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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453437903321

Autore

Bellwood Peter

Titolo

First migrants : ancient migration in global perspective / / Peter Bellwood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-118-32580-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Disciplina

930.1

Soggetti

Human beings - Migrations

Prehistoric peoples

Migrations of nations

Archaeology and history

Electronic books.

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

First Migrants: Ancient Migration in Global Perspective; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; A Note on Dating Terminology; Acknowledgements; 1 The Relevance and Reality of Ancient Migration; Migration in Prehistoric Times; Hypothesizing About Prehistoric Migrations; Migrations in History and Ethnography; The Helvetii; Ancient China; Medieval Iceland; The Nuer of Sudan; The Iban of Sarawak; Relevance for Prehistoric Migration?; Notes; 2 Making Inferences About Prehistoric Migration; Changes in Time and Space - Genes, Languages, Cultures; Human Biology, Genetics, and Migration

Demic DiffusionLanguage Families and the Study of Migration in Prehistory; Language Family Spread: Lessons from Recent History; Language Family Spread: Lessons from Anthropology; Dating the Spreads of Language Families; Cultures in Archaeology - Do They Equate with Linguistic and Biological Populations?; Archaeology and the Study of Migration in Prehistory; One End of the Spectrum - Intensive Culture Change without Significant Migration; The Other End of the Spectrum - Intensive Cultural Change with Significant Migration; Notes; 3 Migrating Hominins and the Rise of Our Own Species



Behavioral Characteristics and Origins of Early Hominins in AfricaFirst Hominin Migration(s) - Out of Africa 1; Unfolding Species in Time and Space; Java, Flores, and Crossing the Sea; Out of Africa 2?; Out of Africa 3? The Origins of H. sapiens; The Recognition of Modern Humans in Biology and Archaeology; The Expansion of Modern Humans Across the African and Eurasian Continents, 130,000-45,000 Years Ago; Africa; The Levant and Southern Asia; Northern and Western Eurasia; The Fate of the Neanderthals; Explanations?; Notes

4 Beyond Eurasia: The Pioneers of Unpeopled Lands - Wallacea and Beyond, Australia, The AmericasCrossing the Sea Beyond Sundaland; How Many Settlers?; The First Australo-Melanesians; The Archaeology of Island Colonization - Wallacea, Melanesia, Australia; Heading North and Offshore Again - Japan; The Americas; Getting to Beringia; Circumventing the Ice; The Rapid Unfolding of American Colonization; Notes; 5 Hunter-Gatherer Migrations in a Warming Postglacial World; Postglacial Recolonizations in Northern Eurasia; After the First Americans: Further Migrations Across Bering Strait

Na-Dene and YeniseianThe Apachean Migration; The Holocene Colonizations of Arctic Coastal North America; The Thule Migration and the Inuit; The Early Holocene Colonization of a Green Sahara; Continental Shelves and Their Significance for Human Migration; Holocene Australia - Pama-Nyungan Migration?; Linguistic Prehistory during the Australian Holocene; Who Were the Ancestral Pama-Nyungans?; Notes; 6 The First Farmers and Their Offspring; Where and When Did Food Production Begin?; Why Did Food Production Develop in Some Places, but Not Others?

Why Was Domesticated Food Production Relatively Slow to Develop?

Sommario/riassunto

The first publication to outline the complex global story of human migration and dispersal throughout the whole of human prehistory. Utilizing archaeological, linguistic and biological evidence, Peter Bellwood traces the journeys of the earliest hunter-gatherer and agriculturalist migrants as critical elements in the evolution of human lifeways. The first volume to chart global human migration and population dispersal throughout the whole of human prehistory, in all regions of the worldAn archaeological odyssey that details the initial spread of early humans out of Afric



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910149535003321

Autore

Didi-Huberman Georges

Titolo

Being a Skull [[electronic resource] ] : Site, Contact, Thought, Sculpture / / Georges Didi-Huberman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minnesota : , : Univocal, , [2016]

©[2016]

ISBN

1-945414-11-1

Edizione

[1st edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (98 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Collana

Univocal

Disciplina

700.4561

Soggetti

Skull in art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Being a box. Paul Richer and the cranial box -- Being an onion. Leonardo da Vinci and the depth of the skull -- Being a snail. Albrecht Durer and the "transfer" of human heads -- E^tre al^tre. "Psyche is extended and knows nothing" -- Being a river. Essere fiume : Penone, sculptor of altre -- Being a dig. Sculpture as material anamnesis : to do a dig -- Being a fossil. A sculpture whose task will be to touch thought -- Being a leaf. Sculpture works with traces rather than with objects -- Being a site. A site for getting lost, a site for disproving space and turning it upside down.

Sommario/riassunto

What would a sculpture look like that has as its task totouch thought?For the French philosopher and Art Historian, Georges Didi-Huberman, this is the central question that permeates throughout the work of Italian artist Giuseppe Penone. Through a careful study of Penone's work regarding a sculptural and haptic process of contact with place, thought, and artistic practice, Didi-Huberman takes the reader on a journey through various modes of thinking by way of being. Taking Penone's artwork "Being the river" as a thematic starting point, Didi-Huberman sketches a sweeping view of how artists through the centuries have worked with conceptions of the skull, that is, the mind, and ruminates on where thought is indeed located. From Leonardo da Vinci to Albrecht Dürer, Didi-Huberman guides us to the work of Penone and from there, into the attempts of a sculptor whose works strives totouch thought.What we uncover is a sculptor whose work



becomes a series of traces of thesite of thought. Attempting to trace, by way of a series offrottages,reports, and developments, this imperceptible zone of contact. The result is a kind of fossil of the brain: the site of thought, namely, the site for getting lost and for disproving space. Sculpting at the same time what inhabits as well as what incorporates us.