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People of the Earth : An Introduction to World Prehistory
ISBN: 9780673523945 | 0673523942
Edition: 8thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Pub. Date: 9/1/1994
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This internationally renowned text provides the only truly global account of human prehistory from the earliest times through the earliest civilizations. Written in an accessible way, "People of the Earth "shows how today' s diverse humanity developed biologically and culturally over millions of years against a background of constant climatic change.
| Introducing World Prehistory | |
| Archaeology and Prehistory | |
| Site: The Avebury Archer The Beginnings of World Prehistory | |
| Who Needs the Past? | |
| Cyclical and Linear Time | |
| Science: Dating the Past | |
| Written Records, Oral Traditions, and Archaeology | |
| Studying Culture and Culture Change | |
| Primary Cultural Processes | |
| Th... MORE | |
| Climatic Change | |
| Culture as Adaptation | |
| Cultural Evolution and Cultural Ecology | |
| Multilinear Evolution: Prestate and State-Organized Societies | |
| Theoretical Approaches: Evolutionary Ecology and Hunter-Gatherers | |
| Evolutionary Ecology and Optimal Foraging Strategy | |
| Theoretical Approaches: People as Agents of Change | |
| External and Internal Constraints | |
| Interactions | |
| Gender: Men and Women | |
| Trade and Exchange | |
| Ideologies and Beliefs | |
| Summary | |
| Beginnings 7 Million to 40,000 Years Ago | |
| Human Origins: 7 Million to 1.9 Million Years Ago The Great Ice Age | |
| The Origins of the Human Line | |
| Aegyptopithecus | |
| Miocene Primates | |
| Molecular Biology and Human Evolution | |
| The Ecological Problems Faced by Early Hominins | |
| Adaptive Problems | |
| Dating the Past: Potassium-Argon Dating | |
| Fossil Evidence: 7 to 3 MYA | |
| Toumaiuml;: Sahelanthropus tchadensis | |
| Ardipithecus ramidus | |
| Australopithecus anamensis | |
| Australopithecus afarensis | |
| Laetoli: Footprints of | |
| Fossil Evidence: 3 to 2.5 MYA | |
| Gracile Australopithecines: Australopithecus africanus | |
| Robust Australopithecines | |
| Australopithecus garhi | |
| Early Homo: 2.5 to 2.0 MYA | |
| Homo habilis | |
| A Burst of Rapid Change? | |
| Who Was the First Human? | |
| Archaeological Evidence for Early Human Behavior | |
| Evidence for ldquo;Central Placesrdquo;? | |
| Site: Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, East Africa | |
| Hunting and Scavenging | |
| Plant Foraging and ldquo;Grandmotheringrdquo; Toolmaking | |
| The Oldowan Industry | |
| The Mind of the Earliest Humans | |
| The Development of Language | |
| Social Organization | |
| Summary | |
| Homo ergaster, Homo erectus, and Homo sapiens: 1.9 Million to 40,000 Years Ago Pleistocene Background | |
| Lower Pleistocene (1.6 Million to c. 780,000 Years Ago) | |
| Middle Pleistocene (c. 780,000 to 128,000 Years Ago) | |
| Homo ergaster in Africa The Radiation of H | |
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