Download or read book History Alive written by and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book DK Eyewitness Books Early Humans written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-04-11 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how the world's first people lived from cave dwellings to the tools of the Iron Age with DK Eyewitness Books: Early Humans. Learn how early people hunted and gathered their food, which people made jewelry out of leopards' teeth, how bread was made in the Bronze Age, how mummies and bog bodies have been preserved, and much, much more in Eyewitness: Early Humans!
Download or read book The Dawn of Everything written by David Graeber and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself. Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume. The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action. Includes Black-and-White Illustrations
Download or read book The Illustrated History of Early Man written by John Haywood and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History Alive written by Teachers' Curriculum Institute and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First Humans and Early Civilizations written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earliest stages of human history and civilization come alive in this intriguing and revelatory investigation of the evolution of humans, as well as the development of communities from our prehuman ancestors, such Homo habilis, to Homo sapiens. This engaging series focuses on cultural and technological developments throughout human evolution and culminates in an examination of civilizations around the Fertile Crescent.
Download or read book Ascent to Civilization written by John Gowlett and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1992 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the three million year advance of man through walking, the use of tools and fire, migration, agriculture, metalwork, the wheel, writing, to the threshold of civilization.
Download or read book The First Humans and Early Civilizations written by Rosen Publishing Group and published by Rosen Young Adult. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earliest stages of human history and civilization come alive in this intriguing and revelatory investigation of the evolution of humans, as well as the development of communities from our prehuman ancestors, such Homo habilis, to Homo sapiens. This engaging series focuses on cultural and technological developments throughout human evolution and culminates in an examination of civilizations around the Fertile Crescent.
Download or read book The Early Human World written by Peter Robertshaw and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of early human life using an incredible variety of primary sources. -- from back cover.
Download or read book My Best Book of Early People written by Margaret Hynes and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From prehistory of how humans evolved from East African apes to the building of the first cities in Mesopotamia, young readers should find this book a useful introduction to our direct ancestors. Detailed illustrations introduce the different species of early humans - from the ape-like Australopithecus to the wise man, Homo Sapiens and full-page scenes show how our ancestors made homes and tools, hunted, created art and learned to farm. The book also answers questions such as: who were the first people, and where did they live?; how did early humans survive the extreme cold of the Ice Age?; why did the neanderthals die out?; and where were the first cities?
Download or read book First Humans written by Rebecca Stefoff and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a step back in time to explore the first humans.
Download or read book Cro Magnon written by Brian Fagan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cro-Magnons were the first fully modern Europeans--not only the creators of the stunning cave paintings at Lascaux and elsewhere, but the most adaptable and technologically inventive people that had yet lived on earth. The prolonged encounter between theCro-Magnons and the archaic Neanderthals, between 45,000 and 30,000 years ago, was one of the defining moments of history. The Neanderthals survived for some 15,000 years in the face of the newcomers, but were finally pushed aside by the Cro-Magnons' vastly superior intellectual abilities and cutting-edge technologies. What do we know about this remarkable takeover? Who were these first modern Europeans and what were they like? How did they manage to thrive in such an extreme environment? And what legacydid they leave behind them after the cold millennia? This is the story of a little known, yet seminal, chapter of human experience.--From publisher description.
Download or read book Social Life of Early Man written by S.L. Washburn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempting to reconstruct the life of early societies, particular emphasis is laid upon social behaviour among primates, as well as approaches from ethnology, prehistoric archaeology, geography, genetics, human stress biology and psychology. First published in 1962.
Download or read book The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere written by Paulette F. C. Steeves and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North and South America during the Paleolithic. Paulette F. C. Steeves mines evidence from archaeology sites and Paleolithic environments, landscapes, and mammalian and human migrations to make the case that people have been in the Western Hemisphere not only just prior to Clovis sites (10,200 years ago) but for more than 60,000 years, and likely more than 100,000 years. Steeves discusses the political history of American anthropology to focus on why pre-Clovis sites have been dismissed by the field for nearly a century. She explores supporting evidence from genetics and linguistic anthropology regarding First Peoples and time frames of early migrations. Additionally, she highlights the work and struggles faced by a small yet vibrant group of American and European archaeologists who have excavated and reported on numerous pre-Clovis archaeology sites. In this first book on Paleolithic archaeology of the Americas written from an Indigenous perspective, The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere includes Indigenous oral traditions, archaeological evidence, and a critical and decolonizing discussion of the development of archaeology in the Americas.
Download or read book The Human Story written by Charles Lockwood and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropology professor Charles Lockwood tells the amazing story of human evolution in a concise and compelling introduction to all our ancestors and extinct relatives. He draws on the explosion of discoveries made over the past 20 years to demystify the fascinating cast of characters who hold the secret to our origins, and describes the main sites, individual fossils, key scientific breakthroughs, and latest research that have fed our knowledge. With the help of a rich assortment of photographs, reconstructions, and maps, Lockwood takes us from the earliest hominins, who date back six or seven million years ago, to contemporary homo sapiens, providing the basic facts about each species: what it looked like, what it ate, how and when it lives, and how we know this information. Created in association with London’s Natural History Museum, this is a truly readable, up-to-date, well-illustrated, and user-friendly summary of the evidence as it stands today.
Download or read book Almost Like Us written by Ivy Hendy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did any of the earliest humans have emotions and feelings like us? Is there something from long-ago that makes us so attracted to sugar? Why is it that up to 4% of our DNA is from the species of Neanderthals? Do humans have an innate urge for pair bonding? In the book, Almost Like Us: Peoples of the Stone Age answers to provocative questions about the Stone Age get a fresh look. Almost Like Us describes the fascinating lives of early humans and how the distant past underpins our current behavior. Sifting through layers in the fossil records, the book exposes the dawning of a humankind that faced and overcame difficult circumstances with a determination not so different from our own. This humanistic view of Stone Age peoples shines a revelatory light on some of our present-day conduct that has its roots in prehistory. Written in an accessible narrative and without technical jargon, Almost Like Us is a stimulating and immensely enjoyable book that is not only filled with basic facts from conventional authorities, but also a kaleidoscope of outlooks not usually covered in standard textbooks. With the freedom of a dedicated enthusiast, author Ivy Hendy presents hypotheses and theories about which researchers have less room to speculate. Throughout the book the humanity and struggles of peoples of the Stone Age are explored along with times of unexpected humorous circumstances. Almost Like Us: Peoples of the Stone Age is the grand story of humankind at the edge of history. For a short video, go to: https://youtu.be/YerK-6oGbas
Download or read book Modern Humans written by Rebecca Stefoff and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes the rise of modern humans, Homo sapiens, including the theories about our origins and how we spread throughout the world, with information based on the latest fossil and DNA studies"--Provided by publisher.
