Cambridge Illustrated History of Prehistoric Art:
Beautifully illustrated in color with many rare and unique photographs, prints, and drawings. Also considers what the art can tell us about the sexual, humorous, social, economic, and religious qualities of our ancestors. Covers body art, art on rocks and walls, and objects, but not architecture.
Cambridge Illustrated History of Prehistoric Art
Palaeolithic Societies of Europe:
Gleans evidence from stone tools, hunting, and campsites to draw a picture of the scale of social interaction and the forms of social life in Europe between 500,000 and 21,000 years ago. He examines the individual, society, and networks; locales, rhythms, and regions; Neanderthal societies from 300,000 to 60,000 years ago; the transition from Middle to Upper Palaeolithic from 60,000 to 21,000 years ago, and the extension of social life. Paperback
Palaeolithic Societies of Europe
Mother Nature:
Thorough, thoughtful, and clearly written…A trove of factual treasures… A cornucopia of data and ideas about the biology and behavior of mothers great and small. A profound contribution to our understanding of who we are as a species—and why we have become this way. Despite its academic leanings the book is a compelling, if sometimes harrowing, read...This is not just a book for mothers but one that will stimulate and challenge anyone interested in the relationship between parents and children.
Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species
Becoming Human:
Not only about evolution but about the meaning of our existence on this planet and our relationship to the living world. Tattersall breathes life into the human remains, searches the ancient sites for culture as well as fossils, and brings us cutting-edge research on other primates' "language," tool making, and social cooperation. What makes us really different, and what is the future of our species?
Taking the reader around the world, stopping in France to examine 30,000-year-old cave paintings, in Africa to see where our earliest ancestors left their bones, and in remote forests to spy on our closest relatives, the great apes, the author focuses on the big questions.
A full account of the creation of homo sapiens, and a comparative study of humanity with higher apes and our early hominid ancestors. Paperback
Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness
The Descent of Woman
This pioneering work, first published in 1972 and revised in 1985, was the first to argue, intelligently and irrefutably, the equal role of women in human evolution. The book's influence has been profound and lasting. Paperback
The Human Career:
Overview of evolutionary process; anatomically modern humans; geological time frame; evolution of behavior.
If you could only have one book that deals with human evolution, this is definitely the one to choose.
. . .A highly detailed, well-illustrated and accessible monograph. . . a remarkably well-written and surprisingly affordable book. . . .a work of extraordinary quality and is unquestionably a major accomplishment and an exceptional presentation of the scope of modern paleoanthropology.
The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins
Timewalkers:
with human evolution persistently seen as a movement from inferior to superior, primitive to advanced, simple to complex, "Timewalkers" extricates prehistory from the myths and distortions created by this view of the past. . . an enormous depth and breadth of information in a clean and often witty style. . . . a fresh and frankly provocative synthesis of the archaeology of the last three million years. In this book Clive Gamble challenges the established view that the social life of Europeans over the 500,000 years of the European Palaeolithic must remain a mystery.
Timewalkers: The Prehistory of Global Colonization
Red Queen:
Is mankind naturally polygamous like most of our ape relatives? Are men and women mentally different as well as physically, and if so why? Why do people share so many sexual habits with swallows? Are our notions of human beauty arbitrary, or is there method in them? . . . draws on a wide range of sources (which he notes and annotates) to present some biological (unromantic) reasons behind seduction and sexism, beauty and polygamy, attraction and adultery. Extensively researched, clearly written/ For the lay audience.
Paperback
Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
Primal Myths: Creation Myths Around the World
The most comprehensive collection of creative myths ever assembled.
Making Silent Stones Speak; Human Evolution and the Dawn of Technology
The author, a British anthropologist and archaeologist, asserts that fundamental issues about world prehistory go unexamined. Paperback,351pp
The Scars of Evolution:
Elaine Morgan, author of The Descent of Woman and The Aquatic Ape, maintains that the human propensity for lower back pain, obesity, varicose veins, and other chronic conditions is the result of an earlier need for humans to survive a watery environment.
The Scars of Evolution: What Our Bodies Tell Us about Human Origin
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Travel through time to an ancient world from the comfort of your living room. Join us as we explore the dawn of civilization, when people huddled around a fire to keep away the beasts of the night. This section is about the beginnings of the human race, where and how we appeared on the scene, what we were like, and the hardships and struggles we faced. Explore the earliest-known civilizations and cultures. Discover what it was like to be a Cro-Magnon hunter or an artist painting by candlelight in the dark recesses of a cave.
Extinct Humans:
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