Author: Collectif
Publisher: FeniXX
ISBN: 2266264222
Category : History
Languages : fr
Pages : 401
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Contient une introduction synthétique sur la question, une anthologie des auteurs qui ont illustré cette science, des notices et des notes qui facilitent la compréhension des notions essentielles. « Copyright Electre »
Author: Nathalie Richard
Publisher: Pocket
ISBN: 9782266042437
Category : Archaeology
Languages : fr
Pages : 352
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Durant des siècles, on a admis sans le remettre en question le récit biblique de la Création. Puis, au XIXe siècle, des campagnes de fouilles presque " sauvages " et l'essor des théories transformistes ont soudain bouleversé les dogmes traditionnels: l'homme n'aurait pas toujours existé tel que nous le connaissons, et des formes de vie disparues l'auraient précédé sur la Terre... Une science entièrement nouvelle se développe rapidement, la préhistoire. En quelques décennies, elle construit son objet, définit ses méthodes, et donne des résultats extraordinaires. On trouvera dans cette édition: - Une introduction synthétique sur la question. - Une anthologie des auteurs qui ont illustré cette science. - Un appareil de notices et de notes qui facilite la compréhension des notions essentielles.
Author: Brian M. Fagan
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500772371
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 641
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The story of how lost civilizations, buried cities, and ancient scripts were rediscovered for the modern age, as seen through the lives and exploits of the great archaeologists who made these phenomenal finds The Great Archaeologists takes the reader on a journey from the first attempt to establish just how ancient the "ancient past" really was, through the revelatory discovery of lost civilizations and unknown cultures, right up to today’s search for explanations about the past. We meet Thomsen and Worsaae, Danish researchers and rivals, and Sanz de Sautuola and Abbé Breuil, who astonished the world with their discoveries of cave art. Controversial figures such as Heinrich Schliemann and the Hungarian Aurel Stein, plunderer of ancient manuscripts from Central Asia, are given new assessments. Little-known pioneers such as Max Uhle in Peru and Li Chi in China are set beside the giants in the field—from Koldewey, Dörpfeld, and Woolley in the Near East, to Louis and Mary Leakey, who transformed knowledge of our African ancestry. Other indomitable women include Gertrude Bell, Kathleen Kenyon, and the script-decipherer Tatiana Proskouriakoff. Brian Fagan has assembled a team of some of the world’s greatest living archaeologists to write knowledgeably and entertainingly about their distinguished predecessors in this handsome volume, full of fascinating anecdotes, personal accounts, and unexpected insights.
Author: Noël Coye
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
ISBN: 2296355005
Category : History
Languages : fr
Pages : 353
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Science des origines, la préhistoire ambitionne, depuis le XIXè siècle, de renouveler la chronique de l'humanité. Mais, alors qu'elle s'élance à la poursuite des millénaires écoulés, il est une autre histoire qu'elle s'attache à restituer: celle de sa propre origine en tant que discipline. Dès le départ, un dialogue s'est ainsi instauré entre la préhistoire telle qu'elle se fait, et la préhistoire telle qu'elle se raconte. C'est ce dialogue qu'explore cet ouvrage, sur une période recouvrant largement les temps de fondation de l'archéologie préhistorique et s'achevant à la veille de l'émergence des grandes écoles modernes françaises de préhistoire.
Author: Sophie A. de Beaune
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tools, Prehistoric
Languages : fr
Pages : 388
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Etude des conditions de l'invention technique durant la Préhistoire, éclairant l'évolution humaine. L'ouvrage décrit le processus qui conduit de l'invention d'une technique par un individu à des applications techniques ou sociales au sein d'un groupe, l'évolution biologique permettant ce genre d'opération mentale, les conditions d'accueil par le groupe, etc.
Author: Courtney Bender
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231156855
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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This collection of essays examines religious, secular, and spiritual distinctions in society.
Author: Stefanos Geroulanos
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1324091460
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 549
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“[A]n incisive and captivating reassessment of prehistory . . . In lucid prose, Geroulanos unspools an enthralling and detailed history of the development of modern natural science. It’s a must-read.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “An astute, powerfully rendered history of humanity.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review An eminent historian tells the story of how we came to obsess over the origins of humanity—and how, for three centuries, ideas of prehistory have been used to justify devastating violence against others. Books about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings and speculate about what those findings tell us about our earliest ancestors. We are obsessed with prehistory—and, in this respect, our current era is no different from any other in the last three hundred years. In this coruscating work, acclaimed historian Stefanos Geroulanos demonstrates how claims about the earliest humans not only shaped Western intellectual culture, but gave rise to our modern world. The very idea that there was a human past before recorded history only emerged with the Enlightenment, when European thinkers began to reject faith-based notions of humanity and history in favor of supposedly more empirical ideas about the world. From the “state of nature” and Romantic notions of virtuous German barbarians to theories about Neanderthals, killer apes, and a matriarchal paradise where women ruled, Geroulanos captures the sheer variety and strangeness of the ideas that animated many of the major thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charles Darwin, and Karl Marx. Yet as Geroulanos shows, such ideas became, for the most part, the ideological foundations of repressive regimes and globe-spanning empires. Deeming other peoples “savages” allowed for guilt-free violence against them; notions of “killer apes” who were our evolutionary predecessors made war seem natural. The emergence of modern science only accelerated the West’s imperialism. The Nazi obsession with race was rooted in archaeological claims about prehistoric IndoGermans; the idea that colonialized peoples could be “bombed back to the Stone Age” was made possible by the technology of flight and the anthropological idea that civilization advanced in stages. As Geroulanos argues, accounts of prehistory tell us more about the moment when they are proposed than about the deep past—and if we hope to start improving our future, we would be better off setting aside the search for how it all started. A necessary, timely, indelible account of how the quest for understanding the origins of humanity became the handmaiden of war and empire, The Invention of Prehistory will forever change how we think about the deep past.
Author: Barry Cooper
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN: 0268107157
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 519
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Using his background in political theory and philosophical anthropology, Barry Cooper is the first political scientist to propose new interpretations of some of the most famous extant Paleolithic art and artifacts in Paleolithic Politics. This book is inspired by Eric Voegelin, one of the major political scientists of the last century, who developed an interest in the very early symbolism associated with the caves and rock shelters of the Upper Paleolithic, but never finished his analysis. Cooper, who has written extensively on Voegelin’s theories, takes up the enterprise of applying Voegelin’s approach to an analysis of portable and cave art. He specifically applies Voegelin’s philosophy of consciousness, his concept of the compactness and differentiation of consciousness, his argument regarding the experience and symbolizations of reality, and his notion of the primary experience of the cosmos to images previously regarded as pedestrian. Cooper demonstrates the political significance of the earliest expressions of human existence and is among the first to argue that political life began not with the Greeks, but 25,000 years before them. Archaeologists, prehistorians, and political scientists will all benefit from this original and provocative work.
Author: Association euro-africaine pour l'anthropologie du changement social et du développement
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643105355
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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Over the last decade West African villages, rural towns, and urban neighbourhoods have experienced changes resulting from democratisation and decentralisation processes. While much hope was invested in decentralisation policies in the 1990s, today there is a need to look at everyday decentralisation practices. In this volume, authors of different scholarly backgrounds focus on political, economic and cultural aspects of decentralisation. By exploring party politics, water provision, schooling, territorial division and cultural understanding the case-studies highlight core stakes and fundamental contradictions of present-day decentralisation in West Africa.
Author: Benjamin W. Roberts
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1441969705
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Defining "culture" is an important step in undertaking archaeological research. Any thorough study of a particular culture first has to determine what that culture contains-- what particular time period, geographic region, and group of people make up that culture. The study of archaeology has many accepted definitions of particular cultures, but recently these accepted definitions have come into question. As archaeologists struggle to define cultures, they also seek to define the components of culture. This volume brings together 21 international case studies to explore the meaning of "culture" for regions around the globe and periods from the Paleolithic to the Bronze Age and beyond. Taking lessons and overarching themes from these studies, the contributors draw important conclusions about cultural transmission, technology development, and cultural development. The result is a comprehensive model for approaching the study of culture, broken down into regions (Russia, Continental Europe, North America, Britain, and Africa), materials (Lithics, Ceramics, Metals) and time periods. This work will be valuable to all archaeologists and cultural anthropologists, particularly those studying material culture.
