Prehistory covers the period of some 4 million years before the start of written history, when our earliest ancestors, t
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Table of contents :
List of illustrations
Prehistory and archaeology – a note
A very, very short introduction to chronology
1 What and when is prehistory?
2 The problems of prehistory
3 Human skills and experiences
4 Continental prehistories
5 The nature of human social life
6 The prehistory of the future
Further reading
Timelines
Index