- Paperback: 645 pages
- Publisher: Pearson; 10 edition (11 Oct 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0130283215
- ISBN-13: 978-0130283214
- Product Dimensions: 27.2 x 21.6 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,431,247 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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For courses in Introduction to Archaeology.
This comprehensive and well-established text is appropriate for courses in world prehistory taught in anthropology departments. It tells the beginning student a narrative story of human prehistory with a global voice and without a specific theoretical viewpoint. Designed to show how today's diverse humanity developed biologically and culturally over millions of years against a background of constant climatic change, it treats all areas of the world evenly and covers all periods of prehistory from human origins to the appearance of literate civilizations. Recent discoveries, new archaeological methodologies, and the latest theories of human biological and cultural evolution are emphasized throughout.
About the Author
BRIAN FAGAN is one of the leading archaeological writers in the world and an internationally recognized authority on world prehistory. He studied archaeology and anthropology at Pembroke College, Cambridge University, and then spent seven years in sub-Saharan Africa working in museums and in monuments conservation and excavating early farming sites in Zambia and East Africa. He was one of the pioneers of multidisciplinary African history in the 1960s. Since 1967, he has been Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has specialized in lecturing and writing about archaeology to wide audiences.
Professor Fagan has written seven best-selling textbooks: Ancient Lives: An Introduction to Archaeology: In the Beginning; Archaeology: A Brief Introduction; World Prehistory; Historical Archaeology (with Charles E. Orser); Ancient Civilizations (with Chris Scarre); and this volume—all published by Prentice Hall—which are used around the world. His general books include The Rape of the Nile, a classic history of Egyptology; The Adventure of Archaeology; Time Detectives; Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Niño and the Fate of Civilizations; and Ancient North America. He is General Editor of the Oxford Companion to Archaeology. In addition, he has published several scholarly monographs on African archaeology and numerous specialized articles in national and international journals. He is also an expert on multimedia teaching and has received the Society for American Archaeology's first Public Education Award for his indefatigable efforts on behalf of archaeology and education.
Brian Fagan's other interests include bicycling, sailing, kayaking, and good food. He is married and lives in Santa Barbara with his wife and daughter, three cats (who supervise his writing), a chinchilla, a goldfish, and last but not least, three rabbits.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
this book with a very fluid language gives the reader a glance through the world prehistory. Not only does it outline the vast material coulture of such a long era, but also hints at the archaeeological methods of interpreting the data and the encompassing problems of such procedure
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Probably the best guide to human evolution, stage by stage, to be found. It is Ideal for reference usage through A-Level archeaology, and I shall be using it throughout my degree. Fagan is very dependable when it comes to site references, and the book is filled with maps, charts and colour photographs of finds. When it comes to human evolution, short of Origin of man, this should be your bible.
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Origins of Mankind
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Very good histort of the beginnnings of man on planet Earth. Very thorough and most intersting for all ages.
9 of 18 people found the following review helpful
spelbinding meeting
26 Jan 2001
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as a student of the archaeology department of the aristotele university of thessaloniki i had a cource called "an introduction to prehistorical civilization".all over the year i did not have a clue what prehistory because i paid no attention to the lessons given although evey friday morning i was inside the classroom. the exams were close,i had to do something urgentely. to tell the truth i didn`t expect to find such a book to give me the essential knowledge i needed to understand this part of history and to give the gourage to continue reading and learning on this subject.easy to read and to understand too. lovely and encouraging writing giving all sort of primary ( further more)information on the theme discussed. i honestly believe it was a spelbinding meeting with this book that i will never forget.
6 of 17 people found the following review helpful
spelbinding meeting
26 Jan 2001
Format:Textbook Binding
as a student of the archaeology department of the aristotele university of thessaloniki i had a cource called "an introduction to prehistorical civilization".all over the year i did not have a clue what prehistory because i paid no attention to the lessons given although evey friday morning i was inside the classroom. the exams were close,i had to do something urgentely. to tell the truth i didn`t expect to find such a book to give me the essential knowledge i needed to understand this part of history and to give the gourage to continue reading and learning on this subject.easy to read and to understand too. lovely and encouraging writing giving all sort of primary ( further more)information on the theme discussed. i honestly believe it was a spelbinding meeting with this book that i will never forget.
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