PREHISTORY - Colin Renfrew Read Robert Ian MacKenzie {FerraBit} torrent

Category: Education
Language: English
Keywords: Chronicles Human Library Mind Modern Prehistory
by Colin Renfrew
Read by Robert Ian MacKenzie

Prominent archaeologist Renfrew reviews the field’s history and poses questions about its future in this précis. Summarizing archaeology’s beginnings, he notes how speculations gave way to factual foundations through the application of systematic and scientific methods of excavation and interpretation. Nothing has been more important than dating with radioactive elements, which, joined by genetic analysis, permits the establishment of a general chronology of human origins. The most profound question to arise from that achievement, Renfrew stresses, is how to explain “the sapient paradox,” the lag of 100,000 years between the emergence of anatomically modern human beings and the earliest material traces of symbolic thought. The question in turn opens avenues of contemporary research with jargon-like names such as material engagement theory and cognitive archaeology, the meanings of which Renfrew delivers with estimable clarity. Beefing up such terms with discoveries in exciting archaeological regions such as Central America, Renfrew projects a vibrancy to the contemporary study of the human past prior to literacy that should attract to the subject readers with an intrinsic or potentially professional interest.

Publisher . : Recorded Books / Borders (2009) #C5043
ISBN . . . .: ISBN-10: ISBN-13: 9781436192231
Format . . .: MP3. 129 tracks, 353 MB
Bitrate . . : ~90 kbps (iTunes 9, VBR, mono, 44 kHz)
Source . . .: 8 CDs (9.25 hours)