{"product_id":"a-prehistory-of-ordinary-people-monica-l-smith-9780816526956","title":"A Prehistory of Ordinary People","description":"For the past million years, individuals have engaged in multitasking as they interact with the surrounding environment and with each other for the acquisition of daily necessities such as food and goods. Although culture is often perceived as a collective process, it is individual people who use language, experience illness, expend energy, perceive landscapes, and create memories. These processes were sustained at the individual and household level from the time of the earliest social groups to the beginnings of settled agricultural communities and the eventual development of complex societies in the form of chiefdoms, states, and empires. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Even after the advent of \"civilization\" about 6,000 years ago, human culture has for the most part been created and maintained not by the actions of elites-as is commonly proclaimed by many archaeological theorists-but by the many thousands of daily actions carried out by average citizens. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With this book, Monica L. Smith examines how the archaeological record of ordinary objects-used by ordinary people-constitutes a manifestation of humankind's cognitive and social development. \u003ci\u003eA Prehistory of Ordinary People\u003c\/i\u003e offers an impressive synthesis and accessible style that will appeal to archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, and others interested in the long history of human decision-making.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Monica L. Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816526958\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816526956\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arizona Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.99h x 6.07w x 0.57d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2011 pg. 68","brand":"Monica L. Smith","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947330207999,"sku":"9780816526956","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_56a8728a-786a-45dd-987e-5b288a7502a2.jpg?v=1681518081","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-prehistory-of-ordinary-people-monica-l-smith-9780816526956","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}