prehistoric peoples

The authors discuss what they learned about the mystery of Easter Island through a series of archaeological discoveries, arguing that, contrary to prevailing beliefs, the islanders were inventive environmental stewards, and answering questions about the making and moving of the enormous statues that populate the landscape.

Argues that all modern non-Africans can be traced back to a single exodus from Africa, when one migrant group of a few hundred people were forced from their homeland by increasing salinity in the Red Sea, more than 80,000 years ago, and today all non-Africans can trace their mitochondrial DNA to one woman from this group.

Examines Stonehenge, discussing the mystery of its construction, theories about how it was built, its possible uses, and its presence in modern culture.

Tib and his dinosaur friend Tumtum are back for more prehistoric (mis)adventures in the second installment of the Tib & Tumtum series.

Explores the origins and history of the statues of Easter Island. Studies archeological discoveries on the island, and offers a new view of the culture that once inhabited the island.

A motherless twelve-year-old finds an australopithecine in a ravine during the winter and brings him home where his befuddled father, an eminent scientist, thinks it's a new housekeeper, Mrs. Link.

Lug is a cave boy who would rather paint than fight. When he is banished from his clan, he and his two friends discover that the Ice Age is coming, and must figure out how to save their people.

A Cro-Magnon tribe is forced to confront its collective fear of the Neanderthal people they call ogres, when a young girl of the tribe, Shiva, befriends an ogre boy, and when Hiram, a young hunter from the tribe, is captured by ogres.

"In a prehistoric era, Tib, a boy who is made fun of for his birthmark and his clumsiness, makes friends with Tumtum, a big, playful red dinosaur only he ever sees. When Tumtum saves the tribe's kids from a pack of hungry wolves, the shaman decides it's time to welcome a dinosaur into the tribe"--.