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Ancient agriculture

from foraging to farming
2000
Discusses agricultural technology in various cultures from the Stone Age to 476 A.D., including China, Egypt, Mesoamerica, and Greece.

Lucy and her times

1996
Ilustrated study of evolution and prehistoric times, focusing on the discovery of Lucy, the skeleton of a modern human predecessor known as Australopithecus afarensis believed to be over three-million-years-old, which was found in the Afar Depression of Ethiopia in 1974.

Stones and bones!

how archaeologists trace human origins
1994
Text and accompanying photographs describe how our prehistoric ancestors may have lived and how archaeologists find and study the remains of early humans.

Bones in the basket

native stories of the origin of people
1994
Legends from seven different tribes about how humans came to be.

Life

1993
Discusses the origin of life, covering the definition of the term, the Big Bang theory for the origin of the universe, and the process through which the molecules necessary for life came to exist.

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