Clever & greedy
By: produced and directed by Adam Salkeld
Contributors: Jay, Peter, 1937-; British Broadcasting Corporation; Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 51
Subjects: Prehistoric Economics; Economic history
Other titles: Clever and greedy : ; Clever and greedy; Wealth-building, 8000 BC to 650 BC; Road to riches (Television program)
Description: 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 Catalhoyuk, 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.
Notes: "A BBC production"--Container.

Originally broadcast as an episode of the BBC television program The road to riches on July 9, 2000.

Camera, Tony Poole ; film editor, Bill Coates ; series editor, Barbara Want ; narrator, David Strahan.

Host, Peter Jay.

DVD-R.