Sources edit
General/Global edit
- Fagan & Durrani, World Prehistory: A Brief Introduction (10th ed., 2020)
- Feder, The Past in Perspective (8th ed., 2019)
- Scarre, The Human Past (4th ed., 2018)
- Wenke & Olszewski, Patterns in Prehistory (5th ed., 2006)
Historiography edit
- Clermont & Smith, Prehistoric, prehistory, prehistorian … who invented the terms?, doi:10.1017/S0003598X00077322
- Gosden, The history of prehistory, doi:10.1093/actrade/9780198803515.003.0002
- Kaeser, On the international roots of prehistory, doi:10.1017/S0003598X0008995X
- Taylor, Prehistory vs. Archaeology: Terms of Engagement, doi:10.1007/s10963-008-9011-1
Outline edit
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- ? Definitions
- Means of research
- Origins
- Human origins (Human evolution ** Epipaleolithic/Mesolithic)
- Origins of culture (beginning of prehistory)
- Origins of language
- Palaeolithic
- Homo erectus & Out of Africa I
- Neanderthals & premodern humans
- Introgression with modern humans
- Early modern humans & Out of Africa II
- Ice Age Europe & Asia
- Peopling of Siberia and the Americas
- Peopling of Southeast Asia and Australia
- Epipaleolithic/Mesolithic
- Complex/sedentary hunter-gatherers
- Neolithic
- Origin of agriculture
- Sequence (global)
- Causes
- Consequences
- First farmers / early complex societies
- Eneolithic/Chalcolithic
- Origin of agriculture
- Bronze Age
- Early civilizations
- Iron Age
- Technology and material culture
- Arts and culture
- History of study