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Title:
Prehistory : the making of the human mind / Colin Renfrew.
Author:
Renfrew, Colin, 1937-
Publication Information:
New York : Modern Library, 2009.
Call Number:
GN740 .R46 2009
Abstract:
In this invaluable, brief account of human development prior to the last four millennia, Colin Renfrew delivers a meticulously researched and passionately argued chronicle about our life on earth, and our ongoing quest to understand it.
Edition:
Modern library paperback ed.
ISBN:
9780812976618
Series:
A Modern Library chronicles book ; v. 30

Modern Library chronicles ; 30.
Physical Description:
xiii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
General Note:
"Originally published in the United Kingdom in hardcover by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, in 2007, and subsequently in the United States in hardcover by Modern Library ... in 2008"--Title page verso.
Contents:
Part I: The discovery of prehistory -- The idea of prehistory -- Mapping the human past: Prehistory before 1940 -- Dating: the radiocarbon revolution -- The possibility of world prehistory -- Part II: The prehistory of mind -- The sapient paradox -- Toward a prehistory of mind -- Constructing the community -- Worldly goods -- Appropriating the cosmos -- From prehistory to history -- Prospect: the future of prehistory.
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