Clive Gamble, John Gowlett, Robin Dunbar

Thinking Big

How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind

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Produktbeschreibung

From Stone Age networks to Digital Age networking, this book explores the ancient origins of our social lives today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 131mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 234g
• ISBN-13: 9780500293829
• ISBN-10: 0500293821
• Artikelnr.: 48502164

Autorenporträt

Clive Gamble is a British archaeologist and anthropologist, and Professor of Archaeology at Southampton University. He has been described as the 'UK's foremost archaeologist investigating our earliest ancestors'.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface . 1. Psychology Meets Archaeology . 2. What It Means to Be Social .
3. Ancient Social Lives . 4. Ancestors With Small Brains . 5. Building the
Human Niche: Three Crucial Skills . 6. Ancestors with Large Brains . 7.
Living in Big Societies