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Plato Prehistorian

Author : Mary Settegast
Publisher : SteinerBooks
ISBN 13 : 1621511987
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Plato Prehistorian written by Mary Settegast and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his Timaeus and Critias dialogues, Plato wrote of two ancient civilizations that flourished more than 9,000 years before his time. Socrates accepted the account as true, and modern archaeological techniques may yet prove him right. In Plato, Prehistorian, Mary Settegast takes us from the cave paintings of Lascaux to the shrines of Çatalhöyük, demonstrating correspondences both to Plato's tale and to the mystery religions of antiquity. She then traces the mid-seventh millennium impulse that revitalized the spiritual life of Çatalhöyük and spread agriculture from Iran to the Greek Peninsula --at precisely the time given by Aristotle for the legendary Persian prophet Zarathustra, for whom the cultivation of the earth was a religious imperative. This new edition of Mary Settegast's ground-breaking synthesis of classical and archaeological scholarship features an appendix by Alistair Coombs on the recent excavations at Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey, which have upended the conventional view of the rise of civilization.

Plato Prehistorian

Author : MARY. SETTEGAST
Publisher : Lindisfarne Books
ISBN 13 : 9781584209102
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Plato Prehistorian written by MARY. SETTEGAST and published by Lindisfarne Books. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his Timaeus and Critias dialogues, Plato wrote of two ancient civilisations that flourished more than 9,000 years before his time. Socrates accepted the account as true, and modern archaeological techniques may yet prove him right. In Plato Prehistorian, Mary Settegast takes us from the cave paintings of Lascaux to the shrines of Çatalhöyük, demonstrating connections both to Plato's tale and to the mystery religions of antiquity. She then traces the mid-seventh millennium impulse that revitalised the spiritual life of Çatalhöyük and spread agriculture from Iran to the Greek Peninsula -- at precisely the time given by Aristotle for the legendary Persian prophet Zarathustra, for whom the cultivation of the earth was a religious imperative.This new edition of Settegast's ground-breaking synthesis of classical and archaeological scholarship features an appendix on the recent excavations at Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey, which have upended the conventional view of the rise of civilisation.

Oklahoma Prehistorian

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Oklahoma Prehistorian written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Prehistorian

Author : Sally Green
Publisher : Moonraker Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prehistorian written by Sally Green and published by Moonraker Publications. This book was released on 1981 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Gordon Childe was not appointed to his first job in the field of prehistoric archaeology until he was 35 years of age, his achievements earned him general recognition as the most eminent and influential scholar of European prehistory in the twentieth century. An unconventional and eccentric character, he was totally dedicated to his chosen field and is remembered throughout the world as a pioneer in the study of prehistory: fresh excavations and discoveries had produced a wealth of archaeological evidence, but no one before Professor Childe had brought the data together and related them to a broader view of the history of civilization.

Prehistory

Author : Derek Arthur Roe
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520022522
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Prehistory written by Derek Arthur Roe and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Winifred Lamb: Aegean Prehistorian and Museum Curator

Author : David W. J. Gill
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784918806
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book Winifred Lamb: Aegean Prehistorian and Museum Curator written by David W. J. Gill and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive biography of pioneering archaeologist and museum curator Winnifred Lamb, who was honorary keeper of Greek antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge in the four decades immediately following the First World War.

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.

Detecting and Explaining Technological Innovation in Prehistory

Author : Michela Spataro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789088908248
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Detecting and Explaining Technological Innovation in Prehistory written by Michela Spataro and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology refers to any set of standardised procedures for transforming raw materials into finished products. Innovation consists of any change in technology which has tangible and lasting effect on human practices, whether or not it provides utilitarian advantages. Prehistoric societies were never static, but the tempo of innovation occasionally increased to the point that we can refer to transformation taking place. Prehistorians must therefore identify factors promoting or hindering innovation.This volume stems from an international workshop, organised by the Collaborative Research Centre 1266 'Scales of Transformation' at Kiel University in November 2017. The meeting challenged its participants to detect and explain technological change in the past and its role in transformation processes, using archaeological and ethnographic case studies. The papers draw mainly on examples from prehistoric Europe, but case-studies from Iran, the Indus Valley, and contemporary central America are also included. The authors adopt several perspectives, including cultural-historical, economic, environmental, demographic, functional, and agent-based approaches.These case studies often rely on interdisciplinary research, whereby field archaeology, archaeometric analysis, experimental archaeology and ethnographic research are used together to observe and explain innovations and changes in the artisan's repertoire. The results demonstrate that interdisciplinary research is becoming essential to understanding transformation phenomena in prehistoric archaeology, superseding typo-chronological description and comparison.This book is a scholarly publication aimed at academic researchers, particularly archaeologists and archaeological scientists working on ceramics, osseous and metal artifacts.

The Power of Ritual in Prehistory

Author : Brian Hayden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108426395
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Ritual in Prehistory written by Brian Hayden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secret societies in tribal societies turn out to be key to understanding the origins of social inequalities and state religions.

Forging Identities in the Prehistory of Old Europe

Author : John Chapman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789088909498
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Forging Identities in the Prehistory of Old Europe written by John Chapman and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a synthesis of the prehistory of South East, Central and Eastern Europe (7000 - 3000 BC).

The Archaeology of Mediterranean Prehistory

Author : Emma Blake
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 140513724X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Mediterranean Prehistory written by Emma Blake and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the archaeology of Mediterranean prehistory and an essential reference to the most recent research and fieldwork. Only book available to offer general coverage of Mediterranean prehistory Written by 14 of the leading archaeologists in the field Spans the Neolithic through the Iron Age, and draws from all the major regions of the Mediterranean's coast and islands Presents the central debates in Mediterranean prehistory---trade and interaction, rural economies, ritual, social structure, gender, monumentality, insularity, archaeometallurgy and the metals trade, stone technologies, settlement, and maritime traffic---as well as contemporary legacies of the region's prehistoric past Structure of text is pedagogically driven Engages diverse theoretical approaches so students will see the benefits of multivocality

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.

Aspects of Prehistory

Author : Grahame Clark
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520359739
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Aspects of Prehistory written by Grahame Clark and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-05-13 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970.

INTRODUCTION TO PREHISTORY A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH

Author : IRVING HOUSE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book INTRODUCTION TO PREHISTORY A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH written by IRVING HOUSE and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Systematics in Prehistory

Author : Robert C. Dunnell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781930665286
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (652 download)

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Download or read book Systematics in Prehistory written by Robert C. Dunnell and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Systematics in Prehistory was originally published in 1971. It soon became an essential book for anyone who wished to understand the principles of classification and how they are applied in archaeology. The book clarifies differences among the various kinds of classification (paradigmatic, taxonomic) and discusses the appropriate uses of each. It also discusses groups and grouping devices and how they differ from classification. This continues to be an area of considerable confusion in archaeology. This book is as useful to graduate students and professionals in archaeology now as it was 30 years ago. Its materials have not become dated nor have they been superceded by more recent treatments. This work remains a crucial foundation for knowledgeable application of systematics in archaeology. Dunnell's primary goal was to develop a conceptual framework for the study of prehistory based on systematics. Part I of the book provides an introduction to systematics. Here Dunnell builds a precise and beautifully consistent structure of concepts applicable to phenomena in general. Part II proceeds to illustrate the application of systematics to prehistory. The treatment is concise and rigorous. From an original review of the book in Mankind: "This book makes two original contributions of considerable value to the literature of archaeological theory. First, it not only recognizes the debt which the "new" archaeology owes to the "old" archaeology but it attempts reconciliation between the two. Second, it examines with precision and rigor the basic concepts which prehistorians use implicitly and attempts to make both their usage and their definition explicit." After graduate work at Yale, Dr. Robert C. Dunnell was appointed Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he remained for thirty years. He retains graduate training responsibilities at the University of Washington, where he is emeritus. The central intellectual theme of his career has been recreating archaeology as science. While he pursued this objective along traditional lines early in his career, by the late 1970s this recreation had led him to evolutionary theory and nearly all his published work since that time touches on evolution and its application to the archaeologic record. He is widely regarded as the principal exponent of evolutionary archaeology today.

Space, Time and Man

Author : Grahame Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521467629
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Space, Time and Man written by Grahame Clark and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-03-25 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable account of man's understanding of his place in space and time, from prehistory to the present.

The Later Prehistory of North-West Europe

Author : Richard Bradley
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191634719
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Later Prehistory of North-West Europe written by Richard Bradley and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Later Prehistory of North-West Europe provides a unique, up-to-date, and easily accessible synthesis of the later prehistoric archaeology of north-west Europe, transcending political and language barriers that can hinder understanding. By surveying changes in social forms, landscape organization, monument types, and ritual practices over six millennia, the volume reassesses the prehistory of north-west Europe from the late Mesolithic to the end of the pre-Roman Iron Age. It explores how far common patterns of social development are apparent across north-west Europe, and whether there were periods when local differences were emphasized instead. In relation to this, it also examines changes through time in the main axes of contact between the various regions of continental Europe, Britain, and Ireland. Key to the volume's broad scope is its focus on the vast mass of new evidence provided by recent development-led excavations. The authors collate data that has been gathered on thousands of sites across Britain, Ireland, northern France, the Low Countries, western Germany, and Denmark, using sources including unpublished 'grey literature' reports. The results challenge many aspects of previous narratives of later prehistory, allowing the volume to present a distinctively fresh perspective.