Climate, Clothing, and Agriculture in Prehistory: Linking Evidence, Causes, and Effects
Autor Ian Gilliganen Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 dec 2018
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781108470087
ISBN-10: 1108470084
Pagini: 344
Ilustrații: 95 b/w illus. 5 maps 9 tables
Dimensiuni: 183 x 261 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.77 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1108470084
Pagini: 344
Ilustrații: 95 b/w illus. 5 maps 9 tables
Dimensiuni: 183 x 261 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.77 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Part I. Introduction: 1. What separates us from nature?; Part II. Clothing in the Ice Age: 2. Climate change and the invention of clothes; 3. How clothes work to keep us warm; 4. The technology of Palaeolithic clothes; 5. Changing climates and early clothes; 6. Decorated clothes and Palaeolithic art; 7. Neanderthals and Tasmanians; 8. The value of making clothes visible; Part III. Global Warming and Agriculture: 9. Time for new clothes; 10. A half-baked revolution; 11. Agriculture and textiles in Eurasia; 12. Agriculture and textiles in the Americas; 13. Agriculture from Africa to Australia; Part IV. Feeding the Multitude: 14. A really revolutionary revolution; 15. Covering breasts and making more babies; Part V. Sedentism and Domestication: 16. Some loose ends; 17. Enclosure and fabrication; Appendix.
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Descriere
The first book on the origin of clothes shows why climate change was crucial - for the origin of agriculture too.