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Text and photographs present a description of early humans: their origins; their tools and weapons; how they hunted and foraged for food; and the role of family life, money, religion, and magic. Full description
Table of Contents:
- Man or ape?
- Prehistoric food
- The toolmakers
- Flintworking
- Moving northwards
- The coming of fire
- Life in the Ice Age
- Ice Age hunters
- Modern humans
- The first artists
- Hunting and gathering
- Hunters of the desert
- Tilling the soil
- Clothing and fabrics
- Skin deep
- Magic
- Death and burial
- Ancient writing
- Bronzeworking
- The beauties of bronze
- A Bronze Age warrior
- Iron Age finery
- Life in the Iron Age
- Men of iron
- Ancient China
- Small change
- Central Americans
- North Americans
- Digging up the past.