Lost Civilisations Of The Stone Age - Softcover

Rudgley, Richard

 
9780099223726: Lost Civilisations Of The Stone Age
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0099223724 ISBN 13: 9780099223726
Verlag: Arrow, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Bringing together for the first time disparate evidence from the fields of archaeology, ancient history and anthropology, Richard Rudgley shows the achievements, inventions and discoveries of prehistoric times have all but been edited out of popular accounts of the human story. The rise of civilisation 5, 000 years ago has often been portrayed as if it were somehow created out of nothing but the author describes how the explorers of the stone age discovered all the world`s major land masses; how writing can be traced back via Neolithic systems of accounting to its Palaeolithic origins, and how mathematical and astronomical science and technological and industrial activities such as tool-making and pyrotechnics all date back to the stone age, as do many significant medical practices including cranial surgery. Lost Civilisations of the Stone Age brings into question many assumptions about our own cultural superiority, and argues that prehistoric life was in many ways more advanced than our own.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Richard Rudgley was born in 1961. He completed a BA in Social Anthropology and Religious Studies and went on to do a M. St. and M. Phil. in Ethnology and Museum Ethnography at Oxford. He is currently doing a D. Phil. and specialising in historical and contemporary uses of psychoactive substances by the native peoples of Canada and Alaska. He has done much field work in China and Canada, and written and lectured on the usage of hallucinogens and intoxicants. He is married and lives in London.

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Verlag
Arrow
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0099223724
ISBN 13 
9780099223726
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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