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Prehistory : A Very Short Introduction
Author: Chris Gosden
ISBN: 9780192803436
Binding: Paper Back
Publishing Year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Number of Pages: 152
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INR 225.00
About Book
This VSI to prehistory will introduce the reader to four and a half million years of human existence. Many of the familiar aspects of modern life are no more than a century or two old, yet our deep social structures and skills were in large measure developed by small bands of our prehistoric ancestors many millennia ago. Chris Gosden invites us to think seriously about who we are by considering who we have been. The idea of prehistory owes its origins to Darwin - suddenly any description of human life on Earth had to take account of a much longer timespan than ever before. What new views of ourselves has this new timespan opened up? Chris Gosden's fascinating new book asks: What relationships did our distant ancestors have with the natural world, with each other, and with the objects and values they created? And as humanity hurtles into a future of virtual interraction and genetic manipulation, what can the darkest recesses of our past teach us about our future?
About Author
Chris Gosden, Curator of Pitt Rivers Museum and lecturer at Oxford University
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