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  • Methods for the Analysis of Stone Artefacts

    An Overview

    by Yvonne Tafelmaier, Guido Bataille, Viola Schmid, Andreas Taller, Manuel Will ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This essential gives an overview of current methods of analysis of stone artefacts ranging from attribute analysis of entire inventories to microscopic analyses of traces of use of individual artefacts. The presented approaches show the range of analysis of prehistoric stone artefacts in the German-speaking area. Simple examples of application illustrate the possibilities and limitations of each ... Read more

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  • A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans

    with A Theory of Meaning

    by Jakob von Uexküll ...
    Translated by Joseph D. O’Neil ...
    Series Book 12 - Posthumanities
    “Is the tick a machine or a machine operator? Is it a mere object or a subject?” With these questions, the pioneering biophilosopher Jakob von Uexküll embarks on a remarkable exploration of the unique social and physical environments that individual animal species, as well as individuals within species, build and inhabit. This concept of the umwelt has become enormously important within ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Language of Plants

    Science, Philosophy, Literature

    Edited by Monica Gagliano, John C. Ryan, Patrícia Vieira ...
    The eighteenth-century naturalist Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles) argued that plants are animate, living beings and attributed them sensation, movement, and a certain degree of mental activity, emphasizing the continuity between humankind and plant existence. Two centuries later, the understanding of plants as active and communicative organisms has reemerged in such diverse fields as plant ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Scientific and Technical Translation

    by Maeve Olohan ...
    Series series Routledge Translation Guides
    Routledge Translation Guides cover the key translation text types and genres and equip translators and students of translation with the skills needed to translate them. Concise, accessible and written by leading authorities, they include examples from existing translations, activities, further reading suggestions and a glossary of key terms.Scientific and Technical Translation focuses on texts ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Neanderthal Legacy

    An Archaeological Perspective from Western Europe

    by Paul A. Mellars ...
    The Neanderthals populated western Europe from nearly 250,000 to 30,000 years ago when they disappeared from the archaeological record. In turn, populations of anatomically modern humans, Homo sapiens, came to dominate the area. Seeking to understand the nature of this replacement, which has become a hotly debated issue, Paul Mellars brings together an unprecedented amount of information on the ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Not Just for Show

    The Archaeology of Beads, Beadwork, and Personal Ornaments

    Edited by Daniella Bar-Yosef Mayer, Alice M. Choyke ...
    Beads, beadwork, and personal ornaments are made of diverse materials such as shell, bone, stones, minerals, and composite materials. Their exploration from geographical and chronological settings around the world offers a glimpse at some of the cutting edge research within the fast growing field of personal ornaments in humanities’ past. Recent studies are based on a variety of analytical ... Read more

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  • Ontogeny and Phylogeny

    by Stephen Jay Gould ...
    “Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny” was Haeckel’s answer—the wrong one—to the most vexing question of nineteenth-century biology: what is the relationship between individual development (ontogeny) and the evolution of species and lineages (phylogeny)? In this, the first major book on the subject in fifty years, Stephen Jay Gould documents the history of the idea of recapitulation from its first ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Insect Media

    An Archaeology of Animals and Technology

    by Jussi Parikka ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    Since the early nineteenth century, when entomologists first popularized the unique biological and behavioral characteristics of insects, technological innovators and theorists have proposed insects as templates for a wide range of technologies. In Insect Media, Jussi Parikka analyzes how insect forms of social organization-swarms, hives, webs, and distributed intelligence-have been used to ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The First Farmers of Central Europe

    Diversity in LBK Lifeways

    Edited by Penny Bickle, Alasdair Whittle ...
    Series series Cardiff Studies in Archaeology
    From about 5500 cal BC to soon after 5000 cal BC, the lifeways of the first farmers of central Europe, the LBK culture (Linearbandkeramik), are seen in distinctive practices of longhouse use, settlement forms, landscape choice, subsistence, material culture and mortuary rites. Within the five or more centuries of LBK existence a dynamic sequence of changes can be seen in, for instance, the ... Read more

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  • Wild Things

    Recent advances in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic research

    Edited by Frederick W. F. Foulds, Helen C. Drinkall, Angela R. Perri, David T.G. Clinnick, James W.P. Walker ...
    Recently, Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology has been breaking boundaries worldwide. Finds such as the Mesolithic house at Howick, the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome, and the recently discovered footprints at Happisburgh all serve to indicate how archaeologists in these fields are truly at the cutting edge of understanding humanity’s past. This volume celebrates this trend by focusing ... Read more

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  • Bodies of Clay

    On Prehistoric Humanised Pottery

    Edited by Heiner Schwarzberg, Valeska Becker ...
    Since the earliest use of pottery, vessels have been associated with both the general shape and specific parts of the human body. The production of human-shaped pottery might be understood as one element of the spectrum of figural art in prehistoric communities. The idea of studying anthropomorphic pottery and the return of human beings into a body made of clay, which forms the core theme of this ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Into the woods

    Overlapping perspectives on the history of ancien forest

    by Sandrine Paradis-Grenouillet, Chantal Aspe, Sylvain Burri ...
    Series series Update Sciences & technologies
    This book reflects the diversity of current approaches and thinking and promotes interdisciplinarity as the only route to a comprehensive understanding of ancient forests as natural and cultural assets. ... Read more

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