1st Edition

The Identity of Man as seen by an archaeologist

By Grahame Clark Copyright 1983
194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1982 in the Identity of Man Professor Clark considers a problem which has puzzled men from the authors of the books of the Old Testament to Charles Darwin and his successors: how to reconcile the animal appetites of men with their awareness of gods and their intimations of immortality. What is it that differentiates us most decisively from the other Primates? He argues that... Read more

List of illustrations Acknowledgements Preface 1. Introduction 2. Men and Primates in Fossils and in life 3. Approaches to Archaeology 4. The Genesis of cultural diversity 5. The findings of ethnography 6. High culture in hierarchical societies 7. Homogenization and dehumanization References Index

Biography

Grahame Clark