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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 December 2015
    15 November 2012
    ISBN:
    9781139481410
    9781108054843
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139481410
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    Weight & Pages:
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.65kg, 516 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Prehistory, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Archaeology: General Interest, Archaeology, Anthropology
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology
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    Subjects:
    Prehistory, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Archaeology: General Interest, Archaeology, Anthropology
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology
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    The Scottish archaeologist and anthropologist Daniel Wilson (1816–92) spent the latter part of his life in Canada. Published in 1862, this is a seminal work in the study of early man in which Wilson utilises studies of native tribes 'still seen there in a condition which seems to reproduce some of the most familiar phases ascribed to the infancy of the unhistoric world'. He believed that civilisations initially developed in mild climates and judged the Mayans to have been the most advanced civilisation in the New World. Twentieth-century anthropologist Bruce Trigger argued that Wilson 'interpreted evidence about human behaviour in a way that is far more in accord with modern thinking than are the racist views of Darwin and Lubbock', and it is in this light that this two-volume work can be judged. Volume 1 covers such important areas as the development and use of metals and 'the architectural instinct'.

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