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This visually stunning series focuses on world heritage sites, representative of different eras, peoples, places and historical events. The reader is given a narrative tour of each site to discover what can be learned from the surviving evidence - why and how the place was built, the daily lives of the people who lived there and the surviving evidence that can help us to reconstruct the place when it was in use. The series is: - extensive, specially commissioned photography - a complete ground p...

Did you know Brachiosaurus means 'arm lizard'? Or that Megalodon was a 56ft (17m) long prehistoric shark? Or that Pteranodon had a wingspan of up to 30ft (9m)? For 150 million years, dinosaurs were the undisputed rulers of the Earth. Today, these great lizards still fire our imaginations - the names of dinosaurs are the first long words many children learn. Dinosaurs describes the creatures who lived during the great Age of Reptiles, the real- life giants and monsters such as the Tyrannosaurus r...

Packed full of facts this vibrantly illustrated book shines a light on dinosaurs like never before!   Did you know that the Argentinosaurus weighed about as much as 12 elephants and grew as tall as a five-story building? Or that T. rex could crush a car in a single bite? Or that some dinosaur eggs were as big as American footballs? This exciting picture book is full of these and many more fascinating fact nuggets.   Using striking visual comparisons, quiz questions and bite-sized facts, thi...

An Integrated Picture of Prehistory as an Active Process of Discovery World Prehistory and Archaeology: Pathways through Time, fourth edition, provides an integrated discussion of world prehistory and archaeological methods. This text emphasizes the relevance of how we know and what we know about our human prehistory. A cornerstone of World Prehistory and Archaeology is the discussion of prehistory as an active process of discovery. Methodological issues are addressed throughout the text to eng...

Discovering U.S. History spans the complex and varied history of the United States from prehistoric times to the present day. This new chronological set can be read as a whole, providing readers with a comprehensive history, or as standalone volumes, with each title serving as a time capsule of a particular era. Each title brings to life the people and events that have shaped the nation through a clear and entertaining narrative, interesting boxed insets, and lively full-color and black-and-whit...

This visually stunning series focuses on world heritage sites, representative of different eras, peoples, places and historical events. The reader is given a narrative tour of each site to discover what can be learned from the surviving evidence - why and how the place was built, the daily lives of the people who lived there and the surviving evidence that can help us to reconstruct the place when it was in use.

"Who were our earliest human ancestors? Where did they come from? What did they hunt? What tools did they invent? How did they evolve over time? What traces did they leave behind? The reader will learn answers to these and many more questions through through detailed and lifelike illustrations and clear text that depicts our ancestors way of life. The children will step inside the cave of a prehistoric family by turning the page, learn about hunting mammoth and reindeer, making clothes and t...

Assembling Past Worlds draws on new materialism and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to explore the potential for a posthumanist archaeology. Through specific empirical study, this book provides a detailed analysis of Neolithic Britain, a critical moment in the emergence of new ways of living, as well as new relationships between materials, people and new forms of architecture. It achieves two things. First, it identifies the major challenges that archaeology faces in the light of current theo...