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The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
by (shelved 96 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.11 — 289,084 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 — 1,575 ratings — published 2003
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,122 ratings — published 2020
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,247 ratings — published 2007
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,341,954 ratings — published 2011
The Valley of Horses (Earth's Children, #2)
by (shelved 53 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.05 — 98,987 ratings — published 1982
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.19 — 29,475 ratings — published 2021
The Mammoth Hunters (Earth's Children, #3)
by (shelved 44 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.97 — 79,903 ratings — published 1985
The Shelters of Stone (Earth's Children, #5)
by (shelved 39 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.88 — 53,468 ratings — published 2002
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.22 — 44,584 ratings — published 2018
The Plains of Passage (Earth's Children, #4)
by (shelved 37 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.87 — 63,612 ratings — published 1990
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.04 — 476,167 ratings — published 1997
The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.12 — 909 ratings — published 2002
The Inheritors (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.52 — 6,076 ratings — published 1955
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,448 ratings — published 2018
Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,454 ratings — published 2021
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,722 ratings — published 2006
The Land of Painted Caves (Earth's Children, #6)
by (shelved 26 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.47 — 38,383 ratings — published 2011
Prehistory: The making of the human mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.72 — 528 ratings — published 2007
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,273 ratings — published 2017
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,686 ratings — published 2022
Europe Between the Oceans: Themes and Variations, 9000 BC - AD 1000 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.11 — 680 ratings — published 2008
Reindeer Moon (Reindeer Moon, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,956 ratings — published 1987
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,569 ratings — published 2013
Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos, and the Realm of the Gods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.88 — 416 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 — 1,852 ratings — published 2010
Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,039 ratings — published 2018
Stonehenge (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.69 — 14,087 ratings — published 1999
People of the Wolf (North America's Forgotten Past, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.90 — 10,076 ratings — published 1990
Shaman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.78 — 5,048 ratings — published 2013
Dance of the Tiger: A Novel of the Ice Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.67 — 549 ratings — published 1978
Beyond the Sea of Ice (The First Americans, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,815 ratings — published 1987
Daughter of the Red Deer (Reindeer Hunters, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,043 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 3.95 — 750 ratings — published 2013
The Cave Painters: Probing the Mysteries of the World's First Artists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.06 — 554 ratings — published 2006
The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.01 — 539 ratings — published 1996
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,047 ratings — published 2025
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.73 — 554 ratings — published 2024
Scenes from Prehistoric Life: From the Ice Age to the Coming of the Romans (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.05 — 412 ratings — published
Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 849 ratings — published 2003
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,200 ratings — published 2022
A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,057 ratings — published 2019
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 4.22 — 2,254 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 — 29,121 ratings — published 1991
She Who Remembers (Time Circle, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.04 — 8,622 ratings — published 1988
The Oxford Illustrated History of Prehistoric Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.00 — 191 ratings — published 1994
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.97 — 32,308 ratings — published 2010
Wolf Brother (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.21 — 30,156 ratings — published 2004
The Smart Neanderthal: Cave Art, Bird Catching, and the Cognitive Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.81 — 213 ratings — published 2019
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.15 — 82,976 ratings — published 2014
“The idea of a supernatural being creating and governing this earth is a phantom born in the mind of the savage. If it had not been born in the early stages of man's mental development, it surely would not come into existence now. History proves that as the mind of man expands, it does not discover new gods, but that it discards them. It is not strange, therefore, that there has not been advanced a new major religious belief in the last 1300 years. All modern religious conceptions, no matter how disguised, find their origin in the fear-stricken ignorance of the primitive savage.”
― The Necessity Of Atheism
― The Necessity Of Atheism
“The water vapor accumulated in the upper atmosphere for so long that when the surface finally cooled enough for the rains to touch down, they poured in catastrophic torrents for thousands of years.”
― Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
― Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
