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Author : V. Rami Reddy
Publisher : South Asia Books
ISBN 13 : 9788170990130
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Elements of Prehistory written by V. Rami Reddy and published by South Asia Books. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris Gosden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198803516
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Prehistory written by Chris Gosden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent archaeological discoveries from China and central Asia have changed our understanding of how human civilization developed in the period of some 4 million years before the start of written history. In this new edition of his Very Short Introduction, Chris Gosden explores the current theories on the ebb and flow of human cultural variety.
Author : Jerry D. Moore
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520952138
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Prehistory of Home written by Jerry D. Moore and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many animals build shelters, but only humans build homes. No other species creates such a variety of dwellings. Drawing examples from across the archaeological record and around the world, archaeologist Jerry D. Moore recounts the cultural development of the uniquely human imperative to maintain domestic dwellings. He shows how our houses allow us to physically adapt to the environment and conceptually order the cosmos, and explains how we fabricate dwellings and, in the process, construct our lives. The Prehistory of Home points out how houses function as symbols of equality or proclaim the social divides between people, and how they shield us not only from the elements, but increasingly from inchoate fear.
Author : A. Bernard Knapp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131619406X
Total Pages : 1677 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean written by A. Bernard Knapp and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 1677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean offers new insights into the material and social practices of many different Mediterranean peoples during the Bronze and Iron Ages, presenting in particular those features that both connect and distinguish them. Contributors discuss in depth a range of topics that motivate and structure Mediterranean archaeology today, including insularity and connectivity; mobility, migration, and colonization; hybridization and cultural encounters; materiality, memory, and identity; community and household; life and death; and ritual and ideology. The volume's broad coverage of different approaches and contemporary archaeological practices will help practitioners of Mediterranean archaeology to move the subject forward in new and dynamic ways. Together, the essays in this volume shed new light on the people, ideas, and materials that make up the world of Mediterranean archaeology today, beyond the borders that separate Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
Author : James N. Hill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Individual in Prehistory written by James N. Hill and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emil W. Haury
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 081653490X
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Emil W. Haury's Prehistory of the American Southwest written by Emil W. Haury and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2017-09-06 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Emil Haury stands as one of the finest archaeologists of the American Southwest. He skills were sharpened by the best mentors—Cummings, Douglass, Gladwin—and eventually Haury's excavations became the definitive work on the Mogollon and Hohokam cultures. . . . This work is a 'best of Haury' collection of many of his previously published works, with excellent introductory essays by colleagues and noted archaeologists—gathered into one, readable volume."—Choice
Author : Iain Morley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199234086
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The Prehistory of Music written by Iain Morley and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the evolutionary origins of our musical abilities, the nature of music, and the earliest archaeological evidence for musical activities amongst our ancestors. It seeks to understand the relationship between our musical capabilities and the development of our social, emotional, and communicative abilities as a species.
Author : Kristen J. Gremillion
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139498886
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Ancestral Appetites written by Kristen J. Gremillion and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-14 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationship between prehistoric people and their food - what they ate, why they ate it and how researchers have pieced together the story of past foodways from material traces. Contemporary human food traditions encompass a seemingly infinite variety, but all are essentially strategies for meeting basic nutritional needs developed over millions of years. Humans are designed by evolution to adjust our feeding behaviour and food technology to meet the demands of a wide range of environments through a combination of social and experiential learning. In this book, Kristen J. Gremillion demonstrates how these evolutionary processes have shaped the diversification of human diet over several million years of prehistory. She draws on evidence extracted from the material remains that provide the only direct evidence of how people procured, prepared, presented and consumed food in prehistoric times.
Author : Anna Prentiss
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441906827
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Macroevolution in Human Prehistory written by Anna Prentiss and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural evolution, much like general evolution, works from the assumption that cultures are descendent from much earlier ancestors. Human culture manifests itself in forms ranging from the small bands of hunters, through intermediate scale complex hunter-gatherers and farmers, to the high density urban settlements and complex polities that characterize much of today’s world. The chapters in the volume examine the dynamic interaction between the micro- and macro-scales of cultural evolution, developing a theoretical approach to the archaeological record that has been termed evolutionary processual archaeology. The contributions in this volume integrate positive elements of both evolutionary and processualist schools of thought. The approach, as explicated by the contributors in this work, offers novel insights into topics that include the emergence, stasis, collapse and extinction of cultural patterns, and development of social inequalities. Consequently, these contributions form a stepping off point for a significant new range of cultural evolutionary studies.
Author : Philip Ball
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022677595X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book The Elements written by Philip Ball and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classical elements -- The antique metals -- Alchemical elements -- The new metals -- Chemistry golden age -- Electrical discoveries -- The radiant age -- The nuclear age.
Author : Colin Renfrew
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 1588368084
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Prehistory written by Colin Renfrew and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2008-08-19 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Prehistory, the award-winning archaeologist and renowned scholar Colin Renfrew covers human existence before the advent of written records–which is to say, the overwhelming majority of our time here on earth. But Renfrew also opens up to discussion, and even debate, the term “prehistory” itself, giving an incisive, concise, and lively survey of the past, and how scholars and scientists labor to bring it to light. Renfrew begins by looking at prehistory as a discipline, particularly how developments of the past century and a half–advances in archaeology and geology; Darwin’s ideas of evolution; discoveries of artifacts and fossil evidence of our human ancestors; and even more enlightened museum and collection curatorship–have fueled continuous growth in our knowledge of prehistory. He details how breakthroughs such as radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis have helped us to define humankind’s past–how things have changed–much more clearly than was possible just a half century ago. Answers for why things have changed, however, continue to elude us, so Renfrew discusses some of the issues and challenges past and present that confront the study of prehistory and its investigators. In the book’s second part, Renfrew shifts the narrative focus, offering a summary of human prehistory from early hominids to the rise of literate civilization that is refreshingly free from conventional wisdom and grand “unified” theories. The author’s own case studies encompass a vast geographical and chronological range–the Orkney Islands, the Balkans, the Indus Valley, Peru, Ireland, and China–and help to explain the formation and development of agriculture and centralized societies. He concludes with a fascinating chapter on early writing systems, “From Prehistory to History.” In this invaluable, brief account of human development prior to the last four millennia, Colin Renfrew delivers a meticulously researched and passionately argued chronicle about our life on earth, and our ongoing quest to understand it.
Author : Keiji Imamura
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135362408
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Prehistoric Japan written by Keiji Imamura and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated introduction to the prehistory of Japan, treated in its own right and not as a minor part of East Asia in general.
Author : [Glyn]. Daniel
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN 13 : 9780353212527
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (125 download)
Download or read book The Idea of Prehistory written by [Glyn]. Daniel and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Xavier Terradas Batlle
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527505235
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book The Exploitation of Raw Materials in Prehistory written by Xavier Terradas Batlle and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection presents state-of-the-art approaches to the use of inorganic raw materials in the period known as prehistory. It focuses on stone-tools, adornments, colorants and pottery from Europe, America and Africa. The chapters intimately merge archaeology, anthropology, geology, geography, physics and chemistry to reconstruct past human behaviour, economy, technology, ecology, cognition, territory and social complexity. The book represents a framework of raw material investigation for those working in science, regardless of the time period, region of the world or materials they are studying.
Author : Manu V. Devadevan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311051737X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book A Prehistory of Hinduism written by Manu V. Devadevan and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a pioneering attempt to understand the prehistory of Hinduism in South Asia. Exploring religious processes in the Deccan region between the eleventh and the nineteenth century with class relations as its point of focus, it throws new light on the making of religious communities, monastic institutions, legends, lineages, and the ethics that governed them. In the light of this prehistory, a compelling framework is suggested for a revision of existing perspectives on the making of Hinduism in the nineteenth and the twentieth century.
Author : Walter Arthur Cummins
Publisher : Salamander Books
ISBN 13 : 9781858337692
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (376 download)
Download or read book King Arthur's Place in Prehistory written by Walter Arthur Cummins and published by Salamander Books. This book was released on 1997-08 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author traces the legend of King Arthur back to a connection with Stonehenge.
Author : Denis Vialou
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Discoveries: Prehistoric Art and Civilization written by Denis Vialou and published by . This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses prehistoric civilization as represented by art and artifacts of the period, including weapons and tools, architecture, cave paintings, engravings, and statues.
