The Great Divide: Nature and Human Nature in the Old World and the New
- ISBN-10
- 0062196677
- ISBN-13
- 9780062196675
- Series
- The Great Divide
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 640
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-06-26
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Author
- Peter Watson
Description
In The Great Divide, acclaimed author and historian Peter Watson explores the development of humankind between the Old World and the New, and offers a groundbreaking new understanding of human history. By 15,000 BC, humans had migrated from northeastern Asia across the frozen Bering land bridge to the Americas. When the last Ice Agecame to an end, the Bering Strait refilled with water, dividing America from Eurasia. This division continued until Christopher Columbus voyaged to the New World in the fifteenth century. The Great Divide compares the development of humankind in the Old World and the New between 15,000 BC and AD 1,500. Combining the most up-to-date knowledge in archaeology, anthropology, geology, meteorology, cosmology, and mythology, Peter Watson’s masterful study offers uniquely revealing insight into what it means to be human.
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