Angličtina
A simple illustrated introduction to the Mediterranean's earliest civilization.
Who knew that people were so advanced in the Stone Age? This richly illustrated book addresses the most frequently asked questions about the world's oldest freestanding buildings and the mysterious society that made them. What did they look like? Where did they come from? What happened to them? What can they tell us about cultural traditions that showed up as widespread and far away as Ireland and The Caucasus Mountains? Amaze your family & friends (and teachers) with new knowledge about the ancient days before the pyramids were built. Benefit from the easy-going perspective of an American advocate who knows the subject very well.
"Over more than thirty years, the work that I invented to keep me connected to Malta's prehistory took me back many many times. I got to know the archaeologists who had actually worked at the sites and cleaned the artifacts. People told me unpublished things. Local folks with abiding interest shared their personal observations and family stories about the monuments as they were before tourism discovered them. Knowledge of the solar calendar at Mnajdra came to me this way from the man who rediscovered it. I have been taken to sites of still-unexcavated underground mortuary shrines like the one called Hal Saflieni and shown petroglyphs that hint at how the ancients treated their dead before dusting their bones with red ochre and placing them in the deposit niches down below. I hope we'll do a film before I'm gone!"
