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The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
by (shelved 94 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.11 — 284,197 ratings — published 1980
After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,552 ratings — published 2003
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,800 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 — 4,012 ratings — published 2007
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,279,203 ratings — published 2011
The Valley of Horses (Earth's Children, #2)
by (shelved 54 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.05 — 96,855 ratings — published 1982
The Mammoth Hunters (Earth's Children, #3)
by (shelved 45 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.96 — 78,300 ratings — published 1985
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.19 — 26,926 ratings — published 2021
The Plains of Passage (Earth's Children, #4)
by (shelved 38 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.86 — 62,452 ratings — published 1990
The Shelters of Stone (Earth's Children, #5)
by (shelved 37 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.88 — 52,459 ratings — published 2002
The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.12 — 865 ratings — published 2002
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.04 — 461,499 ratings — published 1997
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 — 41,272 ratings — published 2018
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 — 6,139 ratings — published 2018
The Inheritors (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.51 — 5,662 ratings — published 1955
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,689 ratings — published 2006
Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,218 ratings — published 2021
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,971 ratings — published 2022
The Land of Painted Caves (Earth's Children, #6)
by (shelved 24 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.46 — 37,413 ratings — published 2011
Europe Between the Oceans: Themes and Variations, 9000 BC - AD 1000 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.12 — 666 ratings — published 2008
Prehistory: The making of the human mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.72 — 510 ratings — published 2007
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,942 ratings — published 2017
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,535 ratings — published 2013
Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos, and the Realm of the Gods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.87 — 393 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 — 1,840 ratings — published 2010
Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,922 ratings — published 2018
Stonehenge (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.70 — 13,649 ratings — published 1999
People of the Wolf (North America's Forgotten Past, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.90 — 9,997 ratings — published 1990
Reindeer Moon (Reindeer Moon, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,920 ratings — published 1987
Dance of the Tiger: A Novel of the Ice Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.67 — 532 ratings — published 1978
Shaman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,887 ratings — published 2013
Daughter of the Red Deer (Reindeer Hunters, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,027 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 — 735 ratings — published 2013
Beyond the Sea of Ice (The First Americans, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,781 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 — 532 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 4.01 — 530 ratings — published 1996
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.09 — 28,755 ratings — published 1991
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.97 — 31,819 ratings — published 2010
Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 830 ratings — published 2003
Scenes from Prehistoric Life: From the Ice Age to the Coming of the Romans (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.07 — 396 ratings — published
Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,124 ratings — published 2017
The Human Past: World Prehistory and the Development of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.83 — 281 ratings — published 2005
The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 900 ratings — published 1966
She Who Remembers (Time Circle, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,576 ratings — published 1988
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,455 ratings — published 2014
Prehistory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.21 — 319 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 — 977 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 — 476 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 — 985 ratings — published 2021
“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
“By comparison, the dispossession and destruction of Indigenous populations—which the Society, for one, consistently linked to slavery—was largely ignored by the public. For the most part, Britain and the US treated Indigenous peoples as belonging to the past, as active threats to modernity. Above all, they described Natives as “perishing,” as “disappearing.”
― The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
― The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
