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Prehistory

Paperback • 2003 • English • 1. edition

Prehistory: A Very Short Introduction

By Chris Gosden

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About the book

This VSI to prehistory will introduce the reader to four and a half million years of human existence. Many of the familiar aspects of modern life are no more than a century or two old, yet our deep social structures and skills were in large measure developed by small bands of our prehistoric ancestors many millennia ago. Chris Gosden invites us to think seriously about who we are by considering who we have been. The idea of prehistory owes its origins to Darwin - suddenly any description of huma...Show more

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ISBN

9780192803436

Publisher

OUP Oxford

Published year

2003

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Prehistory

Format

Paperback

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