PREHISTORY The Origins of Humanity - Paperback

Three million years ago, a hand chipped the first stone tool. Forty thousand years ago, a hand pressed against a cave wall and blew ochre all around it. Ten thousand years ago, the first farmers planted their seeds and changed the destiny of humanity forever.

PREHISTORY - At the Origins of Humanity takes you on the most breathtaking journey imaginable: the story of our own beginnings.

From the African savannas where our ancestors learned to walk upright, to the mysterious temples of Göbekli Tepe. From the painted caves of Lascaux to the Alpine lake villages. From the megaliths of Carnac to the nuraghi towers of Sardinia. This book spans three million years of human history with scientific rigor and the sweep of great storytelling.

You will discover:
- Who Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon people really were - and why their genes still run in our veins
- How men without machines moved 280-ton stone blocks
- What the handprints in prehistoric caves reveal about humanity's first artists
- Why the Sahara was once a green savanna roamed by hippos and crocodiles
- The great frauds and revolutions that shaped prehistory as a science
- The latest discoveries - ancient DNA, the Denisovans, Homo naledi - that are rewriting our origins

Neither a textbook nor a children's book, PREHISTORY is written for curious adults who want to understand where we come from - and what that tells us about who we are.

Because prehistory never really ended. It lives on in us.