Bøger af Steven Mithen

The propensity to make music is the most mysterious, wonderful, and neglected feature of humankind. In this book, Mithen explores music as a fundamental aspect of the human condition, encoded into the human genome during the evolutionary history of our species.

"After the Ice" is the story of a momentous period when a seemingly minor alteration in temperature could presage anything from the spread of lush woodland to the coming of apocalyptic floods--and one which contains the origins of civilization itself.

This is a physical and historical journey round one of Scotland's most historically significant islands by the New York Times bestselling author of The Singing Neanderthals, After the Ice and Thirst: Water and Power in the Ancient World.