Prehistory

This survey treats prehistory both as the human past before writing and as the discipline that studies that past. Renfrew outlines how geology, Darwin, cave art, fossils, radiocarbon dating, and DNA analysis made deep time measurable, then reviews human development from early hominids through farming, monuments, and the first literate states. He questions a single human revolution in Ice Age Europe and stresses later, regional changes in mind and culture, with case studies from Orkney, the Balkans, the Indus, Peru, and China. The book is an argumentative overview of cognitive and social prehistory, not a site report and not a children's timeline.

Bound in brown cloth, cover blocked with a black design. Dark blue endpapers and slipcase.