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The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
by (shelved 96 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.11 — 287,277 ratings — published 1980
After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,565 ratings — published 2003
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,978 ratings — published 2020
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,154 ratings — published 2007
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,318,550 ratings — published 2011
The Valley of Horses (Earth's Children, #2)
by (shelved 53 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.05 — 98,138 ratings — published 1982
The Mammoth Hunters (Earth's Children, #3)
by (shelved 44 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.97 — 79,244 ratings — published 1985
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.19 — 28,471 ratings — published 2021
The Shelters of Stone (Earth's Children, #5)
by (shelved 38 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.88 — 53,033 ratings — published 2002
The Plains of Passage (Earth's Children, #4)
by (shelved 37 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.87 — 63,138 ratings — published 1990
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.04 — 470,567 ratings — published 1997
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.22 — 43,310 ratings — published 2018
The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.12 — 892 ratings — published 2002
The Inheritors (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.51 — 5,929 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 — 6,325 ratings — published 2018
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,709 ratings — published 2006
Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,371 ratings — published 2021
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,140 ratings — published 2017
The Land of Painted Caves (Earth's Children, #6)
by (shelved 25 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.47 — 37,998 ratings — published 2011
Prehistory: The making of the human mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.72 — 525 ratings — published 2007
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,416 ratings — published 2022
Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,847 ratings — published 2010
Europe Between the Oceans: Themes and Variations, 9000 BC - AD 1000 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.11 — 678 ratings — published 2008
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,555 ratings — published 2013
Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos, and the Realm of the Gods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.89 — 405 ratings — published 2005
Reindeer Moon (Reindeer Moon, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,941 ratings — published 1987
Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,001 ratings — published 2018
Stonehenge (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.69 — 13,931 ratings — published 1999
People of the Wolf (North America's Forgotten Past, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.90 — 10,043 ratings — published 1990
Dance of the Tiger: A Novel of the Ice Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.67 — 543 ratings — published 1978
Shaman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,980 ratings — published 2013
Daughter of the Red Deer (Reindeer Hunters, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,035 ratings — published 1991
Beyond the Sea of Ice (The First Americans, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,801 ratings — published 1987
Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.94 — 741 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 — 543 ratings — published 2006
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 — 408 ratings — published
Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 — 837 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 — 537 ratings — published 1996
A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,027 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 — 2,220 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 — 29,028 ratings — published 1991
She Who Remembers (Time Circle, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.04 — 8,600 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 — 32,138 ratings — published 2010
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,341 ratings — published 2025
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.74 — 523 ratings — published 2024
Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,358 ratings — published 2012
Prehistory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.21 — 329 ratings — published 2003
Stone Age Economics (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.93 — 550 ratings — published 1974
The Human Past: World Prehistory and the Development of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.83 — 282 ratings — published 2005
“It was not until 2014, more than two decades after the mastodon's discovery [a mastodon scavenged by humans in the Americas], that the tide decisively turned. Built on improved understanding of processes that incorporate natural uranium and its decay products in fossil bone, a newly enhanced technique, known as 230 Th/U radiometric dating, was now available that could settle the age of the Cerutti deposit once and for all. Deméré therefore sent several of the mastodon bones to the US Geological Survey in Colorado, where geologist Jim Paces, using the updated and refined technique, established beyond reasonable doubt that the bones were buried 130,000 years ago.”
― America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
― America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
“When did Europeans come to believe that they actually descended from savages? The answer would seem to be during World War I.”
― The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
― The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
