Tag: Prehistory

Free Download Stefanos Geroulanos, "The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins"
English | ISBN: 1324091452 | 2024 | 512 pages | PDF | 73 MB
"[A]n incisive and captivating reassessment of prehistory . . . In lucid prose, Geroulanos unspools an enthralling and detailed history of the development of modern natural science. It’s a must-read." ―✅Publishers Weekly, starred review

Free Download Nancy Marie White, "Apalachicola Valley Archaeology, Volume 1: Prehistory through the Middle Woodland Period"
English | ISBN: 0817361308 | 2024 | 354 pages | PDF | 8 MB
The definitive archaeological record and what is known or speculated about the ancient Apalachicola and lower Chattahoochee Valley region of northwest Florida, southeast Alabama, and southwest Georgia

Free Download An Introduction to Human Prehistory in Arabia: The Lost World of the Southern Crescent by Jeffrey I. Rose
English | EPUB | 2022 | 344 Pages | ISBN : 3030956660 | 127.7MB

Free Download Nuno Bicho Telmo Pereira, Xavier Terradas, "The Exploitation of Raw Materials in Prehistory"
English | ISBN: 1443895970 | 2017 | 656 pages | PDF | 11 MB
This collection presents state-of-the-art approaches to the use of inorganic raw materials in the period known as prehistory. It focuses on stone-tools, adornments, colorants and pottery from Europe, America and Africa. The chapters intimately merge archaeology, anthropology, geology, geography, physics and chemistry to reconstruct past human behaviour, economy, technology, ecology, cognition, territory and social complexity. The book represents a framework of raw material investigation for those working in science, regardless of the time period, region of the world or materials they are studying.

Free Download The Archaeology of Food and Warfare: Food Insecurity in Prehistory by Amber M. VanDerwarker, Gregory D. Wilson
English | PDF | 2016 | 317 Pages | ISBN : 3319185055 | 7.7 MB
The archaeologies of food and warfare have independently developed over the past several decades. This volume aims to provide concrete linkages between these research topics through the examination of case studies worldwide. Topics considered within the book include: the impacts of warfare on the daily food quest, warfare and nutritional health, ritual foodways and violence, the provisioning of warriors and armies, status-based changes in diet during times of war, logistical constraints on military campaigns, and violent competition over subsistence resources. The diversity of perspectives included in this volume may be a product of new ways of conceptualizing violence-not simply as an isolated component of a society, nor as an attribute of a particular societal type-but instead as a transformative process that is lived and irrevocably alters social, economic, and political organization and relationships. This book highlights this transformative process by presenting a cross-cultural perspective on the connection between war and food through the inclusion of case studies from several continents.

Free Download Jerry D. Moore, "A Prehistory of South America: Ancient Cultural Diversity on the Least Known Continent"
English | 2014 | pages: 560 | ISBN: 160732332X | EPUB | 98,3 mb
A Prehistory of South America is an overview of the ancient and historic native cultures of the entire continent of South America based on the most recent archaeological investigations. Thisaccessible, clearly written text is designed to engage undergraduate and beginning graduate students in anthropology.

Free Download Cynthia Eller, "Gentlemen and Amazons: the myth of matriarchal prehistory, 1861-1900"
English | 2011 | pages: 292 | ISBN: 0520266765, 0520248597 | EPUB | 3,2 mb
Gentlemen and Amazons traces the nineteenth-century genesis and development of an important contemporary myth about human origins: that of an original prehistoric matriarchy. Cynthia Eller explores the intellectual history of the myth, which arose from male scholars who mostly wanted to vindicate the patriarchal family model as a higher stage of human development. Eller tells the stories these men told, analyzes the gendered assumptions they made, and provides the necessary context for understanding how feminists of the 1970s and 1980s embraced as historical "fact" a discredited nineteenth-century idea.

Free Download Melvin Ember, "Encyclopedia of Prehistory: Volume 7: South America"
English | 2002 | pages: 403 | ISBN: 0306462613 | PDF | 66,2 mb
temporal dimension. Major traditions are The Encyclopedia of Prehistory represents an attempt to provide basic information also defined by a somewhat different set of on all archaeologically known cultures, sociocultural characteristics than are eth covering the entire globe and the entire nological cultures. Major traditions are prehistory of humankind. It is designed as defined based on common subsistence a tool to assist in doing comparative practices, sociopolitical organization, and research on the peoples of the past. Most material industries, but language, ideology, of the entries are written by the world’s and kinship ties play little or no part in foremost experts on the particular areas their definition because they are virtually and time periods. unrecoverable from archaeological con The Encyclopedia is organized accord texts. In contrast, language, ideology, and ing to major traditions. A major tradition kinship ties are central to defining ethno is defined as a group of populations sharing logical cultures. similar subsistence practices, technology, There are three types of entries in the and forms of sociopolitical organization, Encyclopedia: the major tradition entry, which are spatially contiguous over a rela the regional subtradition entry, and the tively large area and which endure tempo site entry. Each contains different types of rally for a relatively long period. Minimal information, and each is intended to be areal coverage for a major tradition can used in a different way.

Free Download Melvin Ember, "Encyclopedia of Prehistory: Volume 5: Middle America"
English | 2001 | pages: 486 | ISBN: 1468471325, 0306462591 | PDF | 101,2 mb
The Encyclopedia of Prehistory represents temporal dimension. Major traditions are an attempt to provide basic information also defined by a somewhat different set of on all archaeologically known cultures, sociocultural characteristics than are eth covering the entire globe and the entire nological cultures. Major traditions are prehistory of humankind. It is designed as defined based on common subsistence a tool to assist in doing comparative practices, sociopolitical organization, and research on the peoples of the past. Most material industries, but language, ideology, of the entries are written by the world’s and kinship ties play little or no part in foremost experts on the particular areas their definition because they are virtually and time periods. unrecoverable from archaeological con The Encyclopedia is organized accord texts. In contrast, language, ideology, and ing to major traditions. A major tradition kinship ties are central to defining ethno is defined as a group of populations sharing logical cultures. similar subsistence practices, technology, There are three types of entries in the and forms of sociopolitical organization, Encyclopedia: the major tradition entry, which are spatially contiguous over a rela the regional subtradition entry, and the tively large area and which endure tempo site entry. Each contains different types of rally for a relatively long period. Minimal information, and each is intended to be areal coverage for a major tradition can used in a different way.

Free Download History of Britain and Ireland
by Campbell, Kenneth L.;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1350260754 | 505 pages | True PDF | 52.84 MB
The History of Britain and Prehistory to Today is a balanced and integrated political, social, cultural, and religious history of the British Isles. Kenneth Campbell explores the constantly evolving dialogue and relationship between the past and the present.