Author: George Grant MacCurdy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Human Origins: The old stone age and the dawn of man and his arts
Author: George Grant MacCurdy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Deep History
Author: Andrew Shryock
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520270282
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This breakthrough book brings science into history to offer a dazzling new vision of humanity across time. Team-written by leading experts in a variety of fields, it maps events, cultures, and eras across millions of years to present a new scale for understanding the human body, energy and ecosystems, language, food, kinship, migration, and more.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520270282
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This breakthrough book brings science into history to offer a dazzling new vision of humanity across time. Team-written by leading experts in a variety of fields, it maps events, cultures, and eras across millions of years to present a new scale for understanding the human body, energy and ecosystems, language, food, kinship, migration, and more.
The Dawn of Everything
Author: David Graeber
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374721106
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself. Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume. The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action. Includes Black-and-White Illustrations
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374721106
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself. Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume. The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action. Includes Black-and-White Illustrations
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
"Bibliography in physical anthropology," 1942/43- in Dec. issue.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
"Bibliography in physical anthropology," 1942/43- in Dec. issue.
Science
Author: John Michels (Journalist)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Books of 1912-
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
The American Journal of Science
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earth sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earth sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Books of 1921-1925
Author: Chicago Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Library Notes
Author: North Carolina College for Women. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
The North American Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : North American review and miscellaneous journal
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : North American review and miscellaneous journal
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.