Prehistory - The Making of the Human Mind (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Random House
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Modern Library Chronicles, 30
Release date:	August 2009
First published:	August 2009
Authors:	Colin Renfrew
Dimensions:	202 x 130 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Unsewn / adhesive bound
Pages:	219
ISBN-13:	978-0-8129-7661-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Archaeology > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Promotions
LSN:	0-8129-7661-4
Barcode:	9780812976618

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