Thinking Big by Clive Gamble
From Stone Age networks to Digital Age networking, this book explores the ancient origins of our social lives today.
'An important, provocative essay on human evolution, argued with great eloquence and skill' - Current Archaeology
'A triumph of collaboration, as well as a gripping detective story' - New Statesman
'A dramatic demolition of the “stones and bones” approach to archaeology' - New Scientist
'Retains the Thames & Hudson tradition of thinking clearly, and writing well … You will not read a more important book this year' - Minerva
'An important piece of work … anyone with an interest in early human and pre-human society should add to their reading list' - Popular Science Books blog
'Compelling' - The Lady
'‘An important piece of work … anyone with an interest in early human and pre-human society should add to their reading list' - Popular Science Books blog
'A triumph of collaboration, as well as a gripping detective story' - New Statesman
'A dramatic demolition of the “stones and bones” approach to archaeology' - New Scientist
'Retains the Thames & Hudson tradition of thinking clearly, and writing well … You will not read a more important book this year' - Minerva
'An important piece of work … anyone with an interest in early human and pre-human society should add to their reading list' - Popular Science Books blog
'Compelling' - The Lady
'‘An important piece of work … anyone with an interest in early human and pre-human society should add to their reading list' - Popular Science Books blog
Clive Gamble is a British archaeologist and anthropologist, and Professor of Archaeology at Southampton University. He has been described as the 'UK’s foremost archaeologist investigating our earliest ancestors'. John Gowlett is Professor of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at Liverpool University. He is involved in fieldwork in eastern and southern Africa. Robin Dunbar is a British anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist specialised in primate behaviour. He is currently head of the Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience Research Group in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. He is best known for formulating Dunbar's number, a measurement of the 'cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable relationships'.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780500293829 |
| ISBN 10 | 0500293821 |
| Title | Thinking Big |
| Author | Clive Gamble |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Year published | 2018-01-18 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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