Provides an account of what is known about the remotest geological ages, comprising chapters on the different kinds of evidence concerning man and his physical environment.
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This review is from: The Cambridge Ancient History Volume 1, Part 1: Prolegomena and Prehistory (Hardcover)
I remember growing up and finding the Cambridge Ancient History set of books in my local library. As a 10 year old, they were amazing - even if I didn't understand a lot of it.
Now, being slightly older, I can really appreciate a book like this. Not only is this book (and the entire set) this amazing collection of history, but I'm blown away with the depth and breath within these pages. If these books weren't so expensive, they deserve to be in every amateur historian's home. Volume 1, Part 1 involves the history of the Near East from 3000 to 1750 BC/BCE. During that time, Egypt became unified and thus stable and created the environment to build the pyramids. Having been in Egypt earlier this year and at the Giza plateau, you go from shock and awe to How? and Why? This helped answer some of the questions I had. I'm still trying to work my way through the book. This book isn't casual reading, but it's a remarkable work. It's fascinating but dry. The price of the books make this prohibitively expensive, but the used book prices might make this a tempting introduction to this amazing body of work. It's worth it.
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This review is from: The Cambridge Ancient History Volume 1, Part 1: Prolegomena and Prehistory (Hardcover)
This book even though a little startling at first. Brings to light some very hidden truths. These truths have been hidden from knowledge. The Bible states that "we shall know the truth, and the truth shall set us free". We need truth in a world full of uncertainties and lies. Truth brings knowledge. It is our Plumbline to measure everything with. We need this to survive. Life is empty in uncertainties. We know where we are going in truth and where we have come from! This book reveals - lays open, it is bare! Thanks for all the arduous research but it was well worth it. Thanks and well done.
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THE perspective of history begins with the origin of the earth, and develops through geological time until the stage is ultimately set for human evolution. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
grey burnished pottery, throne tenure, eponym office, trapeze industries, central mountain belt, dark burnished ware, nucleus tell, aceramic phase, clay sickles, flint industry, internal buttresses, early neolithic period, blade industry, black burnished ware, geometric microliths, palaeolithic industries, polychrome ware, terracotta objects, burnished wares, chipped stone industry, plastered skulls, flint industries, microlithic industry, flake industry, microlithic industries Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jamdat Nasr, Upper Palaeolithic, Near East, Ras Shamra, Middle Neolithic, Turin Canon, Hajji Muhammad, Upper Egypt, Jamdat Nag, Nea Nikomedeia, Early Bronze Age, Aceramic Neolithic, Tell Ramad, North Africa, Lower Egypt, Neolithic Urfirnis, Asia Minor, Middle Palaeolithic, Red Sea, Karim Shahr, Zawi Chemi, Hajji Mubammad, Black Sea, Tell Halaf, Mount Carmel New!
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THE perspective of history begins with the origin of the earth, and develops through geological time until the stage is ultimately set for human evolution. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
grey burnished pottery, throne tenure, eponym office, trapeze industries, central mountain belt, dark burnished ware, nucleus tell, aceramic phase, clay sickles, flint industry, internal buttresses, early neolithic period, blade industry, black burnished ware, geometric microliths, palaeolithic industries, polychrome ware, terracotta objects, burnished wares, chipped stone industry, plastered skulls, flint industries, microlithic industry, flake industry, microlithic industries Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jamdat Nasr, Upper Palaeolithic, Near East, Ras Shamra, Middle Neolithic, Turin Canon, Hajji Muhammad, Upper Egypt, Jamdat Nag, Nea Nikomedeia, Early Bronze Age, Aceramic Neolithic, Tell Ramad, North Africa, Lower Egypt, Neolithic Urfirnis, Asia Minor, Middle Palaeolithic, Red Sea, Karim Shahr, Zawi Chemi, Hajji Mubammad, Black Sea, Tell Halaf, Mount Carmel New!
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- Seven Caves by Carleton S Coon in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Cultures of Prehistoric Egypt (Pts. 1 & 2) by Elise J. Baumgartel on page 193, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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