史前史：人类思维的形成（有声读物）

English | February 27, 2009 | ASIN: B001UFGDGY | M4B@64 kbps | 9h 1m | 246 MB

In Prehistory, the award-winning archaeologist and renowned scholar Colin Renfrew covers human existence before the advent of written records–which is to say, the overwhelming majority of our time here on earth. But Renfrew also opens up to discussion, and even debate, the term “prehistory” itself, giving an incisive, concise, and lively survey of the past, and how scholars and scientists labor to bring it to light.

Renfrew begins by looking at prehistory as a discipline, particularly how developments of the past century and a half–advances in archaeology and geology; Darwin’s ideas of evolution; discoveries of artifacts and fossil evidence of our human ancestors; and even more enlightened museum and collection curatorship–have fueled continuous growth in our knowledge of prehistory. He details how breakthroughs such as radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis have helped us to define humankind’s past–how things have changed–much more clearly than was possible just a half century ago. Answers for why things have changed, however, continue to elude us, so Renfrew discusses some of the issues and challenges past and present that confront the study of prehistory and its investigators.

In the book’s second part, Renfrew shifts the narrative focus, offering a summary of human prehistory from early hominids to the rise of literate civilization that is refreshingly free from conventional wisdom and grand “unified” theories. The author’s own case studies encompass a vast geographical and chronological range–the Orkney Islands, the Balkans, the Indus Valley, Peru, Ireland, and China–and help to explain the formation and development of agriculture and centralized societies. He concludes with a fascinating chapter on early writing systems, “From Prehistory to History.”

In this invaluable, brief account of human development prior to the last four millennia, Colin Renfrew delivers a meticulously researched and passionately argued chronicle about our life on earth, and our ongoing quest to understand it.

中文|2009年2月27日|ASIN:B001UFGDGY|M4B@64kbps|9h 1m|246 MB在《史前史》中，屡获殊荣的考古学家和著名学者科林·伦弗鲁（Colin Renfrew）讲述了文字记录出现之前的人类存在——也就是说，我们在地球上的绝大多数时间。但伦弗鲁也对“史前史”一词本身展开了讨论，甚至是辩论，对过去以及学者和科学家如何努力揭示它进行了深刻、简洁、生动的调查。 伦弗鲁首先将史前史视为一门学科，特别是过去一个半世纪的发展——考古学和地质学的进步；达尔文的进化论；发现我们人类祖先的文物和化石证据；更开明的博物馆和收藏策展人——推动了我们对史前史知识的不断增长。他详细介绍了放射性碳测年和DNA分析等突破如何帮助我们比半个世纪前更清楚地定义人类的过去——事情是如何变化的。然而，我们仍然无法回答为什么事情会发生变化，因此Renfrew讨论了史前研究及其研究人员过去和现在面临的一些问题和挑战。 在本书的第二部分中，伦弗鲁转移了叙事焦点，对人类史前史进行了总结，从早期的原始人到识字文明的兴起，这种文明摆脱了传统智慧和宏大的“统一”理论，令人耳目一新。作者自己的案例研究涵盖了广阔的地理和时间范围——奥克尼群岛、巴尔干半岛、印度河流域、秘鲁、爱尔兰和中国——并有助于解释农业和中央集权社会的形成和发展。他以一章引人入胜的早期书写系统“从史前到历史”作为结束 在这本关于过去四千年前人类发展的宝贵而简短的著作中，科林·伦弗鲁（Colin Renfrew）对我们在地球上的生活以及我们对理解它的持续探索进行了细致的研究和热烈的争论。

---

Download from free file storage

 Download from nitroflare.com  Download from ddownload.com

---

我要反馈

---

本站不对文件进行储存，仅提供文件链接，请自行下载，本站不对文件内容负责，请自行判断文件是否安全，如发现文件有侵权行为，请联系管理员删除。