The Illustrated History of Early Man

by John Haywood

100 full-color and 100 b & w illus. 9 x 12. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0831717548
• ISBN13: 9780831717544
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Smithmark Publishers
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.4" x 12.3"

Customer Reviews

The History of Early Man in baby food form...

From the first tool using hominids to the first civilizations, we get a complete yet easy to understand history in about 156 pages. The book hits all the major points, from the first hominids to walk only on two legs, to the Neanderthals, the development of Cro-Magnons and beyond. Once we get to Modern Man the book dives into stone tool development, the use of DNA to trace our family tree and the spread of man throughout the world. Yet it is careful to define every term or explain every theory that pops up. From there we follow mankind as they go from hunter-gathers to early farmers, from tribes to chiefdoms and, finally, from city-states to the first civilizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus valley.The book gives the reader LOTS of information in the form of great photos, maps, timelines and graphs, all designed to make the text easier to follow. Nice hardcover book about early man for history beginners or kids. Slightly outdated, but most of the facts are still valid.