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...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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, 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, 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...
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...
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...
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: 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...