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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 — 285,352 ratings — published 1980
After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,559 ratings — published 2003
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,869 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 4.00 — 4,063 ratings — published 2007
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,293,526 ratings — published 2011
The Valley of Horses (Earth's Children, #2)
by (shelved 53 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.05 — 97,341 ratings — published 1982
The Mammoth Hunters (Earth's Children, #3)
by (shelved 44 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.96 — 78,657 ratings — published 1985
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.19 — 27,491 ratings — published 2021
The Shelters of Stone (Earth's Children, #5)
by (shelved 38 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.88 — 52,675 ratings — published 2002
The Plains of Passage (Earth's Children, #4)
by (shelved 37 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.87 — 62,708 ratings — published 1990
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.04 — 464,843 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 — 875 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 4.21 — 42,074 ratings — published 2018
The Inheritors (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.51 — 5,743 ratings — published 1955
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,696 ratings — published 2006
Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,275 ratings — published 2021
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,214 ratings — published 2018
The Land of Painted Caves (Earth's Children, #6)
by (shelved 25 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.46 — 37,623 ratings — published 2011
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,133 ratings — published 2022
Prehistory: The making of the human mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.72 — 512 ratings — published 2007
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,540 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 — 672 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 — 398 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 — 1,842 ratings — published 2010
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,008 ratings — published 2017
Stonehenge (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.69 — 13,743 ratings — published 1999
Reindeer Moon (Reindeer Moon, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,928 ratings — published 1987
Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,953 ratings — published 2018
People of the Wolf (North America's Forgotten Past, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.90 — 10,008 ratings — published 1990
Dance of the Tiger: A Novel of the Ice Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.67 — 536 ratings — published 1978
Shaman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,931 ratings — published 2013
Daughter of the Red Deer (Reindeer Hunters, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,029 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 — 736 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 — 534 ratings — published 2006
Beyond the Sea of Ice (The First Americans, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,789 ratings — published 1987
The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.01 — 533 ratings — published 1996
The Oxford Illustrated History of Prehistoric Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.98 — 192 ratings — published 1994
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.97 — 31,940 ratings — published 2010
Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.09 — 830 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 4.06 — 403 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 — 2,171 ratings — published 2017
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.09 — 28,847 ratings — published 1991
The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.07 — 908 ratings — published 1966
She Who Remembers (Time Circle, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.04 — 8,586 ratings — published 1988
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.73 — 493 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 — 1,990 ratings — published 2019
Prehistory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.21 — 324 ratings — published 2003
The Human Past: World Prehistory and the Development of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.83 — 281 ratings — published 2005
The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.88 — 980 ratings — published 2009
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,510 ratings — published 2025
“Sticks and Stones
I dreamt a fossil came to life
and told a tale of his former wife
Did she beat him? Where?
She broke his fingers on the stairs
And tore out lumps of his orange hair
How could she?
Then she gave him pride of place
At an archaeological feast in his honour
A prehistoric horse was the main course!
© Stewart Stafford, 2020. All rights reserved.”
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I dreamt a fossil came to life
and told a tale of his former wife
Did she beat him? Where?
She broke his fingers on the stairs
And tore out lumps of his orange hair
How could she?
Then she gave him pride of place
At an archaeological feast in his honour
A prehistoric horse was the main course!
© Stewart Stafford, 2020. All rights reserved.”
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“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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