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Prehistory Books
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The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
by (shelved 94 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.11 — 286,333 ratings — published 1980
After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,562 ratings — published 2003
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,921 ratings — published 2020
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,099 ratings — published 2007
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,305,097 ratings — published 2011
The Valley of Horses (Earth's Children, #2)
by (shelved 53 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.05 — 97,724 ratings — published 1982
The Mammoth Hunters (Earth's Children, #3)
by (shelved 44 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.96 — 78,929 ratings — published 1985
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.19 — 27,997 ratings — published 2021
The Shelters of Stone (Earth's Children, #5)
by (shelved 38 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.88 — 52,848 ratings — published 2002
The Plains of Passage (Earth's Children, #4)
by (shelved 37 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.87 — 62,924 ratings — published 1990
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.04 — 467,621 ratings — published 1997
The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.12 — 882 ratings — published 2002
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.22 — 42,703 ratings — published 2018
The Inheritors (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.51 — 5,833 ratings — published 1955
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,267 ratings — published 2018
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,704 ratings — published 2006
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,268 ratings — published 2022
Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,329 ratings — published 2021
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,078 ratings — published 2017
The Land of Painted Caves (Earth's Children, #6)
by (shelved 25 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.47 — 37,801 ratings — published 2011
Prehistory: The making of the human mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.72 — 514 ratings — published 2007
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,547 ratings — published 2013
Europe Between the Oceans: Themes and Variations, 9000 BC - AD 1000 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.11 — 674 ratings — published 2008
Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos, and the Realm of the Gods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.88 — 401 ratings — published 2005
Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,844 ratings — published 2010
Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,975 ratings — published 2018
Stonehenge (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.69 — 13,827 ratings — published 1999
Reindeer Moon (Reindeer Moon, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,938 ratings — published 1987
People of the Wolf (North America's Forgotten Past, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.90 — 10,023 ratings — published 1990
Dance of the Tiger: A Novel of the Ice Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.67 — 537 ratings — published 1978
Shaman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,950 ratings — published 2013
Daughter of the Red Deer (Reindeer Hunters, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,030 ratings — published 1991
Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.94 — 737 ratings — published 2013
The Cave Painters: Probing the Mysteries of the World's First Artists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.05 — 540 ratings — published 2006
Beyond the Sea of Ice (The First Americans, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,800 ratings — published 1987
Scenes from Prehistoric Life: From the Ice Age to the Coming of the Romans (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.06 — 407 ratings — published
Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 832 ratings — published 2003
The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.01 — 535 ratings — published 1996
Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,197 ratings — published 2017
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.09 — 28,947 ratings — published 1991
The Oxford Illustrated History of Prehistoric Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.99 — 192 ratings — published 1994
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.97 — 32,043 ratings — published 2010
The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.07 — 916 ratings — published 1966
She Who Remembers (Time Circle, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.04 — 8,588 ratings — published 1988
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,908 ratings — published 2025
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.73 — 505 ratings — published 2024
A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,008 ratings — published 2019
Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,351 ratings — published 2012
Prehistory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.20 — 327 ratings — published 2003
Stone Age Economics (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.93 — 542 ratings — published 1974
“Sadly, there's no natural balance between war and peace. It takes two tribes to make peace, but it only takes one to start a war.”
― Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2 - The Pillars of Civilization
― Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2 - The Pillars of Civilization
“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
