Gamble, Clive.

Timewalkers : the prehistory of global colonization / Clive Gamble. - Stroud : Sutton, 2003. - 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-302) and index.

1. Introduction: "To turn the hero" -- 2. "With wand'ring steps and slow" : progress toward a world prehistory -- 3. Past cradles and ice age time -- 4. The modern cradle for human origins -- 5. Why Africa? -- 6. Social climbers and migrant workers on the early African savannahs -- 7. 800,000 years down the Old World track -- 8. Ancients and moderns : what happened to the Neanderthals? -- 9. Pioneers and diehards in the new lands of the Old World -- 10. Humans almost everywhere -- 11. Why people were everywhere.

Examines not only the evidence for human origins and evolution but also the framework for explaining why change took place - when, where and how.


Bibliotheque du musee de l'Homme fermee, consulter le catalogue du Museum (http://bcmnts1.mnhn.fr/).

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Prehistoric peoples.
Prehistoric peoples--Population.
Antiquities, Prehistoric.
Prehistoire--Population.
Antiquities, Prehistoric.
Prehistoric peoples.
Prehistoric peoples--Population.
Antiquites prehistoriques.

GN740 .G36 2003

569.9