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Origins and Revolutions: Human Identity in Earliest Prehistory

By Clive Gamble

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
9780521677493, 0521677491, 0521860024, 9780521860024
Open Library ID
OL22752902M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4238736 bytes)
Pages
364\366
Topic
History
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-28 18:43:47

Description

In this innovative study Clive Gamble presents and questions two of the most famous descriptions of change in prehistory. The first is the 'human revolution', when evidence for art, music, religion and language first appears. The second is the economic and social revolution of the Neolithic period. Gamble identifies the historical agendas behind 'origins research' and presents a bold new alternative to these established frameworks, relating the study of change to the material basis of human identity. He examines, through artefact proxies, how changing identities can be understood using embodied material metaphors and in two major case-studies charts the prehistory of innovations, asking, did agriculture really change the social world? This is an important and challenging book that will be essential reading for every student and scholar of prehistory.

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