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Prehistory - The Making of the Human Mind (Paperback)
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Prehistory - The Making of the Human Mind (Paperback)
Series: Modern Library Chronicles, 30
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List price R516
Loot Price R447
Discovery Miles 4 470
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In Prehistory, the award-winning archaeologist and renowned scholar
Colin Renfrew covers human existence before the advent of written
records-the overwhelming majority of our time here on earth-and
gives an incisive, concise, and lively survey of the past, and of
how scholars and scientists labor to bring it to light.
Renfrew begins by looking at prehistory as a discipline, detailing
how breakthroughs such as radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis have
helped us to define humankind's past-how things have changed-much
more clearly than was possible just a half century ago. As for why
things have changed, Renfrew pinpoints some of the issues and
challenges, past and present, that confront the study of prehistory
and its investigators. Renfrew then offers a summary of human
prehistory from early hominids to the rise of literate civilization
that is refreshingly free of conventional wisdom and grand
"unified" theories.
In this invaluable account, Colin Renfrew delivers a meticulously
researched and passionately argued chronicle about our life on
earth-and our ongoing quest to understand it.
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