Prehistory the making of the human mind
In this invaluable, brief account of human development prior to the last four millennia, Colin Renfrew delivers a meticulously researched and passionately argued chronicle about our life on earth, and our ongoing quest to understand it.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Modern Library, Random House Pub. Group,
2008.
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| Edition: | Modern library ed. |
| Series: | Modern Library chronicles ;
v. 30 |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: The discovery of prehistory
- The idea of prehistory
- Mapping the human past: Prehistory before 1940
- Dating: the radiocarbon revolution
- The possibility of world prehistory
- Part II: The prehistory of mind
- The sapient paradox
- Toward a prehistory of mind
- Constructing the community
- Worldly goods-- Appropriating the cosmos
- From prehistory to history
- Prospect: the future of prehistory.
