Fifteen new collaborators offer fresh perspectives in the fifth edition of The Human Past, the most reliable introduction to global prehistory, revealing the shared human history through the latest research. Thoroughly updated by its team of authors, including 15 leading new experts in this edition, the fifth edition introduces students to a more equal and representative view of global prehistory. A total of 30 collaborators – a truly international team of experts – present the vast diversity of human history as it happened around the world, from the emergence of the first Homo species to human migrations, permanent settlement, domestication and agriculture, population increase, urban life, as well as the social systems and inequalities that existed in human groups of varying sizes, from small societies to vast empires. Twenty chronological chapters focus on individual areas, and new content appears in each chapter. The new authors bring cutting-edge research and fresh perspectives, including: recent genetic (aDNA) research revealing the latest information on the divergent migrations of early humans into Europe, South America, and across Southeast Asia to China; more about the changes in Indigenous life in Australia after foreign contact; increased coverage of early female toolmakers and women hunters in the Americas; new insights in restoring evidence in Southern Africa, including Great Zimbabwe; and much more.
Manufacturer
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson
- Skroutz Book Awards 2025
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- Type
- Academic History
- Theme
- Archaeology
- Time Period
- Prehistory
- Language
- English
- Subtitle
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- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
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- Release Date
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- Publication Date
- 2024
- Dimensions
- 21.6x27.9 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780500296318
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