Around 3000 BCE, a turning point occurred in Europe: Long-existing regional societies entered into a process of transformation. The result is a world in which new global communication networks brought different regions closer together. From 3200/3100 BCE, the Globular Amphora phenomenon (GA) was the trailblazer in Eastern and Central Europe. Due to a focus on pastoral subsistence, in comparison to more agrarian economic systems, new ritual practices formed in light of a more flexible form of ...

Across Western Asia, the astonishing increase in the availability of durable ceramic containers in the seventh millennium BCE had significant societal repercussions – so much so that vital social, economic, and symbolic activities became dependent upon the availability of pottery containers. These early ceramic containers, however, established themselves alongside flourishing pre-existing container traditions, with vessels made in a wide range of materials including clay, bitumen, basketry,...

This book is intended to be a groundwork of how to theorise prehistory and archaeology and how to make connectivities between the past and the present. It is divided into four parts. The first part is epistemological. It explains why there must be theoretical investments if past ways of human life are to be understood and explained. This insight is specified to a ladder-model (sensu Hawkes) with conceptual scaffoldings on each step. Stepwise, sets of concepts are introduced. This constitutes ...

This monograph examines a set of questions concerning human and nonhuman primate cognition, spatial memory, foraging behavior, and the ability of monkeys to form mental maps of the location and distribution of feeding and resting sites.

Two primary forms of spatial memory have been hypothesized for primates. First, it has been suggested that primates might represent spatial memory in the form of a coordinate-based (geometric) map in which points in the landscape are stored as true coordinates...

In the 21st century we need a new philosophy as opposed to the old philosophy: a philosophy of man or philosophical anthropology. The importance of a new philosophy of man is that it addresses people all over the world, thus helping us to overcome our differences. And if we look a bit further into the world of the 21st century, we see that the most pressing project will be the search for meaning in the lives of human beings in a globalised world. Following the complete existential deconstruct...

Yavoi Kusama is one of the most important post-war and contemporary artists, with exhibitions all over the world. Her work is not only of historical importance, it also appeals to a young and broad audience, and defies art concepts such as Minimal and Pop Art.

This publication provides an overview of Küsama's earliest performative activities, staged especially for the camera, with previously unpublished photos.

Naked and painted with dots, dressed in her self-designed fashion, posing in the ...

The question, really, is not who or what Rikste van Witzenburg-Meijer was.

My great-aunt; black sheep; adventuress; sartorial icon; party animal; truck driver; firewoman during the London Blitz; among the crew of a crashing Catalina; or passenger on the SS Rimutaka - core of the most heavily armed and longest-distance convoy of World War II.

The question is why she was who and what she was. Why did she become a self-declared journalist on the ocean liner JP Coen in 1927? Why did she marry qu...

Are you tired of being stuck in the mundane routine of a 9-to-5 job? Do you crave a more flexible and balanced lifestyle that allows you to be your own boss? Well, look no further than "Unshackled: How to Become a Lifestyle Entrepreneur."

This comprehensive guide is your ultimate resource for lifestyle entrepreneurship. It's packed with practical strategies, real-life success stories, and valuable insights on various freelance opportunities, such as graphic design, consulting, and e-commerce....

The correspondence of two men for a decade, when youngsters met each other in the sixties, remained friends up to the age of founding families and now at old age, create an image of them in getting-older-times.

Here are letters for one decade from 2012 to somewhere 2021. It starts with their meeting in 1969, recorded by memory and diary, and then jumps to a continuation of email-stream as presented here, which starts in 2012. It was a time of books, music, politic instabilities, loves, famil...

“On the balcony of life – Part I: what negative emotions are and how they work” and “On the balcony of life – Part II: what positive emotions are and how they work” form a revolutionary diptych that will now finally help you understand what your emotions are and how they work... Timmer walks you in two times 92 simple steps through every single pure and every single vile aspect of both all your negative and all your positive emotions, that you’ve been through in your life up til...