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The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.10 � 276,370 ratings � published 1980
After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 � 1,493 ratings � published 2003
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.99 � 3,659 ratings � published 2007
The Valley of Horses (Earth's Children, #2)
by (shelved 52 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.04 � 93,590 ratings � published 1982
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.35 � 1,167,331 ratings � published 2011
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.03 � 3,371 ratings � published 2020
The Mammoth Hunters (Earth's Children, #3)
by (shelved 41 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.96 � 75,712 ratings � published 1985
The Plains of Passage (Earth's Children, #4)
by (shelved 33 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.86 � 60,554 ratings � published 1990
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.19 � 23,118 ratings � published 2021
The Shelters of Stone (Earth's Children, #5)
by (shelved 33 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.87 � 50,795 ratings � published 2002
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.21 � 36,878 ratings � published 2018
The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.14 � 811 ratings � published 2002
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.99 � 4,636 ratings � published 2006
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.04 � 438,029 ratings � published 1997
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.13 � 5,716 ratings � published 2018
The Inheritors (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.52 � 5,286 ratings � published 1955
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.12 � 5,773 ratings � published 2022
Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.09 � 2,781 ratings � published 2021
The Land of Painted Caves (Earth's Children, #6)
by (shelved 23 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.44 � 35,947 ratings � published 2011
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.94 � 1,472 ratings � published 2013
Europe Between the Oceans: Themes and Variations, 9000 BC - AD 1000 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.13 � 619 ratings � published 2008
Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.69 � 1,819 ratings � published 2010
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.12 � 4,455 ratings � published 2017
Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos, and the Realm of the Gods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.87 � 374 ratings � published 2005
Prehistory: The making of the human mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.73 � 484 ratings � published 2007
Stonehenge (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.69 � 12,983 ratings � published 1999
Dance of the Tiger: A Novel of the Ice Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.68 � 495 ratings � published 1978
Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.89 � 1,766 ratings � published 2018
People of the Wolf (North America's Forgotten Past, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.90 � 9,881 ratings � published 1990
Reindeer Moon (Reindeer Moon, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.97 � 1,840 ratings � published 1987
Daughter of the Red Deer (Reindeer Hunters, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.01 � 1,007 ratings � published 1991
Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.97 � 703 ratings � published 2013
The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.01 � 516 ratings � published 1996
Shaman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.76 � 4,656 ratings � published 2013
The Cave Painters: Probing the Mysteries of the World's First Artists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.06 � 500 ratings � published 2006
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.98 � 31,028 ratings � published 2010
Beyond the Sea of Ice (The First Americans, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.05 � 2,731 ratings � published 1987
Scenes from Prehistoric Life: From the Ice Age to the Coming of the Romans (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.10 � 367 ratings � published
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 � 28,168 ratings � published 1991
The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 � 848 ratings � published 1966
The Human Past: World Prehistory and the Development of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.82 � 275 ratings � published 2005
The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.88 � 965 ratings � published 2009
Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 � 787 ratings � published 2003
Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.24 � 1,927 ratings � published 2017
The Last Neanderthal (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.65 � 4,676 ratings � published 2017
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.07 � 3,312 ratings � published 2014
Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.53 � 604 ratings � published 2009
Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.06 � 1,310 ratings � published 2012
The Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as prehistory)
avg rating 3.83 � 263 ratings � published 1998
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as prehistory)
avg rating 4.08 � 3,307 ratings � published 1997
“The flood myth motif is widespread among many cultures, as seen in Mesopotamian flood stories, the Puranas (ancient Hindu texts), in the Greek Deucalion mythology, the lore of the K'iche' and Maya peoples of Central America, as well as the Muisca people of present day Colombia in South America. In fact, there are oral traidition stories pertaining to this concept from antiquity, from cultures of Sumeria, Babylonia, Germany, Ireland, Finland, the Maasai of Africa, Egypt, India, Turkestan, China, Korea, Malaysia, Lao, Australia, Polynesia, and Native people of North America, Mesoamerica and South America... to name just a handful.”
― Aftershock: The Ancient Cataclysm That Erased Human History
― Aftershock: The Ancient Cataclysm That Erased Human History
“Archaic myths from many parts of Europe (and around the world) refer to this event by mention of bright new stars which fell to Earth as seven flaming mountains, of how the oceans rose up in vast waves and totally engulfed the lands, and how summer was driven away with a cold darkness that lasted several years. In support of the mythological accounts of the vast waves covering the lands it is important to mention that many of the highest mountains in England, Scotland, and Ireland are littered with beds of sand and gravel containing sea shells deposited in the very recent geological past. Geology also gives irrefutable evidence that at two times in the recent past, around 7640 BC and 3100 BC, there have been complete reversals of the Earth's magnetic field caused by an outside influence, most probably a comet.”
― Aftershock: The Ancient Cataclysm That Erased Human History
― Aftershock: The Ancient Cataclysm That Erased Human History
