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Author
Publisher
Darby Creek Pub
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Explores the worldwide practices of mummification, introducing famous mummies of children and the events surrounding their deaths, describing the social or religious reasons behind mummification, and explaining how bodies become mummified.
Author
Series
Thistle and twigg mystery volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
Jane Thistle and Phoebe Twigg are as different as two best friends can be. Phoebe has never seen any reason to leave her small Southern hometown, while Jane, the urbane widow of a career military officer, has traveled all over, only recently putting down roots in Tullulah, Alabama. A thunderstorm knocks down a tree on Jane's property and uncovers a pile of skeletal remains buried underneath. When tests discount their best theories and point to a far...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Partners, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"This first-person narrative about an archaeological discovery is rewriting the story of human evolution. A story of defiance and determination by a controversial scientist, this is Lee Berger's own take on finding Homo naledi, an all-new species on the human family tree and one of the greatest discoveries of the 21st century. In 2013, Berger, a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, caught wind of a cache of bones in a hard-to-reach underground...
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
©2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
This book reports on the work of forensic scientists who are excavating grave sites in James Fort, in Jamestown, Virginia, to understand the people who lived in the Chesapeake Bay area in the 1600s and 1700s.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Combining sensitivity and solid scientific style, Deem reveals the history the science of facial reconstruction, as well as the forgotten lives and the faces of the dead, to contemporary generations so that at last their stories can be told.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
An anthropologist examines growing evidence about early visitors to North America who predate Native Americans and describes the 1996 discovery of a skeleton near Kennewick, Washington, whose physical characteristics were unlike those of American Indians.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Discusses the processes used by scientists to discern the identity of the Kennewick Man and what this nine thousand-year-old skeleton revealed about the arrival of humans in North America.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"...Unearths the mysteries of the Mawangdui (mah-wahng-dway) tombs, one of China's top archaeological finds of the last century. Miniature servants, mysterious silk paintings, scrolls of long-lost secrets, and the best preserved mummy in the world (the body of Lady Dai) are just some of the artifacts that shed light upon life in China during the Han dynasty."--
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