The Human Past: World Prehistory and the Development of Human Societies (Third Edition)
Language: English
Pages: 784
ISBN: 0500290636
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
A comprehensive and indispensable guide to world prehistory and how archaeology helps us to understand the enormous diversity of the human past.
The text has established itself as a thorough and authoritative survey of human prehistory and the development of civilizations. Written by an international team of acknowledged experts, it presents a streamlined overview through a series of chapters focusing on individual regions and time periods. The Third Edition has been completely revised to offer updated scholarship and discoveries and features new color illustrations. 788 illustrations, 296 in color
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Discovery in 2003 of Britain’s first Paleolithic cave art at Creswell Crags. Cosquer The discovery of Cosquer Cave, which can only be entered underwater, extended the geographical range of French decorated caves (in this case to within 200 km (125 miles) of Italy), as well as the range of certain motifs, such as hand stencils and the depiction of sea creatures such as seals. As it is in part flooded by the Mediterranean, this cave reminds us that many sites have probably been lost due to the.
Shadowy reflection of complex social dynamics from around 26,000 to 23,000 years ago. Europe and circum-Alpine and other high-altitude areas were abandoned, leaving human populations in southern European refuges; here they underwent marked regionalization, probably due to their isolation from neighboring regions. Some areas witnessed a clear continuity from the Gravettian: in the Italian Epigravettian, backed points and ochered and ornamented burials continued down to the end of the Pleistocene.
Possible for ambitious individuals to produce increasing amounts of food, which they could deploy in their strategies of social competition. Thus, despite the harder work that agriculture entails, it may in some circumstances have been eagerly embraced. Conclusion None of these theories provides an adequate explanation for the origins of agriculture in every region. Climatic factors may often have played a major role, but these varied in importance from case to case. The co-evolution of human.
Many archaeological features, and it is these that allow us to label them as states. The key element is scale, and the level of resources and human labor that were available. Cities may cover hundreds of hectares with houses, temples, storerooms, and palaces, and are often enclosed within a defensive wall. Monumental scale is a consistent feature: public buildings are usually large and elaborate. Another feature of states is the propaganda of the ruling elite, seen in statues, palaces, and.
Monuments of northwest Europe were now part of a much larger endeavor, which included Australia, North America, and sub-Saharan Africa. By the middle of the 20th century, the broad outlines of a world prehistory were beginning to become clear. Pottery and farming, cities and states could be studied and compared in a wide variety of regions. But the number of archaeologists was still small, and there remained a great obstacle to understanding the human past in a truly global perspective: the.