The First Humans: Human Origins and History to 10,000 B.C. (Illustrated History of Humankind, Vol. 1)

By Göran Burenhult

Book Overview

This volume spans human history to 10,000 B.C. Supported by photographs, illustrations, diagrams, and maps, scholars explore human's earliest origins and discuss the great apes, origins of language, dating the past, global expansion, extinct species and more. 300 color photos and illustrations.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062502654
• ISBN13: 9780062502650
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 12.5" x 1.0" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

The First Humans

I thought that this book was an excellent resource for people researching the roots of humankind. The only problem with it that I had was that it tended to give different facts in different parts of the book. For example, in one part it said that it was proven that Neanderthals buried their dead with ibex horns, or cave bear skulls and therefore had a religion and believed in an afterlife, but in other parts it stated that the ibex horns were just thrown in the general area of the burial and that the cave bear skulls were the result of several generations of cave bears living in the cave and dying out before the Neanderthals moved in. I thought it was a good read, but in some places controversial and confusing. If you're into prehistory and evolution, I wouldn't be without this volume. I would actually give it 4 1/2 stars.

Very precise,with a lot of colorful photographs

The book has a lot of information on the scientific research done in the escavations of ancient hominides;our ancestors and the only clue to the finding of the "missing link".The book shows the different sites of the discoveries,hominides like "homo habilis" and "astrolophitecus".A very fine book for the antrophology "conosseur" and enthusiast.