Full color, full page reconstructions of life in Virginia from the Cambrian Period (over 500 million years ago) down to the present day. Includes color drawings of representative living plants and animals as well as fossil specimens. Simplified paleogeographic and geologic maps are provided for each period of Earth's history that is represented in Virginia's fossil record. By the author of "Fossil Collecting in the Mid-Atlantic States" and many other books about fossils, prehistoric life, and human and natural history.

STARTING WITH THE ANCIENT HYPERBOREANS, THRU MILLIONS OF YEARS, WE SURVEY THE LIFE AND IDEALS OF PRE-HISTORIC CULTURES, LEADING TO OUR PREPARATION FOR A MYSTICAL RECURRENCE OF THE SATYA YUGA, OR THE NEW GOLDEN AGE, FOSTERED BY MASTER PARADISIANS OF A HIGH HEAVENLY HIERARCHY. CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION TO HYPERBOREAN CULTURE AND THEIR SUN GOD. Seven Eternities ago the Sweat-Born came forth from the First Heaven to inhabit the earth with huge vaporous bodies in the earliest Hyperborean Race nourishing from the air, which in time descended into the frugivorous, required a living water nourishment from juicy fruits. Modern misconceptions as to seeds and nuts which give densest body, drugging with pesticides for Fruit-eater's "High," early historians identification of Hyperboreans and original source of Sun Gods. CHAPTER II: THE ANCIENT EASTERN LEGENDS OF PARADISIAN ORIGINS. Buddhist Concepts of how self- luminous bodies became denser partaking of earth-born fruits of earth, till finally eating rice, men became passionate and evil; Comparison with Bible Genesis when man was cast out of Eden for bread-eating; Pre-Adamite Man that lived in Altai or "Heavenly Mts.," Shambhala, Paradise of Chinese Legends, P'eng lai, Taoist Hygiene School abstains from 5 grains, eats jujubes fruit, or breath, to become Immortals, Lemurians and 7 Root Races, Soma or Juicy Fruit in Hindu and Zend legend, Science on recent origin of grains, and Map. CHAPTER III: THE HEBRAIC ORIGIN OF THE OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE. Shamash, the Sun God of Babylonian Legend, and part played in Biblic Genesis, the Legend of Moses' birth and Great Flood precisely described in Chaldean Records, Josephus explains Genesis, Adam and Eve, Cain, Seth from nonbiblic sources, Gnostics were Essenes, Ezra writes Mosaic Books. CHAPTER IV: DIETETIC VIOLATIONS THAT GAVE RACIAL TRAITS TO PREHISTORIC PAMIRS, TARIM BASIN, SUMERIA, CHALDEA FROM ATLANTIS. Anthropology and Ethnology, Iridology gives color index to pathology in the eyes and its relation to skin and hair; how skin color is developed by ethnic traits in diet; negroes become white on raw food; clabber as living substance responsible for white race; intestinal purity and alkalinity gives clean skin color; Pamirs described as original Eden; Chinese corroboration about Eden; Sumeria, fish-born Semiramis, and Atlantis. CHAPTER V: THE EGYPTIAN INITIATION INTO ATLANTEAN MYSTERIES, THEIR SACRED HIERATIC LANGUAGE AND TRAITS. Historic Greek descriptions of Atlantis, Early Egyptians abstain from grains and flesh, Moses copies Pork and unclean meat doctrine from Egypt, Excess fat, avocados, etc. hard on liver, Lactobacillus, healing of menstruation and seminal losses, the Mysteries of Egyptian Initiation, Hermes, Atlantian writings. CHAPTER VI: ANCIENT LEGENDARY HISTORY OF THE KRISHNA CULT, AND ARYAN CULTURAL BENEFICIENCE FROM BUDDHA. What Scriptures confirm as to the black man Krishna who creates rivers of blood slaughtering enemies by the hundred thousands, made over 4 women pregnant every night of his life, having 16,108 wives, including female gorilla, and other jungle legends unwittingly espoused by Yoga much like O.T. Bible's gory prophets. Buddha's Doctrine of Compassion for all beings, abstinence from killing and chaste ideals, forsaking worldly desires, Teachings. CHAPTER VIII: THE FIRST PEOPLE, THE LEMURIANS, THE GOBI CIVILIZATION, ANTHROPOGENESIS OF MODERN SCIENCE AND MYSTICAL LEGENDS ABOUT SHAMBHALA. After Eternal or First Land of Hyperborea, Lemuria, sin and taking of life came into being. Seed-eating gave rise to sexualism, and perversions giving bestial forms to human fetus development. Soviet science as to Lemuria, Osborn and Doreal Research about Gobi Civilization, Tibetan Lama's views and Prophecy of Shambhala in Ecuador.

This book describes the major events in the history of dinosaurs and surrounding events in the Age of Reptiles. It is written about the world that dinosaurs lived in: environments, climate, bird evolution, origin of mammals, migrating continents, mass extinctions, asteroids and massive volcanic flows. For example, all three major episodes of volcanism are tied directly to major changes in dinosaur origin and evolution. Climates varied from intense heat in a single supercontinent at the beginning to equable climates and densely clothed forests as continents drifted apart. The book is well-illustrated. It includes 65 images taken from fossil specimens located mostly in the major museums of natural history

In The Creation Dialogues, creation scientist J.D. Mitchell scientifically and biblically refutes naturalistic philosophy and explains the errors that result from attempts by Christians to accept atheistic and deistic ideas into their faith and worldview. This book is a direct response to the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Center for Science Education position that Christians can and should be open to evolution and millions of years, concepts that are diametrically opposed to the teachings of the Bible.

Throughout the last Ice Age, hundreds of tribes of talented swarthy, dark-haired, brown-eyed, small stature humans found shelter and lived in deep dark mountain caves of southern France for thousands of years. During this long frigid almost sunless tundra-like cave life existence, these Ice Age refugees metamorphosed by natural selection into the world's blonde haired, blue-eyed, fair-skinned race. The astonishing prehistoric survival and changes in these "Glacier People" is incomprehensible. This book relates up to modern day the incredible whereabouts and times of these people.

The piercing together of the extensive research for this book has exposed unsought answers to many unsolved mysteries of the world, including those listed below:

Who built Stonehenge? Where is the specific location of the Garden of Eden? Why and when was Atlantis drowned and where is it located? Why did the North Pole axis migrate into Greenland 18,000 years ago? When and where did Noah's flood occur and who were drowned? Who were the ancient Hebrews and from where did they come? Why does global warming cyclically occur every 100,000 years? What scientifically confirmed occurrences caused the recent Ice Age? Who were the biblical "giants in the land"-Were they your ancestors? Why were no Arabs in Egypt during the pyramid-building era? Why were there no camels in Egypt in the pyramid era? Who erected the thousands of ancient European coastline megaliths? From where did the black Irish, Druids and Piets come? Why was England exclusively German before it became "English"? Is that why the German word "England" was chosen? Why are some racial groups addictable to alcohol and others not? What is an echo in the genes?
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The Tuscany habitation site (EgPn-377) located in northwest Calgary was excavated between 1995 and 1997. The site stratigraphy of the large depression contained a series of buried paleosols situated between Mazama tephra above, dating to 6730 +- 40 14C years BP, and Glacial Lake Calgary sands below, dating to approximately 13,900 calendar years ago. These paleosols comprised the focus of this volume. One of the research objectives was to examine the site for spatial information via the processing of bulk sediment samples. Such samples had the potential to yield information on the distribution of small-scale archaeological remains throughout the site. Sediment samples representing 1% volumes were collected from each excavated level of each unit in the site grid. Through flotation processing an inventory of bone, lithics, insects, fungal spores, mollusks and charred macrobotanical remains were recovered. The charred macrobotanical remains were the focus of this research. Though the inventory is small, it provides a representative sample of the remains of plants that grew locally in the depression through the early Holocene. The charred botanical remains were compared with pollen and soil studies along with modern vegetation and climate records to develop a model for open parkland in the area for the early Holocene. The reconstructed landscape appears to have provided a habitat for a broad spectrum of fauna along with a diverse inventory of potentially useful plants for early Holocene peoples to exploit.

The Amistad National Recreation Area Paleontology Survey includes information regarding the scope and significance of the fossil record within Amistad National Recreation Area as well as paleontological resource management recommendations.

Reconstructing the paleobiology of fossil non-human primates, this book is intended as an exposition of non-human primate evolution that includes information about evolutionary theory and processes, paleobiology, paleoenvironment, how fossils are formed, how fossils illustrate evolutionary processes, the reconstruction of life from fossils, the formation of the primate fossil record, functional anatomy, and the genetic bases of anatomy. Throughout, the emphasis of the book is on the biology of fossil primates, not their taxonomic classification or systematics, or formal species descriptions. The author draws detailed pictures of the paleoenvironment of fossil primates, including contemporary animals and plants, and ancient primate communities, emphasizing our ability to reconstruct lifeways from fragmentary bones and teeth, using functional anatomy, stable isotopes from enamel and collagen, and high resolution CT-scans of the cranium. Fossil Primates will be essential reading for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in evolutionary anthropology, primatology and vertebrate paleobiology.

Cold-water corals occur worldwide from high latitudes to tropical areas, in various settings from the deep-sea to shallow marine environments near the coast. The topic of this thesis is the establishment and extension of knowledge about environmental conditions controlling cold-water coral (CWC) mound development. From literature it is known that glacial-interglacial cycles drive development and geographic distribution of CWC mounds on a large scale. On the other hand, knowledge about the influence of small scale climatic and oceanographic changes during the Holocene is scarce. Thus, this thesis focuses on the investigation of the limited Holocene climatic and oceanographic changes and their effect on the process of mound genesis. For this purpose, a Holocene CWC mound setting in a sound in the Altafjord in northern Norway (70 N) -- the Stjernsund -- was chosen and the local benthic ecosystem was extensively analysed. Von den sub-arktischen hohen Breiten bis in warme tropische Zonen besiedeln Kaltwasserkorallen unseren Planeten. Sie haben sich verschiedenste Lebensraume erschlossen --- Von der Tiefsee bis zu marinen Flachwassergebieten an der Kuste kann ihr Vorkommen beobachtet werden. Sie bilden faszinierende Okosysteme die erst in den letzten Jahrzehnten intensiver erforscht wurden. Diese Arbeit widmet sich der tieferen Erforschung dieser Lebensraume. Im Fokus stehen dabei Umweltbedingungen, die die Entwicklung der Kaltwasserkorallenvorkommen kontrollieren. Umfangreiche fruhere Untersuchungen haben bereits gezeigt, dass ihr Wachstum, als auch ihre geographische Verbreitung im Wesentlichen von Glazial-Interglazial-Zyklen gesteuert werden. Die kurzzeitlichen klimatischen und ozeanographischen Steuerungsfaktoren sind im Vergleich dazu jedoch nahezu unbekannt. Daher konzentriert sich diese Arbeit auf die Erforschung von kurzeitigen klimatischen und ozeanographischen Veranderungen, die insbesondere im Holozan zu beobachten sind, sowie deren mogliche Auswirkungen auf