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Humans and their immediate ancestors were successful hunter-gatherers for hundreds of thousands of years, but in the last fifteen thousand years humans have gone from finding food to farming it, from seasonal camps to sprawling cities, from a few people to hordes. Drawing on her own fieldwork in the Mediterranean, Africa, Asia, and beyond, archeologist Brenna Hassett explores the long history of urbanization through revolutionary changes written into the bones of the people who lived it.
For every major new lifestyle, another way of dying appeared. From the "cradle of civilization" in the ancient Near East to the dawn of agriculture on the American plains, skeletal remains and fossils show evidence of shorter lives, rotten teeth, and growth interrupted. The scarring on human skeletons reveals that getting too close to animals had some terrible consequences, but so did getting too close to too many other people.
Each chapter of Built on Bones moves forward in time, discussing in depth humanity's great urban experiment. Hassett explains the diseases, plagues, epidemics, and physical dangers we have unwittingly unleashed upon ourselves throughout the urban past--and, as the world becomes increasingly urbanized, what the future holds for us. In a time when "Paleo" lifestyles are trendy and so many of us feel the pain of the city daily grind, this book asks the critical question: Was it worth it?
Humans and their immediate ancestors were successful hunter-gatherers for hundreds of thousands of years, but in the last fifteen thousand years humans have gone from finding food to farming it, from seasonal camps to sprawling cities, from a few people to hordes. Drawing on her own fieldwork in the Mediterranean, Africa, Asia, and beyond, archeologist Brenna Hassett explores the long history of urbanization through revolutionary changes written into the bones of the people who lived it.
For every major new lifestyle, another way of dying appeared. From the "cradle of civilization" in the ancient Near East to the dawn of agriculture on the American plains, skeletal remains and fossils show evidence of shorter lives, rotten teeth, and growth interrupted. The scarring on human skeletons reveals that getting too close to animals had some terrible consequences, but so did getting too close to too many other people.
Each chapter of Built on Bones moves forward in time, discussing in depth humanity's great urban experiment. Hassett explains the diseases, plagues, epidemics, and physical dangers we have unwittingly unleashed upon ourselves throughout the urban past--and, as the world becomes increasingly urbanized, what the future holds for us. In a time when "Paleo" lifestyles are trendy and so many of us feel the pain of the city daily grind, this book asks the critical question: Was it worth it?
Brenna Hassett is a biological anthropologist whose career has taken her around the globe, researching the past using the clues left behind in human remains. She has a PhD from University College London, where she is currently a researcher, and is also a Scientific Associate at the Natural History Museum, London. Brenna specialises in using clues from the human skeleton to understand how people lived and died in the past. Her research focuses on the evidence of health and growth locked into teeth to investigate how children grew (or didn't) across the world and across time.
Her first book- Built on Bones: 15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death, published by Bloomsbury - was well received by critics at the LA Times, the Guardian, and The Times, which named it one of the top 10 science books of the year. She followed this up with Growing Up Human: The Evolution of Childhood in 2022.
Brenna is a founding member of the TrowelBlazers Project, dedicated to increasing the visibility of women in the digging sciences.
Introduction: Nothing (but Flowers)
Chapter 1: Papa Was a Rolling Stone
Chapter 2: Feed Me (Seymour)
Chapter 3: What ' s New Pussycat?
Chapter 4: Revolution
Chapter 5: Power of Equality
Chapter 6: Oops Upside Your Head
Chapter 7: Under My Thumb
Chapter 8: War! What Is It Good For?
Chapter 9: Under Pressure
Chapter 10: Bring Out Your Dead
Chapter 11: Tainted Love
Chapter 12: Take This Job and Shove It
Chapter 13: Panic ...
Conclusion: Karma Police
Acknowledgements: Some of My Friends
Index
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
| Jahrhundert: | Vor- & Frühgeschichte |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | 320 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9781472922960 |
| ISBN-10: | 1472922964 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Hassett, Brenna |
| Hersteller: | Bloomsbury USA |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com |
| Maße: | 198 x 129 x 25 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Brenna Hassett |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 08.05.2018 |
| Gewicht: | 0,239 kg |
Brenna Hassett is a biological anthropologist whose career has taken her around the globe, researching the past using the clues left behind in human remains. She has a PhD from University College London, where she is currently a researcher, and is also a Scientific Associate at the Natural History Museum, London. Brenna specialises in using clues from the human skeleton to understand how people lived and died in the past. Her research focuses on the evidence of health and growth locked into teeth to investigate how children grew (or didn't) across the world and across time.
Her first book- Built on Bones: 15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death, published by Bloomsbury - was well received by critics at the LA Times, the Guardian, and The Times, which named it one of the top 10 science books of the year. She followed this up with Growing Up Human: The Evolution of Childhood in 2022.
Brenna is a founding member of the TrowelBlazers Project, dedicated to increasing the visibility of women in the digging sciences.
Introduction: Nothing (but Flowers)
Chapter 1: Papa Was a Rolling Stone
Chapter 2: Feed Me (Seymour)
Chapter 3: What ' s New Pussycat?
Chapter 4: Revolution
Chapter 5: Power of Equality
Chapter 6: Oops Upside Your Head
Chapter 7: Under My Thumb
Chapter 8: War! What Is It Good For?
Chapter 9: Under Pressure
Chapter 10: Bring Out Your Dead
Chapter 11: Tainted Love
Chapter 12: Take This Job and Shove It
Chapter 13: Panic ...
Conclusion: Karma Police
Acknowledgements: Some of My Friends
Index
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
| Jahrhundert: | Vor- & Frühgeschichte |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | 320 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9781472922960 |
| ISBN-10: | 1472922964 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Hassett, Brenna |
| Hersteller: | Bloomsbury USA |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com |
| Maße: | 198 x 129 x 25 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Brenna Hassett |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 08.05.2018 |
| Gewicht: | 0,239 kg |
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