Egypt
Oxford University Press
What Makes Civilization? The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West
David Wengrow
- Book Review: What Makes Civilization?
Aardvarchaeology (Martin Rundkvist) What Makes Civilization? David Wengrow Oxford University Press 2010 Reviewing David Wengrow's What Makes Civilization? is made difficult by the discrepancy between its title and its contents. Out of about 240 pp...
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- Rosetta Online Journal - Issue 02 2007
http://www.rosetta.bham.ac.uk/Issue_02/Gregory.htm The Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity at the University of Birmingham released the second issue of the online journal "Rosetta" which covers a wide scope of archaeology, history and classics subjects....
- Book Review: The Archaeology Of Early Egypt
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prehistoric/reviews/06_08_wengrow.htm A detailed review by Alice Stevenson of David Wengrow's The Archaeology of Early Egypt: "The Archaeology of Early Egypt is ambitious in scope covering the period from the end of the last Ice...
- Book: The Archaeology Of Early Egypt
http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521543746 Thanks to Geoffrey Tassie for the information that a new book on early Egypt is forthcoming: The Archaeology of Early Egypt: Social Transformations in North East Africa, 10,000 to 2650 BC...
Egypt
New Book: What Makes Civilization
Oxford University Press
What Makes Civilization? The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West
David Wengrow
Description
Renowned archaeologist David Wengrow creates here a vivid new account of the "birth of civilization" in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, bringing together within a unified history the first two nations where people created cities, kingdoms, and monumental temples to the gods. But civilization, Wengrow argues, is not exclusively about large-scale settlements and endeavors. Just as important are the ordinary but fundamental practices of everyday life, such as cooking, running a home, and cleaning the body. Tracing the development of such practices, from prehistoric times to the age of the pyramids, Wengrow reveals unsuspected connections between distant regions and provides new insights into the workings of societies we have come to regard as remote from our own. The book obliges us to recognize that civilizations are not formed in isolation, but through the mixing and borrowing of culture between different societies. It concludes by drawing telling parallels between the ancient Near East and more contemporary attempts to reshape the world according to an ideal image.
More details of the book are available on the above page and, if you missed it in an earlier post, Wengrow's own comments on his book are available on the OUP Blog.
- Book Review: What Makes Civilization?
Aardvarchaeology (Martin Rundkvist) What Makes Civilization? David Wengrow Oxford University Press 2010 Reviewing David Wengrow's What Makes Civilization? is made difficult by the discrepancy between its title and its contents. Out of about 240 pp...
- Heritage Branding - Cleopatra's Cosmetics And Hammurabi's Heineken
EurekAlert From at least Bass Ale’s red triangle—advertised as “the first registered trademark”—commodity brands have exerted a powerful hold over modern Western society. Marketers and critics alike have assumed that branding began in the West...
- Rosetta Online Journal - Issue 02 2007
http://www.rosetta.bham.ac.uk/Issue_02/Gregory.htm The Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity at the University of Birmingham released the second issue of the online journal "Rosetta" which covers a wide scope of archaeology, history and classics subjects....
- Book Review: The Archaeology Of Early Egypt
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prehistoric/reviews/06_08_wengrow.htm A detailed review by Alice Stevenson of David Wengrow's The Archaeology of Early Egypt: "The Archaeology of Early Egypt is ambitious in scope covering the period from the end of the last Ice...
- Book: The Archaeology Of Early Egypt
http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521543746 Thanks to Geoffrey Tassie for the information that a new book on early Egypt is forthcoming: The Archaeology of Early Egypt: Social Transformations in North East Africa, 10,000 to 2650 BC...