World prehistory : a brief introduction /: a brief introduction. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Brian M. Fagan.
• Authors: Fagan, Brian M
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; A Note on Chronologies and Measurements; About the Author; Part I Prehistory; Chapter 1 Introducing World Prehistory; Prologue; "In the Beginning"; 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 LifewaysScience: Dating the Past; The Mechanisms of Culture Change; Culture as Adaptation; Multilinear Cultural Evolution; Site: Ancient War Casualties at Thebes, Egypt; Science: Ancient Social Organization; Cultural Traditions and Cultural Change; Intangibles: Ideology and Interaction; Ideology and Beliefs; Interactions; Summary; Part II The World of the First Humans; Chapter 2 Human Origins; Prologue; The Great Ice Age (1.8 Million to 15, 000 Years ago); Early Primate Evolution and Adaptation; The Order Primates; Coming Down from the Trees The Fossil Evidence for Human Evolution (7 Million to 1.5 Million Years ago)The Earliest Hominin?; Science: Potassium Argon Dating; What is Australopithecus?; Ardipithecus ramidus; From Ardipithecus to Australopithecus; All Kinds of Australopithecines (3 Million to 2.5 Million Years ago); Gracile Australopithecines: A. africanus; Robust Australopithecines: A. aethiopicus, A. boisei, and A. robustus; Australopithecus garhi; Early Homo: Homo Habilis (2.5 Million to 2 Million Years ago); A Burst of Rapid Change?; Who was the First Human?; Site: Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania The Earliest Human ToolmakersHunters or Scavengers?; The Earliest Human Mind; The Development of Language; The Earliest Social Organization; Summary; Chapter 3 African Exodus; Prologue; Ice Age Background; Homo Ergaster in Africa (C. 1.9 Million to C. 600, 000 Years ago); Humans Radiate out of Africa; Homo erectus in Europe and Asia; The Lifeway of Homo Erectus; Archaic Human Lifeways; Bamboo and Choppers in Tropical Forests; Site: Schoningen, Germany; Language; Archaic Homo Sapiens (C. 600, 000 to 130, 000 Years ago); The Neanderthals (C. 200, 000 to 30, 000 Years ago) Science: DNA and ArchaeologyThe Origins of Modern Humans (?C. 180, 000 to 150, 000 Years ago); Continuity or Replacement?; Molecular Biology and Homo sapiens; Ecology and Homo sapiens; Out of Tropical Africa; Summary; Part III The Birth of the Modern World; Chapter 4 Diaspora; Prologue; The Late Ice Age World (50, 000 to 15, 000 Years ago); The Peopling of Southeast Asia and Australia (45, 000 to 15, 000 Years ago); Site: Exotic Islanders: Homo floresiensis; Science: Radiocarbon Dating; Late Ice Age Europe: The Cro-Magnons (C. 43, 000 to 15, 000 Years ago); Subsistence; Cro-Magnon Technology
• Edition: Eighth edition
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 930; Prehistoric peoples; Anthropology, Prehistoric; Human evolution; Antiquities, Prehistoric; HISTORY / Ancient / General; Anthropology, Prehistoric; Antiquities, Prehistoric; Human evolution; Prehistoric peoples; Anthropology, Prehistoric; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317342434; 1317342437
• Related ISBNs: 9780205017911; 0205017916
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 12, 2016)
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