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Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind (Modern Library Chronicles) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for PrehistoryIn Prehistory, the award-winning archaeologist and renowned scholar Colin Renfrew covers human existence before the advent of written records-the overwhelming majority of our time here on earth-and gives an incisive, concise, and lively survey of the past, and of how scholars and scientists labor to bring it to light. Renfrew begins by looking at prehistory as a discipline, detailing how breakthro...
Full description- Publisher: Modern Library
- Published: 11 August 2009
- Format: Paperback 219 pages
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- Categories: Social Research & Statistics | Social & Cultural Anthropology | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Archaeology
- ISBN 13: 9780812976618 ISBN 10: 0812976614
- Sales rank: 151,484
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Full description for Prehistory
In Prehistory, the award-winning archaeologist and renowned scholar Colin Renfrew covers human existence before the advent of written records-the overwhelming majority of our time here on earth-and gives an incisive, concise, and lively survey of the past, and of how scholars and scientists labor to bring it to light. Renfrew begins by looking at prehistory as a discipline, detailing how breakthroughs such as radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis have helped us to define humankind's past-how things have changed-much more clearly than was possible just a half century ago. As for why things have changed, Renfrew pinpoints some of the issues and challenges, past and present, that confront the study of prehistory and its investigators. Renfrew then offers a summary of human prehistory from early hominids to the rise of literate civilization that is refreshingly free of conventional wisdom and grand "unified" theories. In this invaluable account, Colin Renfrew delivers a meticulously researched and passionately argued chronicle about our life on earth-and our ongoing quest to understand it.
