sábado, 8 de enero de 2011

The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution


Gregory Cochran (Author), Henry Harpending (Author).
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Basic Books; First Trade Paper Edition edition (October 19, 2010).

Editorial Reviews:
Arguing that human genetic evolution is still ongoing, physicist-turned-evolutionary biologist Cochran and anthropologist Harpending marshal evidence for dramatic genetic change in the (geologically) recent past, particularly since the invention of agriculture. Unfortunately, much of their argument-including the origin of modern humans, agriculture, and Indo-Europeans-tends to neglect archaeological and geological evidence; readers should keep in mind that assumed time frames, like the age of the human species, are minimums at best and serious underestimates at worst...

Book review (January 7 2011):

A Prehistory of Ordinary People

Monica L. Smith (Author).
Paperback: 240 pages.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press (October 8, 2010).

Product Description:
For the past million years, individuals have engaged in multitasking as they interact with the surrounding environment and with each other for the acquisition of daily necessities such as food and goods. Although culture is often perceived as a collective process, it is individual people who use language, experience illness, expend energy, perceive landscapes, and create memories. These processes were sustained at the individual and household level from the time of the earliest social groups to the beginnings of settled agricultural communities and the eventual development of complex societies in the form of chiefdoms, states, and empires...

Related:
January 7 2011: Anthropology professor Monica Smith investigates multitasking as ancient ability in new book.
7-Dec-2010: Think multitasking is new? Our prehistoric ancestors invented it, UCLA book argues.

viernes, 7 de enero de 2011

Arqueozoología en el cantábrico oriental durante la transición pleistoceno/holoceno. La Cueva del Mirón

... En este libro se presenta los resultados de la aplicación de esta nueva metodología arqueozoológica en el estudio del Paleolítico Superior Cantábrico, centrándose en primer lugar en el análisis de los niveles magdalenienses y azilienses de la Cueva del Mirón, para posteriormente generalizar los resultados obtenidos al Cantábrico Oriental, como región geográfica de características orográficas, ambientales y culturales similares. El objetivo final subyacente es promover el debate y la apertura de nuevas líneas de investigación arqueozoológicas.

Ana Belén Marín Arroyo
Universidad de Cantabria
ISBN: 9788486116217
Serie: Serie Tesis Doctorales
Nº Edición: 1
Año de Edición: 2010
Páginas: 686
Tamaño: 170 x 240
Formato: Tapa blanda o Bolsillo
Precio: 25,00 €
Comprar: Une.es

miércoles, 5 de enero de 2011

Astronomos de la Prehistoria



Vídeo YouTube (historiayciencia, 01 de enero de 2011 Alejandro90492 el 30/09/2011 Alkaest100 el 20/02/2012) añadido a Paleo Vídeos > Prehistoria Universal > L.R.2.2

Saber más (inglés)
Prehistoric Astronomers: an English-language copy seems to be available for purchase.

Stars & Stones: CNN International Explores the Mystery of Armenia's Stonehenge



Vídeo YouTube (starsandstonesprojec, 25 de diciembre de 2010 ) añadido a Paleo Vídeos > Prehistoria Universal > L.R.2.2

Related: Stars & Stones 2010: Oxford University Expedition to Qarahunge, Armenia.

lunes, 3 de enero de 2011

300 mil em Foz Côa



Fuente (02-01-11): Videos.sapo.pt
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