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The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 286,840 ratings — published 1980
The Valley of Horses (Earth's Children, #2)
by (shelved 34 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 97,946 ratings — published 1982
The Mammoth Hunters (Earth's Children, #3)
by (shelved 30 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 79,084 ratings — published 1985
The Plains of Passage (Earth's Children, #4)
by (shelved 22 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 63,030 ratings — published 1990
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,311,645 ratings — published 2011
The Shelters of Stone (Earth's Children, #5)
by (shelved 21 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 52,947 ratings — published 2002
People of the Wolf (North America's Forgotten Past, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 10,034 ratings — published 1990
Mother Earth Father Sky (Ivory Carver, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,844 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 — 4,128 ratings — published 2007
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 43,018 ratings — published 2018
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 469,137 ratings — published 1997
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,944 ratings — published 2020
After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,564 ratings — published 2003
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 28,237 ratings — published 2021
The Land of Painted Caves (Earth's Children, #6)
by (shelved 9 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.47 — 37,899 ratings — published 2011
People of the Fire (North America's Forgotten Past, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 8,908 ratings — published 1991
Reindeer Moon (Reindeer Moon, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,940 ratings — published 1987
My Sister the Moon (Ivory Carver, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,386 ratings — published 1992
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,115 ratings — published 2017
Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 738 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 — 1,551 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 — 4,705 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 — 885 ratings — published 2002
She Who Remembers (Time Circle, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 8,593 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 — 1,845 ratings — published 2010
Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 833 ratings — published 2003
Wolf Brother (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 29,834 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 — 28,988 ratings — published 1991
People of the Sea (North America's Forgotten Past, #5)
by (shelved 6 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,654 ratings — published 1993
People of the Earth (North America's Forgotten Past, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,298 ratings — published 1992
Brother Wind (Ivory Carver, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,290 ratings — published 1994
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,346 ratings — published 2022
Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,352 ratings — published 2021
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 — 6,293 ratings — published 2018
The Last Neanderthal (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.66 — 4,994 ratings — published 2017
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,502 ratings — published 2014
Shaman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,964 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 — 1,601 ratings — published 2011
Stonehenge (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.69 — 13,875 ratings — published 1999
People of the Lightning (North America's Forgotten Past, #7)
by (shelved 5 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,987 ratings — published 1995
People of the River (North America's Forgotten Past, #4)
by (shelved 5 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,548 ratings — published 1992
Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,989 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 — 3,153 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 — 539 ratings — published 1978
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,467 ratings — published 2014
Homo Britannicus: The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 322 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 3.88 — 403 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 — 1,356 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 — 32,098 ratings — published 2010
“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
“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
