Secrets of the Stone Age: A Prehistoric Journey with Richard Rudgley by Richard Rudgley |
by Georges Roux
|
by Michael Wood
|
by Michael Wood
|
by Jonathan Black
|
|
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
Product details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Our continuing fascination with our own ancestry is probably one of the few attributes left that is considered unique to humans. Although, considering all the effort that has gone into trying to recover information about early humans over the last 200 years, it is remarkable how little we know and how much argument there is over the interpretation of what is known. But the situation is dramatically improving, as English anthropological writer Richard Rudgley shows. As an award-winning professional anthropologist (British Museum Prometheus Award 1991), now based in Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum, Rudgley is well placed to give an up-to-date overview of the Stone Age for the general reader.
The so-called "Stone Age" (technically called the Palaeolithic, lasting from 2.4 to 10,000 million years ago) inevitably conjures up Flintstone-like images of peoples, what social anthropologists call "idiot communities". Rudgley seeks to alter this misconception, which originated with 19th-century notions of progress and Darwinistic superiority. He argues that the achievements of prehistoric times, ranging from the technicalities of mining and stone tool-making, through surgery and the origins of writing to art, have been downplayed in popular accounts. Recent advances in dating have shown that previous ideas about the chronology of many aspects of Palaeolithic culture were quite erroneous, especially with regard to the art of the period. Art from the earliest phase of the Upper Palaeolithic shows, as Rudgley says, "an equal mastery ... to that of the later phases". Packed with up-to-date information, a useful bibliography and an index, Lost Civilisations shows that a whole range of "prehistoric cultural achievements are more profound, complex and multifarious than has been hitherto suspected". -- Douglas Palmer --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Product Description
This work presents Stone Age civilization as far more sophisticated than previously believed in terms of its technology, mathematics, medicine, communications (which were worldwide) and art. The author attempts to re-establish Rousseau's notion of the "Noble Savage".
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?
 |
76% buy the item featured on this page: The Lost Civilisations of the Stone Age: A Journey Back to Our Cultural Origins |
 |
9% buy Forbidden History: Extraterrestrial Intervention, Prehistoric Technologies, and the Suppressed Origins of Civilization £9.27 |
 |
8% buy Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans £6.97 |
 |
7% buy Secrets of the Stone Age: A Prehistoric Journey with Richard Rudgley |
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
Your Recent History
(What's this?)|
After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. |
