Aspects Of Prehistory
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Author |
: Grahame Clark |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 180 |
Release |
: 2022-05-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520359734 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520359739 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Aspects of Prehistory by : Grahame Clark
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.
Author |
: Grahame Clark |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 180 |
Release |
: 2023-11-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520313187 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520313186 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Aspects of Prehistory by : Grahame Clark
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.
Author |
: Sarunas Milisauskas |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 454 |
Release |
: 2012-12-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781461507512 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1461507510 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis European Prehistory by : Sarunas Milisauskas
Sarunas Milisauskas· 1.1 INTRODUCTION The purpose of this book is four-fold: to introduce English-speaking students and scholars to some of the outstanding archaeological research that has been done in Europe in recent years; to integrate this research into an anthropological frame of reference; to address episodes of culture change such as the transition to farming; the origin of complex societies, and the origin of urbanism, and to provide an overview of European prehistory from the earliest appearance of humans to the rise of the Roman empire. In 1978, the Academic Press published my book European Prehistory which, typically for that period, emphasized cultural evolution, culture process, technology, environment, and economy. To produce a new version and an up- to-date prehistory of Europe, I have invited contributions from specialists in the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages. Thus while this version of European Prehistory is a new book, however, it still incorporates some data from the 1978 version, particularly in The Present Environment and Neolithic chapters. Like its predecessor, this edition is structured around selected general topics, such as technology, trade, settlement, warfare, and ritual.
Author |
: Chris Gosden |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 153 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198803515 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198803516 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Prehistory by : Chris Gosden
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 |
: T. Earle |
Publisher |
: Elsevier |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2014-06-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781483294964 |
ISBN-13 |
: 148329496X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Exchange Systems in Prehistory by : T. Earle
Exchange Systems in Prehistory
Author |
: Peter N. Peregrine |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 574 |
Release |
: 2001-12-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0306462605 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780306462603 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Encyclopedia of Prehistory by : Peter N. Peregrine
The Encyclopedia of Prehistory represents temporal dimension. Major traditions are an attempt to provide basic information also defined by a somewhat different set of on all archaeologically known cultures, sociocultural characteristics than are eth covering the entire globe and the entire nological cultures. Major traditions are prehistory of humankind. It is designed as defined based on common subsistence a tool to assist in doing comparative practices, sociopolitical organization, and research on the peoples of the past. Most material industries, but language, ideology, of the entries are written by the world's and kinship ties play little or no part in foremost experts on the particular areas their definition because they are virtually and time periods. unrecoverable from archaeological con The Encyclopedia is organized accord texts. In contrast, language, ideology, and ing to major traditions. A major tradition kinship ties are central to defining ethno is defined as a group of populations sharing logical cultures.
Author |
: Peter N. Peregrine |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 1088 |
Release |
: 2011-06-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781461511878 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1461511879 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Encyclopedia of Prehistory by : Peter N. Peregrine
The Encyclopedia of Prehistory represents also defined by a somewhat different set of an attempt to provide basic information sociocultural characteristics than are eth on all archaeologically known cultures, nological cultures. Major traditions are covering the entire globe and the entire defined based on common subsistence prehistory of humankind. It is designed as practices, sociopolitical organization, and a tool to assist in doing comparative material industries, but language, ideology, research on the peoples of the past. Most and kinship ties play little or no part in of the entries are written by the world's their definition because they are virtually foremost experts on the particular areas unrecoverable from archaeological con and time periods. texts. In contrast, language, ideology, and The Encyclopedia is organized accord kinship ties are central to defining ethno ing to major traditions. A major tradition logical cultures. is defined as a group of populations sharing There are three types of entries in the similar subsistence practices, technology, Encyclopedia: the major tradition entry, and forms of sociopolitical organization, the regional subtradition entry, and the which are spatially contiguous over a rela site entry. Each contains different types of tively large area and which endure tempo information, and each is intended to be rally for a relatively long period. Minimal used in a different way.
Author |
: V. Rami Reddy |
Publisher |
: South Asia Books |
Total Pages |
: 130 |
Release |
: 1987-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 8170990130 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9788170990130 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Elements of Prehistory by : V. Rami Reddy
Author |
: Jerry D. Moore |
Publisher |
: University Press of Colorado |
Total Pages |
: 553 |
Release |
: 2014-07-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781492013327 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1492013323 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Prehistory of South America by : Jerry D. Moore
A Prehistory of South America is an overview of the ancient and historic native cultures of the entire continent of South America based on the most recent archaeological investigations. This accessible, clearly written text is designed to engage undergraduate and begining graduate studens in anthropology. For more than 12,000 years, South American cultures ranged from mobile hunters and gatherers to rulers and residents of colossal cities. In the process, native South American societies made advancements in agriculture and economic systems and created great works of art—in pottery, textiles, precious metals, and stone—that still awe the modern eye. Organized in broad chronological periods, A Prehistory of South America explores these diverse human achievements, emphasizing the many adaptations of peoples from a continent-wide perspective. Moore examines the archaeologies of societies across South America, from the arid deserts of the Pacific coast and the frigid Andean highlands to the humid lowlands of the Amazon Basin and the fjords of Patagonia and beyond. Illustrated in full color and suitable for an educated general reader interested in the Precolumbian peoples of South America, A Prehistory of South America is a long overdue addition to the literature on South American archaeology.
Author |
: Colin Renfrew |
Publisher |
: Modern Library |
Total Pages |
: 242 |
Release |
: 2008-08-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781588368089 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1588368084 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Prehistory by : Colin Renfrew
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.