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Chrisp, Peter.

Prehistory / written by Peter Chrisp. - London : Dorling Kindersley, 2008. - 96 pages; illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, portraits (some color) ; 28 cm. - DK online . - DK online. .

Includes index. At foot of title: Google.

How to use the website -- What is prehistory -- Evidence from the past -- Discovering prehistory -- Evolution -- The first steps -- The first toolmakers -- The first humans -- Neanderthals -- Cro-magnon people -- The first artists -- Mammoth hunters -- Settling Australia -- Settling the Americas -- After the Ice Age -- The first farmers -- The invention of pottery -- Catal Hoyuk -- Mesopotamia: the first cities -- Egypt: the first state -- The indus -- The first chinese farmers -- The first chinese civilizations -- The magalith 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 -- Towards history.

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.

ISBN: 9781405321761 1405321768

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA786669 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 014200266 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Prehistoric peoples--Juvenile literature.
Prehistoric peoples--Computer network resources--Juvenile literature.

Dewey Class. No.: 930.1