Deborah Barsky

Human Prehistory

Exploring the Past to Understand the Future

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers a long-term evolutionary perspective on human culture and its relationship with technology. Provides a fresh perspective regarding important issues that plague contemporary society, such as racism, the digital revolution, human migrations, terrorism, and war. It will appeal to archaeology students in prehistory and human evolution courses.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 177mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9781009011990
• ISBN-10: 1009011995
• Artikelnr.: 63200542

Autorenporträt

Deborah Barsky is a lithic specialist, archaeologist, and researcher at The Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution and assistant professor with the UOC (Universitat Obert de Catalunya) in the History and Art History Department at the Universitat Rovira I Virgili in Tarragona, Spain.  Engaged in research projects on archaeological sites throughout the world, she has published numerous works in books and scholarly journals.

Inhaltsangabe

1. An introduction to Prehistoric Archeology
2. Prehistory as a multidisciplinary science
3. Becoming human
4. The emergence of Lower Paleolithic cultures
5. The ascent of Paleolithic cultures
6. Conquest: the final phases of the Stone Age
7. The new world order following the Paleolithic
8. Communication networking and the end of the Prehistoric Era
9. Global warming: natural climatic trend or humanly induced phenomena? 10. Human distortions and alienation from nature
11. Who are we? Ancient and modern human migrations
12. On religion, war and terrorism in the globalized world
13. The role of prehistory in understanding the modern human condition.