The language puzzle: how we talked our way out of the Stone Age - Brossura

Mithen, Steven

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1800811608 ISBN 13: 9781800811607

Casa editrice: Faber and Faber, 2025

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A groundbreaking new account of prehistory from one of the most esteemed archaeologists working today

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Steven Mithen is Professor of Early Prehistory at the University of Reading. He previously studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and the Universities of Sheffield, York and Cambridge, before joining the University of Reading. An award-winning archaeologist, Steven Mithen specialises in prehistoric hunter-gatherers and the earliest Neolithic farmers, with long-term field projects in southern Jordan and western Scotland. He is a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books, New York Review of Books, New Scientist and the Guardian and has authored over 200 academic articles and books, including The Singing Neanderthals and After the Ice. He was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2004.

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The relationship between language, thought and culture is of concern to anyone with an interest in what it means to be human.

The Language Puzzle explains how the invention of words at 1.6 million years ago began the evolution of human language from the ape-like calls of our earliest ancestors to our capabilities of today, with over 6000 languages in the world and each of us knowing over 50,000 words.

Drawing on the latest discoveries in archaeology, linguistics, psychology, and genetics, Steven Mith

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Faber and Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1800811608
• ISBN 13: 9781800811607
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 544
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