| Edition |
Modern library paperback edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
A Modern Library chronicles book ; v. 30 |
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Modern Library chronicles ; 30.
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| Note |
"Originally published in the United Kingdom in hardcover by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, in 2007, and subsequently in the United States in hardcover by Modern Library ... in 2008"- -T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-204) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
Anthropology, Prehistoric.
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Prehistoric peoples.
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Human evolution.
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Antiquities, Prehistoric.
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| ISBN |
9780812976618 |
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0812976614 |
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