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  • The Language Puzzle

    Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved

    de Steven Mithen ...
    **A top scholar reveals the most complete picture to date of how early human speech led to the languages we use today **The emergence of language began with the apelike calls of our earliest ancestors. Today, the world is home to thousands of complex languages. Yet exactly how, when, and why this evolution occurred has been one of the most enduring—and contentiously debated—questions in science. ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Il canto degli antenati

    Le origini della musica, del linguaggio, della mente e del corpo

    de Steven Mithen ...
    Traducido por Faravelli E., Minozzi C. ...
    L'archeologo britannico Steven Mithen parte da un assunto: la propensione a fare musica è uno dei più misteriosi, affascinanti e allo stesso tempo trascurati tratti distintivi del genere umano. La letteratura scientifica ha sottovalutato questo campo di studio, definendo la musica come una tecnologia, un prodotto, creato unicamente a scopo ludico e ricreativo, e non come un adattamento selettivo. ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Land of the Ilich

    Journey's into Islay's Past

    de Steven Mithen ...
    A comprehensive study of the evolution of human culture on the Hebridean island of Islay.As an archaeologist, Steven Mithen has worked on the Hebridean island of Islay over a period of many years. In this book he introduces the sites and monuments and tells the story of the island's people from the earliest stone age hunter-gatherers to those who lived in townships and in the grandeur of Islay ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science

    de Steven Mithen ...
    "A truly pioneering work, perhaps the first by a practicing archaeologist to review coherently the evolution of human cognitive abilities." —Colin Renfrew, author of Before Civilization and Archaeology and LanguageHere is an exhilarating intellectual performance, in the tradition of Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind and Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct. On the way to showing how the ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Land of the Ilich

    Journey's into Islay's Past

    de Steven Mithen ...
    As an archaeologist, Steven Mithen has worked on the Hebridean island of Islay over a period of many years. In this book he introduces the sites and monuments and tells the story of the island's people from the earliest stone age hunter-gatherers to those who lived in townships and in the grandeur of Islay House. He visits the tombs of Neolithic farmers, forts of Iron Age chiefs and castles of ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Thirst

    Water and Power in the Ancient World

    de Steven Mithen ...
    Water is an endangered resource, imperiled by population growth, mega-urbanization, and climate change. Scientists project that by 2050, freshwater shortages will affect 75 percent of the global population. Steven Mithen puts our current crisis in historical context by exploring 10,000 years of humankind’s management of water. Thirst offers cautionary tales of civilizations defeated by the ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    The Language Puzzle

    Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved

    de Steven Mithen ...
    Narrado por Kerry Hutchinson ...

    Completo

    13 hora 55 minutos

    **A top scholar reveals the most complete picture to date of how early human speech led to the languages we use today **The invention of language began with the apelike calls of our earliest ancestors. Today, the world is home to thousands of complex languages. Yet exactly how, when, and why this evolution occurred has been one of the most enduring—and contentiously debated—questions in science. ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • L'odyssée du langage humain

    Comment le langage a fait notre humanité

    de Steven Mithen, Amélie VIALET ...
    Pourquoi avons-nous commencé à parler ? Pourquoi le langage articulé reste-t-il inaccessible aux autres primates, pourtant si proches de nous ? En rassemblant des indices dispersés entre génétique, archéologie et neurosciences, Steven Mithen nous entraîne dans une véritable enquête sur les traces de notre parole.Vous découvrirez pourquoi l'invention des outils en pierre a façonné notre capacité à ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Comments on Steven Mithen's Book (1996) The Prehistory of The Mind

    A Course on The Human Niche, #5

    de Razie Mah ...
    Series Libro 5 - A Course on The Human Niche
    Over twenty years ago, Steven Mithen, a British archaeologist, published one of the most eloquently written books on human evolution. The Prehistory of The Mind (1996) frames the past six million years with two evocative analogies. The first is a play in four acts. The second is the evolution of church architecture in the West.These powerful metaphors do not explain human evolution. They re ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Early Prehistory of Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan

    Archaeological Survey of Wadis Faynan, Ghuwayr and Al Bustan and Evaluation of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Site of WF16

    de Bill Finlayson, Steven Mithen ...
    Series Libro 4 - Levant Supplementary Series
    This edited volume provides a full report on the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A site of WF16, southern Jordan. Very few sites of PPNA date have been excavated using modern methods, so this report makes a very significant contribution to our understanding of this period. Excavations have shown that the site contains a highly dynamic use of architecture, and the faunal assemblage reveals new information on ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Water, Life and Civilisation

    Climate, Environment and Society in the Jordan Valley

    Edición de Steven Mithen, Emily Black ...
    Series series International Hydrology Series
    A unique interdisciplinary study of the relationships between climate, hydrology and human society from 20,000 years ago to the present day within the Jordan Valley. It describes how state-of-the-art models can simulate the past, present and future climates of the Near East, reviews and provides new evidence for environmental change from geological deposits, builds hydrological models for the ... Leer más

    $97.99 USD

  • Creativity in Human Evolution and Prehistory

    Edición de Steven Mithen ...
    We live in a world surrounded by remarkable cultural achievements of human kind. Almost every day we hear of new innovations in technology, in medicine and in the arts which remind us that humans are capable of remarkable creativity. But what is human creativity? The modern world provides a tiny fraction of cultural diversity and the evidence for human creativity, far more can be seen by looking ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD