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Barcode30053003838854
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call No930.23 WYMA
Title Lost worlds / Patrick Wyman.
Author Wyman, Patrick author
CollectionNEW: Adult 900-999
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StatusHome LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc Status
 Paris-Bourbon30053003838854930.23 WYMA5/7/2026 Available

Catalog Details

Personal Name Wyman, Patrick author
Title Statement Lost worlds / Patrick Wyman.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Harper, 2026.
Physical Description 464 pages ; 23 cm
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
General Note Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note Part 1: Unstable planet -- The world as it was -- The dawn of the holocene -- The Fertile Crescent and the birth of agriculture -- The many cradles of agriculture -- The end of the beginning -- Part 2: The long Neolithic -- Global Neolithics -- Massacres, mass graves, and the dark side of the Neolithic -- The hights of the late Neolithic -- Part 3: Civilization and its discontents -- Two murders at the dawn of history -- The first (S2(Bcivilizations(S3 (B-- Language and migration from the Steppe to the Pacific -- Why the Great Pyramid and Stonehenge were only built once -- Part 4: Fall and rise, rise and fall -- A spate of falling civilizations -- Peaceful lives in the late Bronze Age -- War -- The Bronze Age collapse -- Epilogue.
Summary, Etc. "A new look at humanity's deep past to show us how our world was built not by inevitability, but by trial and error on a planetary scale"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Bronze age
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Human beings History.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Civilization, Ancient
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Neolithic period

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