Origins and Revolutions : Human Identity in Earliest Prehistory (Hardcover)

Acknowledgments; Part I. Steps to the Present: Prologue: the longest of long revolutions; 1. The neolithic revolution; 2. The human revolution; 3. Metaphors for origins; Part II. The Material Basis of Identity: 4. Bodies, instruments and containers: 5. The accumulation and enchainment of identity; 6. Consuming and fragmenting people and things; Part III. Interpreting Change: 7. A prehistory of human thechnology: 3 million to 5000 thousand years ago; 8. Did agriculture change the world?; Epilogue: the good upheaval.