| Description |
xiii, 622 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The beginning -- The birth of history -- The world at 20,000 BC -- Western Asia -- Fires and flowers -- Village life in the oak woodland -- On the banks of the Euphrates -- One thousand years of drought -- The founding of Jericho -- Pictograms and pillars -- In the valley of ravens -- The town of ghosts -- Heaven and hell at Çatlahöyük -- Three days on Cyprus -- Europe -- Pioneers in northern lands -- With reindeer hunters -- At Star Carr -- Last of the cave painters -- Coastal catastrophe -- Two villages in Southeast Europe -- Islands of the dead -- At the frontier -- A mesolithic legacy -- A Scottish envoi -- The Americans -- Searching for the first Americans -- American past in the present -- On the banks of Chinchihuapi -- Explorers in a restless landscape -- Clovis hunters on trial -- Virginity reconsidered -- Herders and the 'Christ-child' -- A double-take in the Oaxaca Valley -- To Koster -- Salmon fishing and the gift of history -- Greater Australia and East Asia -- A lost world revealed -- Body sculpture at Kow Swamp -- Across the arid zone -- Fighting men and a serpent's birth -- Pigs and gardens in the highlands -- Lonesome in Sundaland -- Down the Yangtze -- With the Jomon -- Summer in the Arctic -- South Asia -- A passage through India -- A long walk across the Hindu Kush -- Vultures of the Zagros -- Approaching civilisation in Mesopotamia -- Africa -- Baked fish by the Nile -- On Lukenya Hill -- Frogs' legs and ostrich eggs -- A South African tour -- Thunderbolts in the tropics -- Sheep and cattle in the Sahara -- Farmers in the Nile Valley and beyond. |
| Summary |
"Drawing on the latest research in archaeology, human genetics, and environmental science, After the Ice takes the reader on a sweeping tour of 15,000 years of human history. Steven Mithen brings this world to life through the eyes of an imaginary modern traveler - John Lubbock, namesake of the great Victorian polymath and author of Prehistoric Times." "Part history, part science, part time travel, After the Ice offers a portrayal of diverse cultures, lives, and landscapes that laid the foundations of the modern world."--Jacket. |
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Prehistoric peoples.
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Hunting and gathering societies.
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Primitive societies.
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Human beings -- Migrations.
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Antiquities, Prehistoric.
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Civilization, Ancient.
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Antiquities, Prehistoric. (OCoLC)fst00810762
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Civilization, Ancient. (OCoLC)fst00862946
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Human beings -- Migrations.
(OCoLC)fst00962853
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Hunting and gathering societies. (OCoLC)fst00964206
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Prehistoric peoples. (OCoLC)fst01075242
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Primitive societies. (OCoLC)fst01076453
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Archeologie.
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Prehistorie.
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Internationalisatie.
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Jagers en verzamelaars.
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Paleolithicum.
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Mesolithicum.
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Neolithicum.
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Mensch.
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 20000 v. Chr.-5000 v. Chr.
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| Added Title |
Global human history, 20,000-5000 BC |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Mithen, Steven J. After the ice. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004 (OCoLC)645999556 |
| ISBN |
0674015703 (alk. paper) |
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9780674015708 (alk. paper) |
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0674019997 (pbk.) |
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9780674019997 (pbk.) |
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