The Past in Perspective: An Introduction to Human Prehistory
- ISBN-10
- 0767411927
- ISBN-13
- 9780767411929
- Series
- The Past in Perspective
- Category
- Fossil hominids
- Pages
- 552
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
- Author
- Kenneth L. Feder
Description
This engaging introduction to the human prehistoric past presents the chronicle of human physical and cultural evolution. Rather than an encyclopedic, all-inclusive survey of the human evolutionary story, this text presents human prehistory within a framework of themes, issues, and debates.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2006-03
- 696 pages
- Paperback
- McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
-
- 2019
- 640 pages
- Paperback
- Oxford University Press, USA
-
- 2016-07-13
- 624 pages
- Paperback
- Oxford University Press, USA
-
- 2011
- - pages
- Paperback
- Oxford University Press, USA
Similar books
-
The Past Life Perspective: Discovering Your True Nature Across Multiple Lifetimes
By Ann BarhamPreviously published as: Nine lives (and counting).
-
The Family in Past Perspective: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Familial Relationships Through Time
By Ellen J. Kendall, Ross KendallThis volume takes a more comprehensive view of past familial dynamics than has been previously attempted.
-
Perspective! for Comic Book Artists: How to Achieve a Professional Look in Your Artwork
By David ChelseaTeaches comic book artists about artistic perspective, covering one, two, and three-point perspective, using circles, drawing the human figure, and explaining the horizon and vanishing point
-
Finding Out About: A Cognitive Perspective on Search Engine Technology and the WWW
By Richard K. Belew, Richard K Belew( Carlin and Louis , 1996 ] Carlin , B. and Louis , T. ( 1996 ) . Bayes and Empirical Bayes Methods for Data Analysis . Chapman & Hall . ( Cawsey et al . , 1992 ] Cawsey , A. , Galliers , J. , Reece , S. , and Jones , K. S. ( 1992 ) .
-
Telling Children About the Past: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
By Nena Galanidou, Liv Helga DommasnesThis book brings together archeologists, historians, psychologists, and educators from different countries and academic traditions to address the many ways that we tell children about the (distant) past.
-
Prejudice: The Target's Perspective
By Charles Stangor, Janet K. SwimAlmost all of the current information on prejudice focuses on the person holding prejudiced beliefs. This book, however, provides the first summary of research focusing on the intended victims of prejudice.
-
Indigenous South Americans Of The Past And Present: An Ecological Perspective
By David J. WilsonUtilizing ethnographic and archaeological data and an updated paradigm derived from the best features of cultural ecology and ecological anthropology, this extensively illustrated book addresses over fifteen South American adaptive systems ...
-
The Time Cure: Overcoming PTSD with the New Psychology of Time Perspective Therapy
By Philip Zimbardo, Richard Sword, Rosemary SwordRead this book if you want to know how to return your focus to the road." —DAVID EAGLEMAN, neuroscientist, Baylor College of Medicine; author, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain "The Time Cure is a magnificent offering to the PTSD ...
-
Traditions & Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past
By Jerry H. Bentley, Herbert F. ZieglerTraditions & Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past
-
Social Sustainability, Past and Future: Undoing Unintended Consequences for the Earth's Survival
By Sander van der LeeuwA novel, integrated approach to understanding long-term human history, viewing it as the long-term evolution of human information-processing. This title is also available as Open Access.