Ian Gilligan

Climate, Clothing, and Agriculture in Prehistory

Linking Evidence, Causes, and Effects

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first book on the origin of clothes shows why climate change was crucial - for the origin of agriculture too.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 183mm x 259mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9781108470087
• ISBN-10: 1108470084
• Artikelnr.: 51970217

Autorenporträt

Ian Gilligan, one of the world's leading authorities on the origins of clothing, holds university degrees in medicine, psychology, prehistoric archaeology and biological anthropology, and is an Honorary Associate in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Sydney. He has authored a book on the clothing of Australian Aborigines and his work has been published and cited in numerous scientific journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: 1. What separates us from nature?
Part II. Clothing in the Ice Age: 2. Climate change and the invention of clothes
3. How clothes work to keep us warm
4. The technology of Palaeolithic clothes
5. Changing climates and early clothes
6. Decorated clothes and Palaeolithic art
7. Neanderthals and Tasmanians
8. The value of making clothes visible
Part III. Global Warming and Agriculture: 9. Time for new clothes
10. A half-baked revolution
11. Agriculture and textiles in Eurasia
12. Agriculture and textiles in the Americas
13. Agriculture from Africa to Australia
Part IV. Feeding the Multitude: 14. A really revolutionary revolution
15. Covering breasts and making more babies
Part V. Sedentism and Domestication: 16. Some loose ends
17. Enclosure and fabrication
Appendix.