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/).