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Prehistory

Author : Colin Renfrew
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 1588368084
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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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.

Everyday Life in Prehistory

Author : Neil Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788889272596
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Everyday Life in Prehistory written by Neil Morris and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the roots of early civilization beginning with the hominids, their customs, culture, social groups, and migration.

Prehistory

Author : Chris Gosden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198803516
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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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.

Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales

Author : Jacqueline E. Jay
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004323074
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales by : Jacqueline E. Jay

Download or read book Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales written by Jacqueline E. Jay and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales, Jacqueline E. Jay extrapolates from the surviving ancient Egyptian written record hints of the oral tradition that must have run alongside it. The monograph’s main focus is the intersection of orality and literacy in the extremely rich corpus of Demotic narrative literature surviving from the Greco-Roman Period. The many texts discussed include the tales of the Inaros and Setna Cycles, the Myth of the Sun’s Eye, and the Dream of Nectanebo. Jacqueline Jay examines these Demotic tales not only in conjunction with earlier Egyptian literature, but also with the worldwide tradition of orally composed and performed discourse.

The Collected Works of L. S. Vygotsky

Author : Robert W. Rieber
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461559391
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Works of L. S. Vygotsky written by Robert W. Rieber and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, readers are introduced to Vygotsky's argument for a theoretical and methodological approach to differentiate "higher" mental functions from the more basic brain processes that other theorists believed were at the center of the psychological apparatus.

Non-scribal Communication Media in the Bronze Age Aegean and Surrounding Areas

Author : Anna Margherita Jasink
Publisher : Firenze University Press
ISBN 13 : 8864536361
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (645 download)

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Download or read book Non-scribal Communication Media in the Bronze Age Aegean and Surrounding Areas written by Anna Margherita Jasink and published by Firenze University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is intended to be the first in a series that will focus on the origin of script and the boundaries of non-scribal communication media in proto-literate and literate societies of the ancient Aegean. Over the last 30 years, the domain of scribes and bureaucrats has become much better known. Our goal now is to reach below the élite and scribal levels to interface with non-scribal operations conducted by people of the ‘middling’ sort. Who made these marks and to what purpose? Did they serve private or (semi-) official roles in Bronze Age Aegean society? The comparative study of such practices in the contemporary East (Cyprus, Anatolia, the Levant, and Egypt) can shed light on sub-elite activities in the Aegean and also provide evidence for cultural and economic exchange networks.

Time in History

Author : G. J. Whitrow
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192852113
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Time in History written by G. J. Whitrow and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this intriguing book G.J. Whitrow traces the evolution of our general awareness of time and its significance from the dawn of history to the present day. His absorbing study ranges from Ancient Egypt and Persia, Greece, and Israel, to the Islamic world, India and China, and Europe andAmerica, showing the different ways time has been perceived by various civilizations.

World Prehistory

Author : Brian M. Fagan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317279107
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book World Prehistory written by Brian M. Fagan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This popular introductory textbook provides an overview of more than 3 million years of human prehistory. Written in an accessible and jargon-free style, this engaging volume tells the story of humanity from our beginnings in tropical Africa up to the advent of the world’s first urban civilizations. A truly global account, World Prehistory surveys the latest advances in the study of human origins and describes the great diaspora of modern humans in the millennia which followed as they settled Europe, Asia and the Americas. Later chapters consider seminal milestones in prehistory: the origins of food production, the colonization of the offshore Pacific and the development of the first more complex human societies based, for the most part, on agriculture and stock raising. Finally, Fagan and Durrani examine the prevailing theories regarding early state-organized societies and the often flamboyant, usually volatile, pre-industrial civilizations which developed in the Old World and the Americas. Fully updated to reflect new research, controversies, and theoretical debates, this unique book continues to be an ideal resource for the beginner first approaching archaeology. Drawing on the experience of two established writers in the field, World Prehistory is a respected classic which acquaints students with the fascinations of human prehistory.

Japanese Prehistory

Author : Nelly Naumann
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447043298
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Japanese Prehistory written by Nelly Naumann and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2000 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The existing literature on Japanese prehistory is mostly focussed on describing material culture; this new study surveys the early artifacts and shows that they were either neglected in previous studies or reported of by unfounded and fantastic speculation. The author identifies prehistoric ideas concerning hunting and fishing, the cult of the dead, and the after-life. The cosmological implications of burial topography and stone-circles are as well examined as older written texts from other parts of the world aiding in elucidating the symbols recognized on these remains. This helps to link the Jo-mon materials to other remains of similar or older age from the ancient Near East, China, the Pacific, and ancient America and proves that prehistoric Japan was never really isolated from the rest of the world. Although the method developed in this study, which rejects speculation and bases itself entirely on archaeological remains, permits only the elucidation of a part of the rich spiritual culture of prehistoric Japan; it reveals an abundance of new information concerning the most important religious ideas of mankind: the constant renewal of life, and the belief that death is not the ultimate end.

A Prehistory of the Cloud

Author : Tung-Hui Hu
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262330105
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book A Prehistory of the Cloud written by Tung-Hui Hu and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-08-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The militarized legacy of the digital cloud: how the cloud grew out of older network technologies and politics. We may imagine the digital cloud as placeless, mute, ethereal, and unmediated. Yet the reality of the cloud is embodied in thousands of massive data centers, any one of which can use as much electricity as a midsized town. Even all these data centers are only one small part of the cloud. Behind that cloud-shaped icon on our screens is a whole universe of technologies and cultural norms, all working to keep us from noticing their existence. In this book, Tung-Hui Hu examines the gap between the real and the virtual in our understanding of the cloud. Hu shows that the cloud grew out of such older networks as railroad tracks, sewer lines, and television circuits. He describes key moments in the prehistory of the cloud, from the game “Spacewar” as exemplar of time-sharing computers to Cold War bunkers that were later reused as data centers. Countering the popular perception of a new “cloudlike” political power that is dispersed and immaterial, Hu argues that the cloud grafts digital technologies onto older ways of exerting power over a population. But because we invest the cloud with cultural fantasies about security and participation, we fail to recognize its militarized origins and ideology. Moving between the materiality of the technology itself and its cultural rhetoric, Hu's account offers a set of new tools for rethinking the contemporary digital environment.

European Prehistory

Author : Sarunas Milisauskas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441966331
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book European Prehistory written by Sarunas Milisauskas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European Prehistory: A Survey traces humans from their earliest appearance on the continent to the Rise of the Roman Empire, drawing on archaeological research from all over Europe. It includes the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages. Throughout these periods, the major developments are explored using a wide range of archaeological data that emphasizes aspects of agricultural practices, gender, mortuary practices, population genetics, ritual, settlement patterns, technology, trade, and warfare. Using new methods and theories, recent discoveries and arguments are presented and previous discoveries reevaluated. This work includes chapters on European geography and the chronology of European prehistory. A new chapter has been added on the historical development of European archaeology. The remaining chapters have been contributed by archaeologists specializing in different periods. The second edition of European Prehistory: A Survey is enhanced by a glossary, three indices and a comprehensive bibliography, as well as an extensive collection of maps, chronological tables and photographs.

Prehistory, History, and Historiography of Language, Speech, and Linguistic Theory

Author : Bela Brogyanyi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027235619
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Prehistory, History, and Historiography of Language, Speech, and Linguistic Theory written by Bela Brogyanyi and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers deals primarily with topics in general linguistics, including history of linguistic science. The volume is divided in 5 parts: I. Origin and Prehistory of Language, II. Historiography of Linguistics, III. Phonology and Phonetic Change, IV. Morphology and Syntax, and V. Socio-Neurolinguistics and Multilingualism.

Iconographic Method in New World Prehistory

Author : Vernon J. Knight
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107022630
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Iconographic Method in New World Prehistory written by Vernon J. Knight and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an overview of iconographic methods and their application to archaeological analysis. It offers a truly interdisciplinary approach that draws equally from art history and anthropology. Vernon James Knight, Jr., begins with a historigraphical overview, addressing the methodologies and theories that underpin both archaeology and art history. He then demonstrates how iconographic methods can be integrated with the scientific methods that are at the core of much archaeological inquiry. Focusing on artifacts from the pre-Columbian civilizations of North and Meso-American sites, Knight shows how the use of iconographic analysis yields new insights into these objects and civilizations.

Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing

Author : Kelly Boyd
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113678764X
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing written by Kelly Boyd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-09 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing contains over 800 entries ranging from Lord Acton and Anna Comnena to Howard Zinn and from Herodotus to Simon Schama. Over 300 contributors from around the world have composed critical assessments of historians from the beginning of historical writing to the present day, including individuals from related disciplines like Jürgen Habermas and Clifford Geertz, whose theoretical contributions have informed historical debate. Additionally, the Encyclopedia includes some 200 essays treating the development of national, regional and topical historiographies, from the Ancient Near East to the history of sexuality. In addition to the Western tradition, it includes substantial assessments of African, Asian, and Latin American historians and debates on gender and subaltern studies.

A Companion to Gender Prehistory

Author : Diane Bolger
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118294262
Total Pages : 933 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Gender Prehistory written by Diane Bolger and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 933 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative guide on gender prehistory for researchers, instructors and students in anthropology, archaeology, and gender studies Provides the most up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of gender archaeology, with an exclusive focus on prehistory Offers critical overviews of developments in the archaeology of gender over the last 30 years, as well as assessments of current trends and prospects for future research Focuses on recent Third Wave approaches to the study of gender in early human societies, challenging heterosexist biases, and investigating the interfaces between gender and status, age, cognition, social memory, performativity, the body, and sexuality Features numerous regional and thematic topics authored by established specialists in the field, with incisive coverage of gender research in prehistoric and protohistoric cultures of Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas and the Pacific

The Adventures of Button

Author : Button Douglas
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 168139104X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of Button written by Button Douglas and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Button story is of a self absorbed, lazy, everyday little kid without financial means, wading through life's difficulties, finally beginning to become successful in his forties. The story speaks to the enhancing value of failure as a driver of success. Besides the story of Button, the book speaks to: A Self Cure for Phobias A Self Cure for Anxiety How Freedom in the World began only 600 years ago Religious History and Development in the World Moral Psychology of Polit

World Prehistory and Archaeology

Author : Michael Chazan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351802895
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book World Prehistory and Archaeology written by Michael Chazan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Integrated Picture of Prehistory as an Active Process of Discovery World Prehistory and Archaeology: Pathways through Time, fourth edition, provides an integrated discussion of world prehistory and archaeological methods. This text emphasizes the relevance of how we know and what we know about our human prehistory. A cornerstone of World Prehistory and Archaeology is the discussion of prehistory as an active process of discovery. Methodological issues are addressed throughout the text to engage readers. Archaeological methods are introduced in the first two chapters. Succeeding chapters then address the question of how we know the past to provide an integrated presentation of prehistory. The fourth edition involves readers in the current state of archaeological research, revealing how archaeologists work and interpret what they find. Through the coverage of various new research, author Michael Chazan shows how archaeology is truly a global discipline. Learning Goals Upon completing this book, readers will be able to: * Gain new perspectives and insights into who we are and how our world came into being. * Think about humanity from the perspective of archaeology. * Appreciate the importance of the archaeological record for contemporary society.