The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
9 best books like The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (David W. Anthony): Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia, The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention, Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States, The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story, The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850, Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage, Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 BC-AD 1000, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians, 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
| Author | Christina Thompson |
| ISBN | 0062060872 |
A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know.
For more than...
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
| Author | Guy Deutscher |
| ISBN | 0805080120 |
Blending the spirit of Eats, Shoots & Leaves with the science of The Language Instinct, an original inquiry into the development of that most essential-and mysterious-of human creations: Language
Language is mankind's greatest invention-except, of course, that it was never invented."...
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
| Author | James C. Scott |
| ISBN | 0300182910 |
An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available that contradicts the standard narrative for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations
Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors...
| Author | Dimitra Papagianni |
| ISBN | 0500292043 |
In recent years, the common perception of the Neanderthals has been transformed, thanks to new discoveries and paradigm-shattering scientific innovations. It turns out that the Neanderthals’ behavior was surprisingly modern: they buried the dead, cared for the sick, hunted large animals in...
| Author | Brian M. Fagan |
| ISBN | 0465022723 |
The Little Ice Age tells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history, how this altered climate affected historical events, and what it means for today's global warming. Building on research that has only recently confirmed that the world endured...
| Author | William L. Rathje |
| ISBN | 0816521433 |
It is from the discards of former civilizations that archaeologists have reconstructed most of what we know about the past, and it is through their examination of today’s garbage that William Rathje and Cullen Murphy inform us of our present. Rubbish! is their witty and erudite investigation into...
| Author | Barry W. Cunliffe |
| ISBN | 0300119232 |
In this magnificent book, distinguished archaeologist Barry Cunliffe reframes our entire conception of early European history, from prehistory through the ancient world to the medieval Viking period. Cunliffe views Europe not in terms of states and shifting political land boundaries but as a...
| Author | Peter Heather |
| ISBN | 0195325419 |
A leading authority on the late Roman Empire and on the barbarians, Heather relates the extraordinary story of how Europe's barbarians, transformed by centuries of contact with Rome on every possible level, eventually pulled the empire apart. He shows first how the Huns overtuned the existing strategic...
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
| Author | Eric H. Cline |
| ISBN | 0691140898 |
In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the...
