This Element follows the development of humans in constantly changing climates and environments from Homo erectus 1.9 million years ago, to fully modern humans who moved out of Africa to Europe and Asia 70,000 years ago. Biosemiotics reveals meaningful communication among coevolving members of the i...

Full description

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Westling, Louise 1942- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2022
Series:	Cambridge elements
Subjects:	Human evolution Culture / Origin Climatic changes History Mensch Klimaänderung Entwicklung
Online Access:	BSB01 UBG01 Volltext
Summary:	This Element follows the development of humans in constantly changing climates and environments from Homo erectus 1.9 million years ago, to fully modern humans who moved out of Africa to Europe and Asia 70,000 years ago. Biosemiotics reveals meaningful communication among coevolving members of the intricately connected life forms on this dynamic planet. Within this web hominins developed culture from bipedalism and meat-eating to the use of fire, stone tools, and clothing, allowing wide migrations and adaptations. Archaeology and ancient DNA analysis show how fully modern humans overlapped with Neanderthals and Denisovans before emerging as the sole survivors of the genus Homo 35,000 years ago. Their visions of the world appear in magnificent cave paintings and bone sculptures of animals, then more recently in written narratives like the Gilgamesh epic and Euripides' Bacchae whose images still haunt us with anxieties about human efforts to control the natural world
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Aug 2022) Who Are We? -- Life Emerges -- Hominin Emergence -- Homo Sapiens Appears -- Monumental Architecture, Towns, and Cultural Separation from Wildness -- Conclusion
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (70 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781009257343
DOI:	10.1017/9781009257343