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100 1 $aMithen, Steven J.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88231260
245 10 $aAfter the ice :$ba global human history, 20,000-5000 BC /$cSteven Mithen.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c2004.
300 $axiii, 622 pages :$billustrations (some color) ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aOriginally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe birth of history --$g2.$tThe world at 20,000 BC --$g3.$tFires and flowers --$g4.$tVillage life in the oak woodland --$g5.$tOn the banks of the Euphrates --$g6.$tOne thousand years of drought --$g7.$tThe founding of Jericho --$g8.$tPictograms and pillars --$g9.$tIn the valley of ravens --$g10.$tThe town of ghosts --$g11.$tHeaven and hell at Catalhoyuk --$g12.$tThree days on Cyprus --$g13.$tPioneers in northern lands --$g14.$tWith reindeer hunters --$g15.$tAt Star Carr --$g16.$tLast of the cave painters --$g17.$tCoastal catastrophe --$g18.$tTwo villages in Southeast Europe --$g19.$tIslands of the dead --$g20.$tAt the frontier --$g21.$tA Mesolithic legacy --$g22.$tA Scottish envoi --$g23.$tSearching for the first Americans --$g24.$tAmerican past in the present --$g25.$tOn the banks of Chinchihaupi --$g26.$tExplorers in a restless landscape --$g27.$tClovis hunters on trial --$g28.$tVirginity reconsidered --$g29.$tHerders and the 'Christ-child' --$g30.$tA double-take in the Oaxaca Valley --$g31.$tTo Koster --$g32.$tSalmon fishing and the gift of history --$g33.$tA lost world revealed --$g34.$tBody sculpture at Kow Swamp --$g35.$tAcross the arid zone --$g36.$tFighting men and a serpent's birth --$g37.$tPigs and gardens in the highlands --$g38.$tLonesome in Sundaland --$g39.$tDown the Yangtze --$g40.$tWith the Jomon --$g41.$tSummer in the Arctic --$g42.$tA passage through India --$g43.$tA long walk across the Hindu Kush --$g44.$tVultures of the Zagros --$g45.$tApproaching civilisation in Mesopotamia --$g46.$tBaked fish by the Nile --$g47.$tOn Lukenya Hill --$g48.$tFrogs' legs and ostrich eggs --$g49.$tA South African tour --$g50.$tThunderbolts in the tropics --$g51.$tSheep and cattle in the Sahara --$g52.$tFarmers in the Nile Valley and beyond --$tEpilogue : 'the blessings of civilisation'.
520 1 $a"Drawing on the latest research in archaeology, human genetics, and environmental science, After the Ice takes the reader on a sweeping tour of 15,000 years of human history. Steven Mithen brings this world to life through the eyes of an imaginary modern traveler - John Lubbock, namesake of the great Victorian polymath and author of Prehistoric Times." "Part history, part science, part time travel, After the Ice offers a portrayal of diverse cultures, lives, and landscapes that laid the foundations of the modern world."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aHunting and gathering societies.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85063134
650 0 $aAnthropology.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85005581
650 0 $aHuman beings$xMigrations.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85080300
650 0 $aAntiquities, Prehistoric.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96006045
650 0 $aCivilization, Ancient.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85026433
650 0 $aPrehistoric peoples.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85080302
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