Climate, Clothing, and Agriculture in Prehistory
Linking Evidence, Causes, and Effects
Author: Ian Gilligan
The first book on the origin of clothes shows why climate change was crucial - for the origin of agriculture too.
This book offers the first complete account of the development of clothing as a response to cold exposure during the ice ages. It is aimed at advanced undergraduates and graduates in courses on prehistory, in which climate variation and the origins of agriculture, clothing, and shelter are all important topics.
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The first book on the origin of clothes shows why climate change was crucial - for the origin of agriculture too.
This book offers the first complete account of the development of clothing as a response to cold exposure during the ice ages. It is aimed at advanced undergraduates and graduates in courses on prehistory, in which climate variation and the origins of agriculture, clothing, and shelter are all important topics.
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Clothing was crucial in human evolution, and having to cope with climate change was as true in prehistory as it is today. In Climate, Clothing, and Agriculture in Prehistory, Ian Gilligan offers the first complete account of the development of clothing as a response to cold exposure during the ice ages. He explores how and when clothes were invented, noting that the thermal motive alone is tenable in view of the naked condition of humans. His account shows that there is considerably more archaeological evidence for palaeolithic clothes than is generally appreciated. Moreover, Gilligan posits, clothing played a leading role in major technological innovations. He demonstrates that fibre production and the advent of woven fabrics, developed in response to global warming, were pivotal to the origins of agriculture. Drawing together evidence from many disciplines, Climate Clothing, and Agriculture in Prehistory is written in a clear and engaging style, and is illustrated with nearly 100 images.
About the Author
Ian Gilligan, one of the world's leading authorities on the origins of clothing, holds university degrees in medicine, psychology, prehistoric archaeology and biological anthropology, and is an Honorary Associate in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Sydney. He has authored a book on the clothing of Australian Aborigines and his work has been published and cited in numerous scientific journals.
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