American Neolithic

Author : Terence Hawkins
Publisher : Calliope Group
ISBN 13 : 9781733647427
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Neolithic written by Terence Hawkins and published by Calliope Group. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the day after tomorrow, America has become Police State Lite. The drones of the Homeland Police are always watching. Enter Blingbling. Implicated in a murder, he's foreign-looking and undocumented. His lawyer Raleigh keeps the Homeland cops at arm's length until a routine DNA test exposes a secret thousands of years old.

Author : Alan H. Simmons
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816501270
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Neolithic Revolution in the Near East written by Alan H. Simmons and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of humanity's most important milestones was the transition from hunting and gathering to food production and permanent village life. This Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the Near East, changing the way humans interacted with their environment and each other, setting the stage, ultimately, for the modern world. Based on more than thirty years of fieldwork, this timely volume examines the Neolithic Revolution in the Levantine Near East and the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Alan H. Simmons explores recent research regarding the emergence of Neolithic populations, using both environmental and theoretical contexts, and incorporates specific case studies based on his own excavations. In clear and graceful prose, Simmons traces chronological and regional differences within this land of immense environmental contrasts—woodland, steppe, and desert. He argues that the Neolithic Revolution can be seen in a variety of economic, demographic, and social guises and that it lacked a single common stimulus. Each chapter includes sections on history, terminology, geographic range, specific domesticated species, the composition of early villages and households, and the development of social, symbolic, and religious behavior. Most chapters include at least one case study and conclude with a concise summary. In addition, Simmons presents a unique chapter on the island of Cyprus, where intriguing new research challenges assumptions about the impact and extent of the Neolithic. The Neolithic Revolution in the Near East conveys the diversity of our Neolithic ancestors, providing a better understanding of the period and the new social order that arose because of it. This insightful volume will be especially useful to Near Eastern scholars and to students of archaeology and the origins of agriculture.

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ISBN 13 : 9781936196517
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Neolithic written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R. Douglas Hurt
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557532817
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Agriculture written by R. Douglas Hurt and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R. Douglas Hurt's brief history of American agriculture, from the prehistoric period through the twentieth century, is written for anyone coming to this subject for the first time. American Agriculture is a story of considerable achievement and success, but it is also a story of greed, racism, and violence. Hurt offers a provocative look at a history that has been shaped by the best and worst of human nature. Here is the background essential for understanding the complexity of American agricultural history, from the transition to commercial agriculture during the colonial period to the failure of government policy following World War II. Complete with maps, drawings, and over seventy splendid photographs, this revised edition closes with an examination of the troubled landscape at the turn of the twenty-first century. It also provides a ready reference to the economic, social, political, scientific, and technological changes that have most affected farming in America and the contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and women. This survey will serve as a text for courses in the history of American agriculture and rural studies as well as a supplementary text for economic history and rural sociology courses.

Author : Dennis J. Stanford
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520949676
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Across Atlantic Ice written by Dennis J. Stanford and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea. Distinctive stone tools belonging to the Clovis culture established the presence of these early New World people. But are the Clovis tools Asian in origin? Drawing from original archaeological analysis, paleoclimatic research, and genetic studies, noted archaeologists Dennis J. Stanford and Bruce A. Bradley challenge the old narrative and, in the process, counter traditional—and often subjective—approaches to archaeological testing for historical relatedness. The authors apply rigorous scholarship to a hypothesis that places the technological antecedents of Clovis in Europe and posits that the first Americans crossed the Atlantic by boat and arrived earlier than previously thought. Supplying archaeological and oceanographic evidence to support this assertion, the book dismantles the old paradigm while persuasively linking Clovis technology with the culture of the Solutrean people who occupied France and Spain more than 20,000 years ago.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American antiquarian and oriental journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Lewis-Williams
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 050077045X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos, and the Realm of the Gods written by David Lewis-Williams and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of how brain structure and cultural content interacted in the Neolithic period 10,000 years ago to produce unique life patterns and belief systems. What do the headless figures found in the famous paintings at Catalhoyuk in Turkey have in common with the monumental tombs at Newgrange and Knowth in Ireland? How can the concepts of "birth," "death," and "wild" cast light on the archaeological enigma of the domestication of cattle? What generated the revolutionary social change that ended the Upper Palaeolithic? David Lewis-Williams's previous book, The Mind in the Cave, dealt with the remarkable Upper Palaeolithic paintings, carvings, and engravings of western Europe. Here Dr. Lewis-Williams and David Pearce examine the intricate web of belief, myth, and society in the succeeding Neolithic period, arguably the most significant turning point in all human history, when agriculture became a way of life and the fractious society that we know today was born. The authors focus on two contrasting times and places: the beginnings in the Near East, with its mud-brick and stone houses each piled on top of the ruins of another, and western Europe, with its massive stone monuments more ancient than the Egyptian pyramids. They argue that neurological patterns hardwired into the brain help explain the art and society that Neolithic people produced. Drawing on the latest research, the authors skillfully link material on human consciousness, imagery, and religious concepts to propose provocative new theories about the causes of an ancient revolution in cosmology and the origins of social complexity. In doing so they create a fascinating neurological bridge to the mysterious thought-lives of the past and reveal the essence of a momentous period in human history. 100 illustrations, 20 in color.

Author : Stephen Denison Peet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal written by Stephen Denison Peet and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Warren K. Moorehead
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3846058157
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stone Age in North America written by Warren K. Moorehead and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1910.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
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Download or read book Proceedings of the Second Pan American Scientific Congress: (section I) Anthropology. W. H. Holmes, chairman written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: