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The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
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avg rating 4.10 — 283,013 ratings — published 1980
The Valley of Horses (Earth's Children, #2)
by (shelved 34 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 96,366 ratings — published 1982
The Mammoth Hunters (Earth's Children, #3)
by (shelved 30 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 77,916 ratings — published 1985
The Plains of Passage (Earth's Children, #4)
by (shelved 22 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 62,192 ratings — published 1990
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,264,652 ratings — published 2011
The Shelters of Stone (Earth's Children, #5)
by (shelved 21 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 52,232 ratings — published 2002
People of the Wolf (North America's Forgotten Past, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 9,985 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 3.99 — 3,969 ratings — published 2007
Mother Earth Father Sky (Ivory Carver, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,785 ratings — published 1990
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 458,338 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 — 40,546 ratings — published 2018
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 26,404 ratings — published 2021
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,724 ratings — published 2020
The Land of Painted Caves (Earth's Children, #6)
by (shelved 9 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.46 — 37,213 ratings — published 2011
After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,545 ratings — published 2003
People of the Fire (North America's Forgotten Past, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 8,886 ratings — published 1991
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,871 ratings — published 2017
Reindeer Moon (Reindeer Moon, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,910 ratings — published 1987
My Sister the Moon (Ivory Carver, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,353 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 — 732 ratings — published 2013
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,526 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 — 4,685 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 — 855 ratings — published 2002
She Who Remembers (Time Circle, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 8,564 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 — 1,834 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 — 822 ratings — published 2003
Wolf Brother (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 29,376 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 — 28,661 ratings — published 1991
People of the Sea (North America's Forgotten Past, #5)
by (shelved 6 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,642 ratings — published 1993
People of the Earth (North America's Forgotten Past, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,269 ratings — published 1992
Brother Wind (Ivory Carver, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,257 ratings — published 1994
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 — 6,088 ratings — published 2018
The Last Neanderthal (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.66 — 4,884 ratings — published 2017
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,441 ratings — published 2014
Shaman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,848 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 — 1,590 ratings — published 2011
Stonehenge (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.69 — 13,547 ratings — published 1999
People of the Lightning (North America's Forgotten Past, #7)
by (shelved 5 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,977 ratings — published 1995
People of the River (North America's Forgotten Past, #4)
by (shelved 5 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,530 ratings — published 1992
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,806 ratings — published 2022
Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,155 ratings — published 2021
Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,891 ratings — published 2018
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,923 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 — 523 ratings — published 1978
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 79,460 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 — 316 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 3.86 — 390 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 — 1,337 ratings — published 2012
People of the Earth: An Introduction to World Prehistory (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.70 — 203 ratings — published 1974
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 31,699 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
“Sr James George Frazer, a Scotsman by birth, is the author of the immense Golden Bough, a collection of anthropological studies. The author's methods of correlation have been as crude and unregulated as his industry and the cultivation of his erudition have been immense. The confusion of savage and primitive states of culture commenced by Tylor and his school has been carried to excess in the works of Sr J.G. Frazer. From the point of view of the social historian attempting to disentangle the story of man's coming and growth upon this planet he is one of the most calamatous phenomena in modern research: he has smashed in the ruin of pre-history with a coal hammer, collected every brick disclosed when the dust has settled on the debris, and then labelled the exhibits with the assiduous industry of a literary ant. His pleasing literary style in that labelling is in unorthodox English.”
― Scottish Scene: or, The Intelligent Man's Guide to Albyn
― Scottish Scene: or, The Intelligent Man's Guide to Albyn
