Product Description

For courses in introduction to World Prehistory.

Taking students on a fascinating journey through the 7-million-year-old landscape of the human past, this internationally renowned text provides a narrative account of human prehistory from the earliest times through the earliest civilizations. Written in a jargon-free, easily accessible style, the Eleventh Edition is designed to show how today's diverse humanity developed biologically and culturally over millions of years against a background of constant climatic change.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1165542 in Books
• Published on: 2003-08-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 2
• Binding: Paperback
• 624 pages

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 monument 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 six best-selling textbooks:

Ancient Lives: An Introduction to Archaeology and Prehistory; In the Beginning Archaeology: A Brief Introduction; World Prehistory; 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; Ancient North America; The Little Ice Age; and Before California: An Archaeologist Looks at Our Earliest Inhabitants. He was also 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 the recipient of 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, four cats (who supervise his writing), and last but not least, a minimum of four rabbits.

Customer Reviews

thought provoking and very usefull
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

A must for any Archeaology or Anthropology student.
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.