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Focusing on sites of key significance and the worlds first civilizations, Ancient Lives is an accessible and engaging textbook which introduces complete beginners to the fascinating worlds of archaeology and prehistory. Drawing on their impressive combined experience of the field and the classroom, the authors use a jargon-free narrative style to enliven the major developments of more than three million years of human life. First introducing the basic principles, methods and theoretical approach...

Maeve is unnerved when she and her grandfather find a body in the bog in Ballywhinney, Ireland. It turns out to be the body of a young girl who lived more than a thousand years ago. A girl like Maeve, with fair hair, who walked the same fields and picked the same flowers. When archaeologists display the mummy at a museum, Maeve wonders: Does the girl mind being displayed in a glass case for all to see? Or does she miss the green meadow where she had lain for so many hundreds of years?

"An asteroid is on its way straight to Earth and that can only mean extinction for the Ice Age friends. But what if Manny, Ellie, and the rest of the prehistoric group can change the huge rock's course and in the process save the world? When they hatch a plan that involves making a volcano erupt, things start to get pretty hot!"--Page [4] of cover.

You've just been transported back in time. Exotic plants tower above your head, while giant rat-like creatures scuttle around you. What concerns you most, however, are the meat-eating dinosaurs that are the size of a house! Do you think you have what it takes to survive the Cretaceous Period? Turn the pages to find out - only you can choose your fate in this interactive story!

Tercera entrega de «Crónicas de la prehistoria», una emocionante serie de aventuras prehistóricas que ya cuenta con un numeroso grupo de jóvenes lectores. Los protagonistas deberán recurrir en esta aventura a todo su coraje e ingenio para salvar a su amigo. Torak, Renn y Lobo viven unos días apacibles tras superar las azarosas peripecias de su última aventura. Sin embargo, cuando por fin han logrado reunirse, muy pronto se ven enfrentados a la peor pesadilla imaginable: durante una rutinaria p...

'Mixing historical fact with fiction, these books provide both an insightful and informative read...Thoroughly enjoyable' SCOTT EVANS, THE READER TEACHER (@MrEPrimary) A fast-paced Stone Age adventure from the best-selling author of Horrible Histories. 17,300 years ago. Lascaux, France. Willow isn't the strongest or fastest in his tribe, he is careful and clever. But that's not what matters to the other boys. All they care about who is the best hunter, and who can provide meat for the tribe....

From the best-selling author of Horrible Histories... Mesopotamia, 2500 years ago Everyone in the tribe must work; all the men go hunting for bulls and mountain lions - apart from Sin-leqi, that is. Sin-leqi stays home and reads tablets in the great temples. The tablets tell tales of the legendary Gilgamesh, tales that are so fantastical that lazy Sin-leqi doesn't have to work, as long as he keeps telling them. But when the story comes to end, Sin-leqi is in trouble... A brand new and exciti...

A class takes a field trip back through time to observe living dinosaurs in their natural habitat.

In prehistoric days there were many different kinds of dinosaurs, big and small, those with spikes and those with long, sharp teeth.

From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories, named 'the outstanding children's non-fiction author of the 20th century' by Books For Keeps _______________ A fast-paced Stone Age adventure ideal for readers aged 7+. Skara Brae, Orkney, Scotland. 5000 years ago. On the cold and windy island of Skara Brae, Tuc and his sister Storm try to catch birds in their fishing net. They eat fish day in, day out, and they're sick of it. But when a thief steals half their tribe's winter food stores, be...

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