AU - Renfrew,Colin TI - Prehistory: the making of the human mind T2 - A Modern Library chronicles book SN - 0812976614 AV - GN740 R464 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Modern Library KW - Anthropology, Prehistoric KW - Prehistoric peoples KW - Human evolution KW - Antiquities, Prehistoric N1 - "Originally published in the United Kingdom in hardcover by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, in 2007, and subsequently in the United States in hardcover by Modern Library ... in 2008"- -T.p. verso; Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-204) and index; Part I : The discovery of prehistory -- The idea of prehistory -- Mapping the human past : Prehistory before 1940 -- Dating : the radiocarbon revolution -- The possibility of world prehistory -- Part II : The prehistory of mind -- The sapient paradox -- Toward a prehistory of mind -- Constructing the community -- Worldly goods -- Appropriating the cosmos -- From prehistory to history -- Prospect : the future of prehistory N2 - In this invaluable, brief account of human development prior to the last four millennia, Colin Renfrew delivers a meticulously researched and passionately argued chronicle about our life on earth, and our ongoing quest to understand it ER -