Clever & greedy
Provides a concise overview of brain evolution in early hominids and what appears to be barter behavior in chimps. Traces the rudiments of the human wealth orientation as it developed at Wadi Faynan, a prehistoric agrarian settlement, at the ancient town of Çatalhöyük, and at Uruk, a major Sumerian...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, NJ :
Films for the Humanities & Sciences,
c2004.
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| Summary: | Provides a concise overview of brain evolution in early hominids and what appears to be barter behavior in chimps. Traces the rudiments of the human wealth orientation as it developed at Wadi Faynan, a prehistoric agrarian settlement, at the ancient town of Çatalhöyük, and at Uruk, a major Sumerian trading city. Considers the transformative effect of farming, the commercial impact of obsidian, and the invention of proto-cuneiform as an accounting tool. |
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| Item Description: | "A BBC production"--Container. Originally broadcast as an episode of the BBC television program The road to riches on July 9, 2000. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (51 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | DVD-R. |
| Production Credits: | Camera, Tony Poole ; film editor, Bill Coates ; series editor, Barbara Want ; narrator, David Strahan. |