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The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
by (shelved 96 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.11 — 288,231 ratings — published 1980
After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,570 ratings — published 2003
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,048 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 — 4,199 ratings — published 2007
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,331,561 ratings — published 2011
The Valley of Horses (Earth's Children, #2)
by (shelved 53 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.05 — 98,594 ratings — published 1982
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.19 — 28,972 ratings — published 2021
The Mammoth Hunters (Earth's Children, #3)
by (shelved 44 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.97 — 79,593 ratings — published 1985
The Shelters of Stone (Earth's Children, #5)
by (shelved 39 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.88 — 53,280 ratings — published 2002
The Plains of Passage (Earth's Children, #4)
by (shelved 37 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.87 — 63,394 ratings — published 1990
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.22 — 43,922 ratings — published 2018
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.04 — 473,550 ratings — published 1997
The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.12 — 903 ratings — published 2002
The Inheritors (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.52 — 6,000 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 — 6,390 ratings — published 2018
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,715 ratings — published 2006
Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,414 ratings — published 2021
The Land of Painted Caves (Earth's Children, #6)
by (shelved 26 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.47 — 38,180 ratings — published 2011
Prehistory: The making of the human mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.72 — 527 ratings — published 2007
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,566 ratings — published 2022
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,214 ratings — published 2017
Europe Between the Oceans: Themes and Variations, 9000 BC - AD 1000 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.11 — 680 ratings — published 2008
Reindeer Moon (Reindeer Moon, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,948 ratings — published 1987
Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,848 ratings — published 2010
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,563 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 — 412 ratings — published 2005
Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,026 ratings — published 2018
Stonehenge (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.69 — 13,998 ratings — published 1999
People of the Wolf (North America's Forgotten Past, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.90 — 10,066 ratings — published 1990
Shaman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.78 — 5,007 ratings — published 2013
Dance of the Tiger: A Novel of the Ice Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.67 — 546 ratings — published 1978
Beyond the Sea of Ice (The First Americans, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,808 ratings — published 1987
Daughter of the Red Deer (Reindeer Hunters, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,040 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 — 743 ratings — published 2013
The Cave Painters: Probing the Mysteries of the World's First Artists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.06 — 547 ratings — published 2006
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,718 ratings — published 2025
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 — 844 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 — 539 ratings — published 1996
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.75 — 535 ratings — published 2024
A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,041 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 — 2,234 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 — 29,084 ratings — published 1991
She Who Remembers (Time Circle, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.04 — 8,612 ratings — published 1988
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 — 32,229 ratings — published 2010
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,009 ratings — published 2022
Wolf Brother (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.21 — 30,031 ratings — published 2004
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,525 ratings — published 2014
Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,361 ratings — published 2012
“Prehistory is about the present day; it always has been.”
― The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
― The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
“Genuine chronicles of prehistory are not concealed by anyone; rather, they are merely overlooked by people preoccupied with other things that command their attention.”
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