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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Abu Hureyra adaptive Africa agriculture America ancestors ancient animals archaeological Archaic areas artifacts Asian Australopithecus Australopithecus afarensis bipedal bones burial Çatalhöyük Cave central centuries cereal Chapter chimpanzees civilization climate coast complex crops cultivation cultural dating developed domesticated earliest early East eastern environment Europe evolution excavated exploited farmers farming Figure fish flakes flourished food production foraging forest fossil groups habilis herds highlands Holocene hominids Homo erectus Homo habilis Homo sapiens hunter-gatherer hunters hunting Ice Age land late Ice Age later lifeway lived lowlands Magdalenian maize mammals Maya Mediterranean Mesoamerica Mesolithic million years ago modern humans Neanderthals North northern Oldowan Olduvai Olduvai Gorge perhaps Pleistocene population population densities prehistory primates radiocarbon region river rulers sapiens sapiens savanna seasonal settlement skull social Southeast southern Southwest Asia species Teotihuacán tion toolmaking trade traditions Upper Paleolithic Valley villages wild