The Ancient Near East: A History

This textbook is a competent source with a great attractiveness for study and scholarship. The authors are renowned and the recent version incorporates a giant updating of the fabric. perfect for undergraduate reviews in old historical past and historical past of the close to east, the ebook can be acceptable as a complement for teachers educating corresponding sections or chapters in global heritage or Western Civilization.

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

This across the world popular textual content offers the one actually global account of human prehistory from the earliest instances in the course of the earliest civilizations.  Written in an obtainable method, humans of the Earth indicates how present day diversified humanity constructed 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 adventure in North American arid lands, i've got continuously came across the ecu Stone Age distant and impenetrable. My preliminary advent, in the course of a survey path on international prehis­ tory, verified that (for me, at the very least) it consisted of extra cultures, dates, and named software forms than any undergraduate should need to take note.

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

Seize your transportable time computing device and trigger on a guided travel throughout the finest 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 old Greek election, and turn into a jaguar warrior.