The Human Past: World History & the Development of Human Societies

A comprehensive and indispensable guide to world prehistory now completely updated The Human Past has established itself as a thorough and authoritative survey of human prehistory and the development of civilizations. Written by an international team of respected experts in the field it presents a streamlined overview that can be broken down into a series of chapters focusing on individual regions and time periods. The Fourth Edition has been completely revised with key theme feature boxes a new chapter on the peopling of the Americas a section on methods and theories full-color maps timelines illustrations new coverage of sites and discoveries and a fully updated e-media package including all images from the book test questions and videos. 755 illustrations