Research Catalog

Title

After the ice : a global human history, 20,000-5000 BC / Steven Mithen.

Author

Mithen, Steven J.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.

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Details

Description

xiii, 622 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

"Drawing on the latest research in archaeology, human genetics, and environmental science, After the Ice takes the reader on a sweeping tour of 15,000 years of human history. Steven Mithen brings this world to life through the eyes of an imaginary modern traveler - John Lubbock, namesake of the great Victorian polymath and author of Prehistoric Times." "Part history, part science, part time travel, After the Ice offers a portrayal of diverse cultures, lives, and landscapes that laid the foundations of the modern world."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Primitive societies
• Hunting and gathering societies
• Prehistoric peoples
• Human beings > Migrations
• Antiquities, Prehistoric
• Civilization, Ancient

Note

• Originally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. The birth of history -- 2. The world at 20,000 BC -- 3. Fires and flowers -- 4. Village life in the oak woodland -- 5. On the banks of the Euphrates -- 6. One thousand years of drought -- 7. The founding of Jericho -- 8. Pictograms and pillars -- 9. In the valley of ravens -- 10. The town of ghosts -- 11. Heaven and hell at Catalhoyuk -- 12. Three days on Cyprus -- 13. Pioneers in northern lands -- 14. With reindeer hunters -- 15. At Star Carr -- 16. Last of the cave painters -- 17. Coastal catastrophe -- 18. Two villages in Southeast Europe -- 19. Islands of the dead -- 20. At the frontier -- 21. A Mesolithic legacy -- 22. A Scottish envoi -- 23. Searching for the first Americans -- 24. American past in the present -- 25. On the banks of Chinchihaupi -- 26. Explorers in a restless landscape -- 27. Clovis hunters on trial -- 28. Virginity reconsidered -- 29. Herders and the 'Christ-child' -- 30. A double-take in the Oaxaca Valley -- 31. To Koster -- 32. Salmon fishing and the gift of history -- 33. A lost world revealed -- 34. Body sculpture at Kow Swamp -- 35. Across the arid zone -- 36. Fighting men and a serpent's birth -- 37. Pigs and gardens in the highlands -- 38. Lonesome in Sundaland -- 39. Down the Yangtze -- 40. With the Jomon -- 41. Summer in the Arctic -- 42. A passage through India -- 43. A long walk across the Hindu Kush -- 44. Vultures of the Zagros -- 45. Approaching civilisation in Mesopotamia -- 46. Baked fish by the Nile -- 47. On Lukenya Hill -- 48. Frogs' legs and ostrich eggs -- 49. A South African tour -- 50. Thunderbolts in the tropics -- 51. Sheep and cattle in the Sahara -- 52. Farmers in the Nile Valley and beyond -- Epilogue : 'the blessings of civilisation'.

ISBN

0674015703 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2004042216

OCLC

• ocm54677732
• SCSB-5151490

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries