Origins and Revolutions: Human Identity in Earliest Prehistory
Origins and Revolutions: Human Identity in Earliest Prehistory
by Clive Gamble
Origins and Revolutions: Human Identity in Earliest Prehistory
By Clive Gamble
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Pages: 364
Publication Date: 2007-04-02
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0521677491
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780521677493
Binding: Paperback
Book Description:
Inthis innovative study Clive Gamble presents and questions two of themost famous descriptions of change in prehistory. The first is the'human revolution', when evidence for art, [color=orange ! important][color=orange ! important]music, religion and language first appears. The second is the [color=orange ! important][color=orange ! important]economicand social revolution of the Neolithic period. Gamble identifies thehistorical agendas behind 'origins research' and presents a bold newalternative to these established frameworks, relating the study ofchange to the material basis of human identity. He examines, throughartefact proxies, how changing identities can be understood usingembodied material metaphors and in two major case-studies charts theprehistory of innovations, asking, did agriculture really change thesocial world? This is an important and challenging book that will beessential reading for every student and scholar of prehistory.
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