Prehistory
The Making of the Human Mind

Highly recommended for students of the human condition - both professional and avocational. As an archaeologist working in the United States, I have followed Sir Colin Renfrew's writings over the last 26 years or so. I also had the pleasure of meeting him in Liverpool, England, after a presentation I......more

Troppa carne al fuoco in cosi' poco spazio e troppo anglocentrico. Il risultato e' abbastanza irritante: troppo superficiale per chi vuole approfondire, troppo supponente per chi vuole cominciare. Un saggio purtroppo irrisolto.......more

This is a densely written thought provoking book which repays the effort it takes to read it. It provides an overview of human origins which is convincing and well argued. I consider that the book is an indispensable key to an understanding of prehistory for the non-archaeologist.......more

Not quite what I expected. This is more of an overview of the study of prehistory than an overview of prehistory itself. And perhaps I'm just not clever enough to follow Renfrew's argument, but I didn't see much of an attempt to explain how or why the human mind developed. Renfrew absolutely noted t......more

A challenging read - very dense and dry, but it still managed to capture interest for a majority of the book. I had very little prior anthropological knowledge (or education) and what I knew about archeology I had learned from various podcasts, book introductions and books covering ancient history.......more