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Author Sale, Kirkpatrick, author.

Title After Eden : the evolution of human domination / Kirkpatrick Sale
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (186 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents The dawn of modern culture : 70,000/50,000 years ago -- The conquest of Europe : 55,000/20,000 years ago -- Intensification and agriculture : 20,000/5,000 years ago -- The Erectus alternative : 1,800,000/30,000 years ago
Summary "In After Eden, Kirkpatrick Sale answers these questions in a radically new way. Integrating research in paleontology, archaeology, and anthropology, he points to the beginning of big-game hunting as the origin of Homo sapiens' estrangement from the natural world. Sale contends that a new, recognizably modern human culture based on the hunting of large animals developed in Africa some 70,000 years ago in response to a fierce plunge in worldwide temperature triggered by an enormous volcanic explosion in Asia. Tracing the migration of populations and the development of hunting thousands of years forward in time, he shows that hunting became increasingly adversarial in relation to the environment as people fought over scarce prey during Europe's glacial period between 35,000 and 10,000 years ago. By the end of that era, humans' idea that they were the superior species on the planet, free to exploit other species toward their own ends, was well established. Sale asserts that vestiges of a more ecologically sound way of life do exist today, offering redemptive possibilities for ourselves and for the planet."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-178) and index
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Subject Human evolution.
Paleoanthropology.
Environmental archaeology.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Evolution (Biology)
Anthropology.
Ecology.
Human beings.
Biological Evolution
Anthropology
Ecology
Environment
Humans
paleoanthropology.
evolution.
anthropology.
ecology.
Homo sapiens (species)
NATURE -- Animals -- Mammals.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Mammals.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Evolution (Biology)
Ecology
Anthropology
Environmental archaeology
Human evolution
Nature -- Effect of human beings on
Paleoanthropology
Mens en natuur.
Ecologie.
Sociale evolutie.
Jacht.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822388517
0822388510