TY - BOOK ID - 103615295 TI - Deep history, climate change, and the evolution of human culture PY - 2022 SN - 1009257331 100925734X 1009257374 1009257358 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Human evolution. KW - Culture KW - Climatic changes. KW - History. KW - Origin. KW - Annals KW - Auxiliary sciences of history KW - Changes, Climatic KW - Changes in climate KW - Climate change KW - Climate change science KW - Climate changes KW - Climate variations KW - Climatic change KW - Climatic changes KW - Climatic fluctuations KW - Climatic variations KW - Global climate changes KW - Global climatic changes KW - Climatology KW - Climate change mitigation KW - Global environmental change KW - Teleconnections (Climatology) KW - Origin of culture KW - Civilization KW - Evolution (Biology) KW - Physical anthropology KW - Evolutionary psychology KW - Human beings KW - Environmental aspects KW - History KW - Origin UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:103615295 AB - This Element follows the development of humans in constantly changing climates and environments from Homo erectus 1.9 million years ago, to fully modern humans who moved out of Africa to Europe and Asia 70,000 years ago. Biosemiotics reveals meaningful communication among coevolving members of the intricately connected life forms on this dynamic planet. Within this web hominins developed culture from bipedalism and meat-eating to the use of fire, stone tools, and clothing, allowing wide migrations and adaptations. Archaeology and ancient DNA analysis show how fully modern humans overlapped with Neanderthals and Denisovans before emerging as the sole survivors of the genus Homo 35,000 years ago. Their visions of the world appear in magnificent cave paintings and bone sculptures of animals, then more recently in written narratives like the Gilgamesh epic and Euripides' Bacchae whose images still haunt us with anxieties about human efforts to control the natural world. ER -