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Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 7
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house transports Jack and Annie on a mission to the Ice Age where they encounter Cro-Magnons, cave bears, sabertooth tigers, and woolly mammoths.
Author
Series
Earth's children volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
An injured and orphaned infant carries within her the seed and hope of mankind in this epic of survival and destiny set at the dawn of prehistory.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A mesmerizing overview of the world as it was when glaciers covered the earth and long-extinct creatures like the woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats battled to survive. Go back 20,000 years ago to a time of much colder global temperatures when glaciers and extensive sheets of ice covered much of our planet. As these sheets traveled, they caused enormous changes in the Earth's landscape and climate, leading to the evolution of creatures such as...
Author
Series
Earth's children volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Second in the acclaimed Earth's Children series. Ayla leaves those she loves behind and travels alone through a stark open land filled with dangerous animals but few people, searching for the Others, tall and fair like herself.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Easter Island, isolated deep in the South Pacific and now a World Heritage Site, was home to a fascinating prehistoric culture-one that produced massive stone effigies (the moai) and the birdman cult-and yet much of the island's past remains shrouded in mystery. Where did the islanders come from, and when? How did Rapa Nui culture evolve over the centuries? How, and why, did their natural environment change over time? Paul Bahn and John Flenley guide...
Author
Series
Earth's children volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ayla and Jondalar meet the Mamutoi, the Mammoth Hunters, and Ayla finds herself torn between the wildly jealous Jondalar and the master carver Ranec.
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"More than 3 million years ago in Africa, our early ancestors began to systematically modify rocks into useable tools, thus inventing the first technologies that eventually permitted humans to dominate all life forms on the planet. In this book, Deborah Barsky offers a long-term evolutionary perspective on human culture and its relationship with technology. Using scientific information and examples from the global archaeological record, she follows...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Bringing together an unprecedented range of artefacts - jewels, animals in stone, carved figures and heads, abstract decorations on standing stones and primitive architecture - this film presents Celtic art in the context of Gallic civilization as a whole. The poetic and penetrating narrative by Max-Pol Fouchet stresses the art's supernatural roots in Druidic cults of gods, goddesses and heroes. For the Celts, we are told, 'the spirit and the head...
12) Kali's song
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thousands and thousands of years ago, a young boy gets his first hunting bow and learns to shoot, but he prefers to use the bow to make music.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
[1993], ©1960
Language
English
Description
The Evolution Man is a novel about your basic upwardly mobile Pleistocene cave family - as they come down from trees (except for Uncle Vanya, who insists that it's the stupidest thing man ever did), dislodge a family of bears from the best cave in the neighborhood, and widen their digestive horizons to keep down things not only disgusting but disagreeable as well. Life cannot be all snails and sweetbreads. Recorded here is the correct version of the...
Author
Series
Earth's children volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
After their epic journey across Europe, Ayla and Jondalar have reached his home, the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii, the old stone age settlement in the region known today as southwest France. Jondalar's family greet him warmly, but they are initially wary of the beautiful young woman he has brought back, with her strange accent and her tame wolf and horses.
16) Hope of earth
Author
Series
Geodyssey volume 3
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
©1997
Language
English
Description
A collection of chapters set in different historical periods, but featuring the same protagonists. Twenty chapters in all, beginning with prehistory and ending in the future. The characters and the action represent the evolution of mankind, the novel attempting to answer the question, what does it mean to be human?
17) Early man
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, this tells the story of Dug, along with sidekick Hognob as they unite his tribe against a mighty enemy Lord Nooth and his Bronze Age City to save their home.
Author
Publisher
Greey de Pencier Books Inc
Pub. Date
©1999
Language
English
Description
The story of Quennu, who is afraid of only one thing -- cave bears. When she is separated from her family and clan on a journey to the magical caverns where art is made, she must face her fears and find her way alone.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A group of young people visit the hillfort of Maiden Castle in Dorset, England, and think themselves back in time. They realize that archaeology is all about building up a picture of what life was like in the past. The archaeologist at work explains the techniques of modern archaeology and what his team is actually doing at Maiden Castle. Reconstruction paintings based on real evidence help to show life in the Iron Age, as does a visit to an experimental...
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