Series
Summary
In this invaluable, brief account of human development prior to the last four millennia, Colin Renfrew delivers a meticulously researched and passionately argued chronicle about our life on earth, and our ongoing quest to understand it. Full description
- Part I: The discovery of prehistory
- The idea of prehistory
- Mapping the human past: Prehistory before 1940
- Dating: the radiocarbon revolution
- The possibility of world prehistory
- Part II: The prehistory of mind
- The sapient paradox
- Toward a prehistory of mind
- Constructing the community
- Worldly goods
- Appropriating the cosmos
- From prehistory to history
- Prospect: the future of prehistory.