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Title

The past in perspective : an introduction to human prehistory / Kenneth L. Feder.

Author

Feder, Kenneth L.

Publication

Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2004.

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Description

xxiii, 616 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps; 23 cm.

Summary

"This engaging introduction to the human prehistoric past presents the chronicle of human physical and cultural evolution. Rather than an encyclopedic, all-inclusive survey of the human evolutionary story, this text presents human prehistory within a framework of themes, issues, and debates."--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Prehistoric peoples
• Human evolution
• Fossil hominids
• Human remains (Archaeology)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 577-601) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Encountering the past -- Probing the past -- African roots -- The human lineage -- The premodern humans: our immediate evolutionary ancestors -- The origins of modern humans: the evolution of us -- Expanding intellectual horizons: art and ideas in the Upper Paleolithic and Late Stone Age -- Expanding geographic horizons: new worlds -- After the ice: cultural change in the post-Pleistocene -- The food-producing revolution -- The roots of complexity: the origins of civilization -- An explosion of complexity: the flowering of civilization in the old world -- An explosion of complexity: the flowering of civilization in the new world -- The diversity of complexity: rank societies in the old and new worlds -- Evolutionary epilogue.

ISBN

0072549386 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2003054067

OCLC

52334691

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library