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English |
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Hardcover |
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391 |
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1979-11-12 |
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0394410491 |
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Knopf |
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1.75 pounds |
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6.4 x 9.3 x 1.6 inches |
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1st |
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This is the first up-to-date general summary of the cultures of prehistoric Egypt and of the millennia of development that preceded the brilliant civilization of the pharaohs. Told through the adventures and achievements of the archaeologists whose discoveries brought these prehistoric cultures to light, here is that story: from the advent of Palaeolithic hunters almost a million years ago through the achievement of nomadic herding (ca. 6000 B.C.) and farming (ca. 5000 B.C.) and the beginnings of villages and towns (ca. 4000 B.C.) to the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh, Menes, more than 5,000 years ago. Michael Hoffman, a young archaeologist and anthropologist who himself is currently excavating prehistoric sites at Hierakonpolis in southern Egypt, has dramatically reconstructed for us the sequence of the discovery of Egypt's long-neglected prehistoric past.
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