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Prehistory - The Making Of The Human Mind (Paperback, Digital original)
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Prehistory - The Making Of The Human Mind (Paperback, Digital original)
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List price R314
Loot Price R257
Discovery Miles 2 570
You Save R57 (18%)
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A brief and original prehistory of the world Prehistory covers
human existence before written records, i.e. most of human
existence. But it also refers to the discipline through which we
scrutinize prehistoric times. PREHISTORY begins by looking at the
discovery of a remote human past and the subsequent dramatic growth
of the study of prehistory: early archaeology; geology; Darwin's
ideas of evolution; cave paintings; fossil discoveries of human
ancestors; museums and collections; radiocarbon dating and DNA
analysis. Renfrew challenges the conventional assumption of an
all-important 'human revolution' 40,000 years ago - when Homo
Sapiens first appeared in Europe - and suggests that the key
developments were much later. The author's case-studies range
widely, from Orkney to the Balkans, from the Indus Valley to Peru,
from Ireland to China, and provide fresh insights on landmark
monuments such as the Egyptian pyramids, the Valley of the Kings,
Stonehenge and the sacrificial burial pyramids at Teotihuacan in
Mexico. The book closes with a fascinating chapter on the
transition from Prehistory to History, on early writing systems.
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