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Free Download Guo Wu, "Archaeological Research on the Societies of Late Prehistoric Xinjiang, Vol 2"
English | ISBN: 9811968888 | 2023 | 339 pages | PDF | 11 MB
This book presents cutting-edge archaeological materials from Xinjiang, from the Bronze Age to the early Iron Age. Through a systematic topological study of major archaeological cemeteries and sites, it establishes chronologies and cultural sequences for three main regions in Xinjiang, namely the circum-Eastern Tianshan region, the circum-Dzungarian Basin region and the circum-Tarim Basin region. It also discusses the origins and local variants of prehistoric archaeological cultures in these regions and the mutual relationships between them and neighboring cultures.

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