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The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
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avg rating 4.11 — 285,759 ratings — published 1980
The Valley of Horses (Earth's Children, #2)
by (shelved 34 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 97,504 ratings — published 1982
The Mammoth Hunters (Earth's Children, #3)
by (shelved 30 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 78,768 ratings — published 1985
The Plains of Passage (Earth's Children, #4)
by (shelved 22 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 62,792 ratings — published 1990
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,298,203 ratings — published 2011
The Shelters of Stone (Earth's Children, #5)
by (shelved 21 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 52,734 ratings — published 2002
People of the Wolf (North America's Forgotten Past, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 10,013 ratings — published 1990
Mother Earth Father Sky (Ivory Carver, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,826 ratings — published 1990
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,081 ratings — published 2007
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 466,025 ratings — published 1997
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 42,349 ratings — published 2018
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 27,720 ratings — published 2021
After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,559 ratings — published 2003
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,892 ratings — published 2020
The Land of Painted Caves (Earth's Children, #6)
by (shelved 9 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.47 — 37,692 ratings — published 2011
People of the Fire (North America's Forgotten Past, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 8,900 ratings — published 1991
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,037 ratings — published 2017
Reindeer Moon (Reindeer Moon, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,930 ratings — published 1987
My Sister the Moon (Ivory Carver, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,377 ratings — published 1992
Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 736 ratings — published 2013
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,543 ratings — published 2013
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,698 ratings — published 2006
The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 875 ratings — published 2002
She Who Remembers (Time Circle, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 8,585 ratings — published 1988
Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,843 ratings — published 2010
Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 832 ratings — published 2003
Wolf Brother (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 29,725 ratings — published 2004
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 28,904 ratings — published 1991
People of the Sea (North America's Forgotten Past, #5)
by (shelved 6 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,651 ratings — published 1993
People of the Earth (North America's Forgotten Past, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,288 ratings — published 1992
Brother Wind (Ivory Carver, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,278 ratings — published 1994
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,186 ratings — published 2022
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,240 ratings — published 2018
The Last Neanderthal (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.66 — 4,959 ratings — published 2017
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,484 ratings — published 2014
Shaman (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 4,929 ratings — published 2013
Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,596 ratings — published 2011
Stonehenge (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.69 — 13,778 ratings — published 1999
People of the Lightning (North America's Forgotten Past, #7)
by (shelved 5 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,982 ratings — published 1995
People of the River (North America's Forgotten Past, #4)
by (shelved 5 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,542 ratings — published 1992
Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,300 ratings — published 2021
Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,965 ratings — published 2018
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 3,071 ratings — published 1994
Dance of the Tiger: A Novel of the Ice Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.67 — 536 ratings — published 1978
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 80,965 ratings — published 2014
Homo Britannicus: The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 320 ratings — published 2007
Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos, and the Realm of the Gods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 398 ratings — published 2005
Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,348 ratings — published 2012
People of the Earth: An Introduction to World Prehistory (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.71 — 205 ratings — published 1974
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 31,991 ratings — published 2010
“It is also more than likely that women invented that most fundamental of all material technologies, without which civilization could not have evolved: the domestication of plants and animals. In fact, even though this is hardly ever mentioned in the books and classes where we learn history of "ancient man", most scholars today agree that this is probably how it was. They note that in contemporary gatherer-hunter societies, women, not men, are typically in charge of processing food. It would thus have been more likely that it was women who first dropped seeds on the ground of their encampments, and also began to tame young animals by feeding and caring for them as they did for their own young. Anthropologists also point to the fact that in the primarily horticultural economies of "developing" tribes and nations, contrary to Western assumptions, the cultivation of the soil is to this day primarily in the hands of women.”
― The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
― The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
“For within the very structure of family life, in families that do or did embrace the male religions, are the almost invisibly accepted social customs and life patterns that reflect the one-time strict adherence to the biblical scriptures. Attitudes towards double-standard premarital virginity, double-standard marital fidelity, the sexual autonomy of women, illegitimacy, abortion, contraception, rape, childbirth, the importance of marriage and children to women, the responsibilities and role of women in marriage, women as sex objects, the sexual identification of passivity and aggressiveness, the roles of women and men in work or social situations, women who express their ideas, female leadership, the intellectual activities of women, the economic activities and needs of women and the automatic assumption of the male as breadwinner and protector have all become so deeply ingrained that feelings and values concerning these subjects are often regarded, by both women and men, as natural tendencies or even human instinct.”
― When God Was a Woman
― When God Was a Woman
