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This richly illustrated book documents San material culture through the words of four San elders in conversation with two academics. Their discussion, over seven days, of the world's largest collection of San artefacts provides a novel perspective that enriches scholarly knowledge and brings past and present San ways of life vividly alive.

San (African people) --- Material culture

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A number of researchers have tried to characterise the anatomy and behavioural systems of early hominid and early modern human populations in an attempt to understand how we became what we are. Can archaeology, palaeo-anthropology and genetics tell us how and when human cultures developed the traits that make our societies different from those of our closest living relatives? In which cases are these differences substantial, and when do they simply reflect our definitions of culture, species, the image we have of their evolution or of ourselves? From Tools to Symbols, a collection of twenty-seven selected papers from a South African-French conference organised in honour of the well-known palaeo-anthropologist Phillip Tobias, provides a multidisciplinary overview of this field of study. It is based on collaborative research conducted in sub-Saharan Africa by South African, French, American and German scholars in the last twenty years, and represents an excellent synthesis of the palaeontological and archaeological evidence of the last five million years of human evolution.

Hominids --- Paleoclimatology --- Hominidés --- Paléoclimatologie --- Tobias, Phillip Vallentine --- Tobias, Phillip V. --- Festschrift - Libri Amicorum --- Hominidés --- Paléoclimatologie --- Geologic climate --- Palaeoclimatology --- Paleoclimate --- Climatic changes --- Climatology --- Great apes --- Hominians --- Hominidae --- Homininae --- Hominins --- Homonids --- Man-like primates --- Pongidae --- Apes --- Primates --- Tobias, P. V.

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Les sites archéologiques de la vallée de l'Indus en témoignent : l'artisanal des perles en cornaline remonte à plusieurs millénaires. De nos jours, il se pratique encore dans quelques rares endroits comme en Inde dans la ville de Cambay (Gujarat) qui offre au chercheur une occasion unique de construire des référentiels. Dans ce but, des méthodes d'enquête appropriées ont été élaborées. Elles aboutissent à des régies interprétatives portant sur les processus techniques, les habiletés de taille, le techno-système. Il s'ensuit une interprétation des perles de l'Indus et de la Mésopotamie en termes de production et de réseaux de distribution. Interprétations fondées qui permettent de nouvelles hypothèses sur la fonction de certaines perles et sur les conditions de leur apparition. L'ouvrage est accompagné d'un cédérom (Mac-PC). La totalité des constructions scientifiques y est présentée selon un mode d'édition qui permet une lecture rapide des résultats ainsi que la consultation d'une très importante base de données (photos, films, graphiques, tableaux). The archaeological sites of the Indus Valley show that the craft of carnelian bead-making goes back several thousands of years. 'Ibday it is still racticed in a few rare places, such as the Indian city of Cambay (Gujarat), ofiering a unique opportunity for researchers to construct a modern reference base. With this objective in mind, appropriate investigative methods were developed. They have resulted in interpretative rules relating to technical processes, knapping skills, and the teclmo-system. These rules enable us to interpret the beadsfrom Indus and Mesopotamia in terms of production and distribution networks. These welltfounded interpretations allow the formulation of new hypotheses concerning thefitnction of certain beads and the conditions of their appearance. This book comes with a PC /Mac compatible CD-Rom. Scientific constntcts are presented in aformalized wayfin quick access to the main results as well as…

Indian handicrafts --- Beads --- Beadwork --- Indus civilization. --- Gems. --- History. --- India --- Antiquities. --- Harappa culture --- Harappan civilization --- Harappan culture --- Indus Saraswati civilization --- Indus Saraswati Valley civilization --- Indus Valley civilization --- Indus Valley culture --- Beading (Fancy work) --- Fancy work --- Inde --- vallée de l’Indus --- gemmes --- archéologie