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After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BCby Steven MithenISBN 0674019997 (0-674-01999-7)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC'Book summary:20,000 B.C., the peak of the last ice age--the atmosphere is heavy with dust, deserts, and glaciers span vast regions, and people, if they survive at all, exist in small, mobile groups, facing the threat of extinction.
But these people live on the brink of seismic change--10,000 years of climate shifts culminating in abrupt global warming that will usher in a fundamentally changed human world. After the Ice is the story of this momentous period--one in which a seemingly minor alteration in temperature could presage anything from the spread of lush woodland to the coming of apocalyptic floods--and one in which we find the origins of civilization itself.
Drawing on the latest research in archaeology, human genetics, and environmental science, After the Ice takes the reader on a sweeping tour of 15,000 years of human history. Steven Mithen brings this world to life through the eyes of an imaginary modern traveler--John Lubbock, namesake of the great Victorian polymath and author of Prehistoric Times. With Lubbock, readers visit and observe communities and landscapes, experiencing prehistoric life--from aboriginal hunting parties in Tasmania, to the corralling of wild sheep in the central Sahara, to the efforts of the Guila Naquitz people in Oaxaca to combat drought with agricultural innovations.
Part history, part science, part time travel, After the Ice offers an evocative and uniquely compelling portrayal of diverse cultures, lives, and landscapes that laid the foundations of the modern world.
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Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr - After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC: ISBN 0674019997 (0-674-01999-7)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
- After the Ice : A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC: ISBN 0753813920 (0-7538-1392-0)
The Early Prehistory of Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan: Archaeological Survey of Wadis Faynan, Ghuwayr and al-Bustan and evaluation of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Site of WF16by Steven Mithen , Bill FinlaysonISBN 1842172123 (1-84217-212-3)
Hardcover, Oxbow Books Ltd
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Hunter-Gatherer Landscape Archaeology: The Southern Hebrides Mesolithic Projectby Steven MithenISBN 1902937074 (1-902937-07-4)
Hardcover, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
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Hunter-Gatherer Landscape Archaeology: The Southern Hebrides Mesolithic Project 1988-1998by Steven MithenISBN 1902937112 (1-902937-11-2)
Hardcover, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
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Hunter-Gatherer Landscape Archaeology: The Southern Hebrides Mesolithic Project 1988-98by Steven MithenISBN 1902937120 (1-902937-12-0)
Hardcover, David Brown Book Co
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Prehistory of the Mind : A Search for the Origins of Art,Religion and Scienceby Steven MithenISBN 075380204X (0-7538-0204-X)
Softcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Scienceby Steven MithenISBN 0500281009 (0-500-28100-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science'Book summary:Try an experiment: take a passenger along on a brief car trip--a jaunt to the supermarket, say. Have a nice conversation while you're driving, and take a scenic route. Now, the next day, try to reconstruct the details of both the conversation and the trip. Chances are, unless something unusual happened along the way, that your memory of both will be indistinct, for we tend to forget the mundane--an example of what the cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett calls "rolling consciousness with swift memory loss."
Steven Mithen, an archaeologist with an interest in psychology, believes that just such a consciousness obtained among early humans when they went foraging for food or made tools. The evolution of higher, more memory-laden consciousness, he continues, occurred only as a result of a cognitive trick that doubtless involved some trial and error. The trick, simply put, was to guess what the social behavior of some member of one's social group might be in a given circumstance--to step outside one's own mind, in other words, and enter another's. This guesswork underlies the famed cave paintings of Altamira, an attempt to predict the behavior of migratory animals. It underlies as well another experiment: the development of agriculture, with the requisite predicting of how plants and animals might behave under a wide range of conditions.
Mithen's reconstruction of the ancestral human mind, laid out in a clear and accessible narrative, is a fine intellectual adventure. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Singing Neanderthal : The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Bodyby Steven MithenISBN 0674025598 (0-674-02559-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body'Book summary:The propensity to make music is the most mysterious, wonderful, and neglected feature of humankind: this is where Steven Mithen began, drawing together strands from archaeology, anthropology, psychology, neuroscience--and, of course, musicology--to explain why we are so compelled to make and hear music. But music could not be explained without addressing language, and could not be accounted for without understanding the evolution of the human body and mind. Thus Mithen arrived at the wildly ambitious project that unfolds in this book: an exploration of music as a fundamental aspect of the human condition, encoded into the human genome during the evolutionary history of our species.
Music is the language of emotion, common wisdom tells us. In The Singing Neanderthals, Mithen introduces us to the science that might support such popular notions. With equal parts scientific rigor and charm, he marshals current evidence about social organization, tool and weapon technologies, hunting and scavenging strategies, habits and brain capacity of all our hominid ancestors, from australopithecines to Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis and Neanderthals to Homo sapiens--and comes up with a scenario for a shared musical and linguistic heritage. Along the way he weaves a tapestry of cognitive and expressive worlds--alive with vocalized sound, communal mimicry, sexual display, and rhythmic movement--of various species.
The result is a fascinating work--and a succinct riposte to those, like Steven Pinker, who have dismissed music as a functionless evolutionary byproduct.
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Softcover, Orion Books Limited - The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, And Body: ISBN 0674021924 (0-674-02192-4)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr - The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body: ISBN 0674025598 (0-674-02559-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
- Singing Neanderthal : The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body: ISBN 075382051X (0-7538-2051-X)
Thoughtful Foragers: A Study of Prehistoric Decision Makingby Steven MithenISBN 0521355702 (0-521-35570-2)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Arqueologia de la Menteby Steven MithenISBN 8474239036 (84-7423-903-6)
Hardcover, Critica Editorial
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