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Prehistory Books
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The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
by (shelved 95 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.11 — 284,368 ratings — published 1980
After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,552 ratings — published 2003
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,812 ratings — published 2020
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,017 ratings — published 2007
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,281,195 ratings — published 2011
The Valley of Horses (Earth's Children, #2)
by (shelved 54 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.05 — 96,930 ratings — published 1982
The Mammoth Hunters (Earth's Children, #3)
by (shelved 45 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.96 — 78,354 ratings — published 1985
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.19 — 27,015 ratings — published 2021
The Plains of Passage (Earth's Children, #4)
by (shelved 38 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.86 — 62,478 ratings — published 1990
The Shelters of Stone (Earth's Children, #5)
by (shelved 37 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.88 — 52,488 ratings — published 2002
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.04 — 461,924 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 — 865 ratings — published 2002
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.21 — 41,371 ratings — published 2018
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,151 ratings — published 2018
The Inheritors (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.51 — 5,673 ratings — published 1955
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,690 ratings — published 2006
Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,227 ratings — published 2021
The Land of Painted Caves (Earth's Children, #6)
by (shelved 25 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.46 — 37,443 ratings — published 2011
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,986 ratings — published 2022
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,948 ratings — published 2017
Europe Between the Oceans: Themes and Variations, 9000 BC - AD 1000 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.12 — 667 ratings — published 2008
Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos, and the Realm of the Gods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.87 — 393 ratings — published 2005
Prehistory: The making of the human mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.72 — 511 ratings — published 2007
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,536 ratings — published 2013
Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,841 ratings — published 2010
Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,928 ratings — published 2018
Stonehenge (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.70 — 13,669 ratings — published 1999
People of the Wolf (North America's Forgotten Past, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.90 — 9,997 ratings — published 1990
Reindeer Moon (Reindeer Moon, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,921 ratings — published 1987
Dance of the Tiger: A Novel of the Ice Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.67 — 533 ratings — published 1978
Shaman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,898 ratings — published 2013
Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.95 — 735 ratings — published 2013
Daughter of the Red Deer (Reindeer Hunters, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,027 ratings — published 1991
Beyond the Sea of Ice (The First Americans, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,780 ratings — published 1987
The Cave Painters: Probing the Mysteries of the World's First Artists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.05 — 532 ratings — published 2006
The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.02 — 531 ratings — published 1996
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.09 — 28,763 ratings — published 1991
The Oxford Illustrated History of Prehistoric Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.98 — 191 ratings — published 1994
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.97 — 31,837 ratings — published 2010
Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 827 ratings — published 2003
Scenes from Prehistoric Life: From the Ice Age to the Coming of the Romans (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.07 — 397 ratings — published
Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,129 ratings — published 2017
The Human Past: World Prehistory and the Development of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.83 — 281 ratings — published 2005
The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 902 ratings — published 1966
She Who Remembers (Time Circle, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,578 ratings — published 1988
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,459 ratings — published 2014
Prehistory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.21 — 321 ratings — published 2003
The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.88 — 978 ratings — published 2009
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.74 — 481 ratings — published 2024
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.27 — 988 ratings — published 2021
“Leroi-Gourhan écrit que, dans l'art des cavernes, signe féminin et blessure sont interchangeables : pour signifier la même idée, l'artiste, le penseur, l'écrivain paléolithique pouvait indifféremment figurer une vulve, une vache transpercée, le sang qui dégoutte d'une flèche. La vulve, le dol, la bête sous le merlin, le sang, sont synonymes ("Corps du roi", 40).”
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“Supposedly several years ago Egyptologist Mark Lehner spent five hours in the Aswan quarry with a dolerite hammer stone pounding against the granite bedrock (copper is too soft to cut granite). He was trying to prove that the ancient tools could do the job. He managed to excavate a one-foot square hole one-inch deep for his efforts. And yet, the video that is played in a hall at the Aswan quarry site still portrays that the hewing of the stone for the unfinished and all other obelisks was done this way [...]. The experiments of Dr. Lehner reveal, there is no way that simple stone pounders could possibly have been the main tool to quarry and shape the granite obelisks.”
― Aftershock: The Ancient Cataclysm That Erased Human History
― Aftershock: The Ancient Cataclysm That Erased Human History
