Fagan, Brian M

Examines the Cro-Magnons, discussing their environments in which they lived, their encounters with Neanderthal, and how they used intelligence to survive.

Presents a history of North American settlement, from the first settlers over 15,000 years ago to the arrival of the Europeans in the fifthteenth century.

Chronicles the ongoing and evolving relationship between humans and animals, from the first human-animal interactions to the present. Explores how animals have offered companionship, as well as served as beasts of burden and commodities. Also discusses how humanity's relationships with animal species have shaped our own history.

A new perspective on familiar events in history describes how a 500-year change in climate that lasted from A.D. 1300 until 1850 shaped modern European history.

Presents a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the discipline, covering research methods, how artifacts are recovered and analyzed, evolution, and many general facets of culture, art, and religion.

A collection of essays which draw on modern science and the latest research findings to explore some of archaeology's most baffling controversies and enigmas from the ancient world.

Presents a history of climatic shifts over the past 20,000 years and discusses how civilization rose up during the warm period starting about 15,000 years ago.

Examines the links between climate and culture by looking at the long-term effects of El Nino on weather patterns over the past five millennia and studying the impact on human civilization during that time.

A view that Columbus's voyage was the product of a long sweep of history: the spread of Christianity and the radical cultural changes it brought to Europe, the interaction of economic necessity with a changing climate, and generations of unknown fishermen who explored the North Atlantic in the centuries before Columbus.