{"product_id":"anthropocene-9780500052143","title":"Anthropocene","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA groundbreaking new textbook that brings a highly topical, environmental perspective to the story of how humans have shaped the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I love the inclusive nature of its content in terms of global prehistory – it covers geographies and cultures that are often neglected in the teaching of archaeology' - James Taylor, University of York\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Archaeology and the Anthropocene\u003c\/b\u003e What Is the Anthropocene? • The Perspective of Archaeology • Polynesia and the North Atlantic: Islands as Laboratories • Methods: Survey and Excavation • How Have Humans Made Their World?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2. Discovering Diversity: Modern Human Origins \u003c\/b\u003e Diversity of Humans: Homo sapiens and Neanderthals • Modern Humans • Lascaux Cave and the Human Experience of the Ice Age • Additional Human Experiences in the Ice Age • Human Culture Begins to Shape the Anthropocene • Protecting Cultural Diversity\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eGlobal Timeline 1: Human Origins and Migrations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3. Technology Makes the Human: Stone, Metal, and Organic Material Culture\u003c\/b\u003e Stone Tools and the Discovery of Time • The Mechanics of Flintknapping • Stone Tools as Evidence of Human Adaptation • Metalworking, a New Technology for Communities •  Perishable Technologies: Revelations from the Iceman • Technology, the Environment, and the Anthropocene\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4. Peopling the World: Human Dispersals to Australia, the Americas, and the Pacific\u003c\/b\u003e Inhabiting Australia • Human Dispersals in the Americas • Inhabiting the Pacific • Methods: Archaeological Survey • Peopling and the Anthropocene \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGlobal Timeline 2: People and Societies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5. Digging In: Responding to Climate Change in the American Southwest\u003c\/b\u003e The American Southwest • Methods: Excavation • The Colorado Plateau and the Chaco Phenomenon • Understanding Ancient Pueblo Society: Broken K Pueblo • Other People of the Southwest • The Southwest and the Changing Environment\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003e6. Extinctions in the Past\u003c\/b\u003e Big Game Hunters: The Clovis People • Radiocarbon Dating • The Spread of Clovis • Hunting Megafauna • Mastodons and the Role of a Changing Environment • South America: The Giant Ground Sloth • The Role of Humans in Extinction Events\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e7. Understanding Human Decisions: Evolutionary and Social Theory\u003c\/b\u003e Bison Hunters of the American Great Plains • Zooarchaeology • Bison Hunting and Butchering in Context • South Pacific: Conflict and Fortification in Fiji • Europe: Deciding With or Against a Community in St. Kilda • The Amazon: Decision-Making Today\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e8. Producing Food: Domestication and Its Consequences in Southwest and East Asia\u003c\/b\u003e Southwest Asia: The First Settlements • What Led to the Development of Farming? • Archaebotany and the Evidence for Food Production • Domestication: A Two-Way Process • China: Independent Domestication and Rice • The Consequences of Farming • The Critical Role of the Community in Food Production \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eGlobal Timeline 3: Domestication\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e9. Individuals and Identity: Agency in History\u003c\/b\u003e Studying Identity • Mesoamerica: The Aztecs • Cortés and La Malinché •  Textiles, Identity, and Gender • Bioarchaeology • Inequality and Structural Violence in Prehistory • Agency, Identity, and the Anthropocene\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e10. Feeding Cities: Urbanism and Agriculture\u003c\/b\u003e Mesoamerica: Discovering the Maya • Maize and the Maya • The Maya City •  Southeast Asia: Irrigation and Agriculture at Angkor • The State • The Environmental Perils of Intensification • Cities, Surplus, and the Elite\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e11. Building Monuments, Building Society: Collective Labor as Social Identity\u003c\/b\u003e Monuments and Landscapes • Ancient Egypt: Building the Egyptian State • Monuments Among Mobile Communities • Stonehenge and the Pastoralist Landscape of Neolithic Britain •  North America: The Hopewell Earthworks \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e12. Conspicuous Consumption: Feasts, Burials, and Sacrifice\u003c\/b\u003e Chiefs and Hoards • Feasting • Residue Analysis • Reciprocity • The Ultimate Sacrifice: Human • Europe: The Burial of Viking and Anglo-Saxon Ships • Is Conspicuous Consumption Inevitable?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e13. Writing: A History of Access to Information\u003c\/b\u003e Writing in Many Contexts • Writings of the Maya • Writings of the Sumerians • Ancient Chinese Writing • Alphabetic Writing • Preservation of Writing Systems • Without Writing: Systems of Notation • North Africa and Arabia: Literacy without Settlement • Writing and the Anthropocene\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e14. Extracting the Modern World: Fishing, Mining, and Slavery\u003c\/b\u003e Extractivism, Markets, and the Environment • Fishing and Maritime Extractivism • Underwater Archaeology • Extracted Minerals in the New World • Extracting People: The Slave Trade • Extractivism and the Anthropocene\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e15. The Future of the Anthropocene\u003c\/b\u003e The Challenges Ahead • Extinctions and Increasing Diversity • Population Growth •  Fossil-Fuel Consumption and Innovation • Understand Your Agency \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eGlossary  Sources of Quotations\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Sources of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402754040151,"sku":"9780500052143","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/anthropocene-9780500052143","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}