Author: P. J. Fowler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: britain, prehistoric, farming
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1983-07-29
List price: $36.99
ISBN-10: 0521273692
ISBN-13: 9780521273695

Peter Fowler’s essay on later prehistoric agriculture in the first volume of The Agrarian History of England and Wales was hailed by reviewers as a ’masterpiece of informed synthesis’. In The Farming of Prehistoric Britain Dr Fowler, a foremost authority on agrarian archaeology, has revised and updated his original work to provide an accessible and comprehensive survey of the evolution of British farming and its landscape during the last two millennia BC. Emphasizing past gains in knowledge from experimental, aerial and field archaeology, Dr Fowler demonstrates how the applic

Author: Richard E. W. Adams
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Keywords: mesoamerica, prehistoric
Number of Pages: 521
Published: 2005-12-30
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0806137029
ISBN-13: 9780806137025

This major revision of Richard E. W. Adams’s classic text on the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica adds new information available from archaeological fieldwork in the region from the 1990s through 2004 and also evaluates recent theories regarding the remarkable prehistoric cultures of a region that today encompasses Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and parts of Honduras and El Salvador. This up-to-date overview provides an introduction to Mesoamerican studies, a brief geographic sketch of the region, and a summary of the major features of its civilizations. Adams follows with a detailed

Author: Gunter Berghaus
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: art, prehistoric, perspectives, new
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2004-04-30
List price: $105.00
ISBN-10: 0275978133
ISBN-13: 9780275978136

Following the discovery of Franco-Caribbean cave art in the nineteenth century, standard interpretations of these works usually revolved around hunting, magic, and fertility cults. Orthodox positions such as these have weighed heavily on later generations of art historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists, even those whose views dissented from those of their predecessors. In the last few decades, however, new approaches to cave art, often based on discoveries made in Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, and the Arctic region, have produced new insights into possible meanings and functio

Author: Steve Jenkins
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Keywords: size, actual, prehistoric
Number of Pages: 36
Published: 2005-09-26
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0618535780
ISBN-13: 9780618535781

What is it like to come face-to-face with the ten-foot-tall terror bird? Or stare into the mouth of the largest meat eater ever to walk the earth? Can you imagine a millipede that is more than six feet long, or a dinosaur smaller than a chicken? In this “actual size” look at the prehistoric world, which includes two dramatic gatefolds, you’ll meet these awe-inspiring creatures, as well as many others.

Author: William N. Morgan
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Keywords: micronesia, architecture, prehistoric
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 1989
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0292765061
ISBN-13: 9780292765061

Author: G. Renard
Publisher: Mellon Press
Keywords: times, prehistoric, work, life
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1406730475
ISBN-13: 9781406730470

CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE INTRODUCTION. THE METHODS OF PRE HISTORY. ITS BEGINNINGS AND ITS PRINCIPLES ...... 1 I. FOOD ....... 33 II. Two GREAT DISCOVERIES. FIRE AND LANGUAGE ...... 47 III. THE FIRST INDUSTRIES .... 60 IV. THE DWELLING PLACE .... 75 V. CLOTHING AND WEAPONS OF DEFENCE . 90 VI. MAN AND THE ANIMALS .... 106 VII. THE BEGINNINGS OF AGRICULTURE . . 120 VIII. THE FIRST METHODS OF TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION ..... 134 IX. THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE PEOPLES. WAR AND COMMERCE .... 149 X. THE ORIGIN OF THE ARTS . . . 165 XI. THE ORIGINS OF SCIENCE .... 188 XII. THE FIRST HUMAN SOCIETIES. THE CL

Author: J. Alexander
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Keywords: woman, man, modern, diet, prehistoric
Number of Pages: 76
Published: 2009-11-25
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 142691931X
ISBN-13: 9781426919312

J. Alexander was an overweight child with severe allergies and insecurities because of his weight. He spent years perfecting a diet with miraculous results, became trim, and conquered his allergies-changing his life forever. The Prehistoric Diet shares his secrets of how he lost weight without diet pills, expensive gyms, diet foods or plans, and complicated surgeries. J. Alexander, one of the first health food store entrepreneurs in Boston, grew up in an era where diets were composed primarily of meats, mashed potatoes, Chinese food from a can, and white bread. He tells the poignant story of