Prehistoric Man 2 Volume Set
Researches into the Origin of Civilisation in the Old and the New World
Published on 15. November 2012
Book
1026 pages
978-1-108-05486-7 (ISBN)
Description
The Scottish archaeologist and anthropologist Daniel Wilson (1816-92) spent the latter part of his life in Canada. Published in 1862, this is a seminal work in the study of early man in which Wilson utilises studies of native tribes 'still seen there in a condition which seems to reproduce some of the most familiar phases ascribed to the infancy of the unhistoric world'. He believed that civilisations initially developed in mild climates and judged the Mayans to have been the most advanced civilisation in the New World. Twentieth-century anthropologist Bruce Trigger argued that Wilson 'interpreted evidence about human behaviour in a way that is far more in accord with modern thinking than are the racist views of Darwin and Lubbock', and it is in this light that this two-volume work can be judged.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
2 Plates, color; 1 Maps; 69 Line drawings, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
1302 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-05486-7 (9781108054867)
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Daniel Wilson
Prehistoric Man
Researches into the Origin of Civilisation in the Old and the New World
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11/2012
Cambridge University Press
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Daniel Wilson
Prehistoric Man
Researches into the Origin of Civilisation in the Old and the New World
Book
11/2012
Cambridge University Press
€57.20
Shipment within 15-20 days
Content
Volume 1: Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. The old world and the new; 3. The primeval occupation: speech; 4. The primeval transition: instinct; 5. The Promethean instinct: fire; 6. The maritime instinct: the canoe; 7. The technological instinct: tools; 8. The metallurgic instinct: copper; 9. The metallurgic arts: alloys; 10. The architectural instinct: earthworks; 11. The hereafter: sepulchral mounds; 12. Propitiation: sacrificial mounds; 13. Commemoration: symbolic mounds; 14. Progress: native civilisation; 15. The artistic instinct: imitation. Volume 2: 16. Narcotic arts and superstitions; 17. Primitive architecture: megalithic; 18. The ceramic art: pottery; 19. The intellectual instinct: letters; 20. Ante-Columbian traces: colonization; 21. The American cranial type; 22. Artificial cranial distortion; 23. The red blood of the West; 24. The intrusive races; 25. Ethnographic hypotheses: migrations; 26. Guesses at the age of man; Appendix.