Secrets Of The Stone Age

Richard Rudgley

ISBN 10: 0712684522 / ISBN 13: 9780712684521

Published by Cornerstone, 2000

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Richard Rudgley, Cornerstone. In this lavishly illustrated book Richard Rudgley gives a lively account of his journey across the continents and back through time in search of the lost legacy of prehistoric man. The popular view of Stone Age Man as a primitive and ignorant forerunner of ourselves is shattered as the author reveals, step by step, the myriad and remarkable accomplishments mdade before the dawn of history. His journey begins in ancient Egypt, where excavations at Abydos have unearthed hieroglyphs belonging to an age before the pharaohs, which Egtypologists have begun calling Dynasty O; to stone circles and burial chambers in Ireland which carbon dating prove to precede Stonehenge by two millennia; to the world's first town, 9, 000 year old Catal Huyuk in Turkey; to startling new research on the body of the Ice Man, the 5, 300 year old mummy found a few years ago in an Alpine glacier which reveals that acupuncture was practised in Stone Age Europe; 11, 000 year old writing unearthed on the banks of the Euphrates, the awe-inspiring cave paintings of Ice Age Europe, and finally to Indonesia where the discovery of the Euphrates; the awe inspiring cave paintings of Ice Age France; and finally to Indone.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Secrets Of The Stone Age
• Publisher: Cornerstone
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0712684522
• ISBN 13: 9780712684521
• Binding: Hardback
• Weight: 867 grams
• Book Type: Hardback

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Synopsis

The popular view of Stone Age man as a primitive and ignorant forerunner of ourselves is shattered as an eminent scientist reveals the remarkable accomplishments made before the dawn of history. Illustrated with 150 color photos.

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In "Secrets of the Stone Age," Richard Rudgley offers a lively account of his journey across the continents in search of the lost legacy of prehistoric man. He takes us to Ancient Egypt, where excavations at Abydos have unearthed hieroglyphs belonging to an age before the pharaohs, and to the stone circles and burial chambers in Ireland, which precede Stonehenge by two millennia. We are introduced to the Ice Man, a 5,300-year-old mummy, whose body reveals that acupuncture was practiced in Stone Age Europe, and to the awe-inspiring cave paintings of Ice Age France. And in Indonesia, we examine stone tools that prove pre-Neanderthal man undertook raft voyages across the open sea--700,000 years before the Kon Tiki! An illuminating work as well as a wonderful read. Richard Rudgley has an advanced degree in Ethnography from Oxford; among his books is "The Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age."