Society in Prehistory

The Origins of Human Culture

Tim Megarry (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

416 Seiten

1995
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-333-31117-2 (ISBN)

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Since the 1960s, spectacular advances made in the disciplines concerned with prehistory have led to a dramatic revision of our view of human evolution and the forces that have shaped the cultural foundations of modern humanity. It is now possible to make a reconstruction of the physical and behavioural characteristics that lay behind the social life of pre-human ancestors as much as two million years ago. This interdisciplinary book introduces the new evidence to a wider audience and argues that human evolution and human status are only intelligible through an interaction of biological and social factors. The significance and relevance of prehistory to the social sciences is a major theme of the book.

Introduction: Prehistory and Society Evolution and Human Society.- Culture and Evolution.- Biology and Culture.- Primate Societies.- The First Hominids Tools and Culture Tools, Brains and Behaviour.- A Foraging Economy Man the Hunter?.- Modern Humans and Human Behaviour.- Sex and the Division of Labour.- Sexuality and Social Life.- Glossary.- Further Reading.- Bibliography.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.11.1995
Zusatzinfo	IX, 416 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-333-31117-5 / 0333311175
ISBN-13	978-0-333-31117-2 / 9780333311172
Zustand	Neuware