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| Introducing World Prehistory | |
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| Archaeology and Prehistory | |
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| Site: The Avebury Archer The Beginnings of World Prehistory | |
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| Who Needs the Past? | |
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| Cyclical and Linear Time | |
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| Science: Dating the Past | |
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| Written Records, Oral Traditions, and Archaeology | |
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| Studying Culture and Culture Change | |
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| Primary Cultural Processes | |
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| Theoretical Approaches: Culture as Adaptation | |
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| Climatic Change | |
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| Culture as Adaptation | |
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| Cultural Evolution and Cultural Ecology | |
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| Multilinear Evolution: Prestate and State-Organized Societies | |
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| Theoretical Approaches: Evolutionary Ecology and Hunter-Gatherers | |
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| Evolutionary Ecology and Optimal Foraging Strategy | |
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| Theoretical Approaches: People as Agents of Change | |
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| External and Internal Constraints | |
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| Interactions | |
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| Gender: Men and Women | |
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| Trade and Exchange | |
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| Ideologies and Beliefs | |
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| Summary | |
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| Beginnings 7 Million to 40,000 Years Ago | |
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| Human Origins: 7 Million to 1.9 Million Years Ago The Great Ice Age | |
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| The Origins of the Human Line | |
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| Aegyptopithecus | |
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| Miocene Primates | |
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| Molecular Biology and Human Evolution | |
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| The Ecological Problems Faced by Early Hominins | |
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| Adaptive Problems | |
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| Dating the Past: Potassium-Argon Dating | |
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| Fossil Evidence: 7 to 3 MYA | |
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| Toumaiuml;: Sahelanthropus tchadensis | |
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| Ardipithecus ramidus | |
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| Australopithecus anamensis | |
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| Australopithecus afarensis | |
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| Laetoli: Footprints of | |
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| Fossil Evidence: 3 to 2.5 MYA | |
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| Gracile Australopithecines: Australopithecus africanus | |
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| Robust Australopithecines | |
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| Australopithecus garhi | |
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| Early Homo: 2.5 to 2.0 MYA | |
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| Homo habilis | |
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| A Burst of Rapid Change? | |
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| Who Was the First Human? | |
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| Archaeological Evidence for Early Human Behavior | |
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| Evidence for ldquo;Central Placesrdquo;? | |
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| Site: Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, East Africa | |
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| Hunting and Scavenging | |
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| Plant Foraging and ldquo;Grandmotheringrdquo; Toolmaking | |
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| The Oldowan Industry | |
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| The Mind of the Earliest Humans | |
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| The Development of Language | |
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| Social Organization | |
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| Summary | |
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| Homo ergaster, Homo erectus, and Homo sapiens: 1.9 Million to 40,000 Years Ago Pleistocene Background | |
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| Lower Pleistocene (1.6 Million to c. 780,000 Years Ago) | |
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| Middle Pleistocene (c. 780,000 to 128,000 Years Ago) | |
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| Homo ergaster in Africa The Radiation of H | |