Publisher's Synopsis
Contents: How Can We Know Prehistory?; Introduction to the Study of the Past, Ancient Fossils and the Rise of Scientific Prehistory, Establishing Relative Sequences of Ancient Events, Absolute or Chronometric Dating, Basic Field Methods in Ancient Studies; Prehistory: Humankind in Deep Time, Deep Time and Evolution, Hominid Evolution in the Pliocene and Pleistocene Epochs, The Late Pleistocene Epoch in the Old World, The Late Pleistocene Epoch in the New World, The Holocene Epoch and the Mesolithic Interlude; Preludes to the Past, The Origins of Agriculture.
