World Prehistory: The Basics tells the compelling story of human prehistory, from our African origins to the spectacular pre-industrial civilizations and cities of the more recent past. Written in a non-technical style by two archaeologists and experienced writers about the past, the story begins with human origins in Africa some 6 million years ago and the spread of our remote ancestors across the Old World. Then we return to Africa and describe the emergence of Homo sapiens (modern humans) over 300,000 years ago, then, much later, their permanent settlement of Europe, Eurasia, Asia, and the Americas. From hunters and foragers, we turn to the origins of farming and animal domestication in different parts of the world after about 11,000 years ago and show how these new economies changed human existence dramatically. Five chapters tell the stories of the great pre-industrial civilizations that emerged after 5000 years before present in the Old World and the Americas, their strengths, volatility, and weaknesses. These chapters describe powerful rulers and their ideologies, also the lives of non-elites. The narratives chronicle the rise and fall of civilizations, and the devastating effects of long droughts on many of them. The closing chapter poses a question: Why is world prehistory important in the modern world? What does it tell us about ourselves? Providing a simple, but entertaining and stimulating, account of the prehistoric past from human origins to today from a global perspective, World Prehistory: The Basics is the ideal guide to the story of our early human past and its relevance to the modern world.
This volume presents the Late Bronze Age pottery from in and around House X, a large Minoan house at Kommos situated not far from the sea in South-Central Crete.
In such a way did those features characteristic of domestic sheep - such as greater fat and meat production , excess wool ( Figure 11.2 ) , and so on — begin to develop . By 9,000 years ago , the bones of domestic sheep had become ...
Barrett Site (41MM382) Assessment, Milam County (CSJ: 0590-05-027), Texas
As Nussbaum ( 1986 : 49 ) puts it , “ philosophy has traditionally been committed to an ' ascent from the perception of particulars to the intellectual grasp of universals . ” Philosophical proofs must be clear , logical — or at least ...
Eligibility Testing at Three Prehistoric Sites at Lynch Creek, Lampasas County, Texas
... Jerold, 72 Lower Paleolithic tools, 188-199 "Lucy," 157, 158, 161-162 Lyell, Charles, 70 Lyon, Patricia, 343 Macaques, 106, 114 MacDonald, George, 277 Mahale Chimpanzee Research, 120, 122 Malaria development of sickle-cell anemia, ...
This book explores the roles of agricultural development and advancing social complexity in the processes of state formation in China.
This text emphasizes discoveries that produced major insights into prehistory, with the selected sites acting signposts to the past to help students focus on human developments in prehistory and how archaeologists learn about the past" -- ...
Gherase M, Higham T, Bronk Ramsey C, van der Plicht I. 2003. An early modern human from the Pestera cu Oase, Romania. Proceedings ofthe National Academy ofSciences USA 100: 1 1231-1 1236. Trinkaus E, Ruff CB. 1989.
Rekonstruktion bronzezeitlicher Gießereitechniken mittels numerischer Simulation, gießtechnologischer Experimente und werkstofftechnischer Untersuchungen an Nachguss und Original