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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
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Who We Are and How We Got Here

By David Reich ,

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Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
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Women's Work

By Elizabeth Wayland Barber ,

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Hamlet's Mill: An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time
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Hamlet's Mill

By Giorgio de Santillana , Hertha von Dechend ,

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On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands Before European Contact
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On the Road of the Winds

By Patrick Vinton Kirch ,

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Prehistoric Animals
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Prehistoric Animals

By J. Augusta , Z. Burian ,

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Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
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Lucy

By Donald Johanson , Maitland Edey ,

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Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies: Orality, Memory and the Transmission of Culture
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Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies

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Dinosaurs a Children's Encyclopedia
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Dinosaurs a Children's Encyclopedia

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Europe's Lost World: The Rediscovery of Doggerland
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Europe's Lost World

By Vincent Gaffney , Simon Fitch , David Smith

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The Dinosaur Heresies
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The Dinosaur Heresies

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The Magic School Bus Explores Human Evolution
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The Magic School Bus Explores Human Evolution

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The Shamans of Prehistory: Trance and Magic in the Painted Caves
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The Shamans of Prehistory

By Jean Clottes , David Lewis-Williams , Sophie Hawkes (translator)

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Underground Religion: Cult and Culture in Prehistoric Italy
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Underground Religion

By Ruth Whitehouse ,

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Stonehenge
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Stonehenge

By Bernard Cornwell ,

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Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings: Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice Age
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Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings

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A Brief History of the Human Race
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A Brief History of the Human Race

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Textiles and Textile Production in Europe: From Prehistory to Ad 400
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Textiles and Textile Production in Europe

By Margarita Gleba (editor) , Ulla Mannering (editor) ,

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Before Civilization
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Before Civilization

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Four Thousand Years Ago: A World Panorama Of Life In The Second Millennium B. C.
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Four Thousand Years Ago

By Geoffrey Bibby , Ralph Marcano (illustrator) ,

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Ancient Europe from the Beginnings of Agriculture to Classical Antiquity: A Survey
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Ancient Europe from the Beginnings of Agriculture to Classical Antiquity

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Japan from Prehistory to Modern Times
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Japan from Prehistory to Modern Times

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From Genesis to Prehistory: The Archaeological Three Age System and its Contested Reception in Denmark, Britain, and Ireland
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From Genesis to Prehistory

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Home: A Time Traveller's Tales from Britain's Prehistory
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Home

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Lost Cornwall
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Lost Cornwall

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The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939
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The Affirmative Action Empire

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Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings
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Ancestral Journeys

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Bog Bodies Uncovered: Solving Europe's Ancient Mystery
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Bog Bodies Uncovered

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The Wahls Protocol Cooking For Life: The Revolutionary Modern Paleo Plan to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions
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The Wahls Protocol Cooking For Life

By Terry Wahls , Eve Adamson ,

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The Archaeology of Human Bones
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The Archaeology of Human Bones

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Stone Age, Bone Age!
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Stone Age, Bone Age!

By Mick Manning , Brita Granstrom ,

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Stonehenge: Making Space
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Stonehenge

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