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Time-Life The Emergence of Man Series – The First Man.

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CONDITION: Light shelf wear, otherwise in Very Good to Like New condition.

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DESCRIPTION: Hardcover: 160 pages. Publisher: Time-Life Books Inc.; (1972).

The “Emergence of Man” series was released in the mid-1970’s. Each volume undertakes to describe the major events that happened in one specific time period in the development of mankind’s civilization(s). The volumes are richly illustrated, and designed as an introduction to the time frame covered. Especially compelling are the artists interpretations or recreations of what various ancient civilizations would have looked like – their architecture, homes, monuments, cities, daily life, jewelry, food, family life, dwellings, occupations, etc. As just one instance, the ruins of Babylon and Ur, Athens and Rome hint at the incredible richness of those fabled cities. The artist’s recreations in this series are simply mind- numbing. This is as close as you can be to actually having been there.

The entire series is truly a magnificent introduction to the history of the era. If you could have just one book (or series of books) to introduce the history of humankind, this would have to be it. The overviews are concise and well-written. Together with the illustration and pictures they impart a wonderful mental and emotional “picture” of what life must have been like in various civilizations and at various times. Done in a style so wonderfully characteristic of Time-Life’s publications, these are over-sized “coffee table” type books full of impressive imagery. The pictures of the world’s greatest art and architecture alone are worth the cost of these books. But don’t get the impression that these volumes are “fluff”. While a particular volume might not quite take the place as a university degree, the material is well-written, informative, and immensely intellectually gratifying, overview though it might be.

Some of the subject material included is enumerated below so as to give you an idea of the rich content:

CHAPTER ONE: The Great Innovator. Picture Essay: Fire, the Magic Tool (Stealing Flame from Nature. A Weapon to Overpower Foe or Prey. Cooking, a Revolution in Eating. The Hearth, Cradle of Language.). Homo Erectus: First to speak; to make clothes, build huts, inhabit cold areas, hunt big game, use fire. Homo Erectus fossil remains. Skeletal reconstructions: Australopithecus Africanus, Homo Erectus, Homo Sapiens. Skull/Jaw/Teeth/Brain Comparisons: Australopithecus Africanus, Homo Erectus, Homo Sapiens.

CHAPTER TWO: The Mystery of the First Men. Dutch anthropologist Eugene Debois discovers the first human fossils in 1891. A Boyhood of Cave Exploration. The Saint Pietersburg Cave: fossils, carved figures and symbols. To the Indies in Search of Fossils. A welcome in Java. A Riverbank Prize, the Remains of Earliest Man (Pithecanthropus Erectus and the Solo River). A Career Rewarded with Fame, Marred by Dispute. Franz Weidenreich and Peking Man. Choukoutien and Dragon Bone Hill. Peking Man, Asian Homo Erectus. Terra Amata: Homo Erectus on the Riviera. Man’s Earliest Architecture. The Maritime Alps: a Panorama of 400,000 BC.

CHAPTER THREE: The Hunter. Picture Essay: Unearthing a Scene of an Ancient Feast (First Step: Slicing a Trench into a Hillside. Wider Excavation of the Trench FOR A Full-Scale Dig. The Delicate Task of Freeing Long-Buried Relics. The Remains of an Erectus Hunt Brought to Light). The Hand Axe. Homo Erectus Baboon Hunters. Hunting Horses with Daggers. Hunting Elephants with Wooden Spears. Butchering with a Stone Cleaver. Scraping Hides with a Stone Sidescraper.

CHAPTER FOUR: The Gift of Language. Picture Essay: The Conquest of New Worlds to the North (Africa, Europe, Central Asia, China. Tanzania’s Olduvai and Australopithecine Ancestors. Middle East Crossroads, Turkey and the Balkans. Germany’s Heidelberg Man. A Land Bridge Across the Mediterranean? Spain, North Africa, and Gibraltar. China’s Lantienm and Choukoutien, A Malay Land Bridge to Java? India and the Himalaya Mountains). Speech Analysis with a Sound Spectrograph. Silent Signals that Aid Talking, New Guinea’s Sibiller Tribesmen. The Machinery of Speech; Nasal Cavity, Palate, Mouth, Pharynx, Larynx, Teeth, Tongue. The Controls of Speech and Brain Structure. The Sounds of Speech.

CHAPTER FIVE: The Birth of Human Society. Picture Essay: Present-Day Reminders of Earliest Man (A Tasaday Cave Home). The Helpless Infant, A Comparison Between the Human Child and the Chimpanzee. Evolving Social Contacts.

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Most of the items I offer come from the collection of a family friend who was active in the field of Archaeology for over forty years. However many of the items also come from purchases I make in Eastern Europe, India, and from the Levant (Eastern Mediterranean/Near East) from various institutions and dealers. Though I have always had an interest in archaeology, my own academic background was in sociology and cultural anthropology. After my retirement however, I found myself drawn to archaeology as well. Aside from my own personal collection, I have made extensive and frequent additions of my own via purchases on Ebay (of course), as well as many purchases from both dealers and institutions throughout the world - but especially in the Near East and in Eastern Europe. I spend over half of my year out of the United States, and have spent much of my life either in India or Eastern Europe. In fact much of what we generate on Yahoo, Amazon and Ebay goes to support The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, as well as some other worthy institutions in Europe connected with Anthropology and Archaeology.

I acquire some small but interesting collections overseas from time-to-time, and have as well some duplicate items within my own collection which I occasionally decide to part with. Though I have a collection of ancient coins numbering in the tens of thousands, my primary interest is in ancient jewelry. My wife also is an active participant in the "business" of antique and ancient jewelry, and is from Russia. I would be happy to provide you with a certificate/guarantee of authenticity for any item you purchase from me. There is a $2 fee for mailing under separate cover. Whenever I am overseas I have made arrangements for purchases to be shipped out via domestic mail. If I am in the field, you may have to wait for a week or two for a COA to arrive via international air mail. But you can be sure your purchase will arrive properly packaged and promptly - even if I am absent. And when I am in a remote field location with merely a notebook computer, at times I am not able to access my email for a day or two, so be patient, I will always respond to every email. Please see our "ADDITIONAL TERMS OF SALE."

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