Exploring the Humanities Volume 1 Creativity and Culture in the West

Name: Exploring the Humanities Volume 1 Creativity and Culture in the West
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ISBN: 9780130490957

ISBN-10: 0130490954

ISBN-13: 9780130490957

Edition: 2006

Authors: Laurie Schneider Adams, Laurence King Publishing Limited Staff

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Introduction to the Humanities, Volume Oneprovides a comprehensive, color and illustration-filled compilation of the history of civilization. Volume One encompasses the development of art, culture, society, architecture and religion during prehistory and the ancient Near East through the Renaissance periods. The volume provides extensive social and cultural background material reinforced with fascinating information on key persons, events, ideas and inventions of the time period to provides readers with a lsquo;you are therersquo; experience. Cross-Cultural Influence features highlight influences exchanged between different cultures to give readers a look at contact and artistic exchanges…

Book details

List price: $119.80
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 12/6/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 375
Size: 8.50" wide x 10.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.750
Language: English




Prehistory


Key Topics Introduction Society and Culture: The Dating System Used in this Text Time Chart


Human Origins: From Myth to Science


Creation Stories


Darwin and the Theory of Evolution


The Nature of Prehistory


Society and Culture: The Study of Human Prehistory


Society and Culture: Dating Prehistory


Society and Culture: Major Periods of Human Evolution


Defining Moment: Bipedalism


Society and Culture: Important Developmental Steps in Early Human History


What Makes Us Human


Symbolic Thinking


Creative Arts


Shamanism


The Upper (Late) Paleolithic Era in Western Europe:c. 45,000-c. 10,000/8000 B.C


Mesolithic to Neolithic in Western Europe:c. 10,000/8000-6000/4000 B.C


The Neolithic Era:c. 6000/4000-c. 1500 B.C


Stonehenge


Thematic Parallels: Shamanism in Non-Western Imagery


Australian Dreaming


Shamanistic Imagery in Africa


The Anishnabe Drum


Key Terms Key Questions Suggested Reading Suggested Films


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