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Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind

Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind

Renfrew, Colin

Paperback

Series: Modern Library Chronicles

ArchaeologyAncient History GeneralGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0812976614
ISBN13: 9780812976618
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: Aug 11 2009
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.02
Language: English
In Prehistory, the award-winning archaeologist and renowned scholar Colin Renfrew covers human existence before the advent of written records-the overwhelming majority of our time here on earth-and gives an incisive, concise, and lively survey of the past, and of how scholars and scientists labor to bring it to light.

Renfrew begins by looking at prehistory as a discipline, detailing how breakthroughs such as radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis have helped us to define humankind's past-how things have changed-much more clearly than was possible just a half century ago. As for why things have changed, Renfrew pinpoints some of the issues and challenges, past and present, that confront the study of prehistory and its investigators. Renfrew then offers a summary of human prehistory from early hominids to the rise of literate civilization that is refreshingly free of conventional wisdom and grand unified theories.

In this invaluable account, Colin Renfrew delivers a meticulously researched and passionately argued chronicle about our life on earth-and our ongoing quest to understand it.

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