Description
How has the human race progressed during the several hundred thousand years of its existence on the Earth?
In his study one of the great prehistorians of the world sets out to answer this question.
More perhaps than any other Professor Childe showed how, by using the data won by archaeologists and natural scientists, it was possible to gain a new view of what constituted human history.
Reviewing this book when it was first published by Penguins, Miles Burkitt wrote in Nature:
'A special welcome must be accorded to Professor Childe's fascinating book... In it he discusses the changes in material well-being and mental outlook which have taken place throughout the ages up to the break-up of the Roman Empire. He gives us a brief survey of what he describes as Palaeolithic and Mesolithic savagery, of Neolithic barbarism, of the rise of the Metal Age cultures, and so on until a climax was reached as a result of the Old World unity made possible by the exploits of Alexander the Great. Finally, there is a stimulating chapter with the author's views about the decline and fall of the ancient world.'
ISBN:0140551573
