Title: The illustrated history of early man /
Authors: Haywood, John, 1956-
Publisher: Smithmark,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Prehistoric peoples; Human evolution.; Civilization, Ancient
Abstract: A discussion of the origins of human beings and civilization from the first hunter gather groups to the cultures of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Peru, Zimbabwe, and many others.
Contents: Before man -- Southern apes and handy men -- The first hunters -- The mysterious Neanderthals -- All about Eve : DNA and the origins of modern man -- The long walk : the peopling of the Earth -- The revolution of the Upper Paleolithic -- A window on the past : modern hunter-gathers -- The world after the ice -- The first farmers -- Tribes and chiefdoms : early farming societies -- Sumer : the first civilization -- Civilizations everywhere.