Climate, clothing, and agriculture in prehistory : linking evidence, causes, and effects
| 1. Verfasser: |
Gilligan, Ian
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2019.
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| Ausgabe: | First edition. |
| Umfang/Format: |
xx, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- What separates us from nature?
- A wider view
- When agriculture once made sense
- Time to forget about food, and remember naked people
- An unusual evolutionary history
- Natural climate change
- Naked in a colder world
- When naked is hot and not
- Climate change and clothing
- Our natural nakedness
- The common thread
- An invisible invention
- Women's work is never seen
- The definition of clothing
- Clothing and human uniqueness
- No return to nature
- Climate change and the invention of clothes
- Trouble with the transience of clothing
- The science of early clothing
- Complex clothing and modern life
- The origin of nakedness
- Naked is not necessarily sexy
- Neoteny and loss of body hair
- The thermal theory and its problems
- Stand up and stay cool
- How long have we been naked?
- Nakedness and dark skin
- Getting pubic lice from gorillas
- Naked before the ice age
- Global Cooling
- A wobbly theory
- Chilling out in the Pleistocene
- Ice age or cold age?
- Measuring the cold with isotopes
- Why it got colder in the Northern Hemisphere
- A bigger chill in higher latitudes
- Why it got windy as well
- Measuring past wind chill levels
- Rapid climate swings
- Averages and extremes
- Sunny but freezing
- Cold facts and naked truths
- The limits of cold tolerance
- Hypothermia
- Not drowning on the Titanic
- Frostbite and the shrinking penis
- Acclimatization and its limits
- Getting into shape for the cold
- Clothes can make us feel colder
- The unusual hypothermia of Australian Aborigines.
