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After the ice : a global human history, 20,000-5000 BC /
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| Lenguaje: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2004.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- The beginning
- The birth of history
- The world at 20,000 BC
- Western Asia
- Fires and flowers
- Village life in the oak woodland
- On the banks of the Euphrates
- One thousand years of drought
- The founding of Jericho
- Pictograms and pillars
- In the valley of ravens
- The town of ghosts
- Heaven and hell at {cedil}Catlahöyük
- Three days on Cyprus
- Europe
- Pioneers in northern lands
- With reindeer hunters
- At Star Carr
- Last of the cave painters
- Coastal catastrophe
- Two villages in Southeast Europe
- Islands of the dead
- At the frontier
- A mesolithic legacy
- A Scottish envoi
- The Americans
- Searching for the first Americans
- American past in the present
- On the banks of Chinchihuapi
- Explorers in a restless landscape
- Clovis hunters on trial
- Virginity reconsidered
- Herders and the 'Christ-child'
- A double-take in the Oaxaca Valley
- To Koster
- Salmon fishing and the gift of history
- Greater Australia and East Asia
- A lost world revealed
- Body sculpture at Kow Swamp
- Across the arid zone
- Fighting men and a serpent's birth
- Pigs and gardens in the highlands
- Lonesome in Sundaland
- Down the Yangtze
- With the Jomon
- Summer in the Arctic
- South Asia
- A passage through India
- A long walk across the Hindu Kush
- Vultures of the Zagros
- Approaching civilisation in Mesopotamia
- Africa
- Baked fish by the Nile
- On Lukenya Hill
- Frogs' legs and ostrich eggs
- A South African tour
- Thunderbolts in the tropics
- Sheep and cattle in the Sahara
- Farmers in the Nile Valley and beyond.