ISBN:
9781000875294
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (517 pages)
Edition:
11th ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
569.5
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Chronologies and Measurements -- Part I: Prehistory -- Introduction: Archaeology and Prehistory -- 1 Introducing World Prehistory -- Why Are Human Prehistory and Archaeology Important? -- In the Beginning -- Mythic Heroes and Vanished Civilizations: The Curiosities of Pseudoarchaeology -- Prehistory, Archaeology, and World Prehistory -- Major Developments in Human Prehistory -- Cyclical and Linear Time -- Written Records, Oral History, and Archaeology -- Studying World Prehistory -- Culture -- Culture History, Time and Space, and the Myth of the Ethnographic Present -- Context -- Time -- Space -- Analogy and the Ethnographic Present -- Cultural Process and Past Lifeways -- Mechanisms of Cultural Change -- Culture as Adaptation -- Multilinear Cultural Evolution -- Cultural Traditions and Cultural Change -- Intangibles: Ideology and Interaction -- Ideology and Beliefs -- Interactions -- Summary -- Part II: The World of the First Humans -- Introduction: Beginnings -- 2 Human Origins -- The Great Ice Age (2.58 Ma to 12,000 Years Ago) -- Early Primate Evolution and Adaptation -- The Order Primates -- Coming Down From the Trees -- The Fossil Evidence for Human Evolution (ca. 6 to 1.5 Ma) -- The Earliest Hominin? -- Walking on Two Feet? -- What is Australopithecus? -- From Ardipithecus to Australopithecus -- All Kinds of Australopithecines (ca. 3. 7-1 Ma) -- Gracile Australopithecines: A. Africanus -- Robust Australopithecines: Paranthropus Aethiopicus, Paranthropus Boisei, and Paranthropus Robustus -- Australopithecus Garhi -- Early Homo (From ca. 2.4 to 1.6 Ma) -- Who was the First of Our Genus, Homo? -- The Earliest Human Toolmakers -- Hunters or Scavengers? -- The Earliest Human Mind -- The Development of Language.
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