What does it mean to be human -- Stones and bones: the first fossil families -- Bio-cultural adaptation and Homo erectus -- How Homo sapiens left Africa -- X-Woman! meet our ancient relatives -- Did the Neanderthals really go extinct? -- Sailing to Australia 60,000-plus years ago -- The origins of language and music -- Handprints in Time: early art and objects -- Ancient jewelry as extensions of the mind -- Death and burial in the prehistoric world -- Feast or famine? the Paleolithic diet -- Why there's no such thing as cavemen -- Early technology: axes, harpoons, and hooks -- Coming to the Americas 20,000-plus years ago -- Living dangerously as the last Ice Age ended -- Brewing beer and baking bread in the Levant -- The hunter-gatherers begin to settle down -- Secrets of cave art, ceramics, and cattle -- Was agriculture a revolution or an accident?
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