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

This the world over well known textual content presents the one really global account of human prehistory from the earliest instances during the earliest civilizations.  Written in an obtainable manner, humans of the Earth exhibits how contemporary varied humanity constructed 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 learn and coaching event in North American arid lands, i've got consistently chanced on the eu Stone Age distant and impenetrable. My preliminary creation, in the course of a survey direction on global prehis­ tory, demonstrated that (for me, not less than) it consisted of extra cultures, dates, and named device varieties than any undergraduate should need to take into account.

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

Seize your moveable time computing device and trigger on a guided travel in the course of the best elements of old background. discover historical 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 historic Greek election, and turn into a jaguar warrior.

Cyril of Alexandria (The Early Church Fathers)

As a ruler of the church of Alexander and president of the 3rd Ecumenical Council of 431, Cyril used to be the most strong males of the 5th century. not just did he outline the idea that of christological orthodoxy for the following centuries, yet he's additionally frequently considered as an unscrupulous cleric who used to be chargeable for the homicide of the feminine thinker Hypatia and for the overthrow of the archbishop Nestorius.