Title:
The past in perspective : an introduction to human prehistory / Kenneth L. Feder, Central Connecticut State University.
Author:
Feder, Kenneth L., author.
Publication Information:
New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]
© 2017, 2014, 2011, 2010 by Oxford University Press.
Call Number:
GN766 .F43 2019
Edition:
Eighth Edition.
ISBN:
9780190059934
Physical Description:
xxviii, 612 pages : illustraions; 24 cm.
Contents:
Encountering the past -- Probning the past -- African roots -- The human lineage -- The first humans: the evolution of Homo sapiens -- Expanding intellectual horizons: art and ideas in the Upper Paleolithic and late Stone Age -- Expanding geographic horizons: new worlds -- After the ice: the food-producing revolution -- Roots of complexity: the origins of civilization -- An explosion of complexity: Mesopotamia, Afirca, and Europe -- An explosion of complexity: the Indus Valley and China -- An explosion of complexity: Mesoamerica -- An explosion of complexity: South America -- An explosion of complexity: North America.
Personal Author:
