Patterns in Prehistory: Humankind's First Three Million Years, 5th Edition (Casebooks in Criticism)

Patterns in Prehistory: Humankind's First Three Million Years, 5th Edition (Casebooks in Criticism) by Olszewski, Deborah I.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780195169287.

Patterns in Prehistory, Fifth Edition, is a comprehensive and engaging survey of humanitys past three million years. It brings together theories and archaeological examples to pose questions about who we are and the means by which humanity evolved into what it is today. Ideal for introductory courses in world prehistory and origins of complex societies, this text offers a unified and thematic approach to the four great transformations--or patterns--that characterize humanitys past: the origins and evolution of culture; the origins of modern humans and human behaviors; the origins of agriculture; and the origins of complex societies, civilizations, and pre-industrial states.