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Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind
Professor Lord Colin Renfrew
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Description for Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind
Paperback. A brief and original prehistory of the world Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 262.
A brief and original prehistory of the world
Prehistory covers human existence before written records, i.e. most of human existence. But it also refers to the discipline through which we scrutinize prehistoric times. PREHISTORY begins by looking at the discovery of a remote human past and the subsequent dramatic growth of the study of prehistory: early archaeology; geology; Darwin's ideas of evolution; cave paintings; fossil discoveries of human ancestors; museums and collections; radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis.
Renfrew challenges the conventional assumption of an all-important 'human revolution' 40,000 years ago - when Homo Sapiens first appeared in Europe ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
225g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780753824276
SKU
V9780753824276
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About Professor Lord Colin Renfrew
Professor Lord Renfrew was born in 1937 in Stockton-on-Tees. He was Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge University 1981-2004, where he is now director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. A Fellow of the British Academy, he has won numerous international medals and prizes and was made a life peer in 1991. He is known for his work on the ... Read more
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A wonderfully concise and authoritative summary of research into this enormous subject
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