lunes, 10 de enero de 2011
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
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Una de las sorpresas del pasado festival de Toronto ha sido que Werner Herzog hizo una película en 3D. No es, como podría pensarse, un sometimiento al sistema. Se trata más bien de un documental: Cave of Forgotten Dreams (La cueva de los sueños olvidados), producido por History Channel, en el cual el iconoclasta realizador alemán muestra las pinturas rupestres de Chauvet, descubiertas apenas en 1994. En la que es quizá su realización más convencional, de sentido incluso didáctico, Herzog acompaña a un grupo reducido de arqueólogos para filmar desde diversos ángulos, bajo luces especiales no generadoras de calor, las extraordinarias pinturas hechas por hombres de hace 30 mil años.
Relacionado: Archivo del noticiario
sábado, 8 de enero de 2011
The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
Gregory Cochran (Author), Henry Harpending (Author).
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Basic Books; First Trade Paper Edition edition (October 19, 2010).
Editorial Reviews:
Arguing that human genetic evolution is still ongoing, physicist-turned-evolutionary biologist Cochran and anthropologist Harpending marshal evidence for dramatic genetic change in the (geologically) recent past, particularly since the invention of agriculture. Unfortunately, much of their argument-including the origin of modern humans, agriculture, and Indo-Europeans-tends to neglect archaeological and geological evidence; readers should keep in mind that assumed time frames, like the age of the human species, are minimums at best and serious underestimates at worst...
Book review (January 7 2011):
A Prehistory of Ordinary People
Monica L. Smith (Author).
Paperback: 240 pages.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press (October 8, 2010).
Product Description:
For the past million years, individuals have engaged in multitasking as they interact with the surrounding environment and with each other for the acquisition of daily necessities such as food and goods. Although culture is often perceived as a collective process, it is individual people who use language, experience illness, expend energy, perceive landscapes, and create memories. These processes were sustained at the individual and household level from the time of the earliest social groups to the beginnings of settled agricultural communities and the eventual development of complex societies in the form of chiefdoms, states, and empires...
Related:
January 7 2011: Anthropology professor Monica Smith investigates multitasking as ancient ability in new book.
7-Dec-2010: Think multitasking is new? Our prehistoric ancestors invented it, UCLA book argues.
viernes, 7 de enero de 2011
Arqueozoología en el cantábrico oriental durante la transición pleistoceno/holoceno. La Cueva del Mirón
Ana Belén Marín Arroyo
Universidad de Cantabria
ISBN: 9788486116217
Serie: Serie Tesis Doctorales
Nº Edición: 1
Año de Edición: 2010
Páginas: 686
Tamaño: 170 x 240
Formato: Tapa blanda o Bolsillo
Precio: 25,00 €
Comprar: Une.es
miércoles, 5 de enero de 2011
Astronomos de la Prehistoria
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Prehistoric Astronomers: an English-language copy seems to be available for purchase.
Stars & Stones: CNN International Explores the Mystery of Armenia's Stonehenge
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Related: Stars & Stones 2010: Oxford University Expedition to Qarahunge, Armenia.