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100 1 a| Colwell, Chipq| (John Stephen),d| 1975-e| author.=| ^A715798;

245 10 a| So much stuff :b| how humans discovered tools, invented meaning, and made more of everything /c| Chip Colwell.;

246 30 a| How humans discovered tools, invented meaning, and made more of everything;

264 1 a| Chicago :b| The University of Chicago Press,c| 2023.;

300 a| 323 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| On the origin of things : an introduction -- Leap 1 : make tools. First things first; The matter at hand; Everything under the sun -- Leap 2 : make meaning. A thing of beauty; Articles of faith; Dress coded -- Leap 3 : make more. In the thick of things; A material world; Too much of a good thing.;

520 a| "To be human means to need things. Even more human is to need more and more of them. In this engaging, charming book, archaeologist, curator, and writer Chip Colwell takes us around the world, covering topics as wide-ranging as the dawn of tool making, the earliest cave paintings, the complexities of clothing, the Industrial Revolution, the torrent of gizmos invented to bring us closer and supposedly make our lives easier, and, finally, the mountains of unwanted stuff in dumps. Along the way, he raises questions such as: Why is a treasured keepsake sacred to one person but meaningless to another? What do we go through when we clean out the belongings of the dearly departed? And what is the point of storing things in museums? The book is organized around three historical phases: (1) the invention of tools; (2) the dawn of the belief that things mean something beyond their immediate use (around 50,000 years ago); and (3) the Industrial Revolution and the age of mass consumption. Colwell takes us on a tour across millions of years to explain how humans have arrived at this moment-a world that both requires things and is suffering because of them"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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So much stuff : how humans discovered tools, invented meaning, and made more of everything / Chip Colwell.

Author/creator	Colwell, Chip, 1975- author.
Format	Book
Publication	Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2023.
Description	323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects	Material culture--History. Culture matérielle--Histoire.

Portion of title	How humans discovered tools, invented meaning, and made more of everything
Contents	On the origin of things : an introduction -- Leap 1 : make tools. First things first; The matter at hand; Everything under the sun -- Leap 2 : make meaning. A thing of beauty; Articles of faith; Dress coded -- Leap 3 : make more. In the thick of things; A material world; Too much of a good thing.
Abstract	"To be human means to need things. Even more human is to need more and more of them. In this engaging, charming book, archaeologist, curator, and writer Chip Colwell takes us around the world, covering topics as wide-ranging as the dawn of tool making, the earliest cave paintings, the complexities of clothing, the Industrial Revolution, the torrent of gizmos invented to bring us closer and supposedly make our lives easier, and, finally, the mountains of unwanted stuff in dumps. Along the way, he raises questions such as: Why is a treasured keepsake sacred to one person but meaningless to another? What do we go through when we clean out the belongings of the dearly departed? And what is the point of storing things in museums? The book is organized around three historical phases: (1) the invention of tools; (2) the dawn of the belief that things mean something beyond their immediate use (around 50,000 years ago); and (3) the Industrial Revolution and the age of mass consumption. Colwell takes us on a tour across millions of years to explain how humans have arrived at this moment-a world that both requires things and is suffering because of them"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other form	Online version: Colwell, Chip (John Stephen), 1975- So much stuff. Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 2023 022680156X
LCCN	2023009339
ISBN	9780226801421 (cloth)
ISBN	022680142X
ISBN	(ebook)

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