Steven Mithen
Author
Language
English
Description
As an archaeologist, Steven Mithen has worked on the Hebridean island of Islay over a period of many years. In this book he introduces the sites and monuments and tells the story of the island's people from the earliest stone age hunter-gatherers to those who lived in townships and in the grandeur of Islay House. He visits the tombs of Neolithic farmers, forts of Iron Age chiefs and castles of medieval warlords, discovers where Bronze Age gold was...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A top scholar reveals the most complete picture to date of how early human speech led to the languages we use today? The invention of language began with the apelike calls of our earliest ancestors. Today, the world is home to thousands of complex languages. Yet exactly how, when, and why this evolution occurred has been one of the most enduring--and contentiously debated--questions in science. In The Language Puzzle, renowned archaeologist Steven...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The propensity to make music is the most mysterious, wonderful, and neglected feature of humankind. In this book, Mithen explores music as a fundamental aspect of the human condition, encoded into the human genome during the evolutionary history of our species.