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Beschreibung
Bringing together for the first time disparate evidence from the fields of archaeology ancient history and anthropology Richard Rudgley shows the achievements inventions and discoveries of prehistoric times have all but been edited out of popular accounts of the human story. The rise of civilisation 5 000 years ago has often been portrayed as if it were somehow created out of nothing but the author describes how the explorers of the stone age discovered all the world`s major land masses; how writing can be traced back via Neolithic systems of accounting to its Palaeolithic origins and how mathematical and astronomical science and technological and industrial activities such as tool-making and pyrotechnics all date back to the stone age as do many significant medical practices including cranial surgery. Lost Civilisations of the Stone Age brings into question many assumptions about our own cultural superiority and argues that prehistoric life was in many ways more advanced than our own.
Bringing together for the first time disparate evidence from the fields of archaeology ancient history and anthropology Richard Rudgley shows the achievements inventions and discoveries of prehistoric times have all but been edited out of popular accounts of the human story. The rise of civilisation 5 000 years ago has often been portrayed as if it were somehow created out of nothing but the author describes how the explorers of the stone age discovered all the world`s major land masses; how writing can be traced back via Neolithic systems of accounting to its Palaeolithic origins and how mathematical and astronomical science and technological and industrial activities such as tool-making and pyrotechnics all date back to the stone age as do many significant medical practices including cranial surgery. Lost Civilisations of the Stone Age brings into question many assumptions about our own cultural superiority and argues that prehistoric life was in many ways more advanced than our own.
Über den Autor
Richard Rudgley
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780099223726
ISBN-10: 0099223724
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Rudgley, Richard
Hersteller: Arrow
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 129 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Richard Rudgley
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.09.1999
Gewicht: 0,385 kg
Artikel-ID: 134473523

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