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Prehistory Books
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The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.10 — 280,131 ratings — published 1980
After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,520 ratings — published 2003
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,555 ratings — published 2020
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,840 ratings — published 2007
The Valley of Horses (Earth's Children, #2)
by (shelved 54 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.04 — 95,199 ratings — published 1982
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,222,256 ratings — published 2011
The Mammoth Hunters (Earth's Children, #3)
by (shelved 44 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.96 — 76,974 ratings — published 1985
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.19 — 25,011 ratings — published 2021
The Shelters of Stone (Earth's Children, #5)
by (shelved 36 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.87 — 51,606 ratings — published 2002
The Plains of Passage (Earth's Children, #4)
by (shelved 35 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.86 — 61,496 ratings — published 1990
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 — 39,116 ratings — published 2018
The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.13 — 838 ratings — published 2002
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.04 — 449,229 ratings — published 1997
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,933 ratings — published 2018
The Inheritors (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.51 — 5,474 ratings — published 1955
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,662 ratings — published 2006
Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,008 ratings — published 2021
The Land of Painted Caves (Earth's Children, #6)
by (shelved 24 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.45 — 36,670 ratings — published 2011
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,393 ratings — published 2022
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,675 ratings — published 2017
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,506 ratings — published 2013
Europe Between the Oceans: Themes and Variations, 9000 BC - AD 1000 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.13 — 639 ratings — published 2008
Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos, and the Realm of the Gods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.87 — 384 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 — 1,827 ratings — published 2010
Prehistory: The making of the human mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.73 — 496 ratings — published 2007
Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,832 ratings — published 2018
People of the Wolf (North America's Forgotten Past, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.90 — 9,940 ratings — published 1990
Stonehenge (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.69 — 13,303 ratings — published 1999
Reindeer Moon (Reindeer Moon, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,876 ratings — published 1987
Dance of the Tiger: A Novel of the Ice Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.67 — 513 ratings — published 1978
Daughter of the Red Deer (Reindeer Hunters, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,015 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 — 718 ratings — published 2013
Shaman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.76 — 4,761 ratings — published 2013
Beyond the Sea of Ice (The First Americans, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,751 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 — 517 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 — 521 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 — 28,436 ratings — published 1991
The Human Past: World Prehistory and the Development of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.83 — 276 ratings — published 2005
She Who Remembers (Time Circle, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.04 — 8,537 ratings — published 1988
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.97 — 31,458 ratings — published 2010
Scenes from Prehistoric Life: From the Ice Age to the Coming of the Romans (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 383 ratings — published
Prehistory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.21 — 304 ratings — published 2003
Mother Earth Father Sky (Ivory Carver, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.98 — 8,745 ratings — published 1990
The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.07 — 875 ratings — published 1966
The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.88 — 971 ratings — published 2009
Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 809 ratings — published 2003
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 4.25 — 1,980 ratings — published 2017
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,407 ratings — published 2014
The Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.82 — 265 ratings — published 1998
Stone Age Economics (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.92 — 518 ratings — published 1974
“The novelist Evelyn Waugh noticed at the time that Evans and his collaborators blended contemporary styles into antique ones: they had “tempered their zeal for accurate reconstruction with a somewhat inappropriate predilection for covers of Vogue.”
― The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
― The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
“The oils we used on our torches and in our lamps have kept the darkness of night and predators at bay in our corporate and singular lives. Residual oil was even found in our ancestors’ campfires that were most likely from a meal shared in common around said fire. Oil was in one sense a residual and sign of community and social and cooperative sharing.”
― The Liturgical Sacramentary of Bealtaine
― The Liturgical Sacramentary of Bealtaine
