Spanning from 10,000 B.C. to 2,000 B.C., this work discusses hunter-gatherers, farmers, the worship of the goddess, the human impact on the environment, and social and gender roles, and features photographs, illustrations, diagrams, and maps. 20,000 first printing. $70,000 ad/promo.
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This volume is second in a new series devoted to the history and development of humans, as told by an international array of anthropologists. The first book, The First Humans: Human Origins and History to 10,000 BC ( LJ 12/93), covered human origins; this one focuses on what Colin Renfrew calls in the foreword "the Great Transition," when technology, food production, and human settlement advanced markedly. All areas of the world are explored, although much of the material covers Europe exclusively. Written for informed lay readers, the work succeeds through a combined use of short articles and extensive color photographs of sites and artifacts. This volume compares favorably with the dated Time-Life series, "The Emergence of Man," published in the early 1970s. People of the Stone Age is current, even including an article on the Ice Man of Tyrol, discovered in late 1991. It is a good acquisition for libraries desiring a lavishly illustrated, nonacademic treatment of early human history.
- Joyce L. Ogburn, Yale Univ. Lib., New Haven, Ct.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Joyce L. Ogburn, Yale Univ. Lib., New Haven, Ct.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Continuing a beautiful series (Illustrated History of Humankind) begun with The First Humans , Burenhult presides over some 40 working archaeologists in this installment devoted to the domestication of plants and animals--and the cultural expressions of the new way of life. An ill-understood revolution that began with the end of the Ice Age, about 10,000 B.C., agriculture spread worldwide and was previously thought to have originated in Mesopotomia's Fertile Crescent. Not so, apparently: using the latest excavated discoveries, these scientists think it arose independently--though the causes remain murky--in several places, among them, Europe, China, New Guinea, and Mesoamerica. Thus the text is divided up geographically, profusely studded with illustrations of significant sites and artifacts, and carries fascinating features, such as the "The Ice Man of the Tyrol" (revealed by a melting glacier in 1991), which convey a tangible, cross-sectional feel to how prehistoric archaeology asks questions of mute objects. A superlatively designed work that bodes well for titles due to be published during 1994: Old World Civilizations; New World and Pacific Civilizations; and Traditional Peoples Today. Gilbert Taylor
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An excellent and beautiful book,
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This review is from: People of the Stone Age: Hunter-Gatherers and Early Farmers (Illustrated History of Humankind, Vol. 2) (Hardcover)
This is a wonderful addition to any library, especially one where children frequent. It is scholarly but readable and filled with well done pictures. It is one I gave my grandsons on rainy days and as preteens they have enjoyed and understood.
Pat Gibson
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A new stone age coffee table book?,
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This review is from: People of the Stone Age: Hunter-Gatherers and Early Farmers (Illustrated History of Humankind, Vol. 2) (Hardcover)
The use of stone tools in the early transition from hunting and gathering to farming is shown as archaeological evidence.
We have very little written evidence from this kind of culture except for the Egyptians, Mayans and Incas, but we have massive stone monuments and graves that these people left. The full color pictures and maps in this book are good. I enjoyed most of it, but it kind of left one with a decaying feeling of dead people and a fatal feeling of a doom that wasn't there. Progress in this age was slow but steady, but these people made deserts that remain today by cutting down all the trees for their use? Like termites in a wooden house, mankind has been to his planet.
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