Explores various aspects of prehistory and provides instructions on how to find additional information via the DK online website by using keywords in the book.
Contents
What is prehistory? -- Evidence from the past -- Discovering prehistory -- Evolution -- The first steps -- The first toolmakers -- The first humans -- Neanderthals -- Cro-Magnon people -- How did we get here? -- The first artists -- Mammoth hunters -- Settling Australia -- After the ice age -- The first farmers -- The invention of pottery -- Catal Hoyuk -- Mesopotamia : the first cities -- Egypt :the first state -- Indus -- The first Chinese farmers -- The first Chinese civilizations -- The megalith builders -- Standing stones -- Flint mining -- The copper age -- Bronze-age Europe -- The Minoans -- Mycenae -- The coming of iron -- The first American farmers -- Pueblo and mound-builders -- Mesoamerica -- The Maya -- Early South American civilizations -- Empires of the Andes -- Steppe nomads -- Arctic people -- Peopling the Pacific -- Toward history.
