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Free Download Prehistoric Worlds: Stomp Into the Epic Lands Ruled by Dinosaurs (The Magic and Mystery of the Natural World) by Ashley Hall
English | March 26th, 2024 | ISBN: 0744091861 | 80 pages | True EPUB | 76.48 MB
Enter the prehistoric world for an incredible four-billion-year journey across shifting continents and dinosaur territories.

Free Download Discovering the Prehistoric World: A Guide to the Astonishing Forms of Early Life on Earth (Discovering…) by Marianne Taylor
English | March 15th, 2024 | ISBN: 1398830534 | 192 pages | True EPUB | 23.14 MB
Delve into the mysteries of the ancient Earth with this highly visual, full-colour guide, written by renowned natural history author, Marianne Taylor.

Free Download Prehistoric Australasia: Visions of Evolution and Extinction by Michael Archer, Suzanne J. Hand, John Long, Trevor H. Worthy
English | April 3rd, 2023 | ISBN: 064310805X | 264 pages | True EPUB | 91.71 MB
For most of the past 300 million years, the world’s continents were interlinked as the supercontinents Pangaea and then Gondwana. Around 50 million years ago, Australia tore itself free from Antarctica to become the huge, splendidly isolated island it is today. Over time, its creatures began to evolve in ways not seen anywhere else on Earth, with tree-climbing crocodiles, gigantic venomous lizards, walking omnivorous bats and flesh-eating kangaroos roaming the continent.

Free Download Traveling Prehistoric Seas: Critical Thinking on Ancient Transoceanic Voyages By Alice Beck Kehoe
2016 | 217 Pages | ISBN: 1315416409 | PDF | 21 MB
Until recently the theory that people could have traversed large expanses of ocean in prehistoric times was considered pseudoscience. But recent discoveries in places as disparate as Australia, Labrador, Crete, California, and Chile open the possibility that ancient oceans were highways, not barriers, and that ancient people possessed the means and motives to traverse them. In this brief, thought-provoking, but controversial book Alice Kehoe considers the existing evidence in her reassessment of ancient sailing. Her book-critically analyzes the growing body of evidence on prehistoric sailing to help scholars and students evaluate a highly controversial hypothesis;-examines evidence from archaeology, anthropology, botany, art, mythology, linguistics, maritime technology, architecture, paleopathology, and other disciplines;-presents her evidence in student-accessible language to allow instructors to use this work for teaching critical thinking skills.

Free Download The cradle of humanity: prehistoric art and culture By Georges Bataille; Stuart Kendall (editor and translator); Michell Kendall (translator)
2005 | 210 Pages | ISBN: 1890951552 | PDF | 28 MB
The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture collects essays and lectures by Georges Bataille spanning 30 years of research in anthropology, comparative religion, aesthetics, and philosophy. These were neither idle nor idyllic years; the discovery of Lascaux in 1940 coincides with the bloodiest war in history-with new machines of death, Auschwitz, and Hiroshima. Bataille’s reflections on the possible origins of humanity coincide with the intensified threat of its possible extinction.For Bataille, prehistory is universal history; it is the history of a human community prior to its fall into separation, into nations and races. The art of prehistory offers the earliest traces of nascent yet fully human consciousness-of consciousness not yet fully separated from natural flora and fauna, or from the energetic forces of the universe. A play of identities, the art of prehistory is the art of a consciousness struggling against itself, of a human spirit struggling against brute animal physicality. Prehistory is the cradle of humanity, the birth of tragedy.Bataille reaches beyond disciplinary specializations to imagine a moment when thought was universal. Bataille’s work provides a model for interdisciplinary inquiry in our own day, a universal imagination and thought for our own potential community. The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture speaks to philosophers and historians of thought, to anthropologists interested in the history of their discipline and in new methodologies, to theologians and religious comparatists interested in the origins and nature of man’s encounter with the sacred, and to art historians and aestheticians grappling with the place of prehistory in the canons of art.Distributed for Zone Books

Free Download Prehistoric Times – Issue 148 – Winter 2024
English | 66 pages | True PDF | 32.4 MB

Free Download From Surface Collection to Prehistoric Lifeways: Making Sense of the Multi-period Site of Orlovo, South East Bulgaria By John Chapman; Bisserka Gaydarska
2010 | 172 Pages | ISBN: 184217391X | PDF | 33 MB
The communities who lived in the Balkans between 7000 and 4000 Cal. BC have now been the focus of intensive and increasingly inter-disciplinary research for the last forty years. Dwelling between the warm, dry Mediterranean zones of the Aegean and Anatolia and the cooler and snowier Central European heartlands, these communities created distinctive social formations that left enduring marks on today’s landscapes. One of the key trends in these millennia concerned the high value attributed to the exotic, especially if that was represented by objects of striking colour and brilliance. Thus, the preference, wherever possible, for long-term sedentary lifeways was often in counterpoise with strategies for bringing distinctive objects from remote places back to the settlement for local ‘domestication’. The prehistoric site of Orlovo has been investigated neither by excavation nor by systematic field walking but by repeated field visits, over many years, and the collection of objects exposed by the plough. The result is an extraordinarily rich and diverse collection of objects whose contexts are poorly known but whose diversity reminds us not so much of an excavated settlement as an excavated Chalcolithic cemetery. This collection has challenged us to develop an approach in which theory was integrated with methodology to propose as complete an interpretation of the site as could be done from an unstructured surface collection. The collection studied in this book is significant for the prehistory not only of South East Bulgaria but also for European prehistory as a whole and its study and publication therefore, sheds light on the worlds of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic communities of the Balkans through the prism of a single site.

Free Download Prehistoric Egypt
by W.M. Flinders Petrie;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 979-8888570166 | 118 pages | True PDF EPUB | 116.29 MB

Free Download The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BJ4F7BTW | 2023 | 11 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 332 MB
Author: Peter Gleick
Narrator: Jonathan Beville

Free Download J.S. Grewal, "Social and Cultural History of the Punjab: Prehistoric, Ancient and Early Medieval"
English | 2004 | pages: 183 | ISBN: 8173045658 | PDF | 24,7 mb
The "Punjab" of this book is a metaphor for the gepgraphical region surrounded by the Himalayas, the great India desert, the Aravali hills and the holy river Jamuna.