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AFTER THE ICE
A Global Human History 20,000 - 5,000 BC
by Steven Mithen
• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0810943638
• ASIN: B0002IA1O0
Bradshaw Foundation - Editor's Review
Steven Mithen brings this world to life through the eyes of an imaginery modern traveller - John Lubbock, namesake of the great Victorian polymath and author of 'Prehistoric Times'.
With Lubbock, readers visit and observe communities and landscapes, experiencing prehistoric life - from aboriginal hunting parties in Tasmania, to the corralling of wild sheep in the central Sahara, to the efforts of the Guila Naquitz people in Oaxaca to combat drought with agricultural innovations.
After the ice steven mithen prehistory
The 'Lubbock' device is clever. With a guide, you can hear the voices, smell the fires. You experience rather than simply read. It reminded me strongly of being led by a very worthy guide - Dr Jean Clottes - through Chauvet Cave i