• Introduces the reader to four and a half million years of human existence
• Explores hot topics such as gender, race, and sexuality in the prehistoric world
• Illustrated throughout with wide range of international examples
• Invites us to think seriously about who we are by considering who we have been

Readership: General readers and students interested in prehistory, archaeology, and Darwin.

Chris Gosden, Curator of Pitt Rivers Museum and lecturer at Oxford University

The idea of prehistory
The nature of human social life
Is there a direction to prehistory?
The prehistory of the future