The Human Past: World Prehistory & the Development of Human Societies

Christopher Scarre

Thames & Hudson, 2013 - Social Science - 784 pages

The text has established itself as a thorough and authoritative survey of human prehistory and the development of civilizations. Written by an international team of acknowledged experts, it presents a streamlined overview through a series of chapters focusing on individual regions and time periods. The Third Edition has been completely revised to offer updated scholarship and discoveries and features new color illustrations.

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About the author

Chris Scarre is a professor of prehistory in the department of archaeology at Durham University, U.K. He is editor of The Human Past (4th ed.) and author of Ancient Civilizations (with Brian Fagan and Charles Golden, 5th ed.), Landscapes of Neolithic Brittany, and The Megalithic Monuments of Britain and Ireland. From 2013 to 2017 he was editor of the leading international journal Antiquity, and was previously an advisory board member for the National Geographic Society.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Human Past: World Prehistory & the Development of Human Societies
• Editor: Christopher Scarre
• Edition: 3
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 2013
• ISBN: 0500290636, 9780500290637
• Length: 784 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Archaeology