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Prehistory : a very short introduction

Author: Chris Gosden
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Series: Very short introductions.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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From the Publisher: Many of the familiar aspects of modern life are no more than a century or two old, yet our deep social structures and skills were in large measure developed by small bands of our prehistoric ancestors many millennia ago. In this book, readers are invited to think seriously about who we are by considering who we have been.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Chris Gosden
ISBN: 0192803433 9780192803436
OCLC Number: 52983207
Description: 131 p. : ill., maps ; 18 cm.
Contents: Acknowledgements --
List of illustrations --
Prehistory and archaeology-a note --
Very, very short introduction to chronology --
1: What and when is prehistory? --
2: Problems of prehistory --
3: Human skills and experiences --
4: Continental prehistories --
5: Nature of human social life --
6: Prehistory of the future --
Further reading --
Timelines --
Index.
Series Title: Very short introductions.
Responsibility: Chris Gosden.
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From the Publisher: Many of the familiar aspects of modern life are no more than a century or two old, yet our deep social structures and skills were in large measure developed by small bands of our prehistoric ancestors many millennia ago. In this book, readers are invited to think seriously about who we are by considering who we have been.

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