After the ice
by Steven J. Mithen · first published 2004
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I enjoyed 'After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC' by Steven Mithen https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674019997
on “The Kush civilization flourished in Sudan nearly 5K years ago” ↗This and many other sites feature in a great book I'm reading, After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5,000 BC by Steven Mithen. http://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Ice-Global-Human-History/dp/07...
on “Göbekli Tepe – Stone age mountain sanctuary” ↗After the Ice by Steven Mithen: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/264288.After_the_Ice It's a doorstop of a book, but very interesting, tracing the threads of hunter-gatherers transitioning to civilisations all…
on “Neanderthals glued their tools together” ↗‘After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000–5000 BC’ by Steven Mithen was excellent when I read it ~10 years ago. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674019997
on “Prehistoric Horses: Exploring the meaning of Lascaux’s galloping herds” ↗…noise ratio and information density than all content short of academic textbooks or courses (and I’ll die on that hill). Sapiens is a good example of that kind of mass market crap. I’m currently reading After the Ice by Mithen and The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow which are much better attempts at pop-academia takes at early human history. Even just the notes section of those books is a goldmine for sources…
on “Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly” ↗Have you read this? "After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC" http://www.amazon.com/After-Ice-Global-History-000-5000/dp/0...
on “How can I get addicted to programming?” ↗