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Origins and revolutions : human identity in earliest prehistory

Title
Origins and revolutions : human identity in earliest prehistory / Clive Gamble.
Author
Gamble, Clive.
Publication
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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xii, 352 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"What changed in the three million years of human evolution? Were there tipping points that made us more recognisably human? In this study, Clive Gamble presents and questions two of the most famous descriptions of change in prehistory. The first is the human revolution when evidence for art, music, religion and language appears. The second is the economic and social revolution of the Neolithic. Gamble identifies the historical agendas behind research on origins. He proposes an alternative approach that relates the study of change to the material basis of human identity. Rather than revolutionary stages, Gamble makes the case that our earliest prehistory is a story of mutual relationships between people and their technology. These developing relationships resulted in distinctive identities for our earliest ancestors and continue today."--BOOK JACKET.
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  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-334) and index.
Contents
Pt. I. Steps to the present -- Prologue : the longest of long revolutions -- 1. The Neolithic revolution -- 2. The human revolution -- 3. Metaphors for origins -- Summary to part I : three revolutions in Originsland -- Pt. II. The material basis of identity -- 4. Bodies, instruments and containers -- 5. The accumulation and enchainment of identity -- 6. Consuming and fragmenting people and things -- Summary to part II : raising the bar -- Pt. III. Interpreting change -- 7. A prehistory of human technology : 3 million to 5,000 years ago -- 8. Did agriculture change the world? -- Epilogue : the good upheaval.
ISBN
  • 0521860024 (hardback)
  • 9780521860024 (hardback)
  • 0521677491 (pbk.)
  • 9780521677493 (pbk.)
LCCN
2006023259
OCLC
  • ocm70775576
  • 70775576
  • SCSB-5341145
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Columbia University Libraries