Architecture of first societies : a global perspective /
"Starting with the dawn of human society, through early civilizations, to the pre-Columbian American tribes, Architecture of First Societies: A Global Perspective traces the different cultural formations that developed in various places throughout the world to form the built environment. Lookin...
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| Định dạng: | Sách |
| Ngôn ngữ: | English |
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
Wiley,
2013
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Mục lục:
- Introduction
- Part one : Foundations
- The human world
- Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene societies
- Savanna and forest peoples today
- The great northern continuum : part I
- The great northern continuum : part II
- The mound and plaza societies of the Americas
- Plants, animals, and rituals
- The first agro-pastoral perspectives
- Part two : transitions
- Village and chiefdom worlds
- Expansion into Europe
- Emergence of Central and South American agriculture societies
- Cattle-tending societies
- The world of portable architecture
- The oceanic horticultural continuum
- African transformations
- Agro-centrism in North America
- Coda : encounters with modernity
- Index.