The Singing Neanderthals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Singing Neanderthals write by Steven J. Mithen. This book was released on 2006. The Singing Neanderthals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An examination of our language instinct. Steven Mithen draws on a huge range of sources, from neurological case studies, through child psychology and the communication systems of non-human primates to the latest paleoarchaeological evidence.
Thirst
Thirst - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thirst write by Steven Mithen. This book was released on 2012-11-26. Thirst available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 challenges of water control, as well as inspirational stories about how technological ingenuity has sustained communities in hostile environments. As in his acclaimed, genre-defying After the Ice and The Singing Neanderthals, Mithen blends archaeology, current science, and ancient literature to give us a rich new picture of how our ancestors lived. Since the Neolithic Revolution, people have recognized water as a commodity and source of economic power and have manipulated its flow. History abounds with examples of ambitious water management projects and hydraulic engineering—from the Sumerians, whose mastery of canal building and irrigation led to their status as the first civilization, to the Nabataeans, who created a watery paradise in the desert city of Petra, to the Khmer, who built a massive inland sea at Angkor, visible from space. As we search for modern solutions to today’s water crises, from the American Southwest to China, Mithen also looks for lessons in the past. He suggests that we follow one of the most unheeded pieces of advice to come down from ancient times. In the words of Li Bing, whose waterworks have irrigated the Sichuan Basin since 256 BC, “Work with nature, not against it.”
Land of the Ilich
Land of the Ilich - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Land of the Ilich write by Steven Mithen. This book was released on 2021-11-04. Land of the Ilich available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 medieval warlords, discovers where Bronze Age gold was found, treacherous plots were made against the Scottish crown, and explores the island of today, which was forged more recently by those who mined for lead, grew flax, fished for herring and distilled whisky – the industry for which the island is best known today. Although an island history, this is far from an insular story: Islay has always been at a cultural crossroads, receiving a constant influx of new people and new ideas, making it a microcosm for the story of Scotland, Britain and beyond.
How To Think Like a Neandertal
How To Think Like a Neandertal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How To Think Like a Neandertal write by Thomas Wynn. This book was released on 2012-01-26. How To Think Like a Neandertal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, the authors provide a fascinating narrative of the mental life of Neandertals, to the extent that it can be reconstructed from fossil and archaeological remains.
Buried Alive
Buried Alive - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Buried Alive write by Jack Cuozzo. This book was released on 1998. Buried Alive available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Argues that Neanderthal skeletons are the remains of post flood very old biblical patriarchs.
