Author: Neil Morris
Publisher: Black Rabbit Books
ISBN: 9781583407097
Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Traces the roots of early civilization beginning with the hominids, their customs, culture, social groups, and migration.
Everyday Life in Prehistory
Author: Neil Morris
Publisher: Black Rabbit Books
ISBN: 9781583407097
Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Traces the roots of early civilization beginning with the hominids, their customs, culture, social groups, and migration.
Publisher: Black Rabbit Books
ISBN: 9781583407097
Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Traces the roots of early civilization beginning with the hominids, their customs, culture, social groups, and migration.
A Prehistory of Ordinary People
Author: Monica L. Smith
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816546703
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
For the past million years, individuals have engaged in multitasking as they interact with the surrounding environment and with each other for the acquisition of daily necessities such as food and goods. Although culture is often perceived as a collective process, it is individual people who use language, experience illness, expend energy, perceive landscapes, and create memories. These processes were sustained at the individual and household level from the time of the earliest social groups to the beginnings of settled agricultural communities and the eventual development of complex societies in the form of chiefdoms, states, and empires. Even after the advent of “civilization” about 6,000 years ago, human culture has for the most part been created and maintained not by the actions of elites—as is commonly proclaimed by many archaeological theorists—but by the many thousands of daily actions carried out by average citizens. With this book, Monica L. Smith examines how the archaeological record of ordinary objects—used by ordinary people—constitutes a manifestation of humankind’s cognitive and social development. A Prehistory of Ordinary People offers an impressive synthesis and accessible style that will appeal to archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, and others interested in the long history of human decision-making.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816546703
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
For the past million years, individuals have engaged in multitasking as they interact with the surrounding environment and with each other for the acquisition of daily necessities such as food and goods. Although culture is often perceived as a collective process, it is individual people who use language, experience illness, expend energy, perceive landscapes, and create memories. These processes were sustained at the individual and household level from the time of the earliest social groups to the beginnings of settled agricultural communities and the eventual development of complex societies in the form of chiefdoms, states, and empires. Even after the advent of “civilization” about 6,000 years ago, human culture has for the most part been created and maintained not by the actions of elites—as is commonly proclaimed by many archaeological theorists—but by the many thousands of daily actions carried out by average citizens. With this book, Monica L. Smith examines how the archaeological record of ordinary objects—used by ordinary people—constitutes a manifestation of humankind’s cognitive and social development. A Prehistory of Ordinary People offers an impressive synthesis and accessible style that will appeal to archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, and others interested in the long history of human decision-making.
Everyday Life in Prehistoric Times
Author: Marjorie Quennell
Publisher: London, Batsford
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The day-to-day life of our prehistoric ancestors based on the findings of archaeologists.
Publisher: London, Batsford
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The day-to-day life of our prehistoric ancestors based on the findings of archaeologists.
Everyday Life in Prehistoric Times
Author: Marjorie Quennell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781017200140
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781017200140
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Prehistory
Author: Chris Gosden
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198803516
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198803516
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
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.
Ritual and Domestic Life in Prehistoric Europe
Author: Richard Bradley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134282559
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This fascinating study explores how our prehistoric ancestors developed rituals from everyday life and domestic activities. Richard Bradley contends that for much of the prehistoric period, ritual was not a distinct sphere of activity. Rather it was the way in which different features of the domestic world were played out until they took on qualities of theatrical performance. With extensive illustrated case-studies, this book examines farming, craft production and the occupation of houses, all of which were ritualized in prehistoric Europe. Successive chapters discuss the ways in which ritual has been studied, drawing on a series of examples that range from Greece to Norway and from Romania to Portugal. They consider practices that extend from the Mesolithic period to the Early Middle Ages and discuss the ways in which ritual and domestic life were intertwined.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134282559
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This fascinating study explores how our prehistoric ancestors developed rituals from everyday life and domestic activities. Richard Bradley contends that for much of the prehistoric period, ritual was not a distinct sphere of activity. Rather it was the way in which different features of the domestic world were played out until they took on qualities of theatrical performance. With extensive illustrated case-studies, this book examines farming, craft production and the occupation of houses, all of which were ritualized in prehistoric Europe. Successive chapters discuss the ways in which ritual has been studied, drawing on a series of examples that range from Greece to Norway and from Romania to Portugal. They consider practices that extend from the Mesolithic period to the Early Middle Ages and discuss the ways in which ritual and domestic life were intertwined.
Everyday Life in Prehistoric Times
Everyday Life in Prehistory
Author: Neil Morris
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788889272596
Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Traces the roots of early civilization beginning with the hominids, their customs, culture, social groups, and migration.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788889272596
Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Traces the roots of early civilization beginning with the hominids, their customs, culture, social groups, and migration.
Prehistoric Life
Author: Douglas Palmer
Publisher: DK
ISBN: 9780756699109
Category : Animals, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents an introduction to prehistoric life, describing dinosaurs, plant life, and the evolutionary stages of early man, with images of fossil remains and discussions of the possible events that led to the extinction of many early life forms.
Publisher: DK
ISBN: 9780756699109
Category : Animals, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents an introduction to prehistoric life, describing dinosaurs, plant life, and the evolutionary stages of early man, with images of fossil remains and discussions of the possible events that led to the extinction of many early life forms.