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Prehistory Books
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The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
by (shelved 94 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.10 — 281,777 ratings — published 1980
After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,538 ratings — published 2003
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,663 ratings — published 2020
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,929 ratings — published 2007
The Valley of Horses (Earth's Children, #2)
by (shelved 54 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.04 — 95,869 ratings — published 1982
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,246,169 ratings — published 2011
The Mammoth Hunters (Earth's Children, #3)
by (shelved 44 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.96 — 77,518 ratings — published 1985
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.19 — 25,882 ratings — published 2021
The Plains of Passage (Earth's Children, #4)
by (shelved 37 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.86 — 61,904 ratings — published 1990
The Shelters of Stone (Earth's Children, #5)
by (shelved 37 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.88 — 51,968 ratings — published 2002
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.21 — 39,942 ratings — published 2018
The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.12 — 845 ratings — published 2002
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.04 — 454,455 ratings — published 1997
The Inheritors (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.51 — 5,563 ratings — published 1955
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,680 ratings — published 2006
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,037 ratings — published 2018
Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,109 ratings — published 2021
The Land of Painted Caves (Earth's Children, #6)
by (shelved 24 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.46 — 37,008 ratings — published 2011
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,659 ratings — published 2022
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,803 ratings — published 2017
Europe Between the Oceans: Themes and Variations, 9000 BC - AD 1000 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.13 — 650 ratings — published 2008
Prehistory: The making of the human mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.72 — 508 ratings — published 2007
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,518 ratings — published 2013
Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos, and the Realm of the Gods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.86 — 387 ratings — published 2005
Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,833 ratings — published 2010
Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,863 ratings — published 2018
Stonehenge (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.69 — 13,462 ratings — published 1999
People of the Wolf (North America's Forgotten Past, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.90 — 9,965 ratings — published 1990
Reindeer Moon (Reindeer Moon, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,899 ratings — published 1987
Dance of the Tiger: A Novel of the Ice Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.66 — 522 ratings — published 1978
Daughter of the Red Deer (Reindeer Hunters, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,022 ratings — published 1991
Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.95 — 726 ratings — published 2013
Shaman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,822 ratings — published 2013
Beyond the Sea of Ice (The First Americans, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,762 ratings — published 1987
The Cave Painters: Probing the Mysteries of the World's First Artists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.05 — 526 ratings — published 2006
The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.02 — 525 ratings — published 1996
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 28,589 ratings — published 1991
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.97 — 31,602 ratings — published 2010
Scenes from Prehistoric Life: From the Ice Age to the Coming of the Romans (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 388 ratings — published
The Human Past: World Prehistory and the Development of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.83 — 277 ratings — published 2005
The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 887 ratings — published 1966
She Who Remembers (Time Circle, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.04 — 8,551 ratings — published 1988
Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 813 ratings — published 2003
Prehistory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.21 — 309 ratings — published 2003
The Oxford Illustrated History of Prehistoric Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.98 — 191 ratings — published 1994
The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.88 — 973 ratings — published 2009
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.74 — 446 ratings — published 2024
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.27 — 943 ratings — published 2021
Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,042 ratings — published 2017
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,432 ratings — published 2014
“When did Europeans come to believe that they actually descended from savages? The answer would seem to be during World War I.”
― The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
― The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
“In Brussels between 1909 and 1914, Louis Mascré sculpted away for Belgium’s Royal Academy of Science, creating a plaster cranium, a mother and child, the upper body of an elder. At a time when Belgium was brutalizing the Congo, the country’s Royal Academy compared Africans to apes and also depicted Neanderthals as simian rather than caveman-like.”
― The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
― The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
