The Ancient Near East: A History

This textbook is a competent source with an excellent attractiveness for examine and scholarship. The authors are renowned and the hot version encompasses a gigantic updating of the cloth. perfect for undergraduate reports in old heritage and historical past of the close to east, the ebook is usually acceptable 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 presents the single really global account of human prehistory from the earliest instances throughout the earliest civilizations.  Written in an obtainable manner, humans of the Earth exhibits how state-of-the-art assorted humanity built biologically and culturally over hundreds of thousands of years opposed to a heritage of continuous climatic swap.

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

As an archaeologist with basic study and coaching event in North American arid lands, i've got regularly came upon the ecu Stone Age distant and impenetrable. My preliminary advent, in the course of a survey direction on international prehis­ tory, validated that (for me, no less than) it consisted of extra cultures, dates, and named device varieties than any undergraduate should need to consider.

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

Seize your transportable time computer and trigger on a guided travel during the finest components of historical heritage. discover historic secrets and techniques: How are mummies made? the place does chinese language silk come from? examine forgotten rituals: jump over a Minoan bull, vote in an old Greek election, and turn into a jaguar warrior.