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"Michel Foucault, in his elegant monograph The Birth of the Clinic: An archaeology of Medical Perception (1973), dates this conception of the contemporary treatment act to the turn of the nineteenth century. Earlier, symptoms were considered to be diseases. Fever was a disease, along with agues, rheumatism, lumbago, catarrh, and the like. If you sought medical care because you were coughing up phlegm (sputum), you would be treated for catarrh ?that is, for coughing up phlegm. Unctions, potions, and worse would be plied along with pontifications as to prognosis." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"This tale of climate change, drought, and, above all, continual movement has been reconstructed from archaeology, cutting-edge science, and Pueblo Indian perspectives on human existence. The secret of the Anasazi's response to climate change lies in their complex, but little-known, ideology, in which the notion of movement played an important part. I could not live off the land in the arid Southwest for a week, let alone years. The Anasazi survived and flourished in a diverse environment of desert, plateau, and mountains for many centuries because they knew their homeland intimately." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "The "Classic Maya collapse" is one of the great controversies of archaeology, but there is little doubt that droughts, fueled in part by El Nino, played an important role in the disaster. Most of Mexico comes under the influence of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), which moves north during the Northern Hemisphere summer, bringing monsoonlike rain to the country between April and October. During the northern winter, the ITCZ moves south, toward the equator, and subtropical high pressure brings stable, dry conditions. The rainfall patterns vary constantly." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Joyce, Mexican archaeology (London, 1914), p. 46. poem," said Cuchulainn. "Only move further off," said the woman; "your shaking over my head will not influence me." Cuchulainn moved off until he was between the two wheels of the chariot. The woman sang at him a song of challenge and insult. He prepared to spring again, but, in an instant, horse, woman, chariot, man, and cow had disappeared, and on the branch of a tree was a black bird. "A dangerous enchanted woman you are!" said Cuchulainn to the black bird; for he now realized that she was the battle-goddess, Badb, or Morrigan. " - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"Alongside calculus, they pioneered geology, astronomy and archaeology. They also taught Europeans to start enjoying fruits. In the 1100s, the Crusades exposed Europeans to thriving fruitgrowing regions abroad. Marco Polo's account of his travels in the Orient, filled with descriptions of magnificent pears, apricots and bananas, generated much excitement. "They have no fruit the same as ours," he wrote. At that time, it was thought that fruits and spices literally came from Paradise, believed to be located somewhere in the East." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Using a multichanneled approach combining linguistics, philology, paleontology, archaeology and ethnobiol-ogy de Candolle was able to ascertain where the greatest variation in a species was found. Peaches, apricots, cherries and plums all came from Central Asia; the banana and the mango had ancestral links to India; pears originated in the Transcaucasus; wild grapes first grew east of the Black Sea; untamed quinces and mulberries cavorted near the Caspian; the watermelon emerged in tropical Africa." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Since the environment favored by Theobroma cacao and the Olmecs alike— the humid tropical forest—is about the most unsuitable imaginable for archaeological preservation, it was once thought that unless a great Olmec stone monument should turn up with an indisputable depiction of a cacao tree or pod, we were left with historical linguistics rather than archaeology as our only source of data. But this pessimism, thanks to modern chemical analysis, has proved to be premature. Cacao contains three alkaloids, of which the most important is theobromine, followed by caffeine. Further, T." - Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe, The True History of Chocolate (Get the book.)

"After getting a Ph.D. in archaeology, Howard wound up working as a sales rep for gin maker Charles Tanqueray. When she learned about a job opening for a drug rep back home, she figured selling drugs couldn't be all that different from selling booze. Her first few months were spent working for TAP Pharmaceutical Products, selling the antacid Prevacid and an atypical antipsychotic that was known to cause heart murmurs. Then she was recruited by Pfizer, the biggest drug company in the world." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Chapter Two The Birth of Cacao; Olmec-Maya Genesis ^/^any writers of popular works on chocolate indulge in fantasy when treating cacao's New World origins, but the facts as revealed by modern archaeology and ethnohistory are far more interesting than these flights of imagination. Most authors, however, know that the first European encounter with cacao took place when Columbus, on his fourth voyage, came across a great Maya trading canoe with cacao beans amongst its cargo (in fact, a high-priced, modern chocolate product has been named from Guanaja, the place where this happened)." - Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe, The True History of Chocolate (Get the book.) "The present book had taken shape in her mind in the previous year, by which time she had blocked out its eight chapters, which would take chocolate from its earliest pre-Columbian roots (now becoming better known through archaeology and its sister science, linguistics), up to modern times. Sophie was a stickler about "going to the sources," and she spent many hundreds of hours in the libraries of America and Europe, tracking down all possible references to chocolate—and vast amounts of time in my own Mesoamerican library." - Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe, The True History of Chocolate (Get the book.)

"Although he writes with great affection about his city and its aspirations (he was, after all, the editor in chief of the city's Olympic winter games "Bid Book"), he understands that archaeology often uncovers tough truths, and his exploration of the city's role in setting a global standard for urban planning goes beyond merely touting its many successes." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "R ¦n resource Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination by Lance Berelowitz (Douglas & Mclntyre, 2005) Lance Berelowitz performs what he calls an act of "urban archaeology" as he traces Vancouver's history of growth and its innovative urban planning." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Howard wound up working as a sales rep for gin maker Charles Tanqueray. When she learned about a job opening for a drug rep back home, she figured selling drugs couldn't be all that different from selling booze. Her first few months were spent working for TAP Pharmaceutical Products, selling the antacid Prevacid and an atypical antipsychotic that was known to cause heart murmurs. Then she was recruited by Pfizer, the biggest drug company in the world." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Presumably its origins are to be sought in far earlier periods, but archaeology is mute upon the subject (although the Balberta "counterfeit" beans might be significant testimony). Writing in the early 17th century, the chronicler Francisco de Cardenas22 tells us that in the Chontalpa, cacao beans were employed as ready cash and to buy the small items used in housekeeping. And we know from documents that in Colonial (and probably pre-Conquest) times, Maya laborers, especially long-distance porters, were paid with this currency, as they were in Aztec Mexico." - Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe, The True History of Chocolate (Get the book.)

"Whether invoked in a natural manner or through special techniques, through hallucinogenic essences, or through inebriating drinks—in Druidism as in shamanism, the dream is always an elementary component of the world" (Markale 1989,208*). The archaeology of Entheogenic Mushroom Cults Since fungi are very poorly or not able to be preserved as organic material over long periods of time, they and their fruiting bodies are almost never found during archaeological excavations (Gartz 1992)." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.)

"The Inca and Their Ancestors: The archaeology of Peru. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1992. Scheie, Linda and David A. Freidel. A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya. New York: William Morrow, 1990. Controversial Subjects Feder, Kenneth L. Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in archaeology. Toronto: Mayfield, 1996. Fingerhut, Eugene R. Explorers of Pre-Columbian America? Claremont: Regina, 1994. Greenfield, Jeanette. The Return of Cultural Treasures. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995. Heyerdahl, Thor. Early Man and the Ocean." - Donald Ryan, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Lost Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Major advances Anthropology and archaeology. Interest in archaeology, spurred in the second half of the eighteenth century by the excavation of Pompeii, increased after Napoleon's expedition to Egypt in 1798. Napoleon took scholars with him to study the antiquities known to be there. One of their discoveries, the Rosetta stone, proved to be a seminal object. Jean Champollion in 1822 recognized that the stone contained the same inscription in two Greek scripts and in Egyptian hieroglyphics and was able to translate the previously untranslatable Egyptian inscriptions." - Alexander Hellemans and Brian Bunch, The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science (Get the book.) "Just as archaeology was being born, another closely related science came into being. Unlike archaeology, which at least had some ancient texts, such as Herodotus, Homer, and the Bible, to guide it, the other new science, anthropology, was starting from scratch. It had occurred to only a few people that human beings might have existed long before any of the known civilizations. When the first Neanderthal remains appeared in 1856, there was no context in which to put them. They were initially interpreted as recent." - Alexander Hellemans and Brian Bunch, The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science (Get the book.)

"The Journal of Egyptian archaeology 55:55-65. Etzel, R. 1996. Special extract of Boswellia serrata (H 15)* in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. Phytomedicine 3 (1): 91-94. Faure, Paul. 1990. Magie der Dilfte. Munich and Zurich: Artemis. Groom, N. St. I. 1981. Frankincense and myrrh. London: Longman. Hepper, F. Nigel. 1969. Arabian and African frankincense trees. Journal of Egyptian archaeology (London) 55:66-72. Hess, Walter. 1993. Weihrauch-Beweihraucherung, Harze und Balsame. Naturlich 13 (12): 6-17. Howes, F. N. 1949. Vegetable gums and resins. Waltham, Mass.: Chronica Botanica." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.)

"The general public's notion of archaeology has been largely shaped by a series of entertaining adventure films featuring a character known as Indiana Jones. So successful are these movies that the swashbuckling Jones has become to many people a frame of reference for what archaeologists do. Sorry to break the news, but as fun as it is to watch the dashing professor being chased by evil thugs, archaeology is usually not quite like this. In fact, from a scholarly point of view, Jones is more of a tomb robber than a real archaeologist. More on this later." - Donald Ryan, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Lost Civilizations (Get the book.) "The unpardonable crime in archaeology is destroying evidence which can never be recovered; and every discovery does destroy evidence unless it is intelligently recorded." —Methods and Aims in archaeology (1904) Don't Hurt Me! Thankfully, there are increasingly non-destructive methods in use. Some of the remote-sensing techniques mentioned above can give us a good idea about sites without wrecking the place. Burials are especially sensitive objects of study, as more and more people exert their rights not to have their relatives exhumed. (Again, see Chapter 23 for more on this subject." - Donald Ryan, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Lost Civilizations (Get the book.) "African archaeology, 2d ed. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1993. Van Tilburg, Jo Anne. Easter Island: archaeology, Ecology and Culture. London: British Museum, 1994. Welsby, Derek A. The Kingdom ofKush: The Napatan and Meroitic Empires. London: British Museum Press, 1996. New World Coe, Michael. Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1994. -. The Maya. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1999. Coe, Michael, D. Snow, and E. Benson. Atlas of Ancient America. New York: Facts on File, 1980. Fagan, Brian. Ancient North America. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1995. -." - Donald Ryan, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Lost Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and archaeology 15. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks. Patnaik, Naveen. 1993. The garden of life: An introduction to the healing plants of India. New York: Doubleday. Patzelt, Erwin. 1996. Flora del Ecuador. 2nd ed. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador. Paulus, Ernst, and Yu-he Ding. 1987. Handbuch der traditionellen chinesischen Heilpflanzen. Heidelberg: Haug. Pavia, Fabienne. 1995. Der Amazonas. Amsterdam: Time-Life Bucher. Pearson, Steve, and Alison Pearson. 1992. Rainforest plants of eastern Australia. Kenthurst, Australia: Kangaroo Press. Pelt, fean-Marie." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.) "Journal of Egyptian archaeology (London) 55:66-72. Hess, Walter. 1993. Weihrauch-Beweihraucherung, Harze und Balsame. Naturlich 13 (12): 6-17. Howes, F. N. 1949. Vegetable gums and resins. Waltham, Mass.: Chronica Botanica. -. 1950. Age-old resins of the Mediterranean region. Economic Botany 1:307-16. Kaster, Heinrich L. 1986. Die Weihrauchstrafie: Handelswege im alten Orient. Frankfurt/M.: Umschau. Kessler, Michael. 1991. Zur Frage nach psychotropen Stoffen im Rauch von brennendem Gummiharz der Boswellia sacra. Inaugural diss., Basel, Switzerland." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.)

"Archaeology in the North (Darwin: North Australia Research Unit, 1994). Chapters 16 and 17 Relevant readings cited under previous chapters include those on East Asian food production (Chapters 4-10), Chinese writing (Chapter 12), Chinese technology (Chapter 13), and New Guinea and the Bismarcks and Solomons in general (Chapter 15). James Matisoff, "Sino-Tibetan linguistics: Present state and future prospects," Annual Reviews of Anthropology 20:469-504 (1991), reviews Sino-Tibetan languages and their wider relationships. Takeru Akazawa and Emoke Szathmary, eds." - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.) "Instead, this evidence suggested that Pygmies had once been widespread in the rain forest of Central Africa, while Khoisan peoples had been widespread in drier parts of subequatorial Africa. Can archaeology test those assumptions? In the case of the Pygmies, the answer is "not yet," merely because archaeologists have yet to discover ancient human skeletons from the Central African forests. For the Khoisan, the answer is "yes." - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.) "William Boltz, The Origin and Early Development of the Chinese Writing System (New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1994), and the same author's "Early Chinese writing," World archaeology 17:420-36 (1986), do the same for China. Finally, Janet Klausner, Sequoyah's Gift (New York: HarperCollins, 1993), is an account readable by children, but equally interesting to adults, of Sequoyah's development of the Cherokee syllabary. Chapter 13 The standard detailed history of technology is the eight-volume A History of Technology, by Charles Singer et al. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954-84)." - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.) "Simon Davis, The archaeology of Animals (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987), provides an excellent account of what can be learned from mammal bones in archaeological sites. Juliet Clutton-Brock, ed., The Walking Larder (London: Unwin-Hyman, 1989), presents 31 papers about how humans have domesticated, herded, hunted, and been hunted by animals around the world. A comprehensive book in German about domesticated animals is Wolf Herre and Manfred Rohrs, Haustiere zoologisch gesehen (Stuttgart: Fischer, 1990)." - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.)

"Biblical archaeology. Philadelphia, London, 1957. 1487. Altet, Xavier Barral. Compostelle de Grand Chemin. De-couvertes Gallimard Religions. Gallimard, 1993. 1488. Zadkiel. The Grammar of Astrology. London, J. Cornish, 1849. 1489. Zarnecki, George, Florence Deucher, and Irmgard Flutter. Neue Belser Stilgeschichte. Band IV. Romantik, Gotik, Byzanz. Stuttgard, Zurich, Belser Verlag, 1986. 1490. Zech, J. Astronomische Untersuchungen tiber die wichtigeren Finsternisse, welche von den Schriftstellern des klassischen Altertums erwdhnt werden. Leipzig, 1853. 1491. Zeitenspriinge." - Anatoly Fomenko, History: Fiction or Science? Chronology 2 (Get the book.) "Owen, G. F. archaeology and the Bible. NY, 1961. 1325. Page, E. S. Continuous inspection schemes. Biometrika, Volume 41, No.l (1954): 100-115. 1326. Page, E. S. A test for a change in a parameter occurring at an unknown point. Biometrica, Vol. 42, No.4 (1955): 523-527. 1327. Paladilhe, Dominique. Simon de Monfort et le Drame Cathare. France: Librairie Academique Perrin, 1997. 1328. Pannekoek, A. A History of Astronomy. New York, 1961. 1329. Paris. Tourist Guide. Paris: Guide Michelin, 1992. 1330. Parker, Richard A. Ancient Egyptian Astronomy." - Anatoly Fomenko, History: Fiction or Science? Chronology 2 (Get the book.)

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