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The Past In Perspective: An Introduction to Human Prehistory, 3/e

Kenneth Feder, Central Connecticut State University

Contents:

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Chapter 1: Encountering the Past
Chapter 2: Probing the Past
Chapter 3: African Roots
Chapter 4: The Human Lineage
Chapter 5: The Premodern Humans: Our Immediate Ancestors
Chapter 6: The Evolution of Us: The Origins of Modern Humans
Chapter 7: Expanding Intellectual Horizons: Art and Ideas in the Upper Paleolithic and New Stone Age
Chapter 8: Expanding Geographical Horizons: New Worlds
Chapter 9: After the Ice: Cultural Change in the Post-Pleistocene
Chapter 10: The Neolithic: Roots of a Revolution in Subsistence and Society
Chapter 11: The Roots of Complexity
Chapter 12: An Explosion of Complexity: The Flowering of Civilization in the Old World
Chapter 13: An Explosion of Complexity: The Flowering of Civilization in the New World
Chapter 14: An Explosion of Complexity: Ranked Societies in the Old and New Worlds
Chapter 15: Evolutionary Epilogue
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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.