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Author Chrisp, Peter.

Title Prehistory / written by Peter Chrisp.

Publication Info. New York : DK Pub., 2008.
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 Naper Blvd. Juvenile Nonfiction  J 930.1 CHR    AVAILABLE
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Description 95 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm
Series DK online.
Note Includes index.
Summary Explores various aspects of prehistory and provides instructions on how to find additional information via the DK online website by using keywords in the book.
Contents What is prehistory? -- Evidence from the past -- Discovering prehistory -- Evolution -- The first steps -- The first toolmakers -- The first humans -- Neanderthals -- Cro-Magnon people -- How did we get here? -- The first artists -- Mammoth hunters -- Settling Australia -- After the ice age -- The first farmers -- The invention of pottery -- Catal Hoyuk -- Mesopotamia : the first cities -- Egypt :the first state -- Indus -- The first Chinese farmers -- The first Chinese civilizations -- The megalith builders -- Standing stones -- Flint mining -- The copper age -- Bronze-age Europe -- The Minoans -- Mycenae -- The coming of iron -- The first American farmers -- Pueblo and mound-builders -- Mesoamerica -- The Maya -- Early South American civilizations -- Empires of the Andes -- Steppe nomads -- Arctic people -- Peopling the Pacific -- Toward history.
Subject Prehistoric peoples -- Juvenile literature.
Prehistoric peoples -- Computer network resources -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN 9780756634612
075663461X
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