Infobox settlement official name Ad e other name native name nickname settlement type Village motto image skyline imagesize image caption image flag flag size image seal seal size image map mapsize map caption pushpin map pushpin label position bottom pushpin mapsize pushpin map caption subdivision type Country subdivision name flag Bosnia and Herzegovina subdivision type1 Municipalities of Bosnia and Herzegovina Municipality subdivision name1 Maglaj subdivision type2 subdivision name2 government footnotes government type leader title leader name established title established date area magnitude unit pref Imperial area footnotes area total km2 area land km2 population as of population footnotes population note population total population density km2 timezone Central European Time CET utc offset 1 timezone DST Central European Summer Time CEST utc offset DST 2 latd latm lats latNS N longd longm longs longEW E elevation footnotes elevation m elevation ft postal code type postal code area code blank name blank info website footnotes Ad e is a village in the Municipalities of Bosnia and Herzegovina municipality of Maglaj , Bosnia and Herzegovina . ref Official results from the book Ethnic composition of Bosnia Herzegovina population, by municipalities and settlements, 1991. census, Zavod za statistiku Bosne i Hercegovine Bilten no.234, Sarajevo 1991. ref References reflist Maglaj municipality coord missing Bosnia and Herzegovina Category Populated places in Maglaj Maglaj geo stub DEFAULTSORT Adze ... more details
Infobox ancient site name Tell Deir native name alternate name image imagealttext caption map type map alt latitude longitude map size location Beqaa Valley , Lebanon region coordinates type Tell part of Settlement length width area height builder material built abandoned epochs Neolithic cultures dependency of occupants event excavations 1965 1966 archaeologists Lorraine Copeland , br Peter J. Wescombe condition ruins ownership management public access Yes website notes Tell Deir is an archaeological site approximately halfway between Joub Jannine and Chtaura . ref name Moore cite book last Moore first A.M.T. title The Neolithic of the Levant publisher Oxford University, Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis year 1978 pages 436 442 url http ancientneareast.tripod.com 182.html ref A large amount of neolithic material was recovered from the site and it was studied by Lorraine Copeland and Peter Wescombe. The most plentiful types were large axe s, adze s, picks, knives and scrapers. Some smaller burins were found along with sickle s showing denticulation and segmentation. A few pottery sherd s were found with burnishing and red washing. Finds resembled later neolithic material found nearby and was also suggested to have been occupied in the bronze age . ref http books.google.co.uk books?id dDskHAAACAAJ&dq neolithic village sites copeland&hl en&ei e515TarREsSwhAeSlaTjBg&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 1&sqi 2&ved 0CCkQ6AEwAA Copeland, Lorraine, Neolithic Village Sites in the South Beqaa Lebanon , Melanges de l Universit Saint Joseph Beirut Lebanon Volume 45, Pages 83 114 , 1969. ref References Reflist Archaeological sites in Lebanon Portal Lebanon Portal Archaeology Portal Ancient Near East Category Neolithic settlements Category Archaeological sites in Lebanon Category Fertile Crescent ... more details
Infobox ancient site name Dakoue native name alternate name image imagealttext caption map type map alt latitude longitude map size location convert 3 km mi southwest of Mejdel Anjar , Lebanon region coordinates type part of length width area height builder material built abandoned epochs Heavy Neolithic , Neolithic cultures Qaraoun culture dependency of occupants event excavations archaeologists condition ownership management public access Unknown website notes Dakoue is a village and Heavy Neolithic archaeological site of the Qaraoun culture located convert 3 km mi southwest of Mejdel Anjar , Lebanon . The archaeological site is located convert 700 m ft northwest of the village where plentiful Heavy Neolithic flint adze s, axe s, debitage and waste material were found along with large amounts of Paleolithic materials. ref name Moore cite book last Moore first A.M.T. title The Neolithic of the Levant publisher Oxford University, Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis year 1978 pages 444 446 url http ancientneareast.tripod.com 185.html ref ref name CopelandWescombe1966 cite book author1 L. Copeland author2 P. Wescombe title Inventory of Stone Age Sites in Lebanon North, South and East Central Lebanon url http books.google.com books?id qhPRQwAACAAJ accessdate 29 August 2011 year 1966 publisher Impr. Catholique ref References Reflist Archaeological sites in Lebanon Portal Lebanon Portal Archaeology Portal Ancient Near East Category Heavy Neolithic sites Category Neolithic settlements Category Archaeological sites in Lebanon Category Fertile Crescent ... more details
Infobox ancient site name Shemouniyeh alternate name Wadi al Far a image imagealttext caption map type Israel map alt location Israel latitude 32.293722 longitude 35.344461 coordinates type Tell builder material built ca. 9300 Before Christ BC abandoned ca. 6000 Before Christ BC cultures Qaraoun culture epochs excavations 1925 1926 archaeologists Francis Turville Petre condition public access yes management Shemouniyeh is a Heavy Neolithic archaeology archaeological site of the Qaraoun culture in the Palestinian people Palestinian Tubas Governorate in the northeastern West Bank , located five kilometers southwest of Tubas . It is located on a plateau over the north of the Wadi Fa rah , a little north west of Deishun . Nearby is the Qaraoun culture occupational site of Wadi Sallah . Large numbers of massive flint tools and debris from this factory site were found and linked to this little known culture that was identified at over twenty five sites in Lebanon . Tools found included picks, adze s, borers and flake scrapers. ref name Moore3 cite book last Moore first A.M.T. title The Neolithic of the Levant publisher Oxford University, Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis year 1978 pages 446 447 url http ancientneareast.tripod.com 186.html ref ref name Turville PetreBate1927 cite book author1 Francis Adrian Joseph Turville Petre author2 Dorothea M. A. Bate author3 Sir Arthur Keith coauthors British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem title Researches in prehistoric Galilee, 1925 1926, p. 108 url http books.google.com books?id WMEqAAAAMAAJ accessdate 22 July 2011 year 1927 publisher The Council of the School ref References Reflist Portal Palestine Portal Archaeology Portal Ancient Near East Category Archaeological sites in Israel Category Neolithic settlements Category Neolithic Category Prehistoric sites in Israel Category Ancient Levant Category Fertile Crescent Category Heavy Neolithic sites ... more details
Hiero Pick hiero U17 , or , U18 hiero align left era egypt Image Egypte louvre 232 pot.jpg 140px thumb right Pot, with Pick hieroglyph at bottom, middle column reads from right to left, columns 3 2 1 . commons Category Pick grg hieroglyph The Ancient Egypt ancient Egyptian Pick hieroglyph , Gardiner s Sign List Gardiner sign listed nos. U17, U18 is a portrayal of a pick upon the side view of a block it is in the Gardiner subset for agriculture, crafts, and professions . In the Egyptian language , the pick hieroglyph is used as an ideogram or determinative for grg , the verb to pick through , ref Betr , 1995. Hieroglyphics The Writings of Ancient Egypt , Pick , p. 241. ref or for other related words. Verb to settle, found, establish div Though the pick hieroglyph shows use of a pick, upon a surface , the verb to choose is not implied. The Egyptian language verb for to pick or select is used by to choose , the commonly used stp hieroglyph, an adze, or specifically the adze on block hieroglyph , Gardiner no. U21, hiero U21 hiero , also in the Gardiner subset of agriculture, crafts, and professions . div div The pick hieroglyph in Budge s two volume dictionary has twelve entries, the final three dealing with lies and using the determinative of the sparrow hieroglyph , for bad , evil , Gardiner no. G37 hiero G37 hiero , and not a swallow hieroglyph, virtually identical . The main definition of the pick hieroglyph seems to be to to pick at earth , implying use of the pick as a tool for creating a townsite, and constructing it translates as a verb , to found, establish, settle also to make ready to be habitable, equip, furnish, and prepare . ref Budge, 1978, 1920 . An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary , gerg , p. 811 812. ref Budge s dictionary sources are ca. 150 authors, and ca. 200 sources papyrus papyri , stele s, literature, relief s, etc. For grg , to settle , to establish , etc. he uses 1. funerary texts of Pepi I , and 2. texts of Pepi II , 3. texts of King Teta, 4. ... more details
This article is in US English No footnotes date January 2011 File Preparando una Barrica.jpg right thumb Assembly of a barrel, called Mise en Rose in French. File Cooper1.jpg thumb A cooper readies, or rounds off, the end of a barrel using a coopers Adze hand adze at the Van Ryn Brandy Cellar near Stellenbosch , South Africa File RoscheiderHof waldmuseum kueferwerkstatt 2009.jpg thumb Cooper s workshop, Roscheider Hof Open Air Museum File Kuiperij Zuiderzeemuseum.jpg thumb Cooper at Zuiderzeemuseum Holland Traditionally, a cooper is someone who makes wooden wikt stave staved vessels, bound together with hoops and possessing flat ends or heads. Examples of a cooper s work include but are not limited to cask s, barrel s, bucket s, tubs, butter churns, hogshead s, firkin s, tierce unit tierce s, rundlet s, puncheon unit puncheon s, pipes, tun unit tun s, butt unit butts , pins and breakers. The word is derived from Middle Dutch k pe basket, wood, tub and may ultimately stem from cupa , the Latin word for wikt vat vat http www.bartleby.com 61 39 C0623900.html http www.bartleby.com 61 36 C0623600.html . Everything a cooper produces is referred to collectively as cooperage . Cask is a generic term used to describe any piece of cooperage containing a bouge, bilge, or bulge in the middle of the container. A barrel is technically a measure of the size of a cask, so the term barrel maker cannot be used synonymously with cooper. The facility in which casks are made is also referred to as a cooperage. Traditionally there were four divisions in the cooper s craft. The dry or slack cooper made containers that would be used to ship dry goods such as cereals, nails, tobacco, fruits and vegetables. The dry tight cooper made casks designed to keep dry goods in and moisture out. Gunpowder and flour casks are examples of a drytight cooper s work. The white cooper made straight staved containers like washtubs, buckets and butter churns, that would hold water and other liquids, but did n ... more details
was also published under a previous pseudonym, Jack Priest. See also Chonchon Shtriga Adze folklore Adze Manananggal Silk cotton tree References Reflist External links http www.triniview.com TnT ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 about Danubian Neolithic archaeological culture culture River Danube The term Danubian archaeological culture culture was coined by the Australian archaeologist Vere Gordon Childe to describe the first agrarian society in central and eastern Europe . It covers the Linear Pottery culture Linearbandkeramik, LBK , Stroke ornamented ware stroked pottery and R ssen culture s. The beginning of the Linear Pottery culture dates to around 5500 BC . It appears to have spread westwards along the valley of the river Danube and interacted with the cultures of Atlantic Europe when they reached the Paris Basin geology Paris Basin . Image European Late Neolithic.gif thumb Map of the European Late Neolithic c. 3500 BCE in Neolithic Europe showing Danubian culture in Yellow Danubian I peoples cleared forests and cultivated fertile loess soils from the Balkans to the Low Countries and the Paris Basin . They made LBK pottery and kept domesticated cow s, pig s, dog s, sheep and goat s. The diagnostic tool of the culture is the Shoe last celt , a kind of long thin stone adze which was used to fell trees and sometimes as a weapon, evidenced by the skulls found at Talheim, Neckar in Germany and Schletz in Austria. Settlements consisted of Neolithic long house longhouse s. According to a theory by Eduard Sangmeister , these settlements were abandoned, possibly as fertile land was exhausted, and then reoccupied perhaps when the land had lain fallow for long enough. In contrast, Peter Modderman and Jens L ning believe the settlements were constantly inhabited, with individual families using specific plots Hofpl tze . They also imported spondylus shells from the Mediterranean . A second wave of the culture, which used painted pottery with Asia tic influences, superseded the first phase starting around 4500 BC. This was followed by a third wave which used stroke ornamented ware . Danubian sites include those at Bylany archaeology Bylany in Bohemia and K ln Linden ... more details
Image Olmec celts from Met.jpg right thumb 250px Three Olmec celts. The one in the foreground is incised with an image of an Olmec supernatural. It is likely that these tools had a strictly ritual function. Image Celt tool Transyslvania.jpg right thumb 250px Celts from Transylvania. Celt IPAc en icon s l t is an archaeology archaeological term used to describe long thin prehistoric stone or bronze adze s, other axe like tools, and Hoe tool hoe s. Etymology The term celt came about from what was very probably a copyist s error in many medieval manuscript copies of Job 19 24 in the Latin Vulgate Bible, which became enshrined in the authoritative Sixto Clementine Vulgate Sixto Clementine printed edition of 1592 however the Codex Amiatinus , for example, does not contain the mistake. ref http links.jstor.org sici?sici 0009 8388 28192507 2F10 291 3A19 3A3 2F4 3C192 3AFP 5BP 3E2.0.CO 3B2 R&size LARGE&origin JSTOR enlargePage Floscvli Philoxenei, M. L. W. Laistner, The Classical Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 3 4 Jul. Oct., 1925 , pp. 192 195, JSTOR , see also https listserv.heanet.ie cgi bin wa?A2 ind9507&L CELTIC L&P 2539 Match 2 here ref In the passage Stylo ferreo, et plumbi lamina, vel certe sculpantur in silice from Book of Job Job 19 24, Let it indeed be carved with an iron pen on a plate of lead or in stone , the certe indeed was spelled as celte by mistake, which would have to be the ablative of a non existent third declension noun celtes or celtis , the ablative case giving the sense with by a celt . This is now considered to be the case by most scholars, although some are still prepared to consider the existence of a real Latin word. A Celt was thus wrongly assumed to be a type of ancient chisel . Early eighteenth century antiquarian s, such as Lorenz Beger , then adopted the word for the stone tool stone and bronze tools they were finding at prehistoric sites the OED suggests that the imaginary etymological connection with the Celt s may have assisted its passage ... more details
File Head of Nupla PA375 PASG Pulaski Axe.jpg thumb widthpx Head of a Nupla PA375 LESG Pulaski Image PulaskiVsBirchRoot8054.JPG thumb widthpx A demonstration of incorrect use of a pulaski. For safety reasons, a pulaski should never be held over one s head. ref cite book last1 Hallman first1 Richard last2 Hutcheson first2 William last3 Mrkich first3 Dale title Handtools for trail work publisher USDA Forest Service, Technology & Development Program year 1997 pages 18 accessdate 2011 01 18 quote Avoid raising the pick overhead while swinging this wastes energy and creates a safety hazard because the heavy, narrow tool head cannot be easily controlled or directed. ref The pulaski is a special hand tool used in wildfire wildland firefighting . The tool combines an axe and an adze in one head, similar to that of the Mattock cutter mattock , with a rigid handle of wood, plastic, or fiberglass. The pulaski is a versatile tool for constructing firebreak s, as it can be used to both dig soil and chop wood. It is also well adapted for trail construction, gardening , and other outdoor work. As a gardening or excavation tool, it is effective for digging holes in root bound or hard soil. The invention of the pulaski is credited to Ed Pulaski , an assistant park ranger ranger with the United States Forest Service , in 1911, ref cite book last1 Spadafora first1 Ronald title McGraw Hill s Firefighter Exams publisher McGraw Hill Professional year 2007 pages 230 accessdate 2011 01 18 quote Invented by USFS ranger Ed Pulaski in 1911. ref although a similar tool was first introduced in 1876 by the Collins Tool Company. Ed Pulaski was famous for taking action to save the lives of a crew of 45 firefighters during the disastrous August 1910 Great Fire of 1910 wildfires in Idaho . His invention or reinvention of the tool that bears his name may have been a direct result of the disaster, as he saw the need for better firefighting tools. The pulaski came into wide use by the Forest Service af ... more details
Image Opening of the mouth ceremony.jpg thumb 300px Priests of Anubis, the guide of the dead and the god of tombs and embalming, perform the opening of the mouth ritual The opening of the mouth ceremony or ritual was an ancient Egypt ian ritual described in funerary text s such as the Pyramid Texts . Funerary magic The ritual involved the symbolic animation of a statue or mummy by magically opening its mouth so that it could breathe and speak. There is evidence of this ritual from the Old Kingdom to the Roman Period. Special tools were used to perform the ceremony, such as a ritual adze , an arm shaped ritual censer, a spooned blade known as a peseshkaf , a serpent head blade, and a variety of other amulets. A calf s leg was also held up to the lips painted on the coffin. The ancient Egyptians believed that in order for a person s soul to survive in the afterlife it would need to have food and water. The opening of the mouth ritual was thus performed so that the person who died could eat and drink again in the afterlife. The ceremony involved up to 75 episodes and, in its most complete version, included the following stages ref cite web url http www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk religion wpr.html title The Opening of the mouth ritual University College London ref Episodes 1 9 Preliminary rites Episodes 10 22 Animation of the statue Episodes 23 42 Meat offerings aligned with upper Egypt Episodes 43 46 Meat offerings aligned with lower Egypt Episodes 47 71 Funerary meal Episodes 72 75 Closing rites The Book of the Dead also contains a spell for this process, which the deceased may use on themselves ref name Lichtheim cite book last Lichtheim first Miriam title Ancient Egyptian Literature, vol 2 publisher University of California Press year 1976 location London, England isbn 0 520 02965 8 ref My mouth is opened by Ptah, My mouth s bonds are loosed by my city god. Thoth has come fully equipped with spells, He looses the bonds of Seth from my mouth. Atum has given me my hands, ... more details
Image Suwa taisha harumiya12nt3200.jpg thumbnail 350p A raised onbashira in Suwa Taisha Onbashira is a festival held every six years ref in Japanese that is, 7 years according to the old style of counting and 6 years to the new style see http mainichi.jp select jiken news 20100412k0000m040039000c.html or http www.taipeitimes.com News taiwan archives 2004 04 11 2003136206 ref in the Lake Suwa area of Nagano , Japan . The purpose of the festival is to symbolically renew the Suwa Taisha or Suwa Grand Shrine. Onbashira can be literally translated as the honored pillars . The Onbashira festival is reputed to have continued, uninterrupted, for 1200 years. The festival is held once every six years, in the years of the Monkey and the Tiger in the Chinese Zodiac , however the locals may say once in seven years, because of the traditional Japanese custom of including the current year when counting a length of time. Onbashira lasts several months, and consists of two segments, Yamadashi and Satobiki . Yamadashi traditionally takes place in April, and Satobiki takes place in May. Yamadashi literally means coming out of the mountains. Before this portion of the festival, huge trees are cut down in a Shinto ceremony using axe axes and adze adzes specially manufactured for this single use. The logs are decorated in red and white regalia, the traditional colors of Shinto ceremonies, and ropes are attached. During Yamadashi, Teams of men drag the logs down the mountain towards the four shrines of Suwa Taisha . The course of the logs goes over rough terrain, and at certain points the logs must be skidded or dropped down steep slopes. Young men prove their bravery by riding the logs down the hill in a ceremony known as Ki otoshi. Satobiki festival involves the symbolic placement of the new logs to support the foundation of the shrine buildings. The logs are raised by hand, with a ceremonial group of log bearers who ride the log as it is being raised and sing from t ... more details
File HK YuenChauTsai IslandHouse.JPG thumb 300px Partial view of the Island House on Yuen Chau Tsai. File YuenChauTsai TaiWongYehTemple.jpg thumb 300px Tai Wong Yeh Temple at Yuen Chau Tsai. Yuen Chau Tsai was formerly an island of Tolo Harbour , in Hong Kong . After Land reclamation in Hong Kong land reclamation , it is now connected to land by a causeway and is part of Tai Po District . The Tai Wong Yeh Temple and Island House are located in the area of the former island. Island House main Island House Built in 1905, Island House was built as the residence for the first British Police Magistrate appointed in 1898. It is one of the declared monuments of Hong Kong . Tai Wong Yeh Temple Tai Wong Yeh Temple is located at the Island House Interchange. The temple was originally a stone tablet which was erected on the northern shore of Yuen Chau Tsai by the villagers in Chik Mei Village, located on the north bank of the Shenzhen River , in the mid Qing Dynasty . In the late Qing Dynasty, some fishermen raised funds to build the temple for worship by local fishermen at the present location. ref name Film Service Office http www.fso tela.gov.hk accessibility eng locations search details.cfm?type 1&File No 00585 The Film Service Office Tai Wong Yeh Temple Yuen Chau Tsai ref In 1960, a formal launching ceremony for dragon boat s was first held at the Tai Wong Yeh Temple in Yuen Chau Tsai is held on Dragon Boat Festival . The ceremony has remained a tradition since then. ref http taipo.org tpdragon2003 history.htm History of Dragon Boat Race in Tai Po ref In 1988, An opening ceremony of the Tai Wong Yeh Temple was held for marking its renovation. ref name Film Service Office http www.fso tela.gov.hk accessibility eng locations search details.cfm?type 1&File No 00585 The Film Service Office Tai Wong Yeh Temple Yuen Chau Tsai ref Yuen Chau Tsai Island House Archaeological Site In 1960s, Mr. John Walden, who was the first one to report the site, collected stone adze s and g ... more details
In the Tuamotus Tuamotu islands , the telling of the full cycle of the legend of Rata takes several evenings to tell. The legend of begins with his grandfather Kui M ori mythology Kui , a demigod who marries Puehuehu. Their son Vahi vero was stolen by two wild ducks that carry him to a distant island where two witches Nua and Mere hua imprison him. Kui eventually rescues his son, captures the witches, and kills the ducks. Once Vahi vero reaches adulthood , he falls in love with a water nymph Tahiti tokerau , whom he persuades to marry him. She, however, is abducted by Puna mythology Puna , king of the underworld . Following his father s advice, he swims down to the underworld and rescues her while Puna is away. Shortly thereafter, Tahiti tokerau becomes pregnant and gives birth to Rata. Not long after the birth of Rata, Puna returns and learns that Tahiti tokerau had been rescued. He summons the shark Matuku tagotago who attack Vahivero and Tahiti tokerau while they are crabbing. The shark swallows them and takes them back to Kororupo where Tahiti tokerau is buried head down in the sand. The orphan Rata is raised by his grandfather. When he learns of his parents fate, he builds a large canoe to find them. Using his grandfather s magical adze, he enters the forest and chops down a tree . Overnight, however, goblins had restored the tree. He ambushes them and forces them to complete his canoe, which they accomplish in a single night . Rata then begins his quest to find his parents, which includes various adventures including defeating champion warrior Manu kura in a contest for the hand of his wife, princess Pupura to te tai, Puna s daughter. As he nears Puna s land he must overcome various monsters, including Matuku tagotago , the shark that had killed his father, whom he cuts out of Matuku s belly. Rata, with the help of his servant Taraka , finally kills Puna, rescues his mother and restores her to health . They all return home. See also Rata Tahitian mythology R t ... more details
taxobox image Starr 060225 6117 Nestegis sandwicensis.jpg regnum Plant ae unranked divisio Flowering plant Angiosperms unranked classis Eudicots unranked ordo Asterids ordo Lamiales familia Oleaceae genus Nestegis species N. sandwicensis binomial Nestegis sandwicensis binomial authority Asa Gray A.Gray Otto Degener O.Deg. , I.Deg. & Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson L.A.S.Johnson synonyms Osmanthus sandwicensis small A.Gray Knobl. ref name CFTH cite paper url http www.ctahr.hawaii.edu forestry trees CommonTreesHI CFT Osmanthus sandwicensis.pdf format PDF title Olopua, pua first Elbert L. last Little Jr. coauthors Roger G. Skolmen publisher United States Forest Service year 1989 ref Nestegis sandwicensis , commonly known as Olopua , is a species of Flowering plant flowering tree in the olive family, Oleaceae , that is Endemism endemic to Hawaii . It is found on all major islands at elevations of convert 30 1300 m ft abbr on in Hawaiian tropical rainforests Coastal mesic forests coastal mesic and Hawaiian tropical rainforests Mixed mesic forests mixed mesic forests , ref cite web url http www2.bishopmuseum.org ethnobotanydb resultsdetailed.asp?search olopua title olopua, pua, ulupua publisher Bernice P. Bishop Museum work Hawaii Ethnobotany Online Database accessdate 2009 11 20 ref and, especially, Hawaiian tropical dry forests dry forests . It usually reaches a height of convert 6 m ft abbr on with a trunk diameter of convert 0.2 m ft abbr on , but may reach convert 20 m ft abbr on in height with a trunk diameter of convert 0.9 m ft abbr on . ref name CFTH Uses Native Hawaiians used the hard wood of olopua to make okina au ko okina i adze handles , apuapu rasp s for making fish hook s , okina okina digging stick s , la okina au melomelo fishing lure s , pou house posts , p hoa dagger s , p koi tripping weapons similar to a rope dart , and spear s. Because the wood burned well even if green, it was used as wahie firewood . ref cite paper url http www.hear.org natu ... more details
Fa ahia is an early Polynesians Polynesian occupation site in the north of the island of Huahine , in the Society Islands , French Polynesia . With the neighbouring Vaito otia site it dates to between 700 Common Era CE and 1200 CE. Because much of the site is waterlogged, artefacts made of organic materials have been well preserved, including wooden patu hand clubs, canoe parts and adze handles. Subfossil bird bones have also been well preserved, providing much new information about the avifauna of the island around the time it was first settled by humans, demonstrating that even small islands could hold a rich variety of bird species. Several excavations were conducted by Yosihiko H. Sinoto of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum . Birds The remains of several species of birds have been found, representing those that were killed for their flesh, bones or feathers by prehistoric Polynesians. Globally extinct species of land birds found at the site include two rails, the Huahine Rail and Huahine Swamphen Swamphen two doves, the Great Ground dove and Huahine Cuckoo dove two parrots, the Conquered Lorikeet and Sinoto s Lorikeet , and the Huahine Starling . Locally extinct land birds found were Striated Heron , Spotless Crake , Polynesian Ground dove , Marquesan Imperial pigeon , Polynesian Imperial pigeon , and Tahiti Reed warbler . The only globally extinct seabird was the Huahine Gull , but several other seabird s that are now locally extinct, at least as breeders, were found, including the Wedge tailed Shearwater , Christmas Shearwater , Audubon s Shearwater , Tahiti Petrel , Phoenix Petrel , Trindade Petrel , Brown Booby , Red footed Booby , Great Frigatebird , Lesser Frigatebird , and Black Noddy . ref Kirchman & Steadman. ref ref Steadman & Pahlavan. ref Notes reflist References Kirchman, Jeremy J. & David Steadman Steadman, David W . 2006 . New Species of Rails Aves Rallidae From an Archaeological Site on Huahine, Society Islands. Pacific Science 60 281. http www.redorb ... more details
BLP sources date August 2010 Terry Starr born March 1951 is a Canadian artist from the Gispaxlo ots Gispax Laats Tribe of the Tsimshian Nation. Early years Starr s mother was from Kitsumkalum of the Eagle Clan, and his father was from Lax Kw alaams, British Columbia Lax Kw alaams , or the town of Port Simpson of the Killerwhale clan. His predominant family crest is the Eagle on his mother s side, while his sub crest is the Killerwhale on his father s. Alu Alums or Crying for or longing after something or someone Starr was given this childhood name when he was six years old by the Chief of the Tribe when his grandfather died. Thla enak or It s been a long time his adult name was given to him by the acting Chief when Starr returned to the village after a long absence. Career Subsequent to completing a college business course in 1982, Starr purchased two adze s and three knives, his first carving tools. Tim Paul of the Nuu chah nulth people Nuu chah nulth Nation and Richard Hunt artist Richard Hunt of the Kwakwaka wakw people were among the first to influence Starr on the basic techniques of carving wood. Their ancestral styles greatly influence the artwork that he creates today. In 1984, he sat and learned carving techniques from Richard Hunt, master Kwagiulth artist at Thunderbird Park Victoria Thunderbird Park and the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria, British Columbia. Starr is best known for his masks reflecting the traditional pigments and form lines of his ancestry. He usually paints only a portion of his masks to deliberately reveal the fluid grain of the wood. His pieces can be found in many local and international collections. For example, the Paul and Joan Gluck Collection of Native Arts contains more than 200 art pieces collected for more than 20 years and is considered one of the largest in the world. Starr was featured in an exhibit at one of the largest historical museums in the United States, the Historical Museum of Southern Florida . ref http ... more details
Multiple issues orphan April 2010 cleanup March 2011 no footnotes March 2011 . WT Small House is reputed to be the oldest continually inhabited home in Kelowna , British Columbia , Canada . It is listed on the Kelowna Heritage Register as a highly valued example of early residential pioneer settlement in the Okanagan Valley. The Home was constructed with adze cut squared logs and dovetail joints on two story wood frame. William Thomas Small , a blind miller at The Lequime Mill built the original portion of the house in 1890 with 3 of his sons, Fred, Charles and William. The field stone fire place in the parlour is carved with the year or construction 1890 . The house was sold in 1908 to James Hugh Baillie who added a two storey wood frame front in 1910. Ballie sold the house in 1918 to C. Graham, whose wife is reputed to have built the second field stone fire place in the sitting room. In 1930, the house was bought by Arthur H. Raymer 1880 1956 and his wife Edith Small, the daughter of WT Small 1884 1951 who had grown up in the house. Raymer became Kelowna s first mayor when the city was incorporated in 1905. Raymer s daughter, Hilda and her husband W Sinclair Thompson lived there with their son & daughter Terry Gilbert and Wendy Edith. The Mulberry tree on the property was brought to Kelowna on a wagon from Ontario by William Small. The heritage value of the building is characterised by the organic growth of more than a century from early pioneer vernacular architecture to modern additions while retaining the original portions, still easily defined and recognisable today. Small s wife was instrumental in founding the first school in the Mission Creek area in 1894. Six local families Small, Casorso, Berard, Crawford, Dickson and Smith gathered to refurbish the old Fred Gillard cabin under the guidance of William Small, the only carpenter in the party, to provide the first school in the area for the eighteen local children. They were taught by Fred Watson until 1900 ... more details
File Lott house.jpg thumb 220px Various stages of Dutch colonial architecture are evident at the Hendrick I. Lott House New Netherland Dutch colonial architecture is broad term used to describe the type of architecture prevalent in the construction of homes, commercial buildings, and outbuildings in areas settled by the Dutch from the early 17th to early 19th century in the area encompassing the former Dutch colony of New Netherland . In the early 17th century, the original portion of most dwellings started out, as a matter of immediate need, as simple one story dwellings constructed primarily of local available material. When available the house would be constructed of fieldstone such as the Abraham Manee House on Staten Island . The wood for the joists and rafters were trimmed with an adze from trees felled on or near the property. The ceiling and interior walls when built after the initial construction were usually framed then plastered with clay from local deposits, mixed with horse hair for strength, over rough trimmed Lath and plaster wood laths . Common characteristics of Dutch colonial architecture are they typically, but not always had Gambrel roof s with flared eaves , Dutch door s and brick chimneys built at the gable ends. small ref The Dutch Colonial House Its Origin, Design, Modern Plan and Construction by Aymar Embury 1913 ref small small ref Dutch colonial homes in America by Geoffrey Gross, Susan Piatt, Roderic H. Blackburn ref small small ref The New World Dutch Barn The Evolution, Forms, and Structure of a Disappearing Icon by John Fitchen and Gregory D. Huber ref small div align center gallery perrow 3 File Schenk crooke house2.jpg Jans Martense Schenck house File Maneeseguine5.jpg Abraham Manee House File Van pelt manor house brooklyn.jpg Van Pelt Manor Van Pelt Manor house File Hubbard House 1830.jpg Hubbard House, Brooklyn c. 1830 photograph 1915 File Vander Ende Onderdonk back jeh.jpg Vander Ende Onderdonk House Site Vander Ende Onderdonk Hou ... more details
Infobox ancient site name Wadi Sallah alternate name Wadi al Far a image imagealttext caption map type Israel map alt location Israel latitude 32.293722 longitude 35.344461 coordinates type Tell builder material built ca. 9300 Before Christ BC abandoned ca. 6000 Before Christ BC cultures Qaraoun culture epochs excavations 1925 1926 archaeologists Francis Turville Petre condition public access yes management Wadi Sallah is an branch of the Wadi Fa rah where a small cave is located in the Palestinian people Palestinian Tubas Governorate in the northeastern West Bank , located five kilometers southwest of Tubas . The cave was discovered and excavated by Francis Turville Petre between 1925 and 1926. It contained an occupational Heavy Neolithic archaeology archaeological site of the Qaraoun culture . This culture was without pottery and typically used large axes for chopping lumber, cutting wood and felling trees such as the cedars of lebanon in preparation for the domestication of emmer wheat and the Neolithic Revolution . Levels II and III of Turville Petre s excavations revealed deposits of flint s and pot sherd s. The pottery was later in date that the Heavy Neolithic material, which included heavy blades picks, adze s, borers and flake scrapers , massive flake scrapers, and pieces with denticulation, all similar to those found at Shemouniyeh and Wadi Fa rah . Several arrowhead s were also found that were Lithic reduction pressure flaked , generally Tang weaponry tanged and leaf shaped. One of these was of the Amuq 2 type. ref name Moore3 cite book last Moore first A.M.T. title The Neolithic of the Levant publisher Oxford University, Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis year 1978 pages 446 447 url http ancientneareast.tripod.com 186.html ref ref name Turville PetreBate1927 cite book author1 Francis Adrian Joseph Turville Petre author2 Dorothea M. A. Bate author3 Sir Arthur Keith coauthors British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem title Researches in prehistoric Galilee, 1925 19 ... more details
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