@book {1664,
	title = {Origins and Revolutions: Human Identity in Earliest Prehistory},
	year = {2007},
	pages = {352},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {New York},
	abstract = {<p>In this innovative study, Clive Gamble presents and questions two of the most famous descriptions of change in prehistory. The first is the "human revolution," when evidence for art, music, religion and language first appears. The second is the economic and social revolution of the Neolithic period. Gamble identifies the historical agendas behind "origins research" and presents a bold new alternative to these established frameworks, relating the study of change to the material basis of human identity.He examines, through artefact proxies, how changing identities can be understood using embodied material metaphors and in two major case-studies charts the prehistory of innovations, asking, did agriculture really change the social world? This is an important and challenging book that will be essential reading for every student and scholar of prehistory. Cover Half-title Title Copyright Contents Figures and Tables List Acknowledgements Part I Steps to the present Prologue The longest of long revolutions Chapter 1 The Neolithic RevolutionChapter 2 The Human Revolution Chapter 3 Metaphors for origins Summary to part i Three revolutions in Originsland Part II The material basis of identity Chapter 4 Bodies, instruments and containersChapter 5 The accumulation and enchainment of identity Chapter 6 Consuming and fragmenting people and things Summary to part ii Raising the bar Part III Interpreting change</p>
},
	keywords = {Art, economic revolution, human revolution, Language, Music, prehistory, Religion, social revolution},
	isbn = {9780521860024},
	url = {http://lccn.loc.gov/2006023259},
	author = {Gamble, Clive}
}
