Climate, clothing, and agriculture in prehistory : linking evidence, causes, and effects
Ian Gilligan
Bok · Engelsk · 2019
| Omfang | xx, 326 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Utgave | First edition
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| Opplysninger | What separates us from nature? -- A wider view -- When agriculture once made sense -- Time to forget about food, and remember naked people -- An unusual evolutionary history -- Natural climate change -- Naked in a colder world -- When naked is hot and not -- Climate change and clothing -- Our natural nakedness -- The common thread -- An invisible invention -- Women's work is never seen -- The definition of clothing -- Clothing and human uniqueness -- No return to nature -- Climate change and the invention of clothes -- Trouble with the transience of clothing -- The science of early clothing -- Complex clothing and modern life -- The origin of nakedness -- Naked is not necessarily sexy -- Neoteny and loss of body hair -- The thermal theory and its problems -- Stand up and stay cool -- How long have we been naked? -- Nakedness and dark skin -- Getting pubic lice from gorillas -- Naked before the ice age -- Global Cooling -- A wobbly theory -- Chilling out in the Pleistocene -- Ice age or cold age? -- Measuring the cold with isotopes -- Why it got colder in the Northern Hemisphere -- A bigger chill in higher latitudes -- Why it got windy as well -- Measuring past wind chill levels -- Rapid climate swings -- Averages and extremes -- Sunny but freezing -- Cold facts and naked truths -- The limits of cold tolerance -- Hypothermia -- Not drowning on the Titanic -- Frostbite and the shrinking penis -- Acclimatization and its limits -- Getting into shape for the cold -- Clothes can make us feel colder -- The unusual hypothermia of Australian Aborigines. - "For someone who has no interest in clothes at a personal level and virtually no knowledge of fashion, it is strange that I had to write a book about clothing. There are two reasons why this happened. First, my real motivation is trying to understand how humans came to be the most unusual species on this planet. A long time ago, in High School I was reading the novel Lord of The Flies by William Golding when something struck me about that allegorical tale. The fate of the boys marooned on a tropical island during a nuclear holocaust rang true, but I was bothered by something that did not seem to make sense. If we are products of evolution, a tendency towards self-destruction is an unlikely outcome of our evolutionary inheritance. I think Golding, like many others, was inclined to put it down to a conflict between our civilized state and our animal nature"--
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| Emner | Agriculture, Prehistoric - Environmental aspects
Climatic changes Clothing and dress, Prehistoric - Environmental aspects Human beings - Effect of climate on Vis mer... Prehistoric peoples - Clothing
Textile fabrics, Prehistoric Forhistorisk tid Jordbruk Klima Klimaendringer Klær Oldtiden arkeologi tekstilporduksjon |
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| ISBN | 978-1-108-45519-0. - 978-1-108-47008-7
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