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A prehistory of ordinary people /
"For the past million years, individuals have engaged in multitasking as they interact with the surrounding environment and with each other for the acquisition of daily necessities such as food and goods. Although culture is often perceived as a collective process, it is individual people who u...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tucson :
The University of Arizona Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "For the past million years, individuals have engaged in multitasking as they interact with the surrounding environment and with each other for the acquisition of daily necessities such as food and goods. Although culture is often perceived as a collective process, it is individual people who use language, experience illness, expend energy, perceive landscapes, and create memories. These processes were sustained at the individual and household level from the time of the earliest social groups to the beginnings of settled agricultural communities and the eventual development of complex societies in the form of chiefdoms, states, and empires. With this book, Monica L. Smith examines how the archaeological record of ordinary objects - used by ordinary people - constitutes a manifestation of humankind's cognitive and social development. A Prehistory of Ordinary People offers an impressive synthesis and accessible style that will appeal to archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, and others interested in the long history of human decision-making."--Pub. desc |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 220 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-212) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816546701 0816546703 |