Mark D Bishop

Broschiertes Buch

Ancestral Chains (DNA Part I of VIII) Bishop Bloodline

Beschreibung

Music, money, madness & other mysterious things. This is the karmic tale of the author, adventurer, martial artist & time traveller, Mark D Bishop; an objective look at his genetic ancestral past. It is DNA family history in fascinating detail, a journey through ancestral time, when industrious, creative hard work, births, marriages and burials focused around church life. The reader begins the excursion in a grocer's shop in upmarket Teddington on Thames, before being transported to Rochester on the Medway, with its Norman castle and cathedral; then along the Roman Fosse Way to Chatham, which once was host to the Royal Naval Dockyard. Woodworking trades, such as cart-wheelwrights & cabinetmakers are imbedded in the ancestral search, with Kentish & Sussex surnames;the Wrens who went to America, the Mitchells who were shipwrights. Ancestry often has a darker side too, necessitating a trip through the sordid conditions of 19th century 'madhouses' and a realisation that lovemaking never really changes.

Autor

This, the third and most involved work by the author on the growing research into Stone Age portable rock art, is a must read for all interested parties. Beginning with handaxes crafted by the earliest inhabitants of the British Isles, one million years ago, it details that they carved, pecked and knapped these artefacts as art. Handaxes of all types, shapes and forms were not so much meant for use as weapons, but more as tools and ceremonial objects, having dual ritualistic and practical functions. Passed down as ancestral heirlooms, they became enthused with 'mana' and were often placed as offerings in streams, or at tomb and grave sites, or by sacred groves. Until now, the designs seen of these artefacts have not generally been recognised as art. The main theme of this work therefore is to introduce these artforms in detail to the world of archaeology and the public alike. Intangible, ritualistic meanings they once held, yet tangible stone art they remain, preserved as monuments to the skill and cognitive abilities of our most distant ancestors.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lulu.com
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2017
• Englisch, Tatarisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9781326977092
• ISBN-10: 1326977091
• Artikelnr.: 48065956