Contents: Part I -- How Can We Know of Prehistory: Introduction to the Study of the Past; Ancient Tools, Fossils, and the Rise of Scientific Prehistory; Establishing Relative Sequences of Ancient Events; Absolute or Chronometric Dating; Basic Field Methods in Ancient Studies.; Part II -- Pre-History: Humankind in Deep Time: Deep Time and Evolution; Hominid Evolution in the Pliocene and Pleistocene Epochs; The Late Pleistocene Epoch in the Old World; The Late Pleistocene Epoch in the New World; The Holocene Epoch and the Mesolithic Interlude.; Part III -- Precludes to the Present: The Origins of Agriculture; The Rise of Civilisation in the Old World: The Example of Egypt; The Rise of Civilisation in the New 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
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
The sterile nature of the ultimate indicates the need for further developing the field of culture history ( Swartz 1967 : 494 ) . This is not the place in which to engage in intellectual debate , but it will help put our position in ...