Prehistory: A Very Short Introduction

by Chris Gosden

Book Overview

Prehistory covers the period of some 4 million years before the start of written history, when our earliest ancestors, the Australopithecines, existed in Africa. But this is relatively recent compared to whole history of the earth of some 4.5 billion years. A key aspect of prehistory is that it provides a sense of scale, throwing recent ways of life into perspective. Humans and their ancestors lived in many different ways and the cultural variety...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198803516
• ISBN13: 9780198803515
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 6.7"