- Additional Authors
- Gale Group.
- Description
- 1 online resource (95 p.) : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps.
- Summary
- Covers the early life of our planet and the plants and animals that thrived here. Includes behemoth vegetarians, scrappy carnivores, huge leafy plants, and violent storms, which all played a role in making Earth what it is today.
- Series Statement
- DK online
- Gale virtual reference library
- Uniform Title
- Prehistory (Online)
- DK online.
- Alternative Title
- Prehistory (Online)
- Subject
- Note
- Description based on print version record.
- "Google."
- Includes index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- OCLC
- ssj0001882417
- Author
Chrisp, Peter.
- Title
Prehistory [electronic resource] / written by Peter Chrisp.
- Imprint
New York : DK Publishing, 2008.
- Series
DK online
Gale virtual reference library
DK online.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Gale Group.
- Other Form:
Original 9780756634612 (DLC) 2008270432