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A thoroughly revised and re-designed edition of the acclaimed textbook that presents an accessible and up-to-date account of what we know today about the origins and development of human society
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Overview
The Human Past offers authoritative and up-to-date coverage of prehistory. Thoroughly revised and re-designed, this new edition combines expert writing with a clear, student-friendly approach.
• Newly designed timelines, maps and 50% more colour images enhance understanding.
• Streamlined chapters clarify key concepts and improve the narrative.
• A new chapter, ‘The Origins, Antiquity, and Dispersal of the First Americans’ by David J. Meltzer, increases coverage of the Americas.
• New ‘Key Theme’ boxes link chapters through common issues in human history, focusing on climate change, domestication, migration, social inequality and urbanism.
• Updated scholarship gives readers a contemporary perspective: this edition includes new genetic evidence revealing the arrival of the Yamnaya people in Europe and new theories on the relationship between sedentism and agriculture.
• Instructor and student resources are available, including a test bank, student quizzes, chapter summaries and PowerPoint art slides.
Reviews
'Exciting, accessible and informative … by far the best introduction available'
Cyprian Broodbank, Head of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
'Absolutely essential reading for all students of archaeology'
Barry Cunliffe, University of Oxford
'One of the best overviews of world prehistory it is possible to get. Excellent coverage, up to date and accessible'
Tim Reynolds, Birkbeck, University of London
'The perfect textbook … this is the kind of book we wish we’d had'
How It Works
'The go-to primer text for world prehistory'
The Archaeological Journal
Product Information
Book Details
Format: Paperback
Edition Type: Fourth edition
Size: 27.6 x 21.5 cm
Extent: 768 pp
Publication date: 1 February 2018
ISBN: 9780500294208
About the Author
Dr Chris Scarre is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Durham. He is the author of many books on prehistory and archaeology, including The Megalithic Monuments of Britain and Ireland, Chronicle of the Roman Emperors and The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World, all published by Thames & Hudson.
