1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910133601103321

Titolo

Human bioarchaeology of the transition to agriculture / / edited by Ron Pinhasi, Jay T. Stock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-119-95668-4

1-283-17500-2

9786613175007

0-470-67018-5

0-470-67017-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (506 p.)

Classificazione

6,11

Disciplina

930.1

Soggetti

Human remains (Archaeology)

Agriculture - Origin

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Human Bioarchaeology of the Transition to Agriculture; Contents; Foreword; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction: Changing Paradigms in Our Understanding of the Transition to Agriculture: Human Bioarchaeology, Behaviour and Adaptation; SECTION A: Subsistence Transitions; SECTION B: Growth and Body Size Variation; SECTION C: Biomechanics and Indicators of Habitual Activity; SECTION D: Archaeogenetics, Palaeodemography, Cranial and Dental Morphology; Index; Colour Plates

Sommario/riassunto

A holistic and comprehensive account of the nature of the transition from hunting to farming in prehistory. It addresses for the first time the main bioarchaeological aspects such as changes in mobility, behaviour, diet and population dynamics. This book is of major interest to the relevant audience since it offers for the first time a global perspective on the bioarchaeology of the transition to agriculture. It includes contributions from world-class researchers, with a particular emphasis



on advances in methods (e.g. ancient DNA of pathogens, stable isotope analysis, etc.).  The book

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910965876703321

Titolo

The active consumer : novelty and surprise in consumer choice / / edited by Marina Bianchi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1998

ISBN

1-134-69381-8

1-280-42901-1

9786610429011

0-203-02291-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Collana

Routledge frontiers of political economy

Altri autori (Persone)

BianchiMarina

Disciplina

658.8/342

Soggetti

Consumption (Economics)

Consumer behavior

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; CONTENTS; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Choice without utility?; 3 Economic change, choice and innovation in consumption; 4 Taste for novelty and novel tastes; 5 Cognition and innovation; 6 The organization of consumption; 7 Consumer goals as journeys into the unknown; 8 Work and the sirens of consumption in eighteenth-century London; 9 Silk purses out of sows' ears'; 10 Novelty, imitation and habit formation in a Scitovskian model of consumption; 11 Consumption in postmodernity; 12 On the consumption of signs; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Active Consumer discusses how consumers seem to delight in trying new solutions and exploring new combinatory possibilities. This book provides an economic-theoretical understanding of this phenomenon and the many ways in which innovation can structure consumer choice. The authors show from different points of view how central novelty can be in consumer behaviour, how it relates to



technical change and how new consumer capabilities are developed and organized.