Bibliograph

Prehistory, written by Peter Chrisp

Type

Label

Prehistory, written by Peter Chrisp

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Prehistory

Oclc number

166872432

Responsibility statement

written by Peter Chrisp

Series statement

DK online

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

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

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