Archaeology and Humanity's Story Free Pdf

ISBN: 0199764565
Title: Archaeology and Humanity's Story Pdf A Brief Introduction to World Prehistory
Author: Deborah I. Olszewski
Published Date: 2015-11-13
Page: 528

"This is a thorough, engaging, and compellingly illustrated treatment of the human experience as it has played out in material culture around the world. The organization is excellent and the content is covered adequately, but not in too much detail. I will adopt, as it matches perfectly the way I run my course."--Charles R. Riggs, Fort Lewis College Deborah I. Olszewski is Adjunct Professor and Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is coauthor, with Robert J. Wenke, of Patterns in Prehistory: Humankind's First Three Million Years, Fifth Edition (OUP, 2006).

This student-friendly textbook introduces the archaeological past from approximately seven million years ago through later politically complex societies. Archaeology and Humanity's Story: A Brief Introduction to World Prehistory does not attempt to discuss every archaeologically important site and development in prehistory and early history. Rather, it presents key issues from earlier prehistory and then organizes the chapters on politically complex societies using a similar framework. This allows students to easily compare and contrast different geographical regions. Each of these chapters also highlights a specific case study in which similar themes are examined, such as the written word; resource networks, trade, and exchange; social life; ritual and religion; and warfare and violence. Each chapter includes several sidebar boxes, a timeline showing the chronology relevant to that chapter, and "The Big Picture," "Peopling the Past," and "Evolutionary Processes" features.

forced upon you, not good. forced us to get this crappy book.Frustrating to Read Do you know those amazing books that paint a picture in your head, and the sentences and words seem to flow perfectly together? This is the opposite situation. I can't read a few sentences without stopping to go back and re-read what I just read. I literally opened to a random page and picked a sentence, this is how it reads,"For example, if you can collect a week's supply of pine nuts from a dense area of pinyon trees by working for one day, but to add another week's supply (one unit to the overall quantity) from the remaining area that has only scattered pinyon trees takes you to or three times as long, then the marginal cost of adding this one unit is high.The writing is just choppy and at times incoherent. If this book wasn't on the syllabus for my Prehistoric Archaeology class, I wouldn't have got it. And in hindsight, I still wouldn't have gotten it because it hasn't helped.

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