callanish
-Maes Howe
-Ring of Brodgar
-Stones of Stenness
-New Grange
-Stonehenge
-Malta's Temples
-The Great Pyramid of Giza
The New World
-Mystery Hill
-Bimini
-Teotihuacan
-Ciudad Blanca
-San Agustin
-Inca Civilization
-El Panecillo
-Sacsahuaman
-Ollantaytambo
-Machu Picchu
-Vilcabamba
-Tiahuanaco
Pacific
-Malekula
-Ponape
-Tongatabu
-Nuku Hiva
-Easter Island
Some Implications of Megalithic Culture
Appendix A - The Next Archaeological Revolution?
Appendix B - Survey Accuracy in Archaeoastronomy
Appendix C - Two Archaeological Controversies: The Monsters of Acambaro and The Stones of Ica
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Ancient Stones Speak
- Author
- David D. Zink
- Illustrator
- [various]
- Format/Binding
- Perfect Bound Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Canadian
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0773710337
- ISBN 13
- 9780773710337
- Publisher
- Musson Book Company / General Publishing Co.
- Place of Publication
- Don Mills, ON, Canada
- Date Published
- 1979
- Pages
- 202
- Size
- 28
- Keywords
- Johnathan-James Book; Megalithic monuments; Archaeology; Archaeoastronomy; Prehistoric Astronomy;
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- Textbooks; Science; History; Art & Culture; Travel;
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