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About this book
Since taking their first steps on this planet, humans have changed the environment around them. Anthropocene: A New Introduction to World Prehistory tells the comprehensive story of human prehistory through the lens of anthropogenic environmental change. Each chapter explains how and why ancient humans transformed the Earth, linking prehistory to todays greatest global challenge. As they explore this record of the worlds early people and societies, authors Joy McCorriston and Julie Field reject the traditional account of cultural evolution, instead presenting a thematic organization that highlights our Anthropocene narrative. Chapters are devoted to cities and agriculture, but also to such topics as technology, extinction, food production, writing and extractivism. Chapter 9, Individuals and Identity, considers human identity and agency in more recent eras, and the book ends with a contemporary chapter that takes a hopeful look at the future.
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Table of contents
- Anthropocene: A New Introduction to World Prehistory
- 1. Archaeology and the Anthropocene
- 2. Discovering Diversity: Modern Human Origins
- 3. Technology Makes the Human: Stone, Metal, and Organic Material Culture
- 4. Peopling the World: Human Dispersals to Australia, the Americas, and the Pacific
- 5. Digging In: Responding to Climate Change in the American Southwest
- 6. Extinctions in the Past
- 7. Understanding Human Decisions: Evolutionary and Social Theory
- 8. Producing Food: Domestication and Its Consequences in Southwest and East Asia
- 9. Individuals and Identity: Agency in History
- 10. Feeding Cities: Urbanism and Agriculture
- 11. Building Monuments, Building Society: Collective Labor as Social Identity
- 12. Conspicuous Consumption: Feasts, Burials, and Sacrifice
- 13. Writing: A History of Access to Information
- 14. Extracting the Modern World: Fishing, Mining, and Slavery
- 15. The Future of the Anthropocene
- Glossary
- Sources of Quotations
- Sources of Illustrations
- Index