Prehistory /
Published by : DK Pub., (New York, N.Y. :) Physical details: 95 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 29 cm. ISBN:9780756634612 (hardcover); 075663461X (hardcover). Year: 2008Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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W. Ross Macdonald School Library General Stacks | Non-fiction | 930.1 CHR (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Copy: 1 | Available | 2014-1282 |
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Includes index.
What is prehistory? -- Evidence from the past -- Discovering prehistory -- Evolution -- The first steps -- The first toolmakers -- The first humans -- Neanderthals -- Cro-Magnon people -- How did we get here? -- The first artists -- Mammoth hunters -- Settling Australia -- After the ice age -- The first farmers -- The invention of pottery -- Catal Hoyuk -- Mesopotamia : the first cities -- Egypt :the first state -- Indus -- The first Chinese farmers -- The first Chinese civilizations -- The megalith builders -- Standing stones -- Flint mining -- The copper age -- Bronze-age Europe -- The Minoans -- Mycenae -- The coming of iron -- The first American farmers -- Pueblo and mound-builders -- Mesoamerica -- The Maya -- Early South American civilizations -- Empires of the Andes -- Steppe nomads -- Arctic people -- Peopling the Pacific -- Toward history.
Explores various aspects of prehistory and provides instructions on how to find additional information via the DK online website by using keywords in the book.
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