Olduvai Gorge : the cradle of humanity -- From sounds to speech : a human discovery -- Agression and war : are they part of being human? -- Sex roles in prehistory -- Sexual dimorphism : comparative and evolutionary perspectives -- Our earliest ancestors -- When did language begin? -- So similar and still so different : the great apes and ourselves -- Mighty hunter or marginal scavenger? -- What do the Zhoukoudian finds tell us? -- The Neanderthals -- Was there a Neanderthal religion? -- Dating the past -- Ice through the ages -- Animals of Ice Age Europe -- Radiocarbon : a key to the past -- The Venus figurines -- Pech-Merle : a 20,000-year-old sanctuary -- Cosquer Cave : an ancient sunken gallery -- Tool and cultures in late Paleolithic southeast Asia -- Mammoth bone huts -- Sungir : a stone age burial site -- Genes, languages and archaeology -- Thermoluminescence dating -- Art of the land -- Hunters on the edge of the Tasmanian ice -- The lost animals of Australia -- Moving animals from place to place -- Heat treatment : a 50,000-year-old technology -- From stone to tools : residue analysis -- Relics of the first New Ireland settlers -- Who were the first Americans? -- Clovis weapons : a modern experiment -- The paleoindian bison hunters -- The fate of North America's early animals -- Arctic animals -- Early arctic cultures -- At Dorset camp -- Glossary.
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