HarperCollins, 2007. — 304 p. Shaped by cartoons and museum dioramas, our vision of Paleolithic times tends to feature fur-clad male hunters fearlessly attacking mammoths while timid women hover fearfully behind a boulder. In fact, recent research has shown that this vision bears little relation to reality. The field of archaeology has changed dramatically in the past two...
Epubcat, 2012. — 392 p. La prehistòria no és un tema d'interès general i potser per això la periodista Gemma Aguilera ha volgut acostar els detalls més desconeguts dels neandertals al gran públic. L'assaig Una humanitat extingida (Ara Llibres) és el primer llibre que recull les darreres investigacions fetes entorn els neandertals amb voluntat divulgativa però sense perdre de...
Aris & Phillips, 1983. — 511 p. — ISBN: 0-85668-260-8. The French Pyrenees occupy a key gateway position between southern France and the Iberian Peninsula. In prehistoric studies this region has long been overshadowed by the Perigord - yet it is an archaeologically rich area, and was the scene of work by some of the earliest and greatest pioneers of prehistory: Noulet, Lartet,...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 614 p. The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory addresses one of the most debated and least understood revolutions in the history of our species, the change from hunting and gathering to farming. Graeme Barker takes a global view, and integrates a massive array of information from archaeology and many other disciplines, including anthropology,...
Treignes, Belgique: Ed. du Cedarc, 1998. — 96 p. — (Guides Archéologiques du Malgré-Tout). L’invention de l’Homme (Patrick Semal). L’outil de pierre (Marcel Otte). La flamme jaillit... et la lumière fut! (Pierre Cattelain). L’apparition de la chasse et de la pêche (Claire Bellier et Pierre Cattelain). Des premiers abris aux premières maisons (Pierre Cattelain et Anne Hauzeur)....
Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. — 384 p. Incorporating research findings over the last twenty years, "First Islanders" examines the human prehistory of Island Southeast Asia. This fascinating story is explored from a broad swathe of multidisciplinary perspectives and pays close attention to migration in the period dating from 1.5 million years ago to the development of Indic kingdoms...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. — 672 p. The concept of fundamental, innate differences between males and females is a relatively recent phenomenon, the product of western Enlightenment thinking; yet the uncritical acceptance of sex and gender as natural and unchanging phenomena continues to shape much of the research in prehistoric archaeology today. A Companion to Gender Prehistory...
Routledge, 2014. — 220 p. — (Approaches to Anthropological Archaeology). Hunter-gatherer societies are constrained by their environment and the technologies available to them. However, until now the role of culture in foraging communities has not been widely considered. Structured Worlds examines the role of cosmology, values, and perceptions in the archaeological histories of...
Routledge, 2014. — 220 p. — (Approaches to Anthropological Archaeology). Hunter-gatherer societies are constrained by their environment and the technologies available to them. However, until now the role of culture in foraging communities has not been widely considered. Structured Worlds examines the role of cosmology, values, and perceptions in the archaeological histories of...
4th Edition — Routledge, 2017. — 484 p. 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...
Arcade Publishing, 2014. — 176 p. Thirty thousand years ago our prehistoric ancestors painted perfect images of animals on walls of tortuous caves, most often without any light. How was this possible? What meaning and messages did the cavemen want these paintings to convey? In addition, how did these perfect drawings come about at a time when man’s sole purpose was surviving?...
Oxbow Books, 2014. — 208 p. Recently, Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology has been breaking boundaries worldwide. Finds such as the Mesolithic house at Howick, the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome, and the recently discovered footprints at Happisburgh all serve to indicate how archaeologists in these fields are truly at the cutting edge of understanding humanity’s past....
Thames and Hudson, 1990. — 256 p. When and where did modern humans come from? And how, against all odds of the Ice Age world, did they succeed in colonizing the globe? The Journey from Eden is the first book for a general audience to address these questions, and to tell the exciting story of the human conquest of the earth. With 96 illustrations. In Search of Eve. A Question of...
9th Edition — Routledge, 2016. — 478 p. 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...
Alianza, 2014. — 304 p. «Resumir en unas escasas páginas más de dos millones de años de presencia del género humano sobre este planeta no es tarea fácil, y menos aún escoger entre toda la enorme cantidad de datos que arqueólogos y prehistoriadores han ido acopiando desde el comienzo de la disciplina en el siglo XIX. Como se trata del largo período durante el cual no existía la...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 284 p. Clive Finlayson reminds us that the Neanderthals were another kind of human, and their culture was not so very different from that of our own ancestors. In this book, he presents a wider view of the events that led to the migration of the moderns into Europe, what might have happened during the contact of the two populations, and what...
Harvard University Press, 2012. — 648 p. — ISBN: 978-0-674-06469-0. Our early ancestors lived in small groups and worked actively to preserve social equality. As they created larger societies, however, inequality rose, and by 2500 BCE truly egalitarian societies were on the wane. In The Creation of Inequality , Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus demonstrate that this development...
HMH Books for Young Readers, 2017. — 256 p. We know dogs are our best animal friends, but have you ever thought about what that might mean? Fossils show we’ve shared our work and homes with dogs for tens of thousands of years. Now there’s growing evidence that we influenced dogs’ evolution - and they, in turn, changed ours. Even more than our closest relatives, the apes, dogs...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 334 p. Clothing was crucial in human evolution, and having to cope with climate change was as true in prehistory as it is today. In Climate, Clothing, and Agriculture in Prehistory , Ian Gilligan offers the first complete account of the development of clothing as a response to cold exposure during the ice ages. He explores how and...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 152 p. Many of the familiar aspects of modern life are no more than a century or two old, yet our deep social structures and skills were in large measure developed by small bands of our prehistoric ancestors many millennia ago. In this book, readers are invited to think seriously about who we are by considering who we have been. Chris Gosden is...
2nd Edition — Oxford University Press, 2018. — 152 p. Prehistory covers the period of some 4 million years before the start of written history, when our earliest ancestors, the Australopithecines, existed in Africa. But this is relatively recent compared to whole history of the earth of some 4.5 billion years. A key aspect of prehistory is that it provides a sense of scale,...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 198 p. 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...
Oxford University Press, 1997. — 272 p. The myth of the peace-loving "noble savage" is persistent and pernicious. Indeed, for the last fifty years, most popular and scholarly works have agreed that prehistoric warfare was rare, harmless, unimportant, and, like smallpox, a disease of civilized societies alone. Prehistoric warfare, according to this view, was little more than a...
Oxford University Press, 1997. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0195119126 ISBN13: 9780195119121. The myth of the peace-loving "noble savage" is persistent and pernicious. Indeed, for the last fifty years, most popular and scholarly works have agreed that prehistoric warfare was rare, harmless, unimportant, and, like smallpox, a disease of civilized societies alone. Prehistoric warfare,...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 416 p. — (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity Proceedings). As part of the SFI series, this book presents the most up-to-date research in the study of human and primate societies, presenting recent advances in software and algorithms for modeling societies. It also addresses case studies that have applied agent-based...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 176 p. How did small-scale societies in the past experience and respond to sea-level rise? What happened when their dwellings, hunting grounds and ancestral lands were lost under an advancing tide? This book asks these questions in relation to the hunter-gatherer inhabitants of a lost prehistoric land; a land that became entirely inundated and now...
CyberTracker, 2013. — 265 p. "The Origin of Science" solves one of the great mysteries of human evolution: How did the human mind evolve the ability to develop science? The art of tracking may well be the origin of science. Science may have evolved more than a hundred thousand years ago with the evolution of modern hunter-gatherers. Scientific reasoning may therefore be an...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. — 176 p. This meditation by an award winning historian calls for a new way oflooking at the natural world and our place in it, while boldly challenging theassumptions that underlie the way we teach and think about both history andtime. Calvin Luther Martin's "In the Spirit of the Earth" is a provocativeaccount of how the hunter-gatherer...
PublicAffairs, 2011. — eISBN : 978-1-586-48838-3. Africa does not give up its secrets easily. Buried there lie answers about the origins of humankind. After a century of investigation, scientists have transformed our understanding about the beginnings of human life. But vital clues still remain hidden. In Born in Africa , Martin Meredith follows the trail of discoveries about...
3rd Canadian Edition. — Toronto: Pearson, 2015. — 465 p. — 978-0205896707. An integrated picture of prehistory as an active process of discovery. World Prehistory and Archaeology: Pathways through Time, third 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...
2nd paperback edition. — London: Pheonix, 1998. — 357 c. 1 Why ask an archaeologist about the human mind? 2 The drama of our past. 3 The architecture of the modern mind. 4 A new proposal for the mind's evolution. 5 Apes, monkeys and the mind of the missing link. 6 The mind of the first stone toolmaker. 7 The multiple intelligences of the Early Human mind. 8 Trying to think like...
Phoenix, 2004. — 622 p. Twenty thousand years ago Earth was in the midst of an ice age. Then global warming arrived, leading to massive floods, the spread of forests and the retreat of the deserts. By 5,000 BC a radically different human world had appeared. In place of hunters and gatherers there were farmers; in place of transient campsites there were towns. The foundations of...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. — 448 p. Previously published as the first volume of "The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration", this work is devoted exclusively to prehistoric migration, covering all periods and places from the first hominin migrations out of Africa through the end of prehistory. - Presents interdisciplinary coverage of this topic, including scholarship from the...
Proceedings of the Field Museum of Natural History Ninth Annual Spring Systematics Symposium on the Evolution of Human Hunting, held May 10, 1986, in Chicago, Illinois. — New York: Plenum Press, 1987. — 464 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4684-8835-7. The successful early adaptations of man involve a complex interplay of biological and cultural factors. There is a rapidly growing number of...
Australian National University Press, 2017. — 404 p. This volume brings together a diversity of international scholars, unified in the theme of expanding scientific knowledge about humanity’s past in the Asia-Pacific region. The contents in total encompass a deep time range, concerning the origins and dispersals of anatomically modern humans, the lifestyles of Pleistocene and...
Berghahn Books, 2016. — 364 p. — (Methodology and History in Anthropology). "Human Origins" brings together new thinking by social anthropologists and other scholars on the evolution of human culture and society. No other discipline has more relevant expertise to consider the emergence of humans as the symbolic species. Yet, social anthropologists have been conspicuously absent...
Academic Press Inc., 1985. — 472 p. Archaeologists separate hunter-gatherers into two camps "simple" and "complex." Recently there has been heated discourse as to the "nature" of complex hunter-gatherer societies. While some say it is a transitional phase between foragers and agriculturist, others argue it is an independent phe- nomenon. The classic view of hunter-gatherers is...
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006. - ISBN: 978-0-8223-3885-7; 0-8223-3885-8; 978-0-8223-3938-0; 0-8223-3938-2. When did the human species turn against the planet that we depend on for survival? Human industry and consumption of resources have altered the climate, polluted the water and soil, destroyed ecosystems, and rendered many species extinct, vastly increasing...
Duke University Press, 2006. — 200 p. When did the human species turn against the planet that we depend on for survival? Human industry and consumption of resources have altered the climate, polluted the water and soil, destroyed ecosystems, and rendered many species extinct, vastly increasing the likelihood of an ecological catastrophe. How did humankind come to rule nature to...
Springer, 2017. — 180 p. This volume contributes to the emerging topic of social paleoethnobotany with a series of papers exploring dynamic aspects of past social life, particularly the day-to-day practices and politics of procuring, preparing, and consuming plants. The contributors to this volume illustrate how one can bridge differences between the natural and social sciences...
Thames & Hudson Ltd, London, 2013. - 784 p. The aim of this volume is to provide an authoritative guide to those 3 million years, in a way that is accessible both to beginning students in archaeology and anthropology and to any interested reader; the book assumes no prior knowledge of the field of prehistory. Introduction: The Study of the Human Past. Part I. The evolution of...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. — 392 p. Since the eighteenth century, the concept of prehistory was exported by colonialism to far parts of the globe and applied to populations lacking written records. Prehistory in these settings came to represent primitive people still living in a state without civilization and its foremost index, literacy. Yet, many societies outside...
London: Routledge, 2009. — 124 p. — (Peoples of the ancient world). For many, the Neanderthals are an example of primitive humans, but new discoveries suggest that this image needs to be revised. One hundred thousand years ago in ice-age Europe, there emerged people who managed to cope well with the difficult climate — Neanderthals. They formed an organized society, hunted...
Routledge, 2018. — 306 p. Time and History in Prehistory explores the many processes through which time and history are conceptualized and constructed, challenging the perception of prehistoric societies as ahistorical. Drawing equally on contemporary theory and illustrative case studies, and firmly rooted in material evidence, this book rearticulates concepts of time and...
Routledge, 2018. — 306 p. Time and History in Prehistory explores the many processes through which time and history are conceptualized and constructed, challenging the perception of prehistoric societies as ahistorical. Drawing equally on contemporary theory and illustrative case studies, and firmly rooted in material evidence, this book rearticulates concepts of time and...
Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 234 p. — ISBN-10: 052165730X; ISBN-13: 978-0521657303. Translated by Mary Turton. In this revised version of the French original, Wiktor Stoczkowski, an anthropologist, argues that the theories of human origins developed by naturalists, archaeologists and physical anthropologists from the early nineteenth century to the...
University of Arizona Press, 2010. — 384 p. Paleonutrition is the analysis of prehistoric human diets and the interpretation of dietary intake in relation to health and nutrition. As a field of study, it addresses prehistoric diets in order to determine the biological and cultural implications for individuals as well as for entire populations, placing archaeological...
HarperCollins UK, 2018. — 304 p. The genetic history of the dog is a sensational example of the co-evolution of two species, man and wolf, to each other’s mutual benefit. But how did this ancient partnership begin? To answer this question, Professor Bryan Sykes identifies tantalising clues in the recently mapped genetic makeup of both species. Sykes paints a vivid picture of...
USA: Oxford University Press, 2008 - 160 p. ISBN10: 0195167120 ISBN13: 9780195167122 (eng) To be human is to be curious. And one of the things we are most curious about is how we came to be who we are how we evolved over millions of years to become creatures capable of inquiring into our own evolution. In this lively and readable introduction, renowned anthropologist Ian...
Atria Books, 2016. — 328 p. The First Signs is the first-ever exploration of the little-known geometric images that accompany most cave art around the world - the first indications of symbolic meaning, intelligence, and language. Join renowned archaeologist Genevieve von Petzinger on an Indiana Jones-worthy adventure from the open-air rock art sites of northern Portugal to the...
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