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Timewalkers : the prehistory of global colonization / Clive Gamble.

By: Gamble, CliveMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Stroud : Sutton, 2003. Description: 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0750932775; 9780750932776; 075090321X; 9780750903219Subject(s): Prehistoric peoples | Prehistoric peoples -- Population | Antiquities, Prehistoric | Prehistoire -- Population | Antiquities, Prehistoric | Prehistoric peoples | Prehistoric peoples -- Population | Antiquites prehistoriquesDDC classification: 569.9 LOC classification: GN740 .G36 2003Online resources: More Info
Contents:
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.
Summary: Examines not only the evidence for human origins and evolution but also the framework for explaining why change took place - when, where and how.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books The BIAA David H. French Library
Shelf 28 - Main Room 		C1 GAMBL 29787 Not for loan BOOKS-000000022727

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.

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