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　　In Prehistory, the award-winning archaeologist and renowned

scholar Colin Renfrew covers human existence before the advent of

written records–the overwhelming majority of our time here on

earth–and gives an incisive, concise, and lively survey of the

past, and of how scholars and scientists labor to bring it to

light.

Renfrew begins by looking at prehistory as a discipline,

detailing how breakthroughs such as radiocarbon dating and DNA

analysis have helped us to define humankind’s past–how things have

changed–much more clearly than was possible just a half century

ago. As for why things have changed, Renfrew pinpoints some of the

issues and challenges, past and present, that confront the study of

prehistory and its investigators. Renfrew then offers a summary of

human prehistory from early hominids to the rise of literate

civilization that is refreshingly free of conventional wisdom and

grand “unified” theories.

In this invaluable account, Colin Renfrew delivers a meticulously

researched and passionately argued chronicle about our life on

earth–and our ongoing quest to understand it.

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　　Colin Renfrew was professor of archaeology from 1981 to 2004

at Cambridge University, where he is now a Fellow of the McDonald

Institute for Archaeological Research. Also a Fellow of the British

Academy, he has won numerous international medals and prizes and

was made a life peer in 1991. A leading figure in archaeology

worldwide, he has led many excavations, especially in Greece. He is

co-author, with Paul Bahn, of Archaeology: Theories, Methods,

and Practice, the definitive student reference.

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In Prehistory, the award-winning archaeologist and renowned scholar Colin Renfrew covers human existence before the advent of written records–the overwhelming majority of our time here on earth–and gives an incisive, concise, and lively survey of the past, and of how scholars and scientists labor to bring it to light.

Renfrew begins by looking at prehistory as a discipline, detailing how breakthroughs such as radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis have helped us to define humankind’s past–how things have changed–much more clearly than was possible just a half century ago. As for why things have changed, Renfrew pinpoints some of the issues and challenges, past and present, that confront the study of prehistory and its investigators. Renfrew then offers a summary of human prehistory from early hominids to the rise of literate civilization that is refreshingly free of conventional wisdom and grand “unified” theories.

In this invaluable account, Colin Renfrew delivers a meticulously researched and passionately argued chronicle about our life on earth–and our ongoing quest to understand it.