World Prehistory Coloring Book
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 70
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$28.08
The World Prehistory Coloring Book is as appropriate for use in an introductory college class as it is for your grandchildren. The book is designed to have broad appeal.
The World Prehistory Coloring Book takes you on a trip through deep time. There are 30 finely rendered, well-researched original images that chronicle humanity from our first upright ancestors approximately four million years ago to comparatively recent civilizations like the Maya. Within these pages is a sample of humanity's greatest prehistoric hits as interpreted by archaeologist Richard Adams and illustrator Brian Loner.
We create an evocative chronicle of the lives of prehistoric people. Unlike other coloring books, we provide the location of the image, the time period, and an explanatory caption.
We try to avoid archaeological jargon, but do use scientific nomenclature when needed. Additional key search terms, and citation of the scientific literature provide opportunities for further study. This book helps you imagine what happened in the past, without having to focus on the methods that archaeologists use to uncover the past.
We cover subjects ranging from Ice Age hunters to Mayans and Mesopotamians in rough chronological order. We cover Gobekli Tepe- an ancient Turkish monument twice as old as Stonehenge; we look at Egyptian bread-making during the time of the Pharaohs, and the Austrian Ice Man's last minutes. The World Prehistory Coloring Book lets you decide if Neandertals had blue skin or mammoths had pink hair.
Acknowledgements
Foreword by David Hurst Thomas
Introduction
Deep Time at Arm's Length - ch 1
Natural Selection with Charles Darwin &Alfred Wallace- ch 2
The First Bipedal Primate - ch 3
Ardi the Ardipithecus and Lucy the Australopithecus - ch 4
The First Stone-Tool Makers - ch 5
Homo erectus, Modern from the Neck Down- ch 6
Out of Africa-Early humans Leaving Tracks in Great Britain- ch 7
Neandertal Women Making Cold-weather Clothing- ch 8
Anatomically Modern Humans in Africa - ch 9
Behaviorally Modern Humans-The Intellectual Expansion - ch 10
Colonizing Australia - ch 11
Upper Paleolithic Women Innovating - ch 12
Complex Foragers in China Making the Clay Pots - ch 13
Colonizing North America- ch 14
Exterminating Pleistocene Megafauna in Wyoming - ch 15
The First Temple-Gobekli Tepe in Turkey- ch 16
The Daily Grind-Agriculture's Effect on Women - ch 17
Queen Puabi of Mesopotamia- ch 18
The Staff of Life-Making Bread in Ancient Egypt- ch 19
The Great Bath at Mohenjo Daro, Pakistan - ch 20
European Neolithic Lakeside Village- ch 21
Otzi, the Iceman - ch 22
The Ice Maiden-A Siberian Mounted Nomad's Burial - ch 23
Caral, Peru-An Early South American Civilization - ch 24
Capacocha Among the Inca, South America - ch 25
The Olmec and the Origins of Mesoamerican Civilization- ch 26
Plains Indian Villages in North America- ch 27
Complex Civilization at Great Zimbabwe - ch 28
Cannibalism at Jamestown, Virginia, AD 1609 - ch 29
The Modern Culture of Consumption- ch 30
Co-Authors - Rich and Brian