Films for the Humanities and Sciences - Clever and Greedy: Wealth-Building, 8,000 BC to 650 BC

Clever and Greedy: Wealth-Building, 8,000 BC to 650 BC

Beginning with a concise overview of brain evolution in early hominids and what appears to be barter behavior in chimps, this program traces the rudiments of the human wealth orientation as it developed at Wadi Faynan, a prehistoric agrarian settlement; at the ancient town of Çatal Höyük; and at Uruk, a major Sumerian trading city. Host Peter Jay; Cambridge University’s Nicholas Postgate; Hans Nissen, of the Free University of Berlin; archaeologist Steven Mithen; and others consider the transformative effect of farming, the commercial impact of obsidian, and the invention of proto-cuneiform as an accounting tool. A BBC Production. (51 minutes)

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Item#: BVL11260
Copyright date: ©2000
VHS ISBN 978-0-7365-3093-4
DVD ISBN 978-1-4213-7001-9

Part of the Series : The Road to Riches: The History of Wealth-Building


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