When "The Paleo Diet" was published, advocating a return to the diet of our ancestors (high protein, plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables) the book received brilliant reviews from medical and nutritional communities. Jennie Brand-Mill co-author of the bestselling "Glucose Revolution", called it "without a doubt the most nutritious diet on the ...
This enduring story set at the end of the last Ice Age--a gripping tale of survival as well as a vivid portrait of prehistoric people--celebrates its 20th year in print with this new hardcover edition featuring a striking new cover and a new Author's Note.
Ayla meets a new clan: the mammoth hunters. During her stay with them, Ayla and her lover, Jondar, encounter a variety of crises. The third novel in Jean M. Auel's spectacularly successful Earth's Children series.
The story of human history throughout the world is told in this book, from the origins of humankind to the beginnings of literate civilizations. Fagan does not favour any specific theoretical position. This eighth edition includes recent developments and emerging topics such as cultural complexity among hunter-gatherers and the origins of ...
This is the continuation of the story of Ayla from "The Clan of the Cave Bear." This trade paperback edition of the contemporary classic is available for the first time ever--and one woman's odyssey, beginning at the dawn of time, will once again capture the imagination of millions.
This is the sequel to the international bestseller, "Fingerprints of the Gods". In very different parts of the world, evidence exists of a common legacy - shared by cultures separated by hundreds, sometimes thousands of years. From Mexico to Iceland, Cambodia to Easter Island, China to Egypt, we are finding a common astronomical wisdom handed down ...
Prehistoric couple Ayla and Jondalar, along with their animal entourage, abandon their isolated life and rejoin Jondalar's tribe, the Zelandonii. Ayla has trouble adjusting to Zelandonii ways, and some of Jondalar's people resent her. Tensions mount as the Summer Meeting approaches.
Vividly recreating Paleolithic America, the Gears deliver the sweeping saga of a visionary boy who leads his people out of the path of one of the worst catastrophes in the history of the world, and the brave little girl who loves him enough to believe in his dream.
The moon had reached its maximum three times since the Chacoans conquered j the First Moon People. The Chaco matrons had built their Great House high, atop First Moon Mountain and their red-shirted warriors stalked arrogantly through the villages. Young Ripple had no desire to become a Dreamer, but when Cold Bringing Woman, the goddess of winter, ...
Dark secrets and lies surround the death of a woman called Red Knot, destined to lead an independent village and the Greenstone clan. The Panther is a sorcerer who is desperate to avert a war but it appears that the lust for blood is now unstoppable.
In the dawn of history, valiant people forged a path way from an old world into a new one. Led by a dreamer who followed the spirit of the wolf, a handful of courageous men and women dared to cross the frozen wastes to find an untouched, unspoiled continent. This is the magnificent saga of the vision-filled man who led his people to an awesome ...
Prehistoric couple Ayla and Jondalar, along with their animal entourage, abandon their isolated life and rejoin Jondalar's tribe, the Zelandonii. Ayla has trouble adjusting to Zelandonii ways, and some of Jondalar's people resent her. Tensions mount as the Summer Meeting approaches.
HUMANS is the second volume in Sawyer's Neanderthal Parallax trilogy, the sequel to HOMINIDS (2002). The series is set on an alternative Earth, where homo sapiens is extinct, Neanderthals rule, and our hero is Ponter Boddit, a physicist. Meanwhile, back on the real Earth, a Canadian geneticist named Mary Vaughan, who became friends with Boddit in ...
When Lonit gives birth to twins, Torka refuses to follow ancient tradition and kill one of them. The family is banished from their fire circle, but in a terrifying land of omens and oracles, the shaman Karan's magic is desperately needed to save The Forbidden Land for all humanity. Bantam.
The first volume in this new science fiction trilogy examines the humans of this universe and the Neanderthals of a parallel world where they are the dominant intelligence. When a Neanderthal physicist pierces the barrier between the two worlds and finds himself in this universe, he is quarantined and studied, while in his own world his lab ...
Follow the adventures of Suth, Noli, Ko and Mana, four children from the Moonhawk Kin. They lived 200,000 years ago on the African savannah. The stories tell of survival of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, monster crocodiles and hostile tribes, that tell of the nature of our world.
This well illustrated, site-by-site survey of prehistory captures the popular interest, excitement, and visual splendor of archaeology as it provides insight into current research, innovative interpretations, and important theoretical themes in the field.
In the conclusion of the Neanderthal Parallax trilogy, human geneticist Mary Vaughan and Neanderthal physicist Ponter Boddit struggle to make their relationship work and to conceive a hybrid child, while Mary's Earth faces the collapse of its planetary magnetic field and her boss, Jock Krieger, plots against the Neanderthal world. Reprint.
By 1300 AD, the Sky Hand people had crushed the Albaamaha people and built their high-walled capital, Split Sky City, to dominate towns up and down the Black Warrior River. But a violent wind is brewing that may topple the city's mighty great walls. Great armies are on the march and a new leader, Smoke Shield, has risen. He will lead the Sky Hand ...
In The Human Past, a team of leading archaeologists, all well-known specialists in their fields, provides a seamless yet uniquely authoritative account of human prehistory on a global scale. It highlights the enormous diversity of human experience and the ways in which archaeologists are able to learn about it. This includes the deep prehistory of ...
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