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Prehistory : the making of the human mind / Colin Renfrew.

By: Language: English Series: Modern Library chronicles ; 30.Publication details: New York : Modern Library, 2009.Edition: Modern library paperback edDescription: xiii, 219 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0812976614
  • 9780812976618
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GN740 R464 2009
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.
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"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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-204) and index.

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.

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.

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