Prehistory
Subtitle: the making of the human mind
By: Colin Renfrew
Edition: Modern library paperback ed.
Series: A Modern Library chronicles book -- v. 30; Modern Library chronicles -- 30.
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780812976618
Copyright date: 2007
Subjects: Prehistoric Antiquities; Prehistoric peoples; Prehistoric Anthropology; Human evolution
Description: In this invaluable, brief account of human development prior to the last four millennia, Colin Renfrew delivers a meticulously researched and passionately argued chronicle about our life on earth, and our ongoing quest to understand it.
Notes: "Originally published in the United Kingdom in hardcover by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, in 2007, and subsequently in the United States in hardcover by Modern Library ... in 2008"- -T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-204) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: The discovery of prehistory; title: The idea of prehistory; title: Mapping the human past: Prehistory before 1940; title: Dating: the radiocarbon revolution; title: The possibility of world prehistory; title: Part II: The prehistory of mind; title: The sapient paradox; title: Toward a prehistory of mind; title: Constructing the community; title: Worldly goods; title: Appropriating the cosmos; title: From prehistory to history; title: Prospect: the future of prehistory.