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Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2016-08-15 |
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ISBN | : 9781499464221 |
The earliest stages of human history and civilization come alive in this intriguing and revelatory investigation of the evolution of humans, as well as the development of communities from our prehuman ancestors, such Homo habilis, to Homo sapiens. This engaging series focuses on cultural and technological developments throughout human evolution and culminates in an examination of civilizations around the Fertile Crescent.
Author | : Rosen Publishing Group |
Publisher | : Rosen Young Adult |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2016-07-15 |
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ISBN | : 9781477785522 |
The earliest stages of human history and civilization come alive in this intriguing and revelatory investigation of the evolution of humans, as well as the development of communities from our prehuman ancestors, such Homo habilis, to Homo sapiens. This engaging series focuses on cultural and technological developments throughout human evolution and culminates in an examination of civilizations around the Fertile Crescent.
Author | : Rosen Publishing Group |
Publisher | : Rosen Young Adult |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2016-07-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781499464238 |
The earliest stages of human history and civilization come alive in this intriguing and revelatory investigation of the evolution of humans, as well as the development of communities from our prehuman ancestors, such Homo habilis, to Homo sapiens. This engaging series focuses on cultural and technological developments throughout human evolution and culminates in an examination of civilizations around the Fertile Crescent.
Author | : David Graeber |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2021-11-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0374721106 |
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
Author | : Susan Meyer |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2016-07-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1499463243 |
The dawn of the Neolithic Era ushered in major changes in the way people lived. In fact, these changes were so sweeping that the transition from the Mesolithic Era to the Neolithic Era is referred to as the Neolithic Revolution. The beginnings of agriculture and the domestication of animals both date from this period. These changes to the food supply led people to settle in permanent communities, which, in turn, led to organized societies and social hierarchy. This book examines the factors that could have led to this revolution and the archaeological evidence of which changes happened where and when.
Author | : Kristina Lyn Heitkamp |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2016-07-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1499463219 |
East Africa’s Rift Valley has proven a rich source of information about our distant ancestors. Fossil finds there, including the famous Lucy and Turkana Boy, have permanently altered our understanding of how modern humans evolved. Readers will learn about the other hominins—such as the species "Homo erectus" and the genus "Australopithecus"—who help fill out the human family tree. The engaging text explains how archaeologists’ discoveries of bones, tools, early art, evidence of hearths, and other evidence has furthered our understanding of the origins of modern humans. A timeline helps readers understand the chronology of the topic.
Author | : John Morris Roberts |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 920 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
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"A fascinating and highly readable account of humankind's development over 10,000 years in a brilliantly illustrated volume by one of the world's most distinguished historians." -- Publisher's website.
Author | : Paula Johanson |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2016-07-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1499463162 |
Archaeologists have found evidence that as humans entered what we now refer to as the Upper Paleolithic Era, they started using a whole new toolset. The evidence suggests that major behavioral shifts also occurred. For example, humans started making arresting cave paintings and carving statuettes. Scholars refer to these changes as the Upper Paleolithic Revolution. Readers will learn how archaeologists use evidence to piece together what life was like during the Upper Paleolithic Era. Theories about the origins and development of language are also discussed, as are new discoveries about archaic human admixture with modern humans.
Author | : Graham Hancock |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 2019-04-23 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1250153743 |
The Instant New York Times Bestseller! Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author, has made it his life's work to find out--and in America Before, he draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest to a stunning conclusion. We’ve been taught that North and South America were empty of humans until around 13,000 years ago – amongst the last great landmasses on earth to have been settled by our ancestors. But new discoveries have radically reshaped this long-established picture and we know now that the Americas were first peopled more than 130,000 years ago – many tens of thousands of years before human settlements became established elsewhere. Hancock's research takes us on a series of journeys and encounters with the scientists responsible for the recent extraordinary breakthroughs. In the process, from the Mississippi Valley to the Amazon rainforest, he reveals that ancient "New World" cultures share a legacy of advanced scientific knowledge and sophisticated spiritual beliefs with supposedly unconnected "Old World" cultures. Have archaeologists focused for too long only on the "Old World" in their search for the origins of civilization while failing to consider the revolutionary possibility that those origins might in fact be found in the "New World"? America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization is the culmination of everything that millions of readers have loved in Hancock's body of work over the past decades, namely a mind-dilating exploration of the mysteries of the past, amazing archaeological discoveries and profound implications for how we lead our lives today.
Author | : John Gowlett |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
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Discusses the three million year advance of man through walking, the use of tools and fire, migration, agriculture, metalwork, the wheel, writing, to the threshold of civilization.