This book represents a pioneer attempt to rethink the application of mathematical techniques to the study of the development of human societies. The editors, an archaeologist and a mathematician, have brought together the contributions of leading anthropologists, mathematicians, historians, archaeologists, and theoretical biologist, all of whom utilize mathematical concepts and methods to deepen our understanding of culture change in prehistoric and more recent societies.

Transformations: Mathematical Approaches to Culture Change

Politics & Social Sciences

RENFREW,COLIN

Social Sciences

Academic Pr

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Before Civilization: Radiocarbon Revolution and Prehistoric Europe

History

Penguin Books, Ltd.

This is a re-examination of the more glaring inconsistencies in the old theory of dating. Renfrew shows how the monuments of prehistoric Europe, like Stonehenge and the megalithic temples of ancient Malta, could have been built without recourse to help from the "more civilized" near East.

Before Civilization

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Uk

Professor Renfrew places the settlement of Europe earlier than has previously been believed. He believes that economic and linguistics change in terms of spreading influence and parallel development rather than a complex series of dramatic mass migrations and global conquests.

Archaeology And Language: The Puzzle Of Indo Europe

Monuments in Central and Western Europe have proved to be older than their supposed Near-Eastern forerunners, and the record must be almost completely rewritten in the light of these new dates. Before Civilisation is an attempt to do this with the help of analogies from more recent and well-documented primitive societies.

Before civilization;: The radiocarbon revolution and prehistoric Europe

Archaeology

CAPE.

Monuments in Central and Western Europe have proved to be older than their supposed Near-Eastern forerunners, and the record must be almost completely rewritten in the light of these new dates. Before Civilisation is an attempt to do this with the help of analogies from more recent and well-documented primitive societies.

Before civilization: The radiocarbon revolution and prehistoric Europe

Travel

Travel Writing

KNOPF

Widely praised for its comprehensive coverage, excellent graphics, and well-organized layout, this invaluable introduction to the discipline of archaeology has been expanded to include all the latest developments.

Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice

Bahn, Paul G.

Ancient Civilizations

Thames&Hudson

Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? These questions were posed by Paul Gauguin in a famous canvas painted in Tahiti that heralded the beginning of the modernist era. But they are also the questions asked by modern prehistorians in their quest to reconstruct the human story. In Figuring It Out, Colin Renfrew investigates the profound convergence between the two disciplines, drawing illuminating parallels between the way the modern artist seeks to understand the world by acting upon it, and the way the archaeologist seeks to understand the world through the material traces of such actions. What does the "sapient paradox"―the fact that 30,000 years passed before anatomically modern humans began to change their world―have to tell us about the unfolding of the history of our species? Why do we now find Cycladic sculpture beautiful when, merely a century ago, such work would not have been thought suitable for display in an art museum? And how is it that, in the light of Marcel Duchamp's revolutionary gallery-based gestures, the prehistoric footsteps at Laetoli have been admitted as art too, albeit of an involuntary kind? Professor Renfrew uses these questions as a springboard for his examination of the history of the human condition, a subject that can only be properly understood, he argues, through the idea of process, of Homo sapiens' active material engagement with their world. Central to his exploration is a group of leading contemporary artists, including Richard Long, Mark Dion, Antony Gormley, Eduardo Paolozzi, and David Mach, whose works are notable for just such an engagement with their physical surroundings. Figuring It Out takes sculpture off the plinth and archaeology out of the trench, and situates the contemporary artist and archaeologist together at the center of an active endeavor to re-evaluate what it is to be human. 175 illustrations, 55 in color

Figuring It Out

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

This is an introduction to all aspects of modern archaeology. The text explores: ideas in cognitive and "postprocessual" archaelogy; the archaeology of gender and the role of women archaeologists; new methods, such as GIS (Geographic Information Systems), optical dating and DNA research; and recent discoveries - the Alpine "Iceman", the Palaeolithic painted caves of Cosquer and Chauvet in France, the mass grave of pre-modern humans at Atapuerca, Spain, and the pre-Columbian gold finds at Sipan, Peru. The book includes an in-depth case study on a key site in Southeast Asia.

Americas

The third edition of this best-selling introduction to what archaeologists do and how they do it has been entirely revised and updated in the light of new views, discoveries, and data. Developments in the technology and scope of archaeology are reflected in an increased emphasis on aspects ranging from GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and information on the Internet to gender archaeology and the latest thinking on post-processualism and cognitive archaeology. The profound impact of advances in genetics and linguistics is assessed, and some sections of the book--the dating of rock art, for example--have been totally rewritten in the light of recent events.

Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice

Bahn, Paul

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Transformations: Mathematical Approaches to Culture Change

Before Civilization: Radiocarbon Revolution and Prehistoric Europe

Before Civilization

Archaeology And Language: The Puzzle Of Indo Europe

Before civilization;: The radiocarbon revolution and prehistoric Europe

Before civilization: The radiocarbon revolution and prehistoric Europe

Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice

Figuring It Out

Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice

Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice