Reviews After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000 b.c.â5,000 b.c. By Steven Mithen (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2004) 622 pp. $29.95 The dust cover describes the narrative device that Mithen employs in this book; âthrough the eyes of an imaginary modern travelerâJohn Lubbock . . . readers visit and observe communities and landscapes, experiencing prehistoric lifeâfrom aboriginal hunting parties in Tasmania, to the corralling of wild sheep in the central Sahara.â Mithenâs goal of making his book a âgood readâ by putting a human face on the past is noble; too often archaeologists lose sight of their human subjects and end up creating a sterile world of stones and bones and chemical tests. As beªtting a scholarly global history of a key episode in human history, this book is long and well documented. The main text is divided into six sections dealing with the environmental and cultural transformation that occurred in different regions: Western Asia, Europe, the Americas, Greater Australia and East Asia, South Asia, and Africa. Each section is divided into short sub-sections containing authoritative descriptions of important regional archaeological sites, as well as theoretical discussions of the ecological and social forces responsible for changes
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