The Ancient Near East: A History

This textbook is a competent source with a great recognition for examine and scholarship. The authors are renowned and the recent variation incorporates a monstrous updating of the fabric. perfect for undergraduate reviews in historical historical past and background of the close to east, the booklet can be applicable as a complement for teachers instructing corresponding sections or chapters in international historical past or Western Civilization.

People of the Earth: An Introduction to World Pre-History (13th Edition)

This across the world popular textual content offers the single really global account of human prehistory from the earliest occasions in the course of the earliest civilizations.  Written in an obtainable approach, humans of the Earth exhibits how modern assorted humanity built biologically and culturally over thousands of years opposed to a history of continuous climatic switch.

A Hunter-Gatherer Landscape: Southwest Germany in the Late Paleolithic and Mesolithic (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology)

As an archaeologist with fundamental learn and coaching event in North American arid lands, i've got consistently stumbled on the ecu Stone Age distant and impenetrable. My preliminary creation, in the course of a survey path on global prehis­ tory, confirmed that (for me, at the least) it consisted of extra cultures, dates, and named device kinds than any undergraduate should need to keep in mind.

The Time Travelers' Handbook: A Wild, Wacky, and Wooly Adventure Through History!

Seize your transportable time computer and trigger on a guided journey in the course of the best elements of historical historical past. discover historical secrets and techniques: How are mummies made? the place does chinese language silk come from? study forgotten rituals: bounce over a Minoan bull, vote in an historic Greek election, and turn into a jaguar warrior.