Ancestors
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The book reveals the ancestors of modern mammals and the arrival of man, and transports the reader to the icy plains of the mammoth, dark forests stalked by giant carnivorous birds and deserts dominated by 15 tonne indricotheresa succession of bizzare evolutionary specimens have come and gone, from walking whales to sabre-toothed catssince the dinosaurs died out over 65 million years ago the earth has been dominated by mammalsthis book recreates spectacular and unfamiliar creatures in the context of their worldcompanion book walking with dinosaurs also availablevery colourful book on prehistoric beasts (p&p extra)
3 €
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It was commonly believed that color vision evolved to help our primitive ancestors identify ripe fruitforward-facing eyes set us apart from most mammals, and there is much dispute as to why we have them
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The dogon place their figures on altars devoted to real or mythological ancestorsare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithe gesture of raised arms should indicate the communication between the earth and heaven, specifically a prayer for rainancestor figure, dogon, mali, africasmall standing dogon ancestor figure of very unusual form with flattened body, short upraised arms, crowned by an elongated face with a big flat noseplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storereddish brown wood, blackish brown patina, missing parts through insect caused damage, cracks, on mdf baseprovenance: ed smit, willem minderman, the hague, netherlandsheight approximately: 20 cm / 7catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
93 €
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African dogon mask from mali these sorts of masks were used during ceremonies held in the honour of the royal family and in the honour of ancestorsare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiexpress and secure shipmentparcels are sent from monday to saturday, via an express parcel service (colissimo expert) of the french post, with track & tracewe speak englishshipment with track & tracethe shipment takes between 2 and 3 days for france; 2 and 5 days throughout europeplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeyou can view and/or pick up the piece in ajaccio, francebecause of the coronavirus crisis, the shipment of parcels may be delayed of a few dayscatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
100 €
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This kind of reliquary served for the preservation of mortuary remains of ancestors of high lineageare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikidimensions: height: 55 cmtotal weight: gramscabochons in coffee beans between which a triangular nose is pointingit will be delivered with track & traceplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storekota reliquary figure - gabon it presents an ovoid form with a prominent forehead evoking a face in which two eyes were piercedimportant: in case of shipment in a single parcel, the shipping fees will be recalculated and the overpayment shall be refunded, to the extent that the lots are compatible in the group “weight - dimensions - fragility”the ornamentation is typically kota, it presents a hairdo on the sides, which is like the rest of the piece plated with hammered coppercatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
70 €
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Presence of lined up animals and figures representing protective ancestorsare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikitotal weight: 775 gramssold with the standlittle dogon door in finely carved wood, destined to shut the openings of granaries or simply the domestic pantriesdimensions: height without the stand: 30 cmcareful packaging, registered shipmentplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeit is a typical example of symbols and aspects of the original and daily historycatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
41 €
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The idoma give their ancestors an important place in everyday lifeare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithis mask is part of these ritualsthe resurrection of the dead is an important part of their religion and the cult of the spirits of natureregistered and insured shipping read moreplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
55 €
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Are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithese figures were used as guardian figures on ancestors’ funerary containersmaterial: wood satisfactory condition, damage and signs of wear and tear, bits have broken off the feet, further minor chips, supporting leg broken, the figure doesn't stand independently and should be put on a base (see photos)all-in-all a large, imposing sculpture in a typical squatting posturethe figure is supplied without stand17 cm, depth: approxplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store56 cm, width: approxancestor figure - fang - gabon ancestor figurecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableshipped as a dhl parcel (€18 eu, €7 germany) - buyer welcome to collect
78 €
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Are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiamong the scarification marks, which may have been reproduced because of their beauty which has inspired the sculptor, we have the cingelyengelye on the foreheadvery lovely chokwe maskthese masks depict feminine ancestors, represented as beautiful young women, with a high forehead, balanced features, filed teeth, and a scarificationplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storemwana pwo (young woman) masks, which were danced by chokwe men during festivities, mainly held for entertainment, favoured increased fertility to the crowdthis cruciform design probably derived from pendants in tin, commercialised in the chokwe region by portuguese travellers, since the 17th centurycatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
177 €
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The soay sheep is a rare breed, with similar characters and instincts to their wild ancestorsdelivery availableideal 'lawn mowers'a very hardy sheeplisted category 4: at risk by rare breeds survival trust2 x wether (castrated males) soay sheep for sale
120 €
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Known as 'the swamp people', the inhabitants of the river basin live much as their ancestors would have, remaining self-reliant and drawing their living from the land around themoxfam bookshop keynsham first two seasons of the american documentary following the life of cajuns in the atchafalaya river basin in louisiana who still survive by hunting alligatorsseason 2 episodes are: 'gator gauntlet', 'hunter or hunted?', 'shooting wild', 'first mates', 'hot pursuit', 'dark waters', 'deadly skies', 'rising sons', 'full moon fever', 'it's personal', 'beat the clock', 'rising pressure', 'house divided', 'two captains, one family', 'two days to tag out', 'swamp showdown' and 'swampsgiving'season 1 episodes are: 'big head bites it', 'houdini's last escape', 'troy's gamble', 'cannibal gator', 'force of nature', 'family feuds', 'swamp wars', 'gator voodoo', 'final countdown' and 'the last battle'see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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14 €
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Dogon wooden figurine carved in the honour of their ancestors the tellem were the predecessors of the dogonare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicrusty and smooth patinaplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
49 €
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Are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikidense and hard woodthis figurine named bateba represents a womanthese "bateba” are placed near domestic and family altars dedicated to the cult of the ancestors, over four generationsthe originality of this piece consists in the arms and very open legs, whereas the latter are closed most of the timethe lobi principle of perceiving and carving a subject in three parts, substantially equal, is respected in this case: a third for the head and neck, a third for the body and a third for the legsplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethe style is rough and flaredblack, dry patina of wearcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
76 €
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During agricultural ceremonies or funeral rites, the ancestors spirits and geniuses of nature have always governed the life of the population and manifested themselves through this very elegant zoomorphic helmet-maskare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiand the institution of poro, the basis of community life, initiates young people and accompanies them to their adult livesit finds its balance between the open mouth of the crocodile with threatening teeth under a long thin nose and its long curved gazelle horns, starting from the top of the helmthis mix with islam does not prevent the persistence of an animist culture in which the society of masks keeps an important place especially with these zoomorphic maskszoomorphic mask - fire-breathing mask, senufo, côte d'ivoirethe senufo population lives in the northern region of côte d'ivoire, and is the main ethnic southern mali in which the islamic religion mergedplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
657 €
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But the reference to ancestors, in order to reach god was greaterare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikibut those rites were quite simple and did not include an esoteric teaching comparable to the one of the region of balese-komohe would also evoke the one of his uncle, if he was in the same villagealthough the metoko and the lengola were uncivilised forest peoples, they all believed in a god creator, represented in different cultural objects, masks, figurines and sculptures named “kakongo”it is the legacy of the lega people’s belief, transmitted to other peoples from their lineagethe belief in the spirit of nature was quite developedplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storefor them, this god is like a first ancestor or cultural heroeach individual could evoke the spirit of his major lineage in the villagecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableamong the rites of passage, only those who believed deserved to be mentioned, like for example the “tshoo” of the metoko
305 €
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There are used in all the events that are vital for the community, rites with a social aspect (mourning, funerals, illnesses), purification or fecundity rites (birth, adolescence, virginity), reconciliation and justice rites (to restore the authority of the chief, harmony within families, or to solve generation conflicts), or finally protection rites (which specifically aim to attract the good graces of ancestors or spiritsare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikii ensure a shipment with track & trace within maximum 3 daysthere are more details on the picturesthis white ritual blusher is still used in equatorial africathe nine frontal keloids represent the punu founder myths, the central point represents the creator spiritplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storemukuyi masks, commonly named ‘white masks’ are smeared with kaolin, which formerly was mixed with crushed human bonesmukuyi mask - punu / pounou - gabonsign of communication with the supernatural world, the white clay is used by men and women, especially during the rites of the bwiticatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
56 €
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Masculine figurine we can observe an interesting dorsal reliquary cavity according to the mambila beliefs, mambila figurines are supposed to personify the ancestors who are responsible of the tribe’s prosperityare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithese figurines, standing on their short bent legs, present a large head which face may be surrounded with wooden studsplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
240 €
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Oxfam shop clitheroe simon schama's sweeping history of britain breathes life into our past centuries, vividly depicting exactly what life was like for our ancestors and how their experiences have shaped modern british culture and identitysee oxfam website for delivery information read morean informative and entertaining mixture of anecdote and analysis, schama's work offers a real insight into what it is to be britishslight crack to outer case top l/h corner plus piece broken off top above it
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Central to this journey is the reality of the otherworld, a spiritual and magical world, which our ancestors used in order to bring power to their magic, healing and divination sinead shows us this forgotten past, using her research with actual medieval manuscriptsthis is a superb work full of information, rituals and exercises to enable us to easily re-awaken our ancient shamanic magical consciousness see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop maidstone wiccencraft delves into the mysterious, and predominantly hidden, world of dark ages england to discover the shamanic roots of modern witchcraft
25 €
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Lydia sinclair, 17 and newly married to the last of the line, finds herself engrossed in pursuing the tragic history of her husband's ancestorsoxfam bookshop st albans since the 18th century the eccentric and flamboyant beltran family have ruled their desolate andean valleysee oxfam website for delivery information read more
2 €
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Experience has taught him to deal with enemies of the church in all their guises, but nothing has prepared him for the stubborn faith of father ferro, or the appeal of the lovely macarena bruner, desperate to save the church of her ancestors from her ex-husband, the ruthless banker pencho gavirafather quart, a suave vatican trouble-shooter, is sent to investigateoxfam bookshop cheltenham a hacker gets into the pope's personal computer to leave a warning about mysterious deaths in a small church in seville that is threatened with demolitionas quart is drawn into an intrigue as labyrinthine as the streets of seville, soon more than his vocation is in dangersee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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These and other revelatory facts are disclosed for the first time in this remarkable study of the early pendragons - the unique royal ancestors of king david and jesusoxfam shop evesham adam and eve were not the first man and woman on earth, but they were certainly the first of a kindit reveals why the messianic bloodline was so important, and explains in detail the true heritage of the holy graildrawing on files and hitherto secret archives of the ancient dragon sovereignty, genesis of the holy grail is the ultimate story of earthly kingship from its mesopotamian foundationjoseph, the father of jesus, was not a carpenter, but a trained alchemical metallurgist of the highest orderwhen the israelites made their exodus from egypt, their spiritual leader was not moses, but miriam - a queen and high priestess of the pharonic successionsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
6 €
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We currently have 2 girls available to go to homes as of 15th september , both mum and dad have amazing genes, ancestors are from dezinerbullz read more
1300 €
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Nice to browse through with sometimes still relevant information, and, in any case, a nice glimpse into the legal development and thinking of our ancestorsfull title: codex batavus, waar in het algemeen kerk-, publyk- en burgerlyk recht van hollant, zeelant, en het ressort der generaliteit kortelyk is begrepen: getrokken uit alle de edicten, ordonnantien, placaten, en resolutien voor de oprechtinge der republyk, en wel byzonder der staetsbestieringe van hollant en west-vrieslant tot op den jare gemaekt en uitgegevenare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiotherwise in excellent conditionde tweede druk door de aucteur zelfs merkelyk verbetert, vermeerder en vervolgt tot op den jare ingesloten collation: ( pp¶ fascinating legal dictionary, based on ordinances, placards, etcrenewed endpaperssubjects such as: ‘academie’, ‘boek- en pasquillendrukkers’, ‘dijkrecht’, ‘duelleren’, ‘joden’, ‘handel op de levant’, ‘nieuw-nederland’, ‘oost en west indische compagnie’, ‘vrijsteden’ and much moreplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecondition: neatly re-bound in somewhat easily soiled whitecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Moving from the old bailey to the court of king's bench, the author discusses the anomalies, inconsistencies and miscarriages of justice that arose as our ancestors decided what to do with defendants accused of the so-called 'worst of crimesshe also shows a how reactivated sodomy law put all eighteenth-century male homosexuals in fear and suggests it led to a distorted concept of masculinityoxfam bookshop hampstead the worst of crimes: homosexuality and the law in eighteenth century london in the eighteenth century homosexuality became an issue, especially in london with its fast growing populationthe inside pages are clean and unmarked' by studying original trial documents and other manuscript sources netta murray goldsmith has discovered hitherto unsuspected facts about some cases, including one important instance in which a prosecutor, aided by members of the judiciary, was able to pervert the course of justicethere is sight edge wear to the jacket top spineno one dared to say publicly that it should be tolerated, yet the reactions of men and women to the homosexuals in their midst were varied and complexthere are a slight dust marks to the jacket and marks to the cover boardssee oxfam website for delivery information read morein good condition
350 €
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World of your ancestors ( savage shake in shoes ( journey to elk river (14) disc vg: just one noticeable light scratch archies bedroom (single cd in jewel case i swore i wouldn't ( archie heads north ( opening title (undated release from label x europe / eaton music ltdbarcode: track listing: 1case vg: some signs of wear and tear and sticker residue journey to lake ajawaan ( pony saves the kittens ( i've missed you ( looking for the mick ( i do love you ( champlin flies/get lost folks ( archie and pony ( the tourists arrive ( a three month tour ( archies last speech (ost from the richard attenborough film 'grey owl'see oxfam website for delivery information read moremusic by george fenton archie sees his aunts ( takes two to kiss ( the frozen lake (
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17 €
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Oxfam bookshop leeds 311ppour ancestors, the mesopotamians, invented writing and with it a new way of looking at the worldto give the reader some sense of how mesopotamian civilization has been mediated and interpreted in its transmission through time, bottero begins with an account of assyriology, the discipline devoted to the ancient culturebottero also focuses on divination in the ancient world, contending that certain modes of worship in mesopotamia, in their application of causality and proof, prefigure the "scientific mindin this collection of essays, the french scholar jean bottero attempts to go back to the moment which marks the very beginning of historysee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis transmission, compounded with countless discoveries, would not have been possible without the surprising decipherment of the cuneiform writing system
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham the exquisitely-researched standalone prequel series to dorothy dunnett's revered lymond chronicles, following the ancestors of francis crawford of lymond in continental europe'we are going to the westmann isleshaving overcome the schemings of his wife, gelis, he now seeks a truce'it is and nicholas de fleury has confounded the lions of europe - the courts of england, france, burgundy, venice and cypruswe are going to sail the stiffening ocean to icelandyet nicholas' attention appears to lie elsewherehe looks north to the lands of ice and fire, and new treasure to wrestle from the hands of rivalsand, in edinburgh, there is a play to perform - one that might have repercussions for those puzzled but powerful lionswe are going to tamper with nature, defy law and cheat piratesthe very future of the continent hinges on the fate of his bank, the enigmatic house of niccolo'imaginative, scholarly and compelling' mail on sunday see oxfam website for delivery information read moreto lie with lions is book six in the house of niccolo series
2 €
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Accompanying the essays are amazing photographic features that investigate the characteristics of individual organisms in detail: in some, remarkable fossils, assembled skeletons, and lifelike reconstructions are presented and analyzed; while in others, living species are depicted and compared in detail to their direct ancestors, creatures that may have lived millions of years agooxfam shop dumfries evolution: the whole story contains everything you need to know about the development and survival of life on earthsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreeach chapter of this accessible and lavishly illustrated book takes a major living group and presents thematic essays discussing the evolution of particular subgroups as they appeared on earth with reference to detailed comparative anatomy, evolutionary legacies, and the breakthrough theories of eminent scientists
11 €
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Oxfam bookshop brigg this symphonic showcase for the romantic musical soul of chesney h"chet" baker was conceived and arranged by mike melillo, an expatriate american from newark, new jersey, who, since the end of , has spent most of his time in the land of his ancestors, working largely as a solo pianistsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
9 €