People of the Earth: An Introduction to World PrehistoryThis text offers a survey of human evolution from earliest times up to the advent of literate civilizations, providing a view of human prehistory. It also discusses advances in fossil discoveries, the origins of modern humans and theories relating to food production. |
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Acheulian adaptive Africa agriculture America anatomically modern ancestors ancient animals archaeology archaic areas artifacts Asian Australopithecus bipedal blades bones burial cave central centuries Chapter chimpanzees civilization climate coast complex core crops cultural dating developed domesticated earlier earliest East eastern environments Europe European excavated exploited farmers farming Figure flakes flourished foraging forest fossil glaciation Gravettian groups habilis hand axes highlands Holocene hominids Homo erectus Homo habilis Homo sapiens sapiens hunter-gatherer hunters hunting Ice Age irrigation land late Ice Age later lived Magdalenian maize mammals Maya Mediterranean Mesoamerica Mesolithic million years ago modern humans Mousterian Neanderthals North northern numbers Oldowan Olduvai Olduvai Gorge perhaps period Pleistocene political population prehistory primates radiocarbon region river rulers savanna seasonal settlement skull social Southeast southern Southwest Asia species stone tools Teotihuacán tion toolkits toolmaking trade traditions tropical Upper Paleolithic Valley villages wild