World Prehistory: In New Perspective (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for World Prehistory This 1977 book provides a bibliography designed to give access to the whole of man's history before written records began.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 01 March 1978
- Format: Paperback 576 pages
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- Categories: General & World History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Archaeology
- ISBN 13: 9780521291781 ISBN 10: 052129178X
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Full description for World Prehistory
'To qualify as human, a hominid has, so to say, to justify himself by works: the criteria are no longer biological so much as cultural'. In this 1977 book, Professor Grahame Clark goes on to trace the origins and development of human culture, in all its diversity, throughout the world. He follows the intellectual, material and social progress of mankind in each major region, from the earliest stone industries of two million years ago to the gradual and still incomplete attainment of literacy over the last five thousand years. He takes full account of peoples still preliterate when encountered in recent times by anthropologists as well as of those which nourished the great historic civilizations of mankind. Throughout he emphasizes the close relationship between environment and the character and speed of cultural development. The narrative is generously illustrated with photographs, drawings and maps, and there is a carefully selected list of references to the main sources used.
