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Article: After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC.(Book review)
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- June 22, 2006
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After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC. By Steven Mithen. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 622. $29.95.)
This massive and clever book opens modern scholarship about the distant past to nonspecialists. Buyers of this book will get their money's worth. It comes with a generous supply of maps and pictures of artifacts and digs, some of which are in color. Although the author intends his book for more than archaeologists, it provides thirty-five pages of bibliography, over sixty pages of endnotes, and more than five hundred pages of careful description and analysis. It is popularization at a sophisticated level.
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